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Kant on Maxims and Moral Motivation - A New Interpretation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Peter Herissone-Kelly Kant on Maxims and Moral Motivation - A New Interpretation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Peter Herissone-Kelly
R2,799 Discovery Miles 27 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book outlines and circumvents two serious problems that appear to attach to Kant's moral philosophy, or more precisely to the model of rational agency that underlies that moral philosophy: the problem of experiential incongruence and the problem of misdirected moral attention. The book's central contention is that both these problems can be sidestepped. In order to demonstrate this, it argues for an entirely novel reading of Kant's views on action and moral motivation. In addressing the two main problems in Kant's moral philosophy, the book explains how the first problem arises because the central elements of Kant's theory of action seem not to square with our lived experience of agency, and moral agency in particular. For example, the idea that moral deliberation invariably takes the form of testing personal policies against the Categorical Imperative seems at odds with the phenomenology of such reasoning, as does the claim that all our actions proceed from explicitly adopted general policies, or maxims. It then goes on to discuss the second problem showing how it is a result of Kant's apparent claim that when an agent acts from duty, her reason for doing so is that her maxim is lawlike. This seems to put the moral agent's attention in the wrong place: on the nature of her own maxims, rather than on the world of other people and morally salient situations. The book shows how its proposed novel reading of Kant's views ultimately paints an unfamiliar but appealing picture of the Kantian good-willed agent as much more embedded in and engaged with the world than has traditionally been supposed.

Helene Cixous: Live Theory (Hardcover): Ian Blyth, Susan Sellers Helene Cixous: Live Theory (Hardcover)
Ian Blyth, Susan Sellers
R5,208 Discovery Miles 52 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Helene Cixous: live theory provides a clear and informative introduction to one of the most important and influential European writers working today. The book opens with an overview of the key features of Cixous' theory of "ecriture feminine" (feminine writing). The various manifestations of "ecriture feminine" are then explored in chapters on Cixous' fictional and theatrical writing, her philosophical essays, and her intensely personal approach to literary criticism. The book concludes with a new, lively and wide-ranging interview with Helene Cixous in which she discusses her influences and inspirations, and her thoughts on the nature of writing and the need for an ethical relationship with the world. Also offering a survey of the many English translations of Cixous' work, this book is an indispensable introduction to Cixous' work for students of literature, philosophy, cultural and gender studies.

The Absolute and Star Trek (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): George A. Gonzalez The Absolute and Star Trek (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
George A. Gonzalez
R2,033 Discovery Miles 20 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume explains how Star Trek allows viewers to comprehend significant aspects of Georg Hegel's concept the absolute, the driving force behind history. Gonzalez, with wit and wisdom, explains how Star Trek exhibits central elements of the absolute. He describes how themes and ethos central to the show display the concept beautifully. For instance, the show posits that people must possess the correct attitudes in order to bring about an ideal society: a commitment to social justice; an unyielding commitment to the truth; and a similar commitment to scientific, intellectual discovery. These characteristics serve as perfect embodiments of Hegel's conceptualization, and Gonzalez's analysis is sharp and exacting.

Philosophy, History, and Tyranny - Reexamining the Debate between Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojeve (Hardcover): Timothy W.... Philosophy, History, and Tyranny - Reexamining the Debate between Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojeve (Hardcover)
Timothy W. Burns, Bryan-Paul Frost
R2,112 Discovery Miles 21 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Kant on Morality, Humanity, and Legality - Practical Dimensions of Normativity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Ansgar Lyssy,... Kant on Morality, Humanity, and Legality - Practical Dimensions of Normativity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Ansgar Lyssy, Christopher Yeomans
R3,280 Discovery Miles 32 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

It was not so long ago that the dominant picture of Kant's practical philosophy was forma listic, focusing almost exclusively on his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and Critique of Practical Reason. However, the overall picture of Kant's wide-ranging philosophy has since been broadened and deepened. We now have a much more complete understanding of the range of Kant's practical interests and of his contributions to areas as diverse as anthropology, peda gogy, and legal theory. What remains somewhat obscure, however, is how these different contributions hang together in the way that Kant suggests that they must. This book explores these different conceptions of humanity, morality, and legality in Kant as main 'manifestations' or 'dimensions' of practical normativity. These interrelated terms play a cru cial role in highlighting different rational obligations, their source(s), and their appli cability in the face of changing circumstances.

