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  • Abolishing Freedom

    A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism

    par Frank Ruda ...
    Collections series Provocations
    Pushing back against the contemporary myth that freedom from oppression is freedom of choice, Frank Ruda resuscitates a fundamental lesson from the history of philosophical rationalism: a proper concept of freedom can arise only from a defense of absolute necessity, utter determinism, and predestination.Abolishing Freedom demonstrates how the greatest philosophers of the rationalist tradition and ... En savoir plus

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  • Common Sense

    par Thomas Paine ...
    First published on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense was an immediate sensation. In clear simple language it explained to the people of the Thirteen Colonies why they needed to fight for independence from Great Britain.Common Sense has been called "the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era." ... En savoir plus

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  • A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

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    par Edmund Burke ...
    'A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful' is a 1757 treatise on aesthetics written by Edmund Burke. In short, the Beautiful, according to Burke, is what is well-formed and aesthetically pleasing, whereas the Sublime is what has the power to compel and destroy us. The preference for the Sublime over the Beautiful was to mark the transition from the ... En savoir plus

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  • Modern Conspiracy

    The Importance of Being Paranoid

    par Dr. Emma A. Jane, Dr. Chris Fleming ...
    While conspiracy theory is often characterized in terms of the collapse of objectivity and Enlightenment reason, Modern Conspiracy traces the important role of conspiracy in the formation of the modern world: the scientific revolution, social contract theory, political sovereignty, religious paranoia and mass communication media.Rather than seeing the imminent death of Enlightenment reason and a ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • Following the Rules

    Practical Reasoning and Deontic Constraint

    par Joseph Heath ...
    For centuries, philosophers have been puzzled by the fact that people often respect moral obligations as a matter of principle, setting aside considerations of self-interest. In more recent years, social scientists have been puzzled by the more general phenomenon of rule-following, the fact that people often abide by social norms even when doing so produces undesirable consequences. Experimental ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Individual without Passions

    Modern Individualism and the Loss of the Social Bond

    par Elena Pulcini ...
    Traduit par Karen Whittle ...
    The Individual without Passions: Modern Individualism and the Loss of the Social Bond offers an innovative look at an extremely timely and important issue—individualism—from the point of view of a theory of passions. This book underlines the importance of the problem of the passions in both forming individual identity and building the social bond. Drawing inspiration from classic authors that ... En savoir plus

    $136.99 CAD

  • Conscience and Its Critics

    Protestant Conscience, Enlightenment Reason, and Modern Subjectivity

    par Edward Andrew ...
    Collections series Heritage
    Conscience and Its Critics is an eloquent and passionate examination of the opposition between Protestant conscience and Enlightenment reason in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Seeking to illuminate what the United Nations Declaration of Rights means in its assertion that reason and conscience are the definitive qualities of human beings, Edward Andrew attempts to give determinate shape ... En savoir plus

    $33.99 CAD

  • The End of History

    An Essay on Modern Hegelianism

    par Barry Cooper ...
    Collections series Heritage
    History ended, according to Hegel according to Kojève, with the establishment and proliferation in Europe of states organized along Napoleonic lines: rational, bureaucratic, homogenous, atheist. This state lives in some tension with the popular slogan that helped give it birth: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. But there is now also totalitarianism – the only new kind of regime, according to Arendt, ... En savoir plus

    $44.99 CAD

  • Discover Plato: Flash

    par Dr Roy Jackson ...
    The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Discover Plato is a short, simple and to-the-point guide to the works of Plato. In just 96 pages, the reader will discover all his ideas, from the Theory of Forms to Platonic Love. Ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the ... En savoir plus

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  • The Moon Through the Lonely Window: Explorations in Philosophy

    par David J Guyton ...
    Questions burn within us all. At times, the answers bring an inferno of their own, laying waste to our comfortable traditions and beliefs. The light of that mighty fire will either destroy us or light the pathway towards truth. We march forward with no shield to protect us; reason our only weapon.The Moon Through the Lonely Window is a collection of philosophical thoughts by David J. Guyton. These ... En savoir plus

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  • The Way We Think: Step Reasoning and Stage Reasoning

    par Geoffrey Tingate ...
    By and large human reasoning proceeds in short steps restricted almost entirely to the surface, thereby falling short of what is called for in the modern world. In contrast, the reasoning of a rare minority proceeds in immensely more powerful stages. Included in this minority are those whose inductive stage reasoning enables them to probe far beneath the surface and reveal Nature's most hidden ... En savoir plus

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  • The Barbarism of Reason

    Max Weber and the Twilight of Enlightenment

    Modifié par Asher Horowitz, Terry Maley ...
    Collections series Heritage
    The recent renewal of interest in Max Weber evidences an attempt to enlist his thought in the service of a renewed dream of Enlightenment individualism. Yet he was the first twentieth-century thinker to fully appreciate the pervasiveness and ambiguity of rationalization which threatened to undermine the hopes of the Enlightenment.Asher Horowitz and Terry Maley present a collection of essays ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD