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The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy
2003 || Paperback || David Sedley || Cambridge University Press
The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy is a wide-ranging 2003 introduction to the study of philosophy in the ancient world. It will be an invaluable guide for all who are interested in the philosophical thought of this rich and formative period.
The Social Contract
2019 || Paperback || Jean-Jacques Rousseau || e-artnow
The Social Contract, originally published as On the Social Contract; or, Principles of Political Rights by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is a 1762 book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society, which he had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality (1754). The Social Contract helped inspire political reforms or revolutions in Europe, especially in France. The Social Contract argued against the idea tha...
Interpreting Avicenna
Critical Essays
2015 || Paperback || Peter Adamson || Cambridge University Press
This volume examines the philosophy of Avicenna, the greatest philosopher of the Islamic world. Leading scholars deal with his ideas in areas ranging from medicine to theology and his impact on the Christian, Jewish and Muslim traditions. The book is of interest to graduate students of Arabic and medieval philosophy.
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy
2003 || Paperback || A. S. McGrade || Cambridge University Press
This volume, first published in 2003, spans a millennium of thought extending from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas and beyond. It includes not only the thinkers of the Latin West but also the profound contributions of Islamic and Jewish thinkers. Supplementary material includes chronological charts and biographies of the major thinkers.
Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints
1995 || Paperback || Mary Wollstonecraft || Cambridge University Press
Mary Wollstonecraft, often described as the first major feminist, is remembered principally as the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), and there has been a tendency to view her most famous work in isolation. Yet Wollstonecraft's pronouncements about women grew out of her reflections about men, and her views on the female sex constituted an integral part of a wider moral and political critique of her times which she first fully formulated in A Vindication of the Rights of Me...
An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge / 2nd edition
2020 || Paperback || Noah Lemos || Cambridge University Press
Now revised and containing three new chapters, this book provides an accessible introduction to the fundamental problems in the theory of knowledge. Written primarily for students taking a first course in epistemology, it will be of interest to anyone wanting to know more about this important area of philosophy.
The Philosophy of Language
2013 || Paperback || A.P. Martinich e.a. || Oxford University Press
What is meaning? How is linguistic communication possible? What is the nature of language? What is the relationship between language and the world? How do metaphors work? The Philosophy of Language, considered the essential text in its field, is an excellent introduction to such fundamental questions. This revised edition collects forty-eight of the most important articles in the field, making it the most up-to-date and comprehensive volume on the subject. Revised toaddress changing trends an...
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Foundations of the Methodologies of the Technology of Participation
2017 || Paperback || Wayne e.a. || Iuniverse Inc
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
Meditations on First Philosophy
1999 || Paperback || Rene Descartes || Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
This edition contains Donald Cress's completely revised translation of the Meditations (from the corrected Latin edition) and recent corrections to Discourse on Method , bringing this version even closer to Descartes's original, while maintaining the clear and accessible style of a classic teaching edition.
Being Good
A Short Introduction to Ethics
2002 || Paperback || Simon Blackburn || Oxford University Press
It is not only in our dark hours that scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism dog ethics. Whether it is a matter of giving to charity, or sticking to duty, or insisting on our rights, we can be confused, or be paralysed by the fear that our principles are groundless. Many are afraid that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and tribalistic, or competitive and aggressive.
Simon Blackburn, author of thebest-selling Think, structures th...