Catálogo de libros: Historia de la filosofía occidental

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  • Sophist
    Plato
    Sophist is a Platonic dialogue from the philosopher’s late period, most likely written in 360 BC. In it the interlocutors, led by Eleatic Stranger employ the method of division in order to classify and define the sophist and describe his essential attributes and differentia vis a vis the philosopher and statesman. Like its sequel, the Statesman, the dialogue is unusual in that ...
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    16,50 €

  • Plato’s Dialogues of Definition
    Justin C. Clark
    In each of Plato’s 'dialogues of definition' (Euthyphro, Laches, Meno, Charmides, Lysis, Republic I, Hippias Major), Socrates motivates philosophical discussion by posing a question of the form 'What is F-ness?' Yet these dialogues are notorious for coming up empty. Socrates’ interlocutors repeatedly fail to deliver satisfactory answers. Thus, the dialogues of definition are of...
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    121,99 €

  • Euthyphro
    Plato
    Euthyphro by Plato, is a Socratic dialogue whose events occur in the weeks before the trial of Socrates (399 BC), between Socrates and Euthyphro. The dialogue covers subjects such as the meaning of piety and justice. As is common with Plato’s earliest dialogues, it ends in aporia.In this dialogue, Socrates meets Euthyphro at the porch of the archon basileus (the ’king magistrat...
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    13,54 €

  • Phaedo
    Plato
    Phaedo, also known to ancient readers as On The Soul, is one of the best-known dialogues of Plato’s middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The philosophical subject of the dialogue is the immortality of the soul. It is set in the last hours prior to the death of Socrates, and is Plato’s fourth and last dialogue to detail the philosopher’s final days, followin...
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    14,51 €

  • Timaeus
    Plato
    Timaeus is one of Plato’s dialogues and a philosophy classic, mostly in the form of long monologues given by Critias and Timaeus, written c. 360 BC. The work puts forward reasoning on the possible nature of the physical world and human beings and is followed by the dialogue Critias.Participants in the dialogue include Socrates, Timaeus, Hermocrates, and Critias. Some scholars b...
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    15,48 €

  • Women in Pragmatism
    This book offers a selection of the papers of the Women in Pragmatism International Conference held at the University of Barcelona in January 2020. The conference gathered women and non-binary scholars from twelve different countries. This was the first pragmatist conference organized entirely by women and non-binary persons. It has initiated a stable network of mentoring and s...
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    146,28 €

  • Animals in the World
    Pierre Pellegrin / Anthony Preus
    Five innovative essays demonstrating how Aristotle’s biology is an integral part of Aristotle’s understanding of the universe.In Animals in the World, renowned Aristotle scholar Pierre Pellegrin attempts to demonstrate that Aristotle, by proposing an original version of natural perfection, opposes the whole of the Greek tradition. Nature is perfect, not only in its harmony of a...
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    43,06 €

  • The Will To Power An Attempted Transvaluation Of All Values Vol. 1
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    'The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II VOL.-1' is a profound and provocative philosophical work authored by Friedrich Nietzsche, a renowned German philosopher and cultural critic. Within this volume, Nietzsche presents a compelling examination of human nature, morality, and the pursuit of power. He critiques established moral systems, argui...
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    15,23 €

  • The Book Of Tea
    Kakuzo Okakura
    The Book of Tea’ is a philosophical treatise written by Kakuzo Okakura, a Japanese scholar, art critic, and curator, first published in 1906. This influential work explores the aesthetics, cultural significance, and philosophy behind the Japanese tea ceremony. The author discusses the principles of simplicity, harmony, and reverence that are central to the tea ceremony, highlig...
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    9,68 €

  • Thomas Aquinas’ Mathematical Realism
    Jean W. Rioux
    In this book, philosopher Jean W. Rioux extends accounts of the Aristotelian philosophy of mathematics to what Thomas Aquinas was able to import from Aristotle’s notions of pure and applied mathematics, accompanied by his own original contributions to them. Rioux sets these accounts side-by-side modern and contemporary ones, comparing their strengths and weaknesses. ...
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    48,02 €

  • Women’s Contemporary Readings of Medieval (and Modern) Arabic Philosophy
    Saloua Chatti
    This book explores a large variety of topics involved in Arabic philosophy. It examines concepts and issues relating to logic and mathematics, as well as metaphysics, ethics and aesthetics. These topics are all studied by different Arabic philosophers and scientists from different periods ranging from the 9th century to the 20th century, and are representative of the Arabic tra...
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    146,52 €

  • Thomas Aquinas’ Mathematical Realism
    Jean W. Rioux
    In this book, philosopher Jean W. Rioux extends accounts of the Aristotelian philosophy of mathematics to what Thomas Aquinas was able to import from Aristotle’s notions of pure and applied mathematics, accompanied by his own original contributions to them. Rioux sets these accounts side-by-side modern and contemporary ones, comparing their strengths and weaknesses. ...
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    156,81 €

  • The Complete Works of Plato
    Plato / Benjamin Jowett
    Introducing 'The Complete Works of Plato,' meticulously translated by the esteemed scholar, Benjamin Jowett. This comprehensive collection showcases Plato’s philosophical journey, from his early Socratic Dialogues to the complex Cosmological Dialogues, and even the disputed but insightful Apocryphal Dialogues. Jowett’s translation adeptly preserves Plato’s idiosyncratic style a...
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    33,63 €

