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Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (Hardcover): Karl Marx Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (Hardcover)
Karl Marx
R572 Discovery Miles 5 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Topics 3 (Hardcover): Laura M. Castelli Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Topics 3 (Hardcover)
Laura M. Castelli
R3,205 Discovery Miles 32 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Aristotle's Topics is a handbook for dialectic, i.e. the exercise for philosophical debates between a questioner and a respondent. Alexander takes the Topics as a sort of handbook teaching how to defend and how attack any philosophical claim against philosophical adversaries. In book 3, Aristotle develops strategies for arguing about comparative claims, in which properties are said to belong to subjects to a greater, lesser, or equal degree. Aristotle illustrates the different argumentative patterns that can be used to establish or refute a comparative claim through one single example: whether something is more or less or equally to be chosen or to be avoided than something else. In his commentary on Topics 3, here translated for the first time into English, Alexander of Aphrodisias spells out Aristotle's text by referring to issues and examples from debates with other philosophical school (especially: the Stoics) of his time. The commentary provides new evidence for Alexander's views on the logic of comparison and is a relatively neglected source for Peripatetic ethics in late antiquity. This volume will be valuable reading for students of Aristotle and of the developments of Peripatetic logic and ethics in late antiquity.

Liberating the Will of Australia (Hardcover): Geoffrey Burn Liberating the Will of Australia (Hardcover)
Geoffrey Burn
R1,234 R1,030 Discovery Miles 10 300 Save R204 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
In and With the Beginning (Hardcover): Alastair Hannay In and With the Beginning (Hardcover)
Alastair Hannay
R849 Discovery Miles 8 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Rear-view mirrors are not normal scientific equipment, nor are philosophers all that keen to recall a partly embarrassing past. But looking back can cure a self-induced narrowing of the modern scientific mind and help us to renew a sense of where, if anywhere, we might feel we belong in the world. Today, a centuries-long belief in the primacy of a first-personal perspective has given way to an opposite view that what passes through the conscious mind has little to do with who we are and what we are doing. A lifelong campaigner for the first-personal perspective, Alastair Hannay presents here a powerful and historically framed case for restoring faith in its status as a provider of important truths about ourselves.

Basic Knowledge and Conditions on Knowledge (Hardcover): Mark McBride Basic Knowledge and Conditions on Knowledge (Hardcover)
Mark McBride
R1,195 Discovery Miles 11 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Animal Rights Law (Hardcover): Raffael N Fasel, Sean C. Butler Animal Rights Law (Hardcover)
Raffael N Fasel, Sean C. Butler
R2,689 Discovery Miles 26 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Do animals have legal rights? This pioneering book tells readers everything they need to know about animal rights law. Using straightforward examples from over 30 legal systems from both the civil and common law traditions, and based on popular courses run by the authors at the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights, the book takes the reader from the earliest anti-cruelty laws to modern animal welfare laws, to recent attempts to grant basic rights and personhood to animals. To help readers understand this legal evolution, it explains the ethics, legal theory, and social issues behind animal rights and connected topics such as property, subjecthood, dignity, and human rights. The book's companion website (bloomsbury.pub/animal-rights-law) provides access to briefs on the latest developments in this fast-changing area, and gives readers the tools to investigate their own legal systems with a list of key references to the latest cases, legislation, and jurisdiction-specific bibliographic references. Rich in exercises and study aids, this easy-to-use introduction is a prime resource for students from all disciplines and for anyone else who wants to understand how animals are protected by the law.

