Länsimainen filosofia: valaistuminen

Immanuel Kant's philosophical system, Kojève argues, is haunted by the Thing-in-itself as the ultimate expression of 'bourgeois hypocrisy' and its internally divided reason, split …

This visual celebration of the world's most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas.Philosophers Who Changed History places well-known …

Upplysningsepoken flödade av diskussioner om människans natur, sanningen och Gud. Den präglades av internationella utbyten av idéer, folk och guld. Men betydde upplysningen samma …

Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) was one of the most important philosophers of all time; he was also one of the most radical and controversial. The story of Spinoza's life takes the …

'The best single-volume study of the Enlightenment that we have' Literary ReviewThe Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after …

A perceptive introduction to the mind of one of German's greatest writers, in a new translation for the first time in 150 years'The best German book there is' Nietzsche By the …

Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy remains one of the most widely studied works of Western philosophy. This volume is a refreshed and updated edition of John Cottingham's …

Ainutlaatuinen kuvaus talousjärjestelmämme aatteellista juurista.Ideat muokkaavat maailmaa ja ne ovat muovanneet taloudellista todellisuutta. Ilman kristinuskoa, uskonpuhdistusta, …

The idea of Kantian ethics is both simple and revolutionary: it proposes a moral law independent of any notion of a pre-established Good or any 'human inclination' such as love, …

What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people?