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Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, c 1600 to c 1800

British Freemasonry, 1717-1813 Volume 1 (Hardcover): Robert Peter British Freemasonry, 1717-1813 Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Robert Peter; Edited by (associates) Cecile Revauger, Jan Snoek
R3,941 Discovery Miles 39 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Freemasonry was a major cultural and social phenomenon and a key element of the Enlightenment. It was to have an international influence across the globe. This primary resource collection charts a key period in the development of organized Freemasonry culminating in the formation of a single United Grand Lodge of England. The secrecy that has surrounded Freemasonry has made it difficult to access information and documents about the organization and its adherents in the past. This collection is the result of extensive archival research and transcription and highlights the most significant themes associated with Freemasonry. The documents are drawn from masonic collections, private archives and libraries worldwide. The majority of these texts have never before been republished. Documents include rituals (some written in code), funeral services, sermons, songs, certificates, an engraved list of lodges, letters, pamphlets, theatrical prologues and epilogues, and articles from newspapers and periodicals. This collection will enable researchers to identify many key masons for the first time. It will be of interest to students of Freemasonry, the Enlightenment and researchers in eighteenth-century studies.

British Freemasonry, 1717-1813 Volume 5 (Hardcover): Cecile Revauger, Jan Snoek British Freemasonry, 1717-1813 Volume 5 (Hardcover)
Cecile Revauger, Jan Snoek; Edited by Robert Peter
R3,934 Discovery Miles 39 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Freemasonry was a major cultural and social phenomenon and a key element of the Enlightenment. It was to have an international influence across the globe. This primary resource collection charts a key period in the development of organized Freemasonry culminating in the formation of a single United Grand Lodge of England. The secrecy that has surrounded Freemasonry has made it difficult to access information and documents about the organization and its adherents in the past. This collection is the result of extensive archival research and transcription and highlights the most significant themes associated with Freemasonry. The documents are drawn from masonic collections, private archives and libraries worldwide. The majority of these texts have never before been republished. Documents include rituals (some written in code), funeral services, sermons, songs, certificates, an engraved list of lodges, letters, pamphlets, theatrical prologues and epilogues, and articles from newspapers and periodicals. This collection will enable researchers to identify many key masons for the first time. It will be of interest to students of Freemasonry, the Enlightenment and researchers in eighteenth-century studies.

The Emergence of a theatrical science of man in France, 1660-1740 (Paperback): Logan J. Connors The Emergence of a theatrical science of man in France, 1660-1740 (Paperback)
Logan J. Connors
R2,927 Discovery Miles 29 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The emergence of a theatrical science of man in France, 1660-1740 highlights a radical departure from discussions of dramatic literature and its undergirding rules to a new, relational discourse on the emotional power of theater. Through a diverse cast of religious theaterphobes, government officials, playwrights, art theorists and proto-philosophes, Connors shows the concerted effort in early Enlightenment France to use texts about theater to establish broader theories on emotion, on the enduring psychological and social ramifications of affective moments, and more generally, on human interaction, motivation, and social behavior. This fundamentally anthropological assessment of theater emerged in the works of anti-theatrical religious writers, who argued that emotional response was theater's raison d'etre and that it was an efficient venue to learn more about the depravity of human nature. A new generation of pro-theatrical writers shared the anti-theatricalists' intense focus on the emotions of theater, but unlike religious theaterphobes, they did not view emotion as a conduit of sin or as a dangerous, uncontrollable process; but rather, as cognitive-affective moments of feeling and learning. Connors' study explores this reassessment of the theatrical experience which empowered writers to use plays, critiques, and other cultural materials about the stage to establish a theatrical science of man-an early Enlightenment project with aims to study and 'improve' the emotional, social, and political 'health' of eighteenth-century France.

