Catálogo de libros: Historia de la filosofía occidental

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  • On a Happy Life
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca / Aubrey Stewart
    De Vita Beata (English: On a Happy Life) is an insightful essay penned by Seneca the Younger, a prominent Roman Stoic philosopher, likely composed between 58 and 62 AD, as a discourse on the nature of happiness and its pursuit.The essay expounds on the idea that true happiness is rooted in cultivating inner virtues, living in accordance with reason, and maintaining a tranquil m...
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    4,96 €

  • Plato’s Stranger
    Rodolphe Gasché
    Meditation on the character of the Eleatic Stranger in Plato’s late dialogues, arguing that the prominent place afforded to this foreigner-the other-represents an important philosophical and political legacy regarding the way thought, and life in the community, is understood.The dramatic introduction in two of Plato’s late dialogues-the Sophist and the Statesman, both part of a...
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    42,19 €

  • Opining Beauty Itself
    Naomi Reshotko
    Argues that Plato thinks that ordinary people grapple with the Forms and can make epistemological progress, even if they never achieve knowledge.In Opining Beauty Itself, Naomi Reshotko examines Plato’s discussions of epistemological states that fall short of knowledge. Wary that interpretations of Plato’s epistemology often omit a detailed analysis of the way he deploys the ep...
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    42,03 €

  • Ockhamism and Philosophy of Time
    Alessio Santelli
    This book discusses fundamental topics on contemporary Ockhamism. The collected essays show how contemporary Ockhamism can impact areas of research such as semantics, metaphysics and also the philosophy of science. In addition, the volume hosts one historian of Medieval philosophy who investigates the way in which William of Ockham 'in flesh and bone' construed time and, more g...
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    171,32 €

  • Equality and Excellence in Ancient and Modern Political Philosophy
    Interpretations of critically important texts in political philosophy from Greek antiquity to modern times on the tension between human excellence and equality and its possible resolution.Is it possible to reconcile human excellence with a dedication to equality? Equality and Excellence in Ancient and Modern Political Philosophy explores the meaning, conflict, and potential res...
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    121,74 €

  • History of Philosophy
    Surrendra Gangadean
    The history of philosophy is beset by unresolved disputes. These disputes are passed down from generation to generation as problems to be solved. If not solved, they engender skepticism. Philosophical disputes, posed as problems, can be resolved or dissolved if we first acknowledge that some things are clear to reason. Philosophical problems are about beliefs. There are more ba...
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    43,41 €

  • The Gradual Acceptance Of The Copernican Theory Of The Universe
    Dorothy Stimson
    The Gradual Acceptance of the Copernican Theory of the Universe is a historical work by Dorothy Stimson. The book chronicles the development and acceptance of the heliocentric model of the solar system, which was proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus in the 16th century. Stimson traces the evolution of the Copernican theory from its origins in ancient Greek astronomy to its eventual ...
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    13,03 €

  • Pyrrhonism Past and Present
    Diego E. Machuca
    This book explores the nature and significance of Pyrrhonism, the most prominent and influential form of skepticism in Western philosophy. Not only did Pyrrhonism play an important part in the philosophical scene of the Hellenistic and Imperial age, but it also had a tremendous impact on Renaissance and modern philosophy and continues to be a topic of lively discussion among bo...
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    133,86 €

  • Cosmology and Biology in Ancient Philosophy
    Ricardo Salles
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    41,57 €

  • Poetry and Poetics in the Presocratic Philosophers
    Tom Mackenzie
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    41,90 €

  • Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature
    Curtis Runstedler
    This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges them together with the exempla tradition in late medieval English literature. Such poetic narratives function as exemplary models which directly address the ambiguity of medieval English alchemical practice. This book examines th...
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    157,16 €

  • Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature
    Curtis Runstedler
    This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges them together with the exempla tradition in late medieval English literature. Such poetic narratives function as exemplary models which directly address the ambiguity of medieval English alchemical practice. This book examines th...
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    48,32 €

  • Aristotle and the Ethics of Difference, Friendship, and Equality
    Zoli Filotas
    Connecting several strands of Aristotle’s thought, Zoli Filotas sheds light on one of the axioms of Aristotle’s ethics and political philosophy - that every community has a ruler - and demonstrates its relevance to his ideas on personal relationships. Aristotle and the Ethics of Difference, Friendship, and Equalityreveals a pluralistic theory of rule in Aristotle’s thought, tra...
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    51,22 €

  • Meditations (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
    Marcus Aurelius / George Long
    Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is one of the greatest philosophical works of all time. A collection of personal reflections written by Marcus Aurelius during his reign as one of Rome’s greatest emperors, Meditations delves into topics that are as relevant today as they were more than two thousand years ago. Aurelius expresses his insights on the nature of virtue, the impermanen...
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    8,23 €

