Browsing the "Philosophy" category: 1028 books
"Many of history's greatest thinkers have wrestled with the ultimate question of belief and nonbelief in God. Though it might seem unlikely that any new arguments could possibly be raised on either side, the twentieth century managed to produce two m ...more »
ISBN: 0743242238 / The Free Press / Pub Date: Apr 2002 / File Size: 286K
Richard Popkin has assembled sixty-three leading scholars to forge a highly approachable chronological account of the development of Western philosophical traditions. From Plato to Wittgenstein and from Aquinas to Heidegger, this volume provides live ...more »
ISBN: 0231500343 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Nov 1998 / File Size: 1041K
A unique guide to the basics of Zen Buddhism, this book is filled with simple yet powerful introductions to Zen teachings and the way they play out in every moment of the day. ...more »
ISBN: 0767909631 / Broadway Books / Pub Date: Nov 2001 / File Size: 445K
In The Angel's Corpse, Paul Colilli rethinks the cognitive and epistemological significance once attributed to poetic logic. Through the interpretative lens of poetic logic, this book offers a new world of meaning rooted in the critical dyn ...more »
ISBN: 0312299664 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Jul 2001 / File Size: 792K
Bernard Williams's remarkable essay on morality confronts the problems of writing moral philosophy, and offers a stimulating alternative to more systematic accounts which seem nevertheless to have left all the important issues somewhere off the page. ...more »
ISBN: 0511000057 / Cambridge University Press / Pub Date: Aug 2000 / File Size: 161K
Fifteen of Emerson's most significant writings provide important information on the society in which Emerson lived during his formative years. ...more »
ISBN: 0786505281 / Penguin / Pub Date: Jun 2001 / File Size: 984K
Does the business of daily living distance us from life's mysteries? Do most Americans value spiritual thinking more as a hobby than as an all-encompassing approach to life? Will the concept of the soul be defunct after the next few generations? Chil ...more »
ISBN: 1400801346 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 230K
Cultures around the world have regarded self-fulfillment as the ultimate goal of human striving and as the fundamental test of the goodness of a human life. The ideal has also been criticized, however, as egotistical or as so value-neutral that it fa ...more »
ISBN: 1400802725 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 434K
"The Varieties of Religious Experience is certainly the most notable of all books in the field of the psychology of religion and probably destined to be the most influential [one] written on religion in the twentieth century," said Walter Houston Cla ...more »
ISBN: 0679641580 / Random House / Pub Date: Feb 1994 / File Size: 776K
Robert Gibbs radically revises standard interpretations of the two key figures of modern Jewish philosophy--Franz Rosenzweig, author of the monumental Star of Redemption, and Emmanuel Levinas, a major voice in contemporary intellectual life, who has ...more »
ISBN: 140080275X / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 427K
Western Spirituality, The Greek Philosopher Heraclitus, a Buddha of the West ...more »
ISBN: 0880509953 / Osho International as DBA Of A / Pub Date: Mar 2001 / File Size: 292K
The philosopher and historian of culture Wilhelm Dilthey (18331911) has had a significant and continuing influence on twentieth-century Continental philosophy and in a broad range of scholarly disciplines. This volume is the third to be published ...more »
ISBN: 1400801702 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 465K
The man behind the New York Times Magazine's immensely popular column "The Ethicist" -- syndicated in newspapers across the United States and Canada as "Everyday Ethics" -- casts an eye on today's manners and mores with ...more »
ISBN: 0385505272 / Doubleday / Pub Date: Apr 2002 / File Size: 311K
The Wager of Lucien Goldmann, Mitchell Cohen provides the first full-length study of this major figure of postwar French intellectual life and champion of socialist humanism. While many Parisian leftists staunchly upheld Marxism's "scientificity" in ...more »
ISBN: 1400801281 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 504K
The preeminent explicator of mathematical logic to non-mathematicians, John Allen Paulos is familiar to general readers not only from his bestselling books but also from his media appearances, including "The David Letterman Show" and National Public ...more »
ISBN: 0231500335 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Mar 2000 / File Size: 410K
What is the relationship between our perceptions and reality? What is the relationship between the mind and the body? These are questions with which philosophers have grappled for centuries, and they are topics of considerable contemporary debate as ...more »
ISBN: 0231500351 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Jan 2000 / File Size: 392K
Philosopher Lawrence Becker applies modern knowledge and psychology to the ancient stoic ethic system. In keeping with the ancients, Becker argues that virtue, not happiness, is the proper end of all activity. Moreover, he rejects the popular caricat ...more »
ISBN: 1400800471 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 280K
Can we reconcile the idea that we are free and responsible agents with the idea that what we do is determined according to natural laws? For centuries, philosophers have tried in different ways to show that we can. Hilary Bok takes a fresh approach h ...more »
ISBN: 1400800773 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 483K
Marked by a rare combination of penetrating thought and virtuosic style, the writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, Ja ...more »
ISBN: 078650529X / Penguin / Pub Date: Jun 2001 / File Size: 753K
Philosophy long sought to set knowledge on a firm foundation, through derivation of indubitable truths by infallible rules. For want of such truths and rules, the enterprise foundered. Nevertheless, foundationalism's heirs continue their forbears' q ...more »
ISBN: 1400801885 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 271K
If we are to understand the concept of toleration in terms of everyday life, we must address a key philosophical and political tension: the call for restraint when encountering apparently wrong beliefs and actions versus the good reasons for interfer ...more »
ISBN: 1400803683 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 340K
Avrum Stroll offers precisely the sort of crisp narrative account readers require to navigate the difficulties of modern analytic philosophy. Covering the evolution of logic, ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics, Stroll's work weaves together the st ...more »
ISBN: 0231500408 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Jul 2000 / File Size: 512K
Despite Vladimir Nabokov's hostility toward literary labels, he clearly recognized his own place in cultural history. In a fresh approach stressing Nabokov's European context, John Foster shows how this writer's art of memory intersects with early tw ...more »
ISBN: 1400802393 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 431K
The adversary professions -- law, business, and government among others -- typically claim a moral permission to violate persons in ways that if not for the professional role, would be morally wrong. Lawyers advance bad ends and deceive, business man ...more »
ISBN: 1400800110 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 447K
The Skeptic's Oakeshott poses the thesis that Michael Oakeshott's political philosophy is best understood from the vantage point of his skepticism and his intellectual affinity to Hobbes. Margaret Thatcher based much of her political philos ...more »
ISBN: 0312299761 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Jul 2001 / File Size: 706K