Rousseau's Ethics of Truth - A Sublime Science of Simple Souls (Hardcover): Jason Neidleman Rousseau's Ethics of Truth - A Sublime Science of Simple Souls (Hardcover)
Jason Neidleman
R4,216 Discovery Miles 42 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1758, Rousseau announced that he had adopted "vitam impendere vero" (dedicate life to truth) as a personal pledge. Despite the dramatic nature of this declaration, no scholar has yet approached Rousseau's work through the lens of truth or truthseeking. What did it mean for Rousseau to lead a life dedicated to truth? This book presents Rousseau's normative account of truthseeking, his account of what human beings must do if they hope to discover the truths essential to human happiness. Rousseau's writings constitute a practical guide to these truths; they describe how he arrived at them and how others might as well. In reading Rousseau through the lens of truth, Neidleman traverses the entirety of Rousseau's corpus, and, in the process, reveals a series of symmetries among the disparate themes treated in those texts. The first section of the book lays out Rousseau's general philosophy of truth and truthseeking. The second section follows Rousseau down four distinct pathways to truth: reverie, republicanism, religion, and reason. With a strong grounding in both the Anglophone and Francophone scholarship on Rousseau, this book will appeal to scholars across a broad range of disciplines.

British Freemasonry, 1717-1813 Volume 2 (Hardcover): Robert Peter British Freemasonry, 1717-1813 Volume 2 (Hardcover)
Robert Peter; Edited by (associates) Cecile Revauger, Jan Snoek
R3,971 Discovery Miles 39 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Freemasonry was a major cultural and social phenomenon and a key element of the Enlightenment. It was to have an international influence across the globe. This primary resource collection charts a key period in the development of organized Freemasonry culminating in the formation of a single United Grand Lodge of England. The secrecy that has surrounded Freemasonry has made it difficult to access information and documents about the organization and its adherents in the past. This collection is the result of extensive archival research and transcription and highlights the most significant themes associated with Freemasonry. The documents are drawn from masonic collections, private archives and libraries worldwide. The majority of these texts have never before been republished. Documents include rituals (some written in code), funeral services, sermons, songs, certificates, an engraved list of lodges, letters, pamphlets, theatrical prologues and epilogues, and articles from newspapers and periodicals. This collection will enable researchers to identify many key masons for the first time. It will be of interest to students of Freemasonry, the Enlightenment and researchers in eighteenth-century studies.

British Freemasonry, 1717-1813 Volume 3 (Hardcover): Cecile Revauger, Jan Snoek British Freemasonry, 1717-1813 Volume 3 (Hardcover)
Cecile Revauger, Jan Snoek; Edited by Robert Peter
R3,948 Discovery Miles 39 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Freemasonry was a major cultural and social phenomenon and a key element of the Enlightenment. It was to have an international influence across the globe. This primary resource collection charts a key period in the development of organized Freemasonry culminating in the formation of a single United Grand Lodge of England. The secrecy that has surrounded Freemasonry has made it difficult to access information and documents about the organization and its adherents in the past. This collection is the result of extensive archival research and transcription and highlights the most significant themes associated with Freemasonry. The documents are drawn from masonic collections, private archives and libraries worldwide. The majority of these texts have never before been republished. Documents include rituals (some written in code), funeral services, sermons, songs, certificates, an engraved list of lodges, letters, pamphlets, theatrical prologues and epilogues, and articles from newspapers and periodicals. This collection will enable researchers to identify many key masons for the first time. It will be of interest to students of Freemasonry, the Enlightenment and researchers in eighteenth-century studies.

British Philosophy and the Age of Enlightenment - Routledge History of Philosophy Volume 5 (Hardcover): Stuart Brown British Philosophy and the Age of Enlightenment - Routledge History of Philosophy Volume 5 (Hardcover)
Stuart Brown
R3,908 Discovery Miles 39 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This fifth volume covers many of the most important philosophers and movements of the nineteenth century, including utilitarianism, positivism and pragmatism.

Complete Works of Voltaire 34 - Oeuvres Alphabetiques II: Ajouts Posthumes (French, Hardcover, Critical edition): Nicholas... Complete Works of Voltaire 34 - Oeuvres Alphabetiques II: Ajouts Posthumes (French, Hardcover, Critical edition)
Nicholas Cronk, Christiane Mervaud, Gillian Pink; Voltaire
R5,024 Discovery Miles 50 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Apres la mort de Voltaire, les editeurs des premieres OEuvres completes posthumes, parues a Kehl, ont publie, dans leur version du 'Dictionnaire philosophique', une quarantaine de manuscrits trouves parmi les papiers de l'auteur. Le present volume a pour objectif de reveler la nature et les origines de ces textes et d'elucider les liens qui existent entre eux. L'edition fait l'etude de la datation de ces textes et tente de resoudre les nombreuses questions genetiques et contextuelles qui planent sur l'ensemble.

