A fantastic look at the whole history of Philosophy from ancient times up to the beginnings of modern thinking. Covers all the major philosophers and philosophical theories, as well as the historical interplay between religion and philosophy.

One of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers, German philosopher Immanuel Kant takes his place among Locke, Hume, and Berkeley as one of the intellectuals most commonly credited with ushering modernity into existence. In The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics, Kant takes on some of the most complex and engaging ideas about how humans can discern the right way to live. Recommended for philosophy buffs -- and anyone interested in expanding

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Plato's brilliant dialogues, written in the fourth century B.C., rank among Western civilization's most important philosophical works. Presented as a series of probing conversations between Socrates and his students and fellow citizens, they form a magnificent dialectical quest that examines enduring political, ethical, metaphysical, and epistemological issues.
Here, in one inexpensive edition, are six of Plato's remarkable and revelatory dialogues,...

Friedrich Nietzsche, der sehr religiös erzogen wurde, stellt Moral per se in seinem Werk "Jenseits von Gut und Böse" als Fehler, bzw. Übel in der Menschheitsgeschichte dar und erläutert, dass vor der Erfindung und der Verbreitung von Moral unter den Menschen, diese Handlungen nur nach deren Nutzen bewertet haben – nicht, ob sie böse oder gut sind. Nietzsche tritt dafür ein, sich auf die Vorstellungen solcher von ihm beschriebenen vormoralischen...

In “Eclipse of Reason”, Horkheimer discusses how the Nazis were able to project their agenda as ""reasonable"", but also identifies the Pragmatism of John Dewey as problematic, due to his emphasis on the instrumental dimension of reasoning. It is broken into five sections: Means and Ends, Conflicting Panaceas, The Revolt of Nature, The Rise and Decline of the Individual and On the Concept of Philosophy and deals with the concept of reason within...

Hace algunos años leí el texto de Aproximación al concepto de verdad en Santo Tomás de Aquino, que constituyó la tesis de licenciatura en Filosofía de su autor, D. Pablo Cervera, en el Angelicum. Abelardo Lobato, su director, me había hablado muy bien de ella, y ciertamente pude comprobar que era una excelente investigación. Recomendé, por ello, a este fiel discípulo del conocido y apreciado P. Lobato, que la publicara. Por diversos motivos,...

En cierta medida, respondemos al cine como lo hacemos frente a la realidad. La simulación postula un mecanismo de respuesta empática que explica nuestra capacidad para tratar con la gente real, con sus sentimientos, pensamientos y comportamiento. ¿Podemos recurrir a este mecanismo para explicar nuestra respuesta a la ficción cinematográfica? Artes y mentes contiene trece ensayos que analizan cuestiones centrales para la filosofía del arte,...

Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is one of the most important works in modern moral philosophy. It belongs beside Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Hobbes. Here Kant sets out to articulate and defend the Categorical Imperative - the fundamental principle that underlies moral reasoning - and to lay the foundation for a comprehensive account of justice and human virtues.

Tomás y los tomistas es una introducción a la vida de santo Tomás de Aquino, a su doctrina en general y a las aportaciones que ha hecho al pensamiento cristiano. Los dominicos Romano Cessario y Cajetan Cuddy presentan también la historia de la tradición tomista, comenzando en la época medieval hasta su renacer en los últimos siglos. Este volumen representa una guía de trabajo para entender la historia del Aquinate y sus comentadores, así...

Lectures from the late period of Fichte's career, never before available in English. Translated here for the first time into English, this text furnishes a new window into the final phase of Fichte's career. Delivered in the summer of 1812 at the newly founded University of Berlin, Fichte's lectures on ethics explore some of the key concepts and issues in his evolving system of radical idealism. Addressing moral theory, the theory of education, the...