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French Free-Thought from Gassendi to Voltaire
Av J. S. Spink
E-bok, 2013
2135 kr
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This book makes an important contribution to the history of ideas in France in the century preceding the main manifestations of the Enlightenment. A number of detailed studies already exist which deal with special aspects of the thought of the period, and works abound on individual thinkers such as …
Need for Interpretation
Contemporary Conceptions of the Philosopher's Task
Av Sollace Mitchell, Michael Rosen
Inbunden, 2013
1983 kr
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The Need for Interpretation expresses the growing reaction within the ranks of analytically-trained philosophers against the professed aims of current Anglo-American philosophy. The contributors challenge received dogmas on different philosophical topics, covering central issues from both …
Rousseau and the French Revolution 1762-1791
E-bok, 2013
2247 kr
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From 1789 onwards there sprang up a fervent revolutionary cult of Rousseau, and at each stage in the subsequent unfolding of the drama of the Revolution historians have seen Rousseau''s influence at work. Mrs McDonald seeks in this study to trace the development of the cult and to define the nature …
Conditions of Rational Inquiry
A Study in the Philosophy of Value
Av David Pole
Inbunden, 2013
1983 kr
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D. Pole, whose Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein appeared in 1958, here makes a new attack on the problem of value-judgement by taking it out of its limited ethical context. Beginning with an examination and criticism of current views that base all moral and other principles on personal choice or …
Benedict de Spinoza
The Elements of His Philosophy
Inbunden, 2013
1983 kr
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This book is intended for the use of the candid student, devised as a monitory preparation for deeper study of the philosophy of Spinoza. By its means it is hoped that the student may avoid the chief pitfalls of Spinoza-interpretation, and be carried past many of the difficulties encountered by the …
Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein
Av David Pole
Inbunden, 2013
1983 kr
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'David Pole, in his The Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein, makes an admirable attempt to clarify the central points of Wittgenstein’s philosophy in a straightforward manner. He approaches it from the outside with sympathy and good sense. And since he combines a clear head with a fluent style of …
Mach's Philosophy of Science
Av J. Bradley
E-bok, 2013
2182 kr
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Dr Bradley''s aim is to provide a work which will introduce readers to the philosophical standpoint employed by Mach in his expositions of physics. The author shows how Mach traces out the evolution of the metrical concepts of heat and mechanics, and includes a discussion of his reformulation of …
Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology
Av J. V. Field
Inbunden, 2013
1970 kr
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Kepler is a key figure in the development of modern astronomy. His work is also important in the history of philosophy and methodology of science as a whole. The present study is concerned with one of Kepler’s major preoccupations, namely his search for the geometrical plan according to which God …
W. R. Matthews: Philosopher and Theologian
Av H. P. Owen
E-bok, 2013
2135 kr
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Over many years W. R. Matthews (who was successively Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at King''s College London, Dean of Exeter and Dean of St Paul''s) wrote copiously on both philosophy and theology in books, lectures and sermons. Although associated with the movements known as …
Need for Interpretation
Contemporary Conceptions of the Philosopher's Task
Av Sollace Mitchell, Michael Rosen
E-bok, 2013
2135 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Need for Interpretation expresses the growing reaction within the ranks of analytically-trained philosophers against the professed aims of current Anglo-American philosophy. The contributors challenge received dogmas on different philosophical topics, covering central issues from both …
Teaching Business Ethics in the UK, Europe and the USA
A Comparative Study
Av Jack Mahoney
Inbunden, 2013
1983 kr
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This book describes how the ethical conduct of business has become a topic of major interest in the USA and a subject for serious study in American universities and business schools. In Europe, including Great Britain, public concern is increasing about the moral aspects of business behaviour. …
James Mill on Philosophy and Education
E-bok, 2013
2120 kr
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Looked upon in his day as the philosopher of the Utilitarians, James Mill was an independent thinker centrally concerned with problems of education. Professor Burston''s study places Mill''s Essay on Education, his contribution to the Encyclopaedia Britannica of the day, in its historical context …
Sartre
A Philosophic Study
E-bok, 2013
2182 kr
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The central concern of this book, first published in 1966 and now reprinted, is to show the hard core of philosophic argument which runs through all Sartre''s works and which marks him, more than any other single feature of his writings, as one of the great figures of our time. Mr Manser''s …
James Mill on Philosophy and Education
Inbunden, 2013
1928 kr
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Looked upon in his day as the philosopher of the Utilitarians, James Mill was an independent thinker centrally concerned with problems of education. Professor Burston’s study places Mill’s Essay on Education, his contribution to the Encyclopaedia Britannica of the day, in its historical context and …
Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein
Av David Pole
E-bok, 2013
2182 kr
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''David Pole, in his The Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein , makes an admirable attempt to clarify the central points of Wittgenstein''s philosophy in a straightforward manner. He approaches it from the outside with sympathy and good sense. And since he combines a clear head with a fluent style of …
Benedict de Spinoza
The Elements of His Philosophy
E-bok, 2013
2135 kr
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This book is intended for the use of the candid student, devised as a monitory preparation for deeper study of the philosophy of Spinoza. By its means it is hoped that the student may avoid the chief pitfalls of Spinoza-interpretation, and be carried past many of the difficulties encountered by the …
On Being Sure in Religion
Inbunden, 2013
1983 kr
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If believers are right in the significance they claim for religion, how can they tolerate uncertainties, or preach a Gospel of good news if they are uncertain what they are to talk about? Is religious conviction something which no honest man can profess? Do believers in fact speak with one …
Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology
Av J. V. Field
E-bok, 2013
2135 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Kepler is a key figure in the development of modern astronomy. His work is also important in the history of philosophy and methodology of science as a whole. The present study is concerned with one of Kepler''s major preoccupations, namely his search for the geometrical plan according to which God …
W. R. Matthews: Philosopher and Theologian
Av H. P. Owen
Inbunden, 2013
1983 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Over many years W. R. Matthews (who was successively Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at King’s College London, Dean of Exeter and Dean of St Paul’s) wrote copiously on both philosophy and theology in books, lectures and sermons. Although associated with the movements known as ‘modernism’ …
Mach's Philosophy of Science
Av J. Bradley
Inbunden, 2013
1983 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Dr Bradley’s aim is to provide a work which will introduce readers to the philosophical standpoint employed by Mach in his expositions of physics. The author shows how Mach traces out the evolution of the metrical concepts of heat and mechanics, and includes a discussion of his reformulation of …
Conditions of Rational Inquiry
A Study in the Philosophy of Value
Av David Pole
E-bok, 2013
2182 kr
Lägg i varukorg
D. Pole, whose Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein appeared in 1958, here makes a new attack on the problem of value-judgement by taking it out of its limited ethical context. Beginning with an examination and criticism of current views that base all moral and other principles on personal choice or …
Teaching Business Ethics in the UK, Europe and the USA
A Comparative Study
Av Jack Mahoney
E-bok, 2013
2182 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book describes how the ethical conduct of business has become a topic of major interest in the USA and a subject for serious study in American universities and business schools. In Europe, including Great Britain, public concern is increasing about the moral aspects of business behaviour. …
On Being Sure in Religion
E-bok, 2013
2182 kr
Lägg i varukorg
If believers are right in the significance they claim for religion, how can they tolerate uncertainties, or preach a Gospel of good news if they are uncertain what they are to talk about? Is religious conviction something which no honest man can profess? Do believers in fact speak with one voice? …
French Free-Thought from Gassendi to Voltaire
Av J. S. Spink
Inbunden, 2013
1983 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book makes an important contribution to the history of ideas in France in the century preceding the main manifestations of the Enlightenment. A number of detailed studies already exist which deal with special aspects of the thought of the period, and works abound on individual thinkers such as …
Sartre
A Philosophic Study
Inbunden, 2013
1983 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The central concern of this book, first published in 1966 and now reprinted, is to show the hard core of philosophic argument which runs through all Sartre’s works and which marks him, more than any other single feature of his writings, as one of the great figures of our time. Mr Manser’s critical …
Rousseau and the French Revolution 1762-1791
Inbunden, 2013
2043 kr
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From 1789 onwards there sprang up a fervent revolutionary cult of Rousseau, and at each stage in the subsequent unfolding of the drama of the Revolution historians have seen Rousseau’s influence at work. Mrs McDonald seeks in this study to trace the development of the cult and to define the nature …
Tragic Philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche
Av F. A. Lea
E-bok, 2013
2182 kr
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This is a classic account of Nietzsche''s thought, first published in 1957. It traces the development of Nietzsche''s thought through all its principal phases, and stresses its relevance to our times. Squarely based on original literary and biographical sources, it avoids technicalities and obscure …
Tragic Philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche
Av F. A. Lea
Inbunden, 2013
1970 kr
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This is a classic account of Nietzsche's thought, first published in 1957. It traces the development of Nietzsche's thought through all its principal phases, and stresses its relevance to our times. Squarely based on original literary and biographical sources, it avoids technicalities and obscure …