L'amateur a l'epoque des Lumieres (French, Paperback): Justine de Reynies, Benedicte Peralez Peslier L'amateur a l'epoque des Lumieres (French, Paperback)
Justine de Reynies, Benedicte Peralez Peslier
R2,936 Discovery Miles 29 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Obeissant a la logique d'une specialisation toujours plus grande, les societes contemporaines ne tiennent pas l'amateur en grande estime. Or, s'il est vrai que le 18e siecle consacre le triomphe de cette figure, c'est aussi l'epoque ou s'amorce son irreversible declin. Couvrant un large spectre de disciplines et d'aires culturelles au sein de l'Europe, les contributions de specialistes reunies dans ce volume permettent de mieux cerner ce moment-pivot de l'histoire culturelle. Sans se limiter aux formes institutionnalisees de l'amateurship etudiees par les historiens de l'art ou des sciences, l'ouvrage examine ainsi les relations que le non-professionnel entretient avec les gens de metier (dans la presse, le milieu musical ou litteraire) ; la specificite des oeuvres qu'il produit et sa contribution au progres des arts et des sciences ; l'emergence, a l'age de l'esthetique naissante, d'un amateur compris comme instance de jugement ; la maniere dont il est investi par les discours et annexe a leurs logiques propres (en tant que fiction litteraire, ideal ou ethos). Observer le phenomene dans ses manifestations plurielles, confronter l'ordre des realites et celui des representations, articuler les diverses approches sur la question: l'enjeu, on l'aura compris, est moins de definir une quelconque identite de l'amateur, que d'interroger sa raison d'etre. --- Amateurs are not particularly appreciated in our ever specialising contemporary societies. Yet the figure of the amateur was highly celebrated in the eighteenth century, even though its irremediable decline began at the same time. The articles collected in this book allow a better understanding of this turning point in cultural history as they cover a wide spectrum of academic disciplines and European cultural areas. This book does not only deal with the institutionalised forms of amateurship that have been studied by art historians and historians of science. This work considers the relationships that non-professionals had with professionals (working in periodicals, in the musical world, or in the book trade) ; the specificity of the works that amateurs produced and their contribution to the progress of arts and sciences ; the rise of the amateur as a judging instance in a period that saw the development of aesthetics ; and the way this figure was handled in different discourses and subjected to their own logics (whether as a literary fiction, an ideal or an ethos). Since this collective work focuses on the phenomenon of amateurship in its diverse manifestations, confronts the real to its representations, and articulates different perspectives on the subject, it obviously does not aim at defining any identity for the amateur, but rather intends to question its raison d'etre.

Politics and the arts in Lisbon and Rome - The Roman dream of John V of Portugal (Paperback): Pilar Diez Del Corral Corredoira Politics and the arts in Lisbon and Rome - The Roman dream of John V of Portugal (Paperback)
Pilar Diez Del Corral Corredoira
R2,912 Discovery Miles 29 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Dealing with a complex king, this edited collection elucidates a monarch's vision of Rome that deeply affected his political choices and cultural policy during the first half of the eighteenth-century. John V of Portugal became king in 1707 in a pivotal moment for the European balance of power. The Kingdom of Portugal was still demanding the same privileges as its powerful neighbours and the relation with Rome was considered a vehicle to obtain them. Arts and music had a special and unprecedented place in the king's plans and this book approaches that dynamic from several interdisciplinary perspectives. The unifying thread across this book's chapters remains the omnipresence of Rome as a paradigm on several levels: political, religious, intellectual, artistic, and musical. Rather than providing an exhaustive analysis of the period as a whole, this study offers a fresh approach for English readers to this classic, but little known, topic in Portuguese national historiography.