  • The History of Chinese Philosophy Book 1
    Laszlo Montgomery
    This volume of the China History Podcast takes us from the early days of Chinese philosophy more than 2,000 years ago, through to the Neo-Confucianists in the Han dynasty.Laszlo Montgomery’s award-winning podcasts on Chinese history have swept the world and gained many thousands of fans, including people who want to learn about Chinese history and those who want to improve thei...
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    22,36 €

  • Symposium
    Plato
    The Symposium is a philosophical text by Plato, dated c. 385-370 BC. It depicts a friendly contest of extemporaneous speeches given by a group of notable men attending a banquet. The men include the philosopher Socrates, the general and political figure Alcibiades, and the comic playwright Aristophanes. The speeches are to be given in praise of Eros, the god of love and desire....
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    12,85 €

  • Phaedrus
    Plato
    The Phaedrus, written by Plato, is a socratic dialogue between Socrates, and Phaedrus, an interlocutor in several dialogues. The Phaedrus was presumably composed around 370 BCE, about the same time as Plato’s Republic and Symposium. Although ostensibly about the topic of love, the discussion in the dialogue revolves around the art of rhetoric and how it should be practiced, and...
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    14,31 €

  • Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed
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    39,06 €

  • The Problem of Evil in the Ancient World
    Mark Edwards
    The aim of this book is to ascertain how ancient Greek and Latin authors, both pagan and Christian, formulated and answered what is now called the problem of evil. The survey ranges chronologically from the classical and Hellenistic eras, through the Roman era, to the end of the pagan world. Six of the twelve chapters are devoted to Christianity (including Manichaeism), as one ...
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    37,11 €

  • The Problem of Evil in the Ancient World
    Mark Edwards
    The aim of this book is to ascertain how ancient Greek and Latin authors, both pagan and Christian, formulated and answered what is now called the problem of evil. The survey ranges chronologically from the classical and Hellenistic eras, through the Roman era, to the end of the pagan world. Six of the twelve chapters are devoted to Christianity (including Manichaeism), as one ...
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    56,23 €

  • Pragmatism
    William James
    Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking is an American philosophy classic by the great American writer and philosopher, William James.Pragmatism is a philosophical approach that seeks to both define truth and resolve metaphysical issues. William James demonstrates an application of his method in the form of a simple story:A live squirrel supposed to be clinging on ...
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    15,66 €

  • Of Rule and Office
    Melissa Lane
    A constitutionalist reading of Plato’s political thoughtPlato famously defends the rule of knowledge. Knowledge, for him, is of the good. But what is rule? In this study, Melissa Lane reveals how political office and rule were woven together in Greek vocabulary and practices that both connected and distinguished between rule in general and office as a constitutionally limited k...
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    63,46 €

  • How the Worlds Became
    Stephen R. L. Clark
    Our ancestors told many a story about the world, addressing in imaginative terms questions we now consider philosophical or scientific. Among the oldest stories are those telling how the First Thing emerged from Nothing and gradually became 'the ten thousand things,' including powers of a larger and longer-lasting sort than those of mortals, sometimes represented in the motion ...
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    24,74 €

  • The Secret Symmetry of Maimonides and Freud
    Nathan Szajnberg
    The Secret Symmetry of Maimonides and Freud presents the parallels between The Guide of the Perplexed and The Interpretation of Dreams, considering how Maimonides might be perceived as anticipating Freud’s much later work. ...
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    53,57 €

  • Analytic Philosophy and Avicenna
    Mohammad Azadpur
    This work engages in a constructive, yet subtle, dialogue with the nuanced accounts of sensory intentionality and empirical knowledge offered by the Islamic philosopher, Avicenna. This volume is a key resource for researchers and students interested in comparative and analytic epistemology and metaphysics, and Islamic philosophy. ...
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    69,32 €

  • English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700
    Alexandra Verini
    English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood uncovers a tradition of women’s utopianism that extends back to medieval women’s monasticism, overturning accounts of utopia that trace its origins solely to Thomas More. As enclosed spaces in which women wielded authority that was unavailable to them in the outside world, medieval and early modern convents...
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    103,43 €

  • Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis
    Joel Fredell
    Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis details the first years of the Confessio’s material history and offers a major revision to a century’s old narrative of political revision and conversion around the trauma of 1400. Joel Fredell argues for 'late stage' revisions by Gower to his great poem in Middle English from the late 1390s up to Gower’s death in 1408. This approach...
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    47,82 €

  • Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis
    Joel Fredell
    Fictions of Witness in the Confessio Amantis details the first years of the Confessio’s material history and offers a major revision to a century’s old narrative of political revision and conversion around the trauma of 1400. Joel Fredell argues for 'late stage' revisions by Gower to his great poem in Middle English from the late 1390s up to Gower’s death in 1408. This approach...
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    147,05 €

  • Gorgias
    Plato
    Gorgias is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC. The dialogue depicts a conversation between Socrates and a small group of sophists (and other guests) at a dinner gathering. Socrates debates with the sophist seeking the true definition of rhetoric, attempting to pinpoint the essence of rhetoric and unveil the flaws of the sophistic oratory popular in Athens at the...
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    14,41 €

  • A Sketch of the Life of Apollonius of Tyana
    Daniel M. Tredwell
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    25,07 €

  • A Sketch of the Life of Apollonius of Tyana
    Daniel M. Tredwell
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    46,78 €


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