Frege - Sense and Reference One Hundred Years Later (Hardcover): John Biro, Petr Kotatko Frege - Sense and Reference One Hundred Years Later (Hardcover)
John Biro, Petr Kotatko
R2,403 Discovery Miles 24 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Gottlob Frege's brief article "Uber Sinn und Bedeutung" ("On Sense and Reference") has come to be seen, in the century since its publication in 1892, as one of the seminal texts of analytic philosophy. It, along with the rest of Frege's writings on logic and mathematics, came to mark out a whole new domain of inquiry and to set the agenda for it. This volume bears witness to the continuing importance and influence of that agenda. It contains original papers written by leading Frege scholars for the conference held in 1992 in Karlovy Vary to celebrate the centenary of the publication of Frege's essay. The 14 essays show how the questions Frege discusses in that essay connect intimately with issues much debated in current philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.

Trial of William Burke and Helen M'Dougal [electronic Resource] - Before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on... Trial of William Burke and Helen M'Dougal [electronic Resource] - Before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on Wednesday, December 24. 1828, for the Murder of Margery Campbell, or Docherty (Hardcover)
William 1792-1829 Burke; Created by Charles Kirkpatrick 1781?-1851 Sharpe, Helen B 1795? M'Dougal
R828 Discovery Miles 8 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Early Greek Thought - Before the Dawn (Hardcover): James Luchte Early Greek Thought - Before the Dawn (Hardcover)
James Luchte
R4,580 Discovery Miles 45 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Early Greek Thought calls into question a longstanding mythology - operative in both the Analytic and Continental traditions - that the 'Pre-Socratics had the grandiose audacity to break with all traditional forms of knowledge' (Badiou). Each of the variants of this mythology is dismantled in an attempt to not only retrieve an 'indigenous' interpretation of early Greek thought, but also to expose the mythological character of our own contemporary meta-narratives regarding the 'origins' of 'Western', 'Occidental' philosophy. Using an original hermeneutical approach, James Luchte excavates the context ofemergence of early Greek thought through an exploration of the mytho-poetic horizons of the archaic world, in relation to which, as Plato testifies, the Greeks were merely 'children'. Luchte discloses 'philosophy in the tragic age' as a creative response to a 'contestation' of mytho-poetic narratives and 'ways of being'. The tragic character of early Greek thought is unfolded through a cultivation of a conversation between its basic thinkers, one which would remain incomprehensible, with Bataille, in the 'absence of myth' and the exile of poetry.

Aristotelian Subjectivism: Francisco Suarez's Philosophy of Perception (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Daniel Heider Aristotelian Subjectivism: Francisco Suarez's Philosophy of Perception (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Daniel Heider
R3,305 Discovery Miles 33 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This monograph presents new material on Francisco Suarez's comprehensive theory of sense perception. The core theme is perceptual intentionality in Suarez's theory of the senses, external and internal, as presented in his Commentaria una cum quaestionibus in libros Aristotelis De anima published in 1621. The author targets the question of the multistage genesis of perceptual acts by considering the ontological "items" involved in the procession of sensory information. However, the structural issue is not left aside, and the nature of the relationship due to which our perceptions are mental representations of this or that object is also considered. The heuristic historiographical background includes not only the theories of classical authors, such as Aristotle and Aquinas, but also those of late medieval authors of the fourteenth century. These are headed by John Duns Scotus, John of Jandun, Peter Auriol and Peter John Olivi. Readers will discover the differences between Suarez's and Aquinas's views, as well as other sources that may have served as positive inspiration for the Jesuit's theory. By considering the late medieval philosophy of the fourteenth century, this book helps, to a certain extent, to fill a gap in the historiography of philosophy regarding the link between late medieval and early modern scholasticism. In the first part of the book, the metaphysics of the soul and powers is considered. Chapters on the external senses follow, covering topics such as the sensible species, the causes of sensation, self-awareness, and the ordering of the external senses. A further chapter is devoted to the internal senses and the author argues that by reducing the number and functional scope of the interior senses Suarez deepens the gap between the external senses and the intellect, but he reduces it through emphasizing the unifying efficacy of the soul.This book brings a synthetic and unifying perspective to contemporary research and will particularly appeal to graduate students and researchers in theology and philosophy, especially philosophy of mind.