Law of Attraction for Abundance - How to Change Your Relationship with Money to Manifest the Wealth You Truly Desire... Law of Attraction for Abundance - How to Change Your Relationship with Money to Manifest the Wealth You Truly Desire (Hardcover)
Elena G Rivers
R538 Discovery Miles 5 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Consciousness (Hardcover): Dale Jacquette The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Consciousness (Hardcover)
Dale Jacquette; Contributions by Katherine J. Morris, Daniel Stoljar, Ted Honderich, Paul Bello, …
R6,325 Discovery Miles 63 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From Descartes and Cartesian mind-body dualism in the 17th century though to 21st-century concerns about artificial intelligence programming, The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Consciousness presents a compelling history and up-to-date overview of this burgeoning subject area. Acknowledging that many of the original concepts of consciousness studies are found in writings of past thinkers, it begins with introductory overviews to the thought of Descartes through to Kant, covering Brentano's restoration of empiricism to philosophical psychology and the major figures of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: Russell, Wittgenstein, Ryle and James. These opening chapters on the forces in the history of consciousness lay the groundwork needed to understand how influential contemporary thinkers in the philosophy of mind interpret the concept of consciousness. Featuring leading figures in the field, Part II discusses current issues in a range of topics progressing from the so-called hard problem of understanding the nature of consciousness, to the methodology of invoking the possibility of philosophical zombies and the prospects of reductivism in philosophy of mind. Part III is dedicated to new research directions in the philosophy of consciousness, including chapters on experiment objections to functionalism and the scope and limits of artificial intelligence. Equipped with practical research resources including an annotated bibliography, a research guide and a glossary, The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Consciousness is an authoritative guide for studying the past, present and future of consciousness.

Representative Men - Seven Lectures (Hardcover): Ralph Waldo Emerson Representative Men - Seven Lectures (Hardcover)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
R788 Discovery Miles 7 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Operation Terra - A Journey Through Space and Time (Keepsake Edition) (Hardcover, Keepsake ed.): Sara Zibrat Operation Terra - A Journey Through Space and Time (Keepsake Edition) (Hardcover, Keepsake ed.)
Sara Zibrat
R1,701 Discovery Miles 17 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Finding Hope - Ways of seeing life in a brighter light (Hardcover): Ronna Fay Jevne, James E Miller Finding Hope - Ways of seeing life in a brighter light (Hardcover)
Ronna Fay Jevne, James E Miller; Edited by Harold Martin
R424 Discovery Miles 4 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Dawn Of Day (Hardcover): Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche The Dawn Of Day (Hardcover)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
R1,040 Discovery Miles 10 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Origin and Growth of the Moral Instinct [microform] (Hardcover): Alexander 1852-1902 Sutherland The Origin and Growth of the Moral Instinct [microform] (Hardcover)
Alexander 1852-1902 Sutherland
R976 Discovery Miles 9 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays (Hardcover): Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience and Other Essays (Hardcover)
Henry David Thoreau
R616 R559 Discovery Miles 5 590 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Is The Emperor Dressed? - Theism or Evolutionism (Hardcover): Fuwan Yang Is The Emperor Dressed? - Theism or Evolutionism (Hardcover)
Fuwan Yang
R738 R654 Discovery Miles 6 540 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bushido the Soul of Japan (Hardcover): Inazo Nitobe Bushido the Soul of Japan (Hardcover)
Inazo Nitobe
R773 Discovery Miles 7 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Mindful Corporation (Hardcover): Paul Nakai, Ron Schultz The Mindful Corporation (Hardcover)
Paul Nakai, Ron Schultz
R1,120 R943 Discovery Miles 9 430 Save R177 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
John Millar and the Scottish Enlightenment - Family Life and World History (Paperback): Nicholas B. Miller John Millar and the Scottish Enlightenment - Family Life and World History (Paperback)
Nicholas B. Miller
R2,997 Discovery Miles 29 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

During the long eighteenth century the moral and socio-political dimensions of family life and gender were hotly debated by intellectuals across Europe. John Millar, a Scottish law professor and philosopher, was a pioneer in making gendered and familial practice a critical parameter of cultural difference. His work was widely disseminated at home and abroad, translated into French and German and closely read by philosophers such as Denis Diderot and Johann Gottfried Herder. Taking Millar's writings as his basis, Nicholas B. Miller explores the role of the family in Scottish Enlightenment political thought and traces its wider resonances across the Enlightenment world. John Millar's organisation of cultural, gendered and social difference into a progressive narrative of authority relations provided the first extended world history of the family. Over five chapters that address the historical and comparative models developed by the thinker, Nicholas B. Miller examines contemporary responses and Enlightenment-era debates on polygamy, matriarchy, the Amazon legend, changes in national character and the possible futures of the family in commercial society. He traces how Enlightenment thinkers developed new standards of evidence and crafted new understandings of historical time in order to tackle the global diversity of family life and gender practice. By reconstituting these theories and discussions, Nicholas B. Miller uncovers hitherto unexplored aspects of the Scottish contribution to European debates on the role of the family in history, society and politics.

