Works in this volume recount the circumstances of Socrates' trial and execution in 399 BC. Euthyphro attempts to define holiness; Apology is Socrates' defense speech; in Crito he discusses justice and defends his refusal to be rescued from prison; Phaedo offers arguments for the immortality of the soul.

Het werk van de politiek denker Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975) is populairder dan ooit. Voor professionals in onderwijs, zorg en sociaal werk is er echter nog geen toegankelijk boek over haar prikkelende en soms controversiële ideeën. Deze bundel voorziet in deze leemte.Elk hoofdstuk neemt de lezer mee in een verhaal over concrete mensen en hun wederwaardigheden. Waarom is het belangrijk dat tussen leerlingen enleraren een gezagsrelatie bestaat? Hoe bannen we gedachteloosheid enmeegaan-met-de-...

Socrates zette mensen aan tot zelf denken in plaats van op de mening van anderen af te gaan. De socratische gespreksmethode leidt tot betere gesprekken doordat oordelen wordt uitgesteld, gesprekken concreet blijven en goed wordt geluisterd. Betere uitwisseling van informatie, beter begrip van elkaars perspectief, beter contact en beter denken.Ervaren gespreksleider Marlou van Paridon legt het socratisch gesprek kort en bondig uit in vijf stappen, compleet met checklisten en overzichten van de...

Wat is waarheid? biedt een heldere inleiding in de wetenschapsfilosofie voor de geesteswetenschappen en voor bèta- en gammaopleidingen.

Speciale aandacht gaat uit naar recente ontwikkelingen in de wetenschapsfilosofie. Volgens Chunglin Kwa is er niet één manier om wetenschap te beoefenen, maar zijn er meerdere rationaliteiten, die alle een eigen logica volgen en legitieme aanspraken maken op geldigheid. Hij maakt onderscheid tussen zes verschillende stijlen van wetenschapsbeoefening, die ni...

Consciousness, 'the last great mystery for science', remains a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could consciousness itself be an illusion? Exciting new developments in brain science are continuing the debates on these issues, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers. This controversial book clarifies the potentially confusing arguments, a...

People demand authentic participation in decisions that affect their lives. ToP? methods answer that call because they reflect how humans think, growing out of reflective inquiry into what works in real life, and the study of phenomenology and existentialism. This book explores the foundational understandings of this body of knowledge and its practice. Getting to the Bottom of ToP works at two levels: as a guide to processes that elicit participation to bring insights to the surface and ensur...

The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida’s most sustained consideration of religion, explores questions first introduced in his book Given Time about the limits of the rational and responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting death, whether by sacrifice, murder, execution, or suicide. Derrida analyzes Czech philosopher Jan Patocka’s Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History and develops and compares his ideas to the works of Heidegger, Lévinas, and Kierkegaard. One of Derrida’s ...

'This is a blast of fresh air' Jonathan Clark, TLS'Thank goodness for Gottlieb' Daily Telegraph'A joy to read' EconomistThe author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to RousseauIn a short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark on Western thought. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story and that of the birth of modern philosoph...

Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become an international classic and the comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts, both literary and non-literary. Providing insights into how readers interpret narrative text, the fourth edition of Narratology is a guide for students and scholars seeking to analyze narratives of any language, period, and region with clear, systematic, and reliable concepts. With the addition of in-depth analysis of ...

This accessible book is invaluable to anyone coming to social and political philosophy for the first time. It provides a broad survey of key social and political questions in modern society, as well as clear discussions of the philosophical issues central to those questions and to political thought more generally. Unique among books of this kind is a sustained treatment of specifically social philosophy, including topics such as epistemic injustice, pornography, marriage, sexuality, and the f...