Leo Strauss on Science - Thoughts on the Relation between Natural Science and Political Philosophy (Hardcover): Svetozar Y.... Leo Strauss on Science - Thoughts on the Relation between Natural Science and Political Philosophy (Hardcover)
Svetozar Y. Minkov
R2,112 Discovery Miles 21 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Philosophies of America Reader - From the Popol Vuh to the Present (Hardcover): Kim Diaz, Mathew Foust The Philosophies of America Reader - From the Popol Vuh to the Present (Hardcover)
Kim Diaz, Mathew Foust
R4,616 Discovery Miles 46 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Philosophies of America Reader brings together an unparalleled selection of original and translated readings spanning several eras and American traditions. Addressing perennial questions of philosophy and new questions arising in a variety of cultural contexts, texts from Classical American, Native American, Latin American, African American, Asian American, Mexican, Caribbean, and South American philosophers reveal the interweaving tapestry of ideas characteristic of America. With its distinctively pluralistic approach, this reader promotes intercultural dialogue and understanding, highlighting points of convergence and divergence across American philosophical traditions. It features: * Writings by traditionally underrepresented groups * Primary texts thematically arranged around major areas of philosophical enquiry including selfhood, knowledge, learning, and ethics * Introductory essays outlining the trajectories of each section * Suggestions for further primary and secondary readings, guiding readers in further study As the only available reader in American philosophy of such wide ranging content, this is an essential resource for those interested in intellectual history, thought and culture, and philosophical theories of America.

Karl Leonhard Reinhold's Transcendental Psychology (Hardcover): Faustino Fabbianelli Karl Leonhard Reinhold's Transcendental Psychology (Hardcover)
Faustino Fabbianelli
R2,875 Discovery Miles 28 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Reinhold's Elementary Philosophy is the first system of transcendental philosophy after Kant. The scholarship of the last years has understood it in different ways: as a model of Grundsatzphilosophie, as a defense of the concept of freedom, as a transformation of philosophy into history of philosophy. The present investigation intends to underline another 'golden thread' that runs through the writings of Reinhold from 1784 to 1794: that which sees in the Elementary Philosophy a system of transcendental psychology.

In Europe's Image - The Need for American Multiculturalism (Hardcover): O.R. Dathorne In Europe's Image - The Need for American Multiculturalism (Hardcover)
O.R. Dathorne
R2,692 Discovery Miles 26 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Dathorne's approach is basically literary and historical, but he has also developed his argument around politics, popular culture, language, and even landscape architecture. He looks at Europe as a mental construct of philosophies and politics that both the English and European Americans identified with Greece and Rome. Dathorne shows how much of what we think of as European heritage is actually of African and/or Islamic background. He shows the founders of the U.S. to be idealistic Athenian-type elites, unlikely to allow humanity to govern as a citizenship. The book discusses the literary history of the ex-colony of America with its own special lens, showing how again and again the makers of the American myth failed to come to terms with the multicultural realities.

Spinoza - The Ethics of an Outlaw (Hardcover): Ivan Segre Spinoza - The Ethics of an Outlaw (Hardcover)
Ivan Segre; Translated by David Broder
R3,928 Discovery Miles 39 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Spinoza is among the most controversial and asymmetrical thinkers in the tradition and history of modern European philosophy. Since the 17th century, his work has aroused some of the fiercest and most intense polemics in the discipline. From his expulsion from the synagogue and onwards, Spinoza has never ceased to embody the secular, heretical and self-loathing Jew. Ivan Segre, a philosopher and celebrated scholar of the Talmud, discloses the conservative underpinnings that have animated Spinoza's numerable critics and antagonists. Through a close reading of Leo Strauss and several contemporary Jewish thinkers, such as Jean-Claude Milner and Benny Levy (Sartre's last secretary), Spinoza: the Ethics of an Outlaw aptly delineates the common cause of Spinoza's contemporary censors: an explicit hatred of reason and its emancipatory potential. Spinoza's radical heresy lies in his rejection of any and all blind adherence to Biblical Law, and in his plea for the freedom and autonomy of thought. Segre reclaims Spinoza as a faithful interpreter of the revolutionary potential contained within the Old Testament.

