Deze serie presenteert compacte anthologieën gericht op essentiële filosofische onderwerpen. Elk deel selecteert zorgvuldig teksten van klassieke denkers tot hedendaagse auteurs, met als doel diepe reflectie en levendige discussie te stimuleren. De geschriften worden gekozen vanwege hun duidelijkheid en impact, en dienen als ideaal studiemateriaal voor iedereen die geïnteresseerd is in filosofie. Het biedt een uitstekende introductie tot diverse filosofische stromingen en debatten.
Including over one hundred fifty pages of new material, a new introduction, enhanced headnotes, and an updated list of further readings, this significantly expanded anthology provides a rich selection of traditional and modern works that reflect the many ways in which philosophers have attempted to address the question of the existence of God. schovat popis
Friendship, that pervasive, everyday, and subtle matter of our most intimate personal life, has rarely been accorded its due. Michael Pakaluk has retrieved the thoughts of our greatest thinkers on the subject and collected them into a handsome and handy volume...A splendid book! --M. M. Wartofsky, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Baruch College, City University of New York
An anthology featuring contributions to the dispute over free will from Aristotle to the twenty-first century. It presents the positions taken in this crucial debate and discusses their consequences for free will's traditional corollary, moral responsibility.
Organized around themes such as harmony with ones self and with the world, right relation to God, the use of reason, self-exploration, and living in a disordered world, the selections in this anthology explore traditional philosophical thought from Plato to de Beauvoir on the topic of human flourishing.
The readings in Justice include the central philosophical statements about justice in society organized to illustrate both the political vision of a good society and different attempts at an analysis of the concept of justice.
Expanded and updated to include a wide range of classic and contemporary works, this new edition of David Rosenthal's anthology provides a selection of the most important and influential writings on materialism and the mind-body problem.
An anthology that provides a set of distinctive, influential views that explore the mysteries of human nature from a variety of perspectives.