Download or read book Essays written by Adam Smith and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literary and philosophical essays written by Jean Paul Sartre and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays Philosophical Historical and Literary written by William Belsham and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Love s Knowledge written by Martha C. Nussbaum and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together Nussbaum's published papers on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. The papers, many of them previously inaccessible to non-specialist readers, deal with such fundamental issues as the relationship between style and content in the exploration of ethical issues; the nature of ethical attention and ethical knowledge and their relationship to written forms and styles; and the role of the emotions in deliberation and self-knowledge. Nussbaum investigates and defends a conception of ethical understanding which involves emotional as well as intellectual activity, and which gives a certain type of priority to the perception of particular people and situations rather than to abstract rules. She argues that this ethical conception cannot be completely and appropriately stated without turning to forms of writing usually considered literary rather than philosophical. It is consequently necessary to broaden our conception of moral philosophy in order to include these forms. Featuring two new essays and revised versions of several previously published essays, this collection attempts to articulate the relationship, within such a broader ethical inquiry, between literary and more abstractly theoretical elements.
Download or read book A Sense of the World written by John Gibson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A team of leading contributors from both philosophical and literary backgrounds have been brought together in this impressive book to examine how works of literary fiction can be a source of knowledge. Together, they analyze the important trends in this current popular debate. The innovative feature of this volume is that it mixes work by literary theorists and scholars with work of analytic philosophers that combined together provide a comprehensive statement of the variety of ways in which works of fiction can engage questions of worldly interest. It uses the problem of cognitive value to explore: literature’s contribution to ethical life literature’s ability to engage in social and political critique the role narrative plays in opening up possibilities of moral, aesthetic, experience and selfhood This remarkable volume will attract the attention of both literature and philosophy scholars with its statement of the various ways that literature and life take an interest in one another.
Download or read book Literary and Philosophical Essays written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That we should not judge of our happiness until after our death. That to philsophise is to learne how to die. Of the institution and education of children. Of friendship. Of bookes. By Montaigne. -- Montaigne. What is a classic? by C.-A. Sainte-Beuve. --The poetry of the Celtic races, by E. Renan. --The education of the human race, by G.E. Lessing. --Letters upon the aesthetic education of man, by J.C.F. Schiller. --Fundamental principles of the metaphysic of morals. Transition from popular moral philosophy to the metaphysic of morals. by I.Kant. --Byron and Goethe, by G. Mazzini.
Download or read book Once Upon a Time written by Peter Kivy and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kivy raises questions of a philosophical nature about the novel that will be of interest both to the professional philosopher and to the general reader.
Download or read book Writing Philosophy written by Lewis Vaughn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Philosophy: A Student's Guide to Reading and Writing Philosophy Essays, Second Edition, is a concise, self-guided manual that covers how to read philosophy and the basics of argumentative essay writing. It encourages students to master fundamental skills quickly--with minimal instructor input--and provides step-by-step instructions for each phase of the writing process, from formulating a thesis, to creating an outline, to writing a final draft, supplementing this tutorial approach with model essays, outlines, introductions, and conclusions. Writing Philosophy is just $5 when packaged with any Oxford University Press Philosophy text. Contact your Oxford representative for details and package ISBNs.
Download or read book Essays on Philosophical Subjects written by Adam Smith and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literature and Moral Understanding written by Frank Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we be morally concerned with fiction? What does our experience of literature contribute to our capacity for moral understanding? This study of the relation of art to morality presents a defence of the humane value of art and explores the moral dimension of culture.
Download or read book The Importance of What We Care About written by Harry G. Frankfurt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-05-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of thirteen seminal essays on ethics, free will, and the philosophy of mind, first published in 1988.
Download or read book Imaginative Horizons written by Vincent Crapanzano and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do people make sense of their experiences? How do they understand possibility? How do they limit possibility? These questions are central to all the human sciences. Here, Vincent Crapanzano offers a powerfully creative new way to think about human experience: the notion of imaginative horizons. For Crapanzano, imaginative horizons are the blurry boundaries that separate the here and now from what lies beyond, in time and space. These horizons, he argues, deeply influence both how we experience our lives and how we interpret those experiences, and here sets himself the task of exploring the roles that creativity and imagination play in our experience of the world.
Download or read book The Time is Now Essays on the Philosophy of Becoming written by Douglas ALLEN and published by Zeta Books. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The time for what? The title of Mihaela Gligor’s edited collection is wonderfully flexible, as anything having to do with time should be. There is something not only boundless about time, but also raw and untamed. In its pure form, time would be too much for us to handle. We would be crushed by the sheer immensity of it, or else we would lose our minds trying to make sense of such unmediated time. Luckily, for the most part we don’t experience time in its pure form. Time comes to us already processed: shaped, engineered, tamed. The volume does fine justice to the notion that we experience time as already shaped by religion, politics, and culture. Whether its contributions cover religious or political figures, philosophers or poets, mystics or physicists, they show – sometimes explicitly, sometimes more discreetly – how difficult it is to deal with time in a pure, unmediated form. The contributors’ cultural, religious, and intellectual rooting inform the way think about time, just as about anything else. Which, far from being a weakness, is something to be recognized and celebrated. (Costică Brădățan, Texas Tech University, U.S.A.)
Download or read book In the Age of Prose written by Erich Heller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The guiding theme of these essays is the fate of the imagination and the condition of art in the modern world, where both appear to be enfeebled by scientific hubris, undermined by psychological self-questioning and compromised by political disaster. Erich Heller traces this predicament with subtlety and profundity, from Hegel's and Nietzsche's diagnoses to the various truces and manoeuvres through which remarkable victories have nonetheless been achieved - such as the comic triumphs of Wilhelm Busch. As elsewhere in Professor Heller's work, Thomas Mann's attempt to outwit and redeem his circumstances through art - 'despite' them, as he said himself - occupies a central place. Three of the present essays are devoted to him. Others consider Kleist, Fontane, Hamsun, Karl Kraus and the crucial figures of Hölderlin (who plays such a central role in Heidegger's later philosophical writings) and Rilke. Written with feeling, and the distinctive elegance and wit that have characterized all of Professor Heller's work, the essays here reaffirm the vital interdependence of literature and human values.
Download or read book New Essays Literary and Philosophical written by James Lindsay and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kurt G del written by Francisco Rodriguez-Consuegra and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1995-12-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kurt Gödel, together with Bertrand Russell, is the most important name in logic, and in the foundations and philosophy of mathematics of this century. However, unlike Russel, Gödel the mathematician published very little apart from his well-known writings in logic, metamathematics and set theory. Fortunately, Gödel the philosopher, who devoted more years of his life to philosophy than to technical investigation, wrote hundreds of pages on the philosophy of mathematics, as well as on other fields of philosophy. It was only possible to learn more about his philosophical works after the opening of his literary estate at Princeton a decade ago. The goal of this book is to make available to the scholarly public solid reconstructions and editions of two of the most important essays which Gödel wrote on the philosophy of mathematics. The book is divided into two parts. The first provides the reader with an incisive historico-philosophical introduction to Gödel's technical results and philosophical ideas. Written by the Editor, this introductory apparatus is not only devoted to the manuscripts themselves but also to the philosophical context in which they were written. The second contains two of Gödel's most important and fascinating unpublished essays: 1) the Gibbs Lecture ("Some basic theorems on the foundations of mathematics and their philosophical implications", 1951); and 2) two of the six versions of the essay which Gödel wrote for the Carnap volume of the Schilpp series The Library of Living Philosophers ("Is mathematics syntax of language?", 1953-1959).
Download or read book Vagaries of Desire A Collection of Philosophical Essays written by Timo Airaksinen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Vagaries of Desire, Timo Airaksinen develops a new philosophical account of desire understood as mental state that focuses on a desirable possible world. Literary and philosophical themes, including sexuality, are discussed in terms of their metaphoric and metonymic features.
