9975 books (499 pages) in this category
by Plato
<p>Alcibiades was a notable figure in Ancient Greek history. Famed Athenian statesman, orator and general, he had a powerful impact on the political and military scene in Athens and Sparta, despite his difficult and tumultuous youth. Alcibiades ...
ISBN: 9786069835326
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eBookby Plato
<p>The First Alcibiades or Alcibiades I is a dialogue featuring Alcibiades in conversation with Socrates. It is ascribed to Plato, although scholars are divided on the question of its authenticity.<br /> Alcibiades, who is described as a very ...
ISBN: 9788834123171
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eBookAlexius Meinong, The Shepherd of Non-Being
by Dale Jacquette
<p>This book explores the thought of Alexius Meinong, a philosopher known for his unconventional theory of reference and predication. The chapters cover a natural progression of topics, beginning with the origins of <em>Gegenstandstheorie</em>, ...
ISBN: 9783319180755
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eBookAlexius Meinong’s Elements of Ethics
with Translation of the Fragment Ethische Bausteine
by Marie-Luise Schubert Kalsi
<p><em>Elements of Ethics</em> examines Meinong's value theory from an epistemological standpoint and gives a critical exposition of Meinong's first attempts at a deontic logic; special consideration is given to the Law of Omission. For that ...
ISBN: 9789400901414
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eBookAlfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and the Hermeneutic Spiral
by Robert J. Belton
<p>This book offers a new approach to film studies by showing how our brains use our interpretations of various other films in order to understand Alfred Hitchcock’s <em>Vertigo</em>. Borrowing from behavioral psychology, cognitive science and ...
ISBN: 9783319551883
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eBookAlfred Schutz's Sociological Aspect of Literature
Construction and Complementary Essays
by Lester Embree
<p>The maintext in the present volume has beenconstructed out of passages found scattered aboutin thirty-five years of Alfred Schutz's writings, and it has been constructed by following a pageof notes for a lecture that he gave in 1955 under the
ISBN: 9789401590426
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eBookAlfred Tarski and the "Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages"
A Running Commentary with Consideration of the Polish Original and the German Translation
by Monika Gruber
<p>This book provides a detailed commentary on the classic monograph by Alfred Tarski, and offers a reinterpretation and retranslation of the work using the original Polish text and the English and German translations. In the original work, ...
ISBN: 9783319326160
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eBookA Comparative Analysis of Western and Soviet Ethical Systems
by V.A. Lefebvre
<p>In this book two ethical systems are described in the language of mathematics. Ordinarily mathematics is thought to be a science of quantity. Indeed, manipulation of quantities constitutes much of mathematics. Elementary applied mathematics ...
ISBN: 9789401090513
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eBookMathematical Formalism and Victorian Culture
by Andrea K. Henderson
<p>Algebraic Art explores the invention of a peculiarly Victorian account of the nature and value of aesthetic form, and it traces that account to a surprising source: mathematics. The nineteenth century was a moment of extraordinary ...
ISBN: 9780192538062
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eBookAlice in Wonderland and Philosophy
Curiouser and Curiouser
by William Irwin & Richard Brian Davis
<p>The perfect companion to Lewis Carroll's classic book and director Tim Burton's March 2010 remake of <em>Alice in Wonderland</em></p> <p><em>Alice?s Adventures in Wonderland</em> has fascinated children and adults alike for generations. Why ...
ISBN: 9780470590270
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eBookby Meishu-Sama
<p>Capítulo 1<br /> A FÉ NO COTIDIANO</p> <p>Pragmatismo</p> <p>O pragmatismo religioso (Título anterior: Religião pragmática)</p> <p>Fé é confiança</p> <p>Fé é retidão e justiça (Título anterior: Fé é justiça)</p> <p>Fé correta (Título ...
ISBN: 9788583551461
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eBookI Infest, Therefore I Am
by William Irwin
<p><em>Alien and Philosophy: I Infest, Therefore I Am</em> presents a philosophical exploration of the world of <em>Alien</em>, the simultaneously horrifying and thought-provoking sci-fi horror masterpiece, and the film franchise it ...
ISBN: 9781119280842
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eBookMarx's Conception of Man in a Capitalist Society
by Bertell Ollman
In this book, the most thorough account of Marx's theory of alienation yet to have appeared in English, Professor Ollman reconstructs the theory from its constituent parts and offers it as a vantage point from which to view the rest of Marxism. ...
ISBN: 9781316261569
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eBookby Frantz Fanon
<p>Since the publication of <em>The Wretched of the Earth</em> in 1961, Fanon's work has been deeply significant for generations of intellectuals and activists from the 60s to the present day.</p> <p><em>Alienation and Freedom</em> collects ...
ISBN: 9781474250245
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eBookAlienation and Nature in Environmental Philosophy
by Simon Hailwood
<p>Many environmental scientists, scholars and activists characterise our situation as one of alienation from nature, but this notion can easily seem meaningless or irrational. In this book, Simon Hailwood critically analyses the idea of ...
ISBN: 9781316349267
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eBookA Digital Apocalypse
by Martin Burckhardt & Dirk Höfer
<p><strong>Why 1 = presence and 0 = absence and the digital world formula is <em>x</em> = *x</strong>n*: an exploration of meaning in a universe of infinite replication.**</p> <p>In the beginning was the Zero, and the Zero was with God, and God
ISBN: 9780262342759
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eBookA Guide to Proclus
by Pieter d'Hoine & Marije Martijn
<p>Proclus (412-485 A.D.) was one of the last official 'successors' of Plato at the head of the Academy in Athens at the end of Antiquity, before the school was finally closed down in 529. As a prolific author of systematic works on a wide range
ISBN: 9780191092244
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eBookThe Skolimowskian Philosophy of the Participatory Mind
by Vir Singh
<p>All Is Mind is one of the rarest books, attempting to unfold mysteries of human mind and of the universe. It deeply looks into new, delighting, and intellect-blasting Skolimowskian philosophy of the participatory mind, which truly represents ...
ISBN: 9781482835083
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eBookby Laura Patricia Kearney
<p>A short collection of poetry when you simply have nothing to say </p><p>dare to open the door of my thoughts and you will be rewarded with more thoughts ! </p><p>All outta words</p> ...
ISBN: 9783739604275
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eBookby Benno Kreuzmair
<p>It is time for us finally to free ourselves from our subjugation to time! From time immemorial, people have preoccupied themselves to an ever-greater but more irrelevant degree with time. Instead of envisioning natural phenomena in which they
ISBN: 9781504993043
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