Västerländsk filosofi: medeltiden & renässansen ca 500 - ca 1600

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Michel de Montaigne (15331592) betraktas som en av renässansens viktigaste filosofer. Han föddes i en familj bestående av jurister och handelsmän, och kom som vuxen att tjänstgöra vid domstolen i Bordeaux. 1580 utkom den första versionen av Essaye...

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1588 publicerade Michel de Montaigne del tre av Essayer. Det unika tilltal som präglar Bok I och II hade då gått in en ny fas, som präglas av kritisk reflektion och tillbakablickande. Montaignes ordlekar och metaforer har mognat, och det förekomme...

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Hur hade någon som jag kunnat gestalta sitt liv? En kvinna som inte vill fastna i konventioner och som vill ha en egen relation till de stora frågorna: vad det är att vara människa och hur vi kan förhålla oss till sanning, vara och liv? Filosofen ...

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Antiken Medeltiden Renässansen är epoker som i mycket utgör grundvalen för all senare filosofi. Läsningen av den grekiska filosofins klassiker är en utmärkt introduktion till filosofiska studier - de filosofiska problemen och teorierna har i denna...

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Med Essayer skapade Michel de Montaigne (15331592) inte bara en ny prosagenre, utan odlade även en för sin tid unik stil, som skickligt anpassats till svenskan av Jan Stolpe. Genom personliga anekdoter understryker Montaigne texternas subjektivite...

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The instant Sunday Times bestseller A Times, New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year 'Simply the best popular history of the Middle Ages there is' Sunday Times 'A great achievement, pulling together many strands with aplomb' Peter Frankopan, ...

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"The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come....The Bright Ages is a rare thing-a nuanced historical work that almost...

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SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'The most important book of the year' Daily MailThe brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world's foremost political writers'The anti-Western revisionists have been out in force in recent years. It is...

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The most advanced and celebrated mind of the 20th Century, without a doubt, is attributed to Albert Einstein. This interesting book allows us to explore his beliefs, philosophical ideas, and opinions on many subjects. Subjects include politics, re...

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Den engelske statsmannen och filosofen Francis Bacons (1561-1626) idéhistoriska berättelse Det nya Atlantis från 1627 i nyutgåva med inledning av Tore Frängsmyr. På ön Bensalem påträffar en grupp sjöfarare en underlig civilisation. Boken är nummer...

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Although Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali lived a relatively short life (1058-1111), he established himself as one of the most important thinkers in the history of Islam. The Incoherence of the Philosophers, written after more than a decade of travel...

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City of God is an enduringly significant work in the history of Christian thought, by one of its central figures Written as an eloquent defence of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on the brink of collapse, this great theological and p...

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`For I do not seek to understand so that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.' Does God exist? Can we know anything about God's nature? Have we any reason to...

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Adamsom offers a lively and accessible tour through 600 years of intellectual history, offering a feast of new ideas in every area of philosophy. He introduces us to some of the greatest thinkers of the Western tradition including Abelard, Anselm,...

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In this book John Marenbon discusses the extraordinary breadth of medieval philosophy as written by Christians in Greek and Latin, Muslims in Arabic and by Jews in Hebrew, from c. 500 to c. 1550. He considers important factors such as where and wh...

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Vem kan bättre sammanfatta medeltidens vetande än Dante? För första gången i svensk översättning utkommer nu Convivio där astronomi, filosofi, kultur och religion diskuteras i prosa och dikt av en av världslitteraturens mästare. Convivio är därtil...

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Peter Adamson presents the first full history of philosophy in the Islamic world for a broad readership. He traces its development from early Islam to the 20th century, from Spain to Persia. He introduces Jewish and Christian thinkers as well as M...

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German Philosophers contains studies of four of the most important German theorists: Kant, arguably the most influential modern philosopher; Hegel, whose philosophy inspired an enduring vision of a communist society; Schopenhauer, renowned for his...

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In this final edition of his classic study of St. Thomas Aquinas, Etienne Gilson presents the sweeping range and organic unity of Thomistic philosophical thought. The philosophical thinking of Aquinas is the result of reason being challenged to re...

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This new Companion to Aquinas features entirely new chapters written by internationally recognized experts in the field. It shows the power of Aquinas's philosophical thought and transmits the worldview which he inherited, developed, altered, and ...

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Fromm's basic idea was to look at the individual as a social being and to look at society as an ensemble of many individuals who have not only common ideas and convictions based on a common practice of life but also a common psychic structure. Wit...

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In this book, Henrik Lagerlund offers students, researchers, and advanced general readers the first complete history of what is perhaps the most famous of all philosophical problems: skepticism. As the first of its kind, the book traces the influe...

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Williams's translations are scrupulously faithful and accurate without being slavishly literal, and yet are lively and graceful.--Paul Vincent Spade, Indiana University

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'He who thinks freely for himself, honours all freedom on earth.' Stefan Zweig was already an emigre-driven from a Europe torn apart by brutality and totalitarianism-when he found, in a damp cellar, a copy of Michel de Montaigne's Essais. Montaign...

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The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public admiration without the need for authorial self-promotion. Lisa Jardine, however, shows tha...

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One of the world's greatest minds addresses religion and science, war and peace, and the treatment of minorities in this authorized collection. In the aftermath of the First World War, Albert Einstein writes about his hopes for the League of Natio...

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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was one of the greatest writers and German philosophers of the nineteenth century. His work influenced figures as diverse as Wagner, Freud and Nietzsche. Best known as a pessimist, he was one of the few philosophers...

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