Living Currency (Hardcover): Pierre Klossowski Living Currency (Hardcover)
Pierre Klossowski; Edited by Daniel W. Smith, Nicolae Morar, Vernon W. Cisney
R2,129 R1,886 Discovery Miles 18 860 Save R243 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'I should have written you after my first reading of The Living Currency; it was already breath-taking and I should have responded. After reading it a few more times, I know it is the best book of our times.' Letter to Pierre Klossowski from Michel Foucault, winter 1970. Living Currency is the first English translation of Klossowski's La monnaie vivante. It offers an analysis of economic production as a mechanism of psychic production of desires and is a key work from this often overlooked but wonderfully creative French thinker.

Emerging Prophet (Hardcover): Kyle Roberts Emerging Prophet (Hardcover)
Kyle Roberts
R1,003 R817 Discovery Miles 8 170 Save R186 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
An Appeal To Common Sense in Behalf of Religion (Hardcover, 1766-1772 ed): James Oswald An Appeal To Common Sense in Behalf of Religion (Hardcover, 1766-1772 ed)
James Oswald
R12,751 Discovery Miles 127 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Heidegger on Language and Death - The Intrinsic Connection in Human Existence (Hardcover, New): Joachim L. Oberst Heidegger on Language and Death - The Intrinsic Connection in Human Existence (Hardcover, New)
Joachim L. Oberst
R4,582 Discovery Miles 45 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is an original and refreshing look at one of the most important and influential philosophers of the 20th Century. This book offers a faithful and meticulous reading of Heidegger's magnum opus, "Being and Time".Martin Heidegger was one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. His analysis of human existence proves an inexhaustible ground for thinkers of all backgrounds who seek answers for their specific questions left open or opened up by our times. This book explores the intrinsic connection between two fundamentally human traits, language and death. Heidegger addresses each of these traits in depth, without ever explicitly outlining their relationship in a separate theory. However, in a close examination of Heidegger's magnum opus, "Being and Time", Joachim L. Oberst uncovers a connection in three basic steps. Ultimately the author argues that the human invention of language is motivated by the drive towards immortality - language emerges from the experience of mortality as a response to it. This is a refreshing look at one of the most challenging and influential philosophers of our times.

Guattari's Diagrammatic Thought - Writing Between Lacan and Deleuze (Hardcover): Janell Watson Guattari's Diagrammatic Thought - Writing Between Lacan and Deleuze (Hardcover)
Janell Watson
R4,902 Discovery Miles 49 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a unique examination of the writing of Felix Guattari, one of France's most important intellectuals of the twentieth century.Felix Guattari was a French political militant, practicing psychoanalyst and international public intellectual. He is best known for his work with the philosopher Gilles Deleuze on the two-volume "Capitalism and Schizophrenia", one of the most influential works of post-structuralism. From the mid-1950s onward, Guattari exerted a profound yet often behind-the-scenes influence on institutional psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, radical politics and philosophy. "Guattari's Diagrammtic Thought" examines the writings that Guattari authored on his own, both before and during his collaboration with Deleuze, providing a startlingly fresh perspective on intellectual and political trends in France and beyond during the second half of the twentieth century.Janell Watson acknowledges the historical and biographical aspect of Guattari's writing and explores the relevance of his theoretical ideas to topics as diverse as the May 1968 student movement, Lacanian psychoanalysis, neo-liberalism, ethnic identity, microbiology, quantum mechanics, chaos theory, ecology, the mass media, and the subjective dimensions of information technology. The book demonstrates that Guattari's unique thought process yields a markedly Guattarian version of many seemingly familiar Deleuzean notions.