Le Moment Beccaria - naissance du droit penal moderne (1764-1810) (French, Paperback): Philippe Audegean, Luigi Delia Le Moment Beccaria - naissance du droit penal moderne (1764-1810) (French, Paperback)
Philippe Audegean, Luigi Delia
R2,923 Discovery Miles 29 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Jamais, dans aucune autre periode de l'histoire, le probleme penal n'a ete aussi debattu qu'au siecle des Lumieres. Or, l'evenement declencheur de ces debats est la publication des Delits et des peines, le petit livre de Cesare Beccaria dont la premiere edition parait a Livourne en 1764. On assiste, apres cette date et durant un demi-siecle, a une profusion impressionnante de reactions et de prolongements directement lies a cet ouvrage. A tel point que, pour designer cette periode, on a pu parler d'un 'moment Beccaria'. Les recherches rassemblees dans ce volume explorent differents foyers thematiques et geographiques (Allemagne, Angleterre, France, Italie) de cette phase inedite et fondatrice de l'histoire europeenne du droit de punir. Pourquoi cette soudaine publicite du probleme penal? Comment s'est-elle manifestee, par quels canaux, sous quelles formes theoriques et materielles? Comme le montre cet ouvrage, le droit penal moderne est ne d'un livre, mais aussi de ses interpretations: il est ne des idees de Beccaria et des debats qu'elles ont provoques. Ces deux sources se sont croisees et ne peuvent se comprendre l'une sans l'autre. --- Throughout history, criminal law was never more discussed than during the Age of Enlightenment. The debates started after the publication of a small book by Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments, in Livorno in 1764. For fifty years from that date, reactions and additions to the book proliferated so much that this period is called by some "the Beccaria moment". The contributions in this volume explore different thematic and geographical areas (Germany, England, France, Italy) to explore that innovative and foundational moment in the European history of criminal law. Why was the criminal problem suddenly publicised? How did those interrogations manifest? Which theoretical and material forms did they take? This volume shows that modern criminal law originates in a book, and also in its interpretations - in Beccaria's ideas and the debates they started. Those two sources interacted and now cannot be understood separately.

Les Climats du pouvoir - rhetorique et politique chez Bodin, Montesquieu et Rousseau (French, Paperback): Richard Spavin Les Climats du pouvoir - rhetorique et politique chez Bodin, Montesquieu et Rousseau (French, Paperback)
Richard Spavin
R3,065 Discovery Miles 30 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Les analyses fondees sur l'environnement, qui font du terrain ou de la temperature des facteurs explicatifs de la diversite humaine, dominent les discours anthropologiques de l'Ancien Regime. Richard Spavin montre que ces theories climatiques revelent des demarches contestataires a lire a cote des theories de la souverainete, du constitutionnalisme et du republicanisme. Richard Spavin fonde son analyse sur trois auteurs qui ont une vision relativiste du determinisme climatique. Si, pour Bodin, Montesquieu et Rousseau, les theories des climats expliquent les causes geographiques derriere la diversite des societes, elles recelent egalement une dimension metaphorique. Pour eux, les climats mettent en recit des visions du pouvoir: les limites du politique sont comparees aux obstacles geographiques; la finalite politique ne se trouve plus dans le corps du monarque mais dans le sol, auquel le monarque et son peuple appartiennent ensemble. L'auteur invite notamment a relire a nouveaux frais les derangeants livres de L'Esprit des lois qui semblent justifier l'esclavage dans certaines regions eloignees du contexte europeen. Les theories des climats revelent ainsi une face cachee de la philosophie politique de l'Ancien Regime. Richard Spavin en reevalue le socle philosophique et en devoile l'ironie qui demeurait jusque-la inapercue. Il montre que les climats sont un outil rhetorique efficace pour penser le nouvel ordre moral de la modernite.

