R..dge | 2001 | ISBN: 0203467124 | 288 pages | PDF | 1,9 MB Why and how people should be educated has, throughout history, preoccupied some of civilization’s greatest minds. This unique work summarizes and analyzes the thinking on education of fifty individuals drawn from a time span covering 500 BC to the nineteenth century. Among those included are: * Confucius * Plato * St. Augustine * Eamus John Wesley * Immanuel Kant * Mary Wollstonecaft *... 

Cli ffs Not es | 2000 | ISBN: 076458670X | 128 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. Considered to be one of the three greatest philosophical tomes of all time, The Republic is Plato’s account and... 

Sheffield Academic Press | August 1994 | ISBN-10: 1850753539 | 367 pages | PDF | 16.37 MB In this revealing study, the author suggests that ancient Israel was a ‘magic society’ like those around it, and similar in many respects to a number of magic-using ‘savage’ societies studied by modern social anthropology. Although the Old Testament attempts to distinguish between priestly and prophetic divination, this distinction was not sharply drawn in ancient times. References... 

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Language | ISBN 0072980796 | PDF | 2004 | 608 pages | 12.3 Mb This comprehensive text with readings offers a historical overview of all major subdivisions of Western Philosophy perspectives. Written in an engaging and captivating style, it makes philosophy accessible without oversimplifying the material, and shows that philosophy’s powerful ideas affect the lives of real people. The sixth edition includes new pedagogical tools and expanded coverage. Incoming... 

Gr..nwood Press | 1982 | ISBN: 0313231532 | 344 pages | Djvu | 14,5 MB This book deals with the nature of perceptual consciousness and the relationship of sense-data to the ordinary `macroscopic objects’ of daily life.  Read More →

Seuil | 2008 | ISBN 2020964252 | 331 Pages | PDF OCR | 14.6 MB Paul Ricœur a publié de son vivant une trentaine de livres – une œuvre philosophique exceptionnelle. Il a aussi écrit de nombreux articles pour des revues françaises et étrangères, fait des conférences et donné des interviews. Conservés par le Fonds Ricœur, certains de ces textes n’ont jamais été publiés en français, beaucoup sont aujourd’hui introuvables. Ce volume... 

Wil ey-Blac kwell | 2009 | ISBN: 1405187301 | 200 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB “We live in a century when quandaries that seemed more appropriate for science fiction will become real. I suspect, for example, that many people would be outraged to find out that large parts of their genome—the genetic code that largely defines the distinct features of their own humanity—are patented, and therefore “owned” by others. David Koepsell here raises a set of fascinating... 

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Publisher: Univ ersity of Toro nto Pre ss 2001 | 104 Pages | ISBN: 0802035213 | PDF | 3 MB Julia Kristeva’s Hannah Arendt brings together two of the best minds in 20th-century philosophy; two who are especially noteworthy because they are visionary women in a field long dominated by men. Appropriately, the book is, in part, a tribute to Arendt, one of a series of looks at female genius. Kristeva brings her considerable scholarly arsenal, which includes linguistics, literary criticism,... 

Publisher: Cor nell Unive rsity Press 1985 | 365 Pages | ISBN: 0801493307 , 0801416639 | PDF | 18 MB Speculum de l’autre femme (1974) (Speculum of the Other Woman) (1985), the book that earned her international recognition, fuses philosophy with psychoanalysis, and employs a lyrical ‘mimesis’, or mimicry, that parodies and undercuts philosophical pretensions to universality. While adopting the standpoint of universality, objectivity and uniformity, the philosophical tradition in...