"Everything changes; nothing remains without change", said Siddhartha Gautama, while Harry Rowohlt held that at least Nothingness remains immutable. In Siddhartha, Herman Hesse observed that "the opposite of every truth is just as true", an insight gleaned from Buddhist catechisms. It ...
Thinking can be fun God and man, nature, space and time, insight and self-knowledge, society and the state, logic, ethics and morality-these are issues that have preoccupied people since time immemorial. Forays into philosophy can enhance our perspective on life's problems and ...
The title speaks for itself: this book offers a lucid and accessible summary of the history of Western philosophy from the pre-Socratics all the way up to the 20 th century. Conceived as a chronological encyclopaedia, the book proffers a synthesis of the subject, its history and terminology.
An original thinker and a great teacher of wisdom
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 -1860) was only 25 years old when he published his first major work, "The World as Will and Idea". He was a cosmopolitan thinker whose interests outside of philosophy included ...
Kant can sort out your life!
Philosophy as the art of balancing your life: how can we apply the ideas and concepts of the great philosophers to help us resolve the problems life throws at us on a daily basis? This book presents four people who are suffering from loneliness, ...
The beautiful and the sublime, perception and art and the development of judgment in questions of taste are at the centre of this final and particularly complex Kantian work. In this guide to Kant's third philosophical masterpiece, Ralph Ludwig offers the readers careful assistance which will ...
This introduction to Simone de Beauvoir's life and work focuses on her most famous book, ›The Second Sex‹. Written in 1949, it deals with the situation of women in the western world and revolutionised the outlook and lives of many women. Highly provocative for the time, she claimed that a woman ...
Volume two of the internationally successful series!
They made history and their works can be found in bookcases the world over - although the majority will be unread: philosophical classics, from Aristotle's ›Metaphysics‹ all the way through to ›Dialectic Of Enlightenment‹ by ...
Es befinden sich keine Artikel in Ihrem Merkzettel
Es befinden sich keine Artikel in Ihrem Warenkorb