Conversations With My Dog - About our journeys and finding the way home (Hardcover): Hannah Gold Conversations With My Dog - About our journeys and finding the way home (Hardcover)
Hannah Gold
R455 R370 Discovery Miles 3 700 Save R85 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Conversations with My Dog by Hannah Gold is a tale for those who love to seek new adventures and the promise of following their dreams, or nose, into the unknown. In a fast-paced world, driven by material achievement and the fear of loss; clarity can seem hard to find. Sometimes answers can come from the most surprising sources. When the author found herself confronted with challenges, she discovered, to her surprise, that wisdom came not from a philosophical master or spiritual guide, but her puppy named Monty. On the road with him, she learns to stop and ask him questions. He answers her through demonstrating the values of simplicity, fun and love of exploration. This description of the conversations that developed between them is a tale about rediscovering direction in life. It gives a light-hearted, gently thought-provoking account of the bigger journey of working out how to live. The search for the way ahead is the metaphor that illustrates the eternal bond of loyalty between a dog and its humanand makes this tale transcend normal conversation. 'Even when we are in small bodies, we have big spirits.' Writes Hannah Gold, relaying the replies of her wise four-legged friend, to her questions about life. 'The very young always know why they are here. Because they haven't forgotten. Sometimes life muddles things up with too many thoughts. But the heart is ageless.' Hannah's illustrations were created from sketches she made of Monty on their travels. These drawings provide a visual tapestry, depicting their journey together to inspire readers in finding their own path. Conversations with My Dog is an ideal companion for people considering significant change or embarking on a new direction, however uncertain, or even just searching for a little extra companionship and inspiration.

How To Be Good - What Socrates Can Teach Us About the Art of Living Well (Hardcover): Massimo Pigliucci How To Be Good - What Socrates Can Teach Us About the Art of Living Well (Hardcover)
Massimo Pigliucci
R611 R498 Discovery Miles 4 980 Save R113 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people? Can we make ourselves into better human beings? Can we help others do the same? And can we get the leaders of our society to care that humanity prospers, not just economically, but also spiritually? These questions have been asked for over two millennia and attempting to answer them is crucial if we want to live a better life and build a more just society. How to Be Good uses the story of Socrates and Alcibiades and examples from Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius and Machiavelli, alongside modern interpretations to explore what philosophy can teach us about the quest for virtue today. Whether we are statesmen or ordinary individuals Pigliucci argues that with a little work day by day we all have the power to pursue the timely and timeless art of living well.

Penser l'Amerique - de l'observation a l'inscription (French, Paperback): Nathalie Vuillemin, Thomas Wien Penser l'Amerique - de l'observation a l'inscription (French, Paperback)
Nathalie Vuillemin, Thomas Wien
R2,911 Discovery Miles 29 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

S'il est desormais etabli que le legs textuel des rencontres coloniales en revele autant sur les observateurs que sur ce qu'ils observent, le passage de l'acte d'observation a l'acte d'ecriture et le devenir des documents produits n'ont pas recu l'attention qu'ils meritent. C'est ce que proposent les auteurs des neuf etudes composant cet ouvrage, qui reviennent aux sources archivistiques du discours colonial: les inscriptions d'expression francaise sur l'Amerique, entre le milieu du XVIIe siecle et la fin du XVIIIe. Cette periode peut etre consideree comme un laboratoire des representations francaises de l'Amerique, au moment ou s'accelere le projet de decouverte et de domination politique et symbolique de la Nouvelle-France, puis des Antilles. Dans les contradictions des textes, dans les breches du recit colonial, se met progressivement en place un systeme de representation plus mouvant et evolutif que le savoir domine par les volontes institutionnelles, normatives, communautaires. Les auteurs analysent ici les contingences et les imprevus de l'experience americaine des colonisateurs et de l'ecriture de l'Amerique dans ses differentes inscriptions: ecrits, cartes, gravures. En etudiant les divers accidents lies au deplacement des textes (pertes, formatage, reecriture, reception), les auteurs montrent comment la sphere de la circulation devient lieu de creation du savoir. L'inscription de l'observation consiste a transcrire mais surtout a transformer l'experience existentielle americaine des observateurs en un evenement exemplaire. Elle contribue a constituer une memoire et un savoir qui pretendent retenir la realite vecue et la transmettre a des publics differents. Les auteurs de ce volume envisagent ainsi l'inscription comme un phenomene d'integration. Comment l'Amerique devient-elle partie du monde connu des Europeens? Et, reciproquement, comment l'assimilation de l'Amerique redessine-t-elle les contours de la conscience de soi des observateurs europeens? Tels sont les enjeux de ce livre, qui renouvelle l'approche du discours colonial sur l'Amerique au XVIIIe siecle.