  • The Guide for the Perplexed
    Moses Maimonides / M. Friedlander
    It is the object of this work 'to afford a guide for the perplexed,' i.e. 'to thinkers whose studies have brought them into collision with religion' (p. 9), 'who have studied philosophy and have acquired sound knowledge, and who, while firm in religious matters, are perplexed and bewildered on account of the ambiguous and figurative expressions employed in the holy writings' (p...
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    30,32 €

  • The Drawings of Mythical Animals in Islamic Architecture and Arts
    Mahmoud Ahmed Darwish
    This book of deals with the drawings of mythical animals on buildings and applied Islamic artifacts, especially the drawings of the dragon, which spread in a way that attracts attention, whether on buildings or on various arts.The book revolves around several axes, including defining the mythical animals that Muslims used as decorative elements, as well as the mythical animals ...
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    63,28 €

  • Eros the Bittersweet
    Anne Carson
    Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern LibraryAnne Carson’s remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic loveSince it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson’s lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has established itself as a favorite among an unusually broad audience, including clas...
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    22,67 €

  • The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Logic
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    126,94 €

  • The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Logic
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    43,45 €

  • Full Responsibility
    Steven G. Smith
    Explores the basic forms of responsibility that we willingly assume and the collaborative fulfillment that we find in each.Starting with an appreciation of the practical realizations that move us to assume responsibility, Full Responsibility develops an ontologically-grounded model of different forms of responsibility and the challenges and fulfillments found in each. Special a...
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    42,15 €

  • On the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians
    Iamblichus / Thomas Taylor
    On the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians, also known as the Theurgia and under its abbreviated Latin title De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum, is a work of Neoplatonic philosophy primarily concerned with ritual and theurgy and attributed to Iamblichus. ...
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    6,87 €

  • On the Shortness of Life
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca / Aubrey Stewart
    De Brevitate Vitae (English: On the Shortness of Life) is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, sometime around the year 49 AD, to his father-in-law Paulinus. The essay argues that time is best used by living in the present moment in pursuit of the intentional, purposeful life.  ...
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    12,47 €

  • Enjoyment as Enriched Experience
    Nathaniel F. Barrett
    This book has two main tasks: (1) to call attention to the special challenges presented by our experience of affect-all varieties of pleasure and pain-and (2) to show how these challenges can be overcome by an 'enrichment approach' that understands affect as the enrichment or deterioration of conscious activity as a whole. This 'enrichment approach' draws from Alfred North Whit...
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    156,38 €

  • Enjoyment as Enriched Experience
    Nathaniel F. Barrett
    This book has two main tasks: (1) to call attention to the special challenges presented by our experience of affect-all varieties of pleasure and pain-and (2) to show how these challenges can be overcome by an 'enrichment approach' that understands affect as the enrichment or deterioration of conscious activity as a whole. This 'enrichment approach' draws from Alfred North Whit...
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    47,65 €

  • Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind
    David LaRocca
    In Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind, some of the scholars who have become essential for our understanding of Stanley Cavell’s writing on film gather to use his landmark contributions to help us read new films-from Hollywood and elsewhere-that exist beyond his immediate reach and reading. In extending the scope of Cavell’s film philosophy, we naturally find ourselves contendin...
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    50,55 €

  • Plato’s Sun-Like Good
    Sarah Broadie
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    41,90 €

  • William of Ockham
    Eric W. Hagedorn
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    49,94 €

  • Ars Vitae
    Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
    Despite the flood of self-help guides and our current therapeutic culture, feelings of alienation and spiritual longing continue to grip modern society. In this book, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn offers a fresh solution: a return to classic philosophy and the cultivation of an inner life.The ancient Roman philosopher Cicero wrote that philosophy is ars vitae, the art of living. Today,...
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    38,67 €

  • Parabhairavayogābhyāsāḥ
    Gabriel Pradiipaka
    It is with great joy that I present you the Guru Gabriel Pradīpaka’s new book, 'Parabhairavayogābhyāsāḥ' or 'Practices in Parabhairava Yoga', which is the first of a number of volumes devoted to the methods or means (upāya-s) for Self-Realization in Trika Shaivism. This first volume is dedicated to the highest of the three methods, called Śāmbhavopāya, a method related to the v...
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    72,79 €

  • ESSENTIALISM
    Quinto Greco
    IN A WORLD BRIMMING WITH EXCESS - RELENTLESS NOTIFICATIONS, AND DEBT THAT FEELS LIKE A BALL AND CHAIN - FINDING PEACE MAY SEEM LIKE A DISTANT DREAM.But imagine a life where you feel truly free, where your choices align with your values, and every object and thought holds purpose. 'ESSENTIALISM: Rediscover The Power of Less With a STOIC Mind' is your guide to escaping the nois...
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    15,65 €


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