Contemplating Friendship in Aristotle's Ethics (Hardcover): Ann Ward Contemplating Friendship in Aristotle's Ethics (Hardcover)
Ann Ward
R2,112 Discovery Miles 21 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Between Philosophy and Non-Philosophy - The Thought and Legacy of Hugh J. Silverman (Hardcover): Donald A. Landes, Leonard... Between Philosophy and Non-Philosophy - The Thought and Legacy of Hugh J. Silverman (Hardcover)
Donald A. Landes, Leonard Lawlor, Peter Gratton
R2,112 Discovery Miles 21 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Peirce's Philosophy of Communication - The Rhetorical Underpinnings of the Theory of Signs (Hardcover): Mats Bergman Peirce's Philosophy of Communication - The Rhetorical Underpinnings of the Theory of Signs (Hardcover)
Mats Bergman
R4,898 Discovery Miles 48 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Charles S. Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, was also the architect of a remarkable theory of signs that continues to puzzle and inspire philosophers today. In this important new book, Mats Bergman articulates a bold new approach to Peirce's semeiotic through a reassessment of the role of rhetoric in his work. This systematic approach, which is offered as an alternative to formalistic accounts of Peirce's project, shows how general sign-theoretical conceptions can plausibly be interpreted as abstractions from everyday communicative experiences and practices. Building on this fallible ground of rhetoric-in-use, Bergman explicates Peirce's semeiotic in a way that is conducive to the development of rhetorical inquiry and philosophical criticism. Following this path, the underpinnings of a uniquely Peircean philosophy of communication is unearthed - a pragmatic conception encased in a normative rhetoric, motivated by the continual need to transform and improve our habits of action.

Peirce on the Uses of History (Hardcover): Tullio Viola Peirce on the Uses of History (Hardcover)
Tullio Viola
R2,804 Discovery Miles 28 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The present book is the first to undertake a systematic study of Peirce's conception of historical knowledge and of its value for philosophy. It does so by both reconstructing in detail Peirce's arguments and giving a detailed account of the many ways in which history becomes an object of explicit reflection in his writings. The book's leading idea may be stated as follows: Peirce manages to put together an exceptionally compelling argument about history's bearing on philosophy not so much because he derives it from a well-articulated and polished conception of the relation between the two disciplines; but on the contrary, because he holds on to this relation while intuiting that it can easily turn into a conflict. This potential conflict acts therefore as a spur to put forth an unusually profound and multi-faceted analysis of what it means for philosophy to rely on historical arguments. Peirce looks at history as a way to render philosophical investigations more detailed, more concrete and more sensitive to the infinite and unforeseeable nuances that characterize human experience. In this way, he provides us with an exceptionally valuable contribution to a question that has remained gravely under-theorized in contemporary debates.

The Religious Philosopher - Or, the Right use of Contemplating the Works of the Creator. Throughout Which, all the Late... The Religious Philosopher - Or, the Right use of Contemplating the Works of the Creator. Throughout Which, all the Late Discoveries in Anatomy, Philosophy, are Most Copiously Handled by Dr. Nieuwentyt. Translated From the Original, v 3 of 3; Volume 3 (Hardcover)
Bernard Nieuwentyt
R899 Discovery Miles 8 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Michel Foucault - Materialism and Education (Hardcover): Mark Olssen Michel Foucault - Materialism and Education (Hardcover)
Mark Olssen
R2,689 Discovery Miles 26 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Although Foucault departs from Marxism, his own approach constitutes a form of consistent materialism which has theoretical implications for the analysis of social and educational discursive systems. In seeking to demonstrate a correct reading of Foucault, linguistic readings of his work, such as those of Christopher Norris (1993), which represent him as part of the linguistic turn in French philosophy, where language (or representation) henceforth defines the limits of thought, will be dispelled in the process of being corrected. Rather, Foucault will be represented, as Habermas (1987) has suggested, not merely as a historicist but at the same time as a nominalist, materialist, and empiricist.

Because the distinctiveness of Foucault's approach can best be seen in contrast to other major philosophical systems and thinkers, considerable attention is given to examining Foucault's relationship to Marxism, as well as his relations to Kant, Gramsci, Habermas, and the Greeks. In relation to education, there is in Foucault's approach a double emphasis which constitutes an ordering principle for this work. On the one hand, attention is directed to discursive practices which perform an educative role in the constitution of subjects and of human forms of existence. On the other hand, forms of education are constituted and utilized for the purposes of collective ethical self-creation, a theme Foucault emphasized in his later works. The book assesses some of the more interesting recent utilizations of Foucault in educational research.

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