Clipped Coins, Abused Words, and Civil Government - John Locke's Philosophy of Money (Paperback): George Caffentzis Clipped Coins, Abused Words, and Civil Government - John Locke's Philosophy of Money (Paperback)
George Caffentzis; Foreword by Harry Cleaver
R604 Discovery Miles 6 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book situates John Locke's philosophy of knowledge and his political theory within his engagement in British monetary debates of the 17th and 18th century. Anchored in extensive archival research, George Caffentzis offers the most expansive reading of Locke's economic thought to date, contextualizing it within the expansion of capitalist accumulation on a world scale and the universality of money as a medium of exchange. Updated with a new introduction by Paul Rekret, a new foreword by Harry Cleaver and new material by the author, Clipped Coins, Abused Words, and Civil Government continues to make a significant intervention in contemporary debates around the history of capitalism, colonialism and philosophy.

The Philosophy of the Enlightenment (Routledge Revivals) - The Christian Burgess and the Enlightenment (Hardcover): Lucien... The Philosophy of the Enlightenment (Routledge Revivals) - The Christian Burgess and the Enlightenment (Hardcover)
Lucien Goldmann
R3,905 Discovery Miles 39 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this reissue, originally published in English in 1973, French philosopher Lucien Goldmann turns his attention to the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, the great age of liberalism and individualism and analyses the 'mental structures' of the outlook of the philosophes, who showed that the ancien regime and the privileges of the Church were irrational anachronisms.


In assessing the strengths and limitations of individualism, Goldmann considers the achievements and limitations of the Enlightenment. He discusses the views of Hegel and Marx and examines the relation between liberal scepticism and traditional Christianity to point the way to the possible reconciliation of the two seemingly incompatible 'world visions' of East and West today.

The Philosophy of the Enlightenment (Routledge Revivals) - The Christian Burgess and the Enlightenment (Paperback): Lucien... The Philosophy of the Enlightenment (Routledge Revivals) - The Christian Burgess and the Enlightenment (Paperback)
Lucien Goldmann
R1,334 Discovery Miles 13 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this reissue, originally published in English in 1973, French philosopher Lucien Goldmann turns his attention to the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, the great age of liberalism and individualism and analyses the 'mental structures' of the outlook of the philosophes, who showed that the ancien regime and the privileges of the Church were irrational anachronisms. In assessing the strengths and limitations of individualism, Goldmann considers the achievements and limitations of the Enlightenment. He discusses the views of Hegel and Marx and examines the relation between liberal scepticism and traditional Christianity to point the way to the possible reconciliation of the two seemingly incompatible 'world visions' of East and West today.

How to Keep an Open Mind - An Ancient Guide to Thinking Like a Skeptic (Hardcover): Sextus Empiricus How to Keep an Open Mind - An Ancient Guide to Thinking Like a Skeptic (Hardcover)
Sextus Empiricus; Translated by Richard Bett; Commentary by Richard Bett
R461 R364 Discovery Miles 3 640 Save R97 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How ancient skepticism can help you attain tranquility by learning to suspend judgment Along with Stoicism and Epicureanism, Skepticism is one of the three major schools of ancient Greek philosophy that claim to offer a way of living as well as thinking. How to Keep an Open Mind provides an unmatched introduction to skepticism by presenting a fresh, modern translation of key passages from the writings of Sextus Empiricus, the only Greek skeptic whose works have survived. While content in daily life to go along with things as they appear to be, Sextus advocated-and provided a set of techniques to achieve-a radical suspension of judgment about the way things really are, believing that such nonjudging can be useful for challenging the unfounded dogmatism of others and may help one achieve a state of calm and tranquility. In an introduction, Richard Bett makes the case that the most important lesson we can draw from Sextus's brand of skepticism today may be an ability to see what can be said on the other side of any issue, leading to a greater open-mindedness. Complete with the original Greek on facing pages, How to Keep an Open Mind offers a compelling antidote to the closed-minded dogmatism of today's polarized world.

