Catálogo de libros: Filosofía

52633 Catálogo de libros: Filosofía

  • Essays
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'Within man is the soul of the whole; The wise silence; The universal beauty.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, EssaysEssays: First Series (1841) is a collection of essays drafted early in Emerson’s career as a writer. In them, he elaborates on the ideas that emerged following approximately fifteen years spent studying philosophy, religion, and literature and formulating a set of beliefs t...
    Disponible

    18,57 €

  • Love
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'Thus are we put in training for a love which knows not sex, nor person, nor partiality, but which seeks virtue and wisdom everywhere, to the end of increasing virtue and wisdom.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, LoveLove (1841) is an essay in which Emerson attempts to explain the love between two people and how it evolves with time and age. According to Emerson, youthful lovers feel a pas...
    Disponible

    6,45 €

  • A Treatise of Human Nature
    David Hume
    A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40) is a book by Scottish philosopher David Hume, considered by many to be Hume's most important work and one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. The Treatise is a classic statement of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. In the introduction Hume presents the idea of placing all science and philosophy...
    Disponible

    37,02 €

  • Nature
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man: space, the air, the river, the leaf.'-Ralph Waldo EmersonNature (1836) was originally written by Ralph Waldo Emerson as a long essay in which he began to break away from traditional religious and social thinking and formulated the ideas and beliefs that were basic to the philosophy of Transcendentalism. In this ...
    Disponible

    6,74 €

  • Nature
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Nature, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, is a superb nature essay and a philosophical interpretation of nature and how it influences man physically and spiritually. Emerson's writing is redolent with the wonder of the true romantic, but never sinks to the level of maudlin fluff.In the essay Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-tr...
    Disponible

    10,24 €

  • Valerius Terminus
    Sir Francis Bacon
    It is impossible to ascertain the motive which determined Bacon to give to the supposed author the name of "Valerius Terminus-Of the Interpretation of Nature", or to his commentator, of whose annotations we have no remains, that of Hermes Stella. It may be conjectured that by the name Terminus he intended to intimate that the new philosophy would put an end to the wandering of ...
    Disponible

    18,42 €

  • The Poetics
    Aristotle
    Aristotle's Poetics (Greek: Περὶ ποιητικῆς; Latin: De Poetica;[1] c. 335 BC[2]) is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.[3] In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term that derives from a classical Greek term, ποιητής, that means "poet; author; maker" and in this context i...
    Disponible

    21,48 €

  • An Essay on the Principle of Population
    Thomas Robert Malthus
    The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in 1798, but the author was soon identified as Thomas Robert Malthus. The book predicted a grim future, as population would increase geometrically, doubling every 25 years, but food production would only grow arithmetically, which would result in famine and starvation, unless births were controlled...
    Disponible

    15,52 €

  • Two Treatises of Government
    John Locke
    Two Treatises of Government (or Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown. The Latter Is an Essay Concerning The True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government) is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise attacks p...
    Disponible

    21,10 €

  • Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
    Immanuel Kant
    Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (German: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten; 1785; also known as the Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, Grounding of the Metaphysics of Morals and the Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals) is the first of Immanuel Kant's mature works on moral philosophy and remains one of the most influential in the field. Kant conceives ...
    Disponible

    13,04 €

  • Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
    David Hume
    Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical work by the Scottish philosopher David Hume. Through dialogue, three philosophers named Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes debate the nature of God's existence. Whether or not these names reference specific philosophers, ancient or otherwise, remains a topic of scholarly dispute. While all three agree that a god exists, they...
    Disponible

    14,50 €

  • On the Social Contract
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau / G. D. H. Cole / GDHCole
    Unabridged English reproduction of On The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and translated by G. D. H. Cole.  It’s publication in 1762 lead to great discussion about 'what is government?' on both sides of the Atlantic, and is still essential reading today. ...
    Disponible

    15,34 €

  • A Discourse Upon The Origin And The Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind
    Jean Jacques Rousseau
    A Discourse Upon The Origin And The Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind is a classic political science text on the subjects of natural law and equality by the great French wrter and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau."'Tis of man I am to speak; and the very question, in answer to which I am to speak of him, sufficiently informs me that I am going to speak to men; for ...
    Disponible

    12,82 €