From Revolution to Revolution - England 1688-1776 (Hardcover): John Carswell From Revolution to Revolution - England 1688-1776 (Hardcover)
John Carswell
R3,113 Discovery Miles 31 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From Revolution to Revolution (1973) examines England, Scotland and Wales from the revolution of 1688 when William became King, to the American Revolution of 1776. In this period lies the roots of modern Britain, as it went from being underdeveloped countries on the fringe of European civilization to a predominating influence in the world. This book examines the union of the island, development of an organized public opinion and national consciousness, as well as Parliament and its factions, the landed and business classes. Views on religion, art, architecture and the changing face of the countryside are also examined, as is the tension between London and the rest of the island. The important issues of colonial expansions in Ireland, America, India and Africa are also analysed.

The Court and the Country - The Beginning of the English Revolution (Hardcover): Perez Zagorin The Court and the Country - The Beginning of the English Revolution (Hardcover)
Perez Zagorin
R3,728 Discovery Miles 37 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Court and the Country (1969) offers a fresh view and synthesis of the English revolution of 1640. It describes the origin and development of the revolution, and gives an account of the various factors - political, social and religious - that produced the revolution and conditioned its course. It explains the revolution primarily as a result of the breakdown of the unity of the governing class around the monarchy into the contending sides of the Court and the Country. A principal theme is the formation within the governing class of an opposition movement to the Crown. The role of Puritanism and of the towns is examined, and the resistance to Charles I is considered in relation to other European revolutions of the period.

A Nation of Change and Novelty - Radical Politics, Religion and Literature in Seventeenth-Century England (Hardcover):... A Nation of Change and Novelty - Radical Politics, Religion and Literature in Seventeenth-Century England (Hardcover)
Christopher Hill
R3,118 Discovery Miles 31 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A Nation of Change and Novelty (1990) ranges broadly over the political and literary terrain of the seventeenth century, examining the importance of the English Revolution as a decisive event in English and European history. It emphasises the historical significance of the English Revolution, exploring not only its causes but also its long term consequences, basing both in a broad social context and viewing it as a necessary condition of England's having nurtured the first Industrial Revolution.

Reflections on the Puritan Revolution (Hardcover): A.L. Rowse Reflections on the Puritan Revolution (Hardcover)
A.L. Rowse
R3,117 Discovery Miles 31 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Reflections on the Puritan Revolution (1986) examines the damage done by the Puritans during the English Civil War, and the enormous artistic losses England suffered from their activities. The Puritans smashed stained glass, monuments, sculpture, brasses in cathedrals and churches; they destroyed organs, dispersed the choirs and the music. They sold the King's art collections, pictures, statues, plate, gems and jewels abroad, and broke up the Coronation regalia. They closed down the theatres and ended Caroline poetry. The greatest composer and most promising scientist of the age were among the many lives lost; and this all besides the ruin of palaces, castles and mansions.

A History of Political Thought in the English Revolution (Hardcover): Perez Zagorin A History of Political Thought in the English Revolution (Hardcover)
Perez Zagorin
R3,111 Discovery Miles 31 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A History of Political Thought in the English Revolution (1954) examines the large range of political doctrines which played their part in the English revolution - a period when modern democratic ideas began. The political literature of the period between 1645, when the Levellers first seized upon the revolution's wider implications, and 1660, when Charles II restored the monarchy to power, is here studied in detail.

The Good Book (Hardcover): Marty Ozols The Good Book (Hardcover)
Marty Ozols
R502 Discovery Miles 5 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Sartor Resartus - A Fully Annotated Edition With an Introductory Essay On Thomas Carlyle (Hardcover): Anonymous Sartor Resartus - A Fully Annotated Edition With an Introductory Essay On Thomas Carlyle (Hardcover)
Anonymous
R1,147 Discovery Miles 11 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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