Les Degouts de Voltaire - exploration d'une sensibilite complexe (French, Paperback): Marie-Helene Cotoni Les Degouts de Voltaire - exploration d'une sensibilite complexe (French, Paperback)
Marie-Helene Cotoni
R2,911 Discovery Miles 29 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Les oeuvres de Voltaire, et particulierement sa correspondance, recelent une thematique inattendue peu analysee par la critique: l'expression de ses degouts. Voltaire y devoile ses depits et deboires devant l'oppression politique et religieuse, ses exigences d'homme de lettres et d'historien, ses desillusions, exprimant ainsi sa vision pessimiste de la condition humaine. La revelation par Marie-Helene Cotoni de l'importance que donnait Voltaire a ses degouts, de la vie a l'oeuvre, a fait naitre un nouveau champ de recherche: comment apprehender, si longtemps apres, la sincerite d'une emotion a partir de traces ecrites, laissees par un maitre dans l'art d'ecrire, mais aussi dans l'art de feindre? Dans ce livre, l'auteur evalue la diversite des degouts de Voltaire, dans ses rapports au monde et a soi-meme, selon les situations qui les ont provoques: degouts exageres dans les jugements severes que l'ecrivain porte sur le monde des Lettres; sarcastiques ou hargneux devant qui s'ecarte de la verite; obsedants dans certaines polemiques; a peine chuchotes lors des desillusions de sa vie privee; allant jusqu'a l'horreur face a la 'barbarie' de son siecle. Marie-Helene Cotoni analyse les motivations qui poussent Voltaire a exprimer ainsi ses degouts. Elle trace la frontiere entre impressions reellement eprouvees et expression, afin de mesurer, autant que possible, la sincerite de l'homme tout comme l'habilete de l'ecrivain. S'il plonge bien souvent ses lecteurs dans un monde de laideur, en employant un vocabulaire grossier et des metaphores brutales, il souhaite cependant les amener a epouser ses combats pour le Juste, le Beau et le Vrai. L'expression de sa repulsion devant les croyances erronees est pour Voltaire une autre maniere de defendre le classicisme et la civilisation.

The Minds of the Moderns - Rationalism, Empiricism and Philosophy of Mind (Hardcover): Janice Thomas The Minds of the Moderns - Rationalism, Empiricism and Philosophy of Mind (Hardcover)
Janice Thomas
R3,926 Discovery Miles 39 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a comprehensive examination of the ideas of the early modern philosophers on the nature of mind. Taking Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume in turn, Janice Thomas presents an authoritative and critical assessment of each of these canonical thinkers' views of the notion of mind. The book examines each philosopher's position on five key topics: the metaphysical character of minds and mental states; the nature and scope of introspection and self-knowledge; the nature of consciousness; the problem of mental causation and the nature of representation and intentionality. The exposition and examination of their positions is informed by present-day debates in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of psychology so that students get a clear sense of the importance of these philosophers' ideas, many of which continue to define our current notions of the mental.Again and again, philosophers and students alike come back to the great early modern rationalist and empiricist philosophers for instruction and inspiration. Their views on the philosophy of mind are no exception and as Janice Thomas shows they have much to offer contemporary debates. The book is suitable for undergraduate courses in the philosophy of mind and the many new courses in philosophy of psychology.

The Minds of the Moderns - Rationalism, Empiricism and Philosophy of Mind (Paperback): Janice Thomas The Minds of the Moderns - Rationalism, Empiricism and Philosophy of Mind (Paperback)
Janice Thomas
R1,187 Discovery Miles 11 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a comprehensive examination of the ideas of the early modern philosophers on the nature of mind. Taking Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume in turn, Janice Thomas presents an authoritative and critical assessment of each of these canonical thinkers' views of the notion of mind. The book examines each philosopher's position on five key topics: the metaphysical character of minds and mental states; the nature and scope of introspection and self-knowledge; the nature of consciousness; the problem of mental causation and the nature of representation and intentionality. The exposition and examination of their positions is informed by present-day debates in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of psychology so that students get a clear sense of the importance of these philosophers' ideas, many of which continue to define our current notions of the mental.Again and again, philosophers and students alike come back to the great early modern rationalist and empiricist philosophers for instruction and inspiration. Their views on the philosophy of mind are no exception and as Janice Thomas shows they have much to offer contemporary debates. The book is suitable for undergraduate courses in the philosophy of mind and the many new courses in philosophy of psychology.

