Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology, Paperback - Gottfried Leibniz

Reducere. Noted German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz was one of the most important philosophers of the Enlightenment era. A contemporary of Isaac Ne...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizTranslator: Daniel GarberNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 1991Dimensio...

Reducere. Leibniz (1645 -1716) had a lifelong interest in things Chinese and accorded China an important role in his ecumenical endeavors. This collection of...

The impact of the work of German mathematician GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ (1646-1716) on modern science and technology is all but incalculable, but ...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizTranslator: Daniel GarberNumber of pages: 386Publication date: 1989Dimensi...

Reducere. Essays of Theodicy on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil. Or more simply known as Theodicy, is a philosophical work by ...

Reducere. In this 1710 treatise, Gottfried Liebniz's only book-length work, he applies the idea of philosophical "optimism"-that we live in the best of all p...

A collection of the essential works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, one of leading thinkers of the Enlightenment. "The Confessions", regarded as the firs...

Written in 1714, the Monadology is widely considered to be the classic statement of Leibniz's mature philosophy. This is a fresh translation and in...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jean-Jacques RousseauTranslator: G. D. H. ColeJean-Jacques Rousseau writes, "Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chai...

This Norton Critical Edition includes the three most important of Rousseau's political writings: Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Ec...

Reducere. Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge--are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian ...

Reducere. DescriptionGottfried Feder's The German State on a National and Socialist Foundation is one of a series of three books by the important German camp...

Reducere. Gabriel Tarde's Monadology and Sociology, originally published in 1893, is a remarkable and unclassifiable book. It sets out a theory of 'universal...

A gothic hyperrealism: on the disturbing portraiture of a virtuoso painterThis is the first large-scale survey of the work of Ireland- and Los Ange...

Reducere. This sutta is the primary discourse in which the Buddha describes the practice of meditation in detail. This translation of the Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Su...

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a man of extraordinary intellectual creativity who lived an exceptionally rich and varied intellectual li...

Descartes is considered the father of modern philosophy, and these two works capture the essence of his thinking. In A Discourse on Method, he expl...

Reducere. The purpose of the Cambridge Edition is to offer translations of the best modern German edition of Kant's work in a uniform format suitable for Kan...

Several of Descarte's most ground-breaking essays and philosophic treatises are contained in this quality edition. Written by Ren Descartes in the ...

The works of many early critics of the Christian church were burned by ruling emperors or otherwise destroyed in the second and third centuries, bu...

Analogia Entis: On the Analogy of Being, Metaphysics, and the Act of Faith is an intellectually rigorous and systematic account of Thomas's teachin...

In his Discourses (1755), Rousseau argues that inequalities of rank, wealth, and power are the inevitable result of the civilizing process. If ineq...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Jean-Jacques RousseauTranslator: Donald A. CressNumber of pages: 112Publication date: 1992Dimension...

Reducere. A scholarly and thought-provoking work that places Jewish humor at the center of a discourse about Jewish and German relations through most of the ...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Michel De CerteauNumber of pages: 302Collection: Theory and History of LiteraturePublication dat...

Offers a concise presentation and defense of Rene Descartes' method of intellectual inquiry - a method that greatly influenced both philosophical a...

A massive survey of the disquieting paintings of Austrian provocateur Gottfried HelnweinThis substantial volume is the most complete monograph to d...

The only student edition of Calhoun's writings available, this volume offers the Disquisition in its entirety along with two key selections from th...

This book represents the physical outcome of the symposium "Academic Voices in Contrast", organised at the University of Bergen, Norway, in May 200...

In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness and freedom by creati...

Publisher: William B Eerdmans Publishing CoAuthor(s): Wolfhart PannenbergIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsTranslator: Philip ClaytonNumb...

Metaphysics has shifted ground, moving away from necessity and possibility as the lens through which we look at things. Ted Sider shapes the agenda...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Adriel M TrottNumber of pages: 280Collection: CyclesPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x 229 x 2...

Reducere. DescriptionScience and Metaphysics contains Sellars' John Locke Lectures. Besides considerable attention to doctrines of Kant's, Sellars presents "...

Reducere. Discours de la m thode is a philosophical and autobiographical treatise published by Ren Descartes in 1637.It is one of the most influential works ...

Reducere. Desiderius Eramsus (1466/9-1536) was the most renowned scholar of his age, a celebrated humanist and Classicist, and the first teacher of Greek at ...

Reducere. Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality Among Men. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), the very famous Fre...

Martin Heidegger's reading of Aristotle was one of the pivotal influences in the development of his philosophy. This book translates a lecture cour...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Tom SparrowNumber of pages: 216Collection: Speculative RealismPublication date: 2014Dimensions: 230...

Contributor(s): Author: Aime Cesaire"C saire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a process in ...

Reducere. This English translation of Vom Wesen der Sprache, volume 85 of Martin Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe, contains fascinating discussions of language that...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Rene DescartesTranslator: Richard KenningtonNumber of pages: 58Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 21...

Reducere. In TROLLRÚN: A Discourse on Trolldom and Runes in the Northern Tradition, Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold opens the door to landscapes little known ou...

Reducere. This is a difficult book, and to minimize the difficulties, we must try to give as many definitions as possible. Discourse is a language unit, anal...

Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals: With on a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns, Paperback

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Reducere. DescriptionWinner of the Journal of the History of Ideas's Morris D. Forkosch prize This book traces the development thought about God and the rela...

Provides an introduction to metaphysics. This anthology contains a collection of classical and contemporary readings on the subject, as well as sub...