Penser l'Europe Au XVIII  Siecle - Commerce, Civilisation, Empire (French, Paperback): Antoine Lilti, Celine Spector Penser l'Europe Au XVIII Siecle - Commerce, Civilisation, Empire (French, Paperback)
Antoine Lilti, Celine Spector
R3,004 Discovery Miles 30 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Au XXIe siecle, l'Europe ne fait plus rever: son modele est conteste, tant sur le plan economique qu'intellectuel et politique. Face a ces desillusions, il est urgent d'interroger les origines de l'idee d'Europe: quand et comment la notion d'Europe s'est-elle definie? L'ouvrage dirige par Antoine Lilti et Celine Spector propose un detour par les Lumieres. Si l'Europe peut s'enorgueillir d'une longue histoire, c'est bien au XVIIIe siecle qu'elle est devenue un enjeu philosophique, historique et politique majeur. De Montesquieu a Kant, de Voltaire a Burke ou a Robertson, l'idee d'Europe est au coeur des controverses sur le droit international comme sur l'economie politique, sur la legitimite de l'expansion coloniale comme sur les espoirs d'un monde pacifie. Veritable enquete collective conduite par des historiens et des philosophes, Penser l'Europe au XVIIIe siecle aborde trois elements majeurs autour desquels gravite le concept naissant d'Europe: l'empire, le commerce et la civilisation. Apres avoir decrit la maniere dont l'ordre europeen a ete concu, les auteurs examinent la question de l'expansion commerciale et coloniale de l'Europe, ainsi que les theories de la civilisation, qui permettent d'interroger le statut de l'exceptionnalisme europeen. Le siecle des Lumieres ne nous presente pas un ideal europeen a ressusciter, mais un champ d'interrogations dont nous ne sommes jamais veritablement sortis.

The Imagination in German Idealism and Romanticism (Paperback): Gerad Gentry, Konstantin Pollok The Imagination in German Idealism and Romanticism (Paperback)
Gerad Gentry, Konstantin Pollok
R944 Discovery Miles 9 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For philosophers of German idealism and early German romanticism, the imagination is central to issues ranging from hermeneutics to transcendental logic and from ethics to aesthetics. This volume of new essays brings together, for the first time, comprehensive and critical reflections on the significances of the imagination during this period, with essays on Kant and the imagination, the imagination in post-Kantian German idealism, and the imagination in early German romanticism. The essays explore the many and varied uses of the imagination and discuss whether they form a coherent or shared notion or whether they embody points of philosophical divergence within these traditions. They shed new light on one of the most important and enigmatic aspects of human nature, as understood in the context of a profoundly influential era of western thought.

Le Discours pedagogique feminin au temps des Lumieres (French, Paperback, 1st): Sonia Cherrad Le Discours pedagogique feminin au temps des Lumieres (French, Paperback, 1st)
Sonia Cherrad
R2,927 Discovery Miles 29 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Si l'education, theme phare du XVIIIe siecle, a fait l'objet d'importantes etudes historiques et litteraires, de nombreux textes d'auteurs feminins sont restes dans l'ombre. Meconnus ou incompris, ils ont ete consideres comme une production mineure, etrangere a l'edification d'une pensee pedagogique. En se fondant sur un corpus d'une vingtaine d'ouvrages, Sonia Cherrad demontre le role determinant joue par le discours de ces femmes dans la reflexion sur l'education au XVIIIe siecle. Ce discours est forme des voix d'auteurs connues comme Mmes Le Prince de Beaumont, d'Epinay et de Genlis; mais egalement de celles d'auteurs a decouvrir ou redecouvrir telles Mmes de La Fite, de Monbart, de Miremont ainsi que Mlles d'Espinassy et Le Masson Le Golft. Sonia Cherrad met en lumiere le caractere philosophique nouveau de leurs theories pedagogiques et expose les savoirs - parmi lesquels des disciplines comme l'histoire, la geographie et les sciences - qui, pour ces educatrices, constituent le socle d'une bonne formation. Ce livre demontre en outre qu'au sein des parties fictionnelles de leurs livres, les auteurs prolongent leur reflexion au-dela des questions educatives et proposent des analyses des situations sociale, politique et economique de leur epoque.

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