Philosophy : Western

Descartes' main contribution to the history of ideas was a philosophy that would be sympathetic to the concepts of the Scientific Revolution. This is the first biography in English to address the full range of Descartes' interest in theology, philosophy, and the sciences, tracing his intellectual development throughout his career. more...

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Since the appearance of Plato's dialogues, philosophers have been preoccupied with the identity of Socrates and have maintained that successful interpretation of the work hinges upon a clear understanding of what thoughts and ideas can be attributed to him. In this volume, Peter Warnek offer a new interpretation of Plato by considering the appearance of Socrates within Plato's work as a philosophical question. Warnek reads the dialogues as an inquiry into the nature of Socrates and in doing so opens up the relationship between humankind and the natural world. The author reveals the importance of the concept of nature in the Platonic dialogues in light of Socratic practice and the ancient ideas that inspire contemporary philosophy. more...

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These essays gather together Gellner's thinking on the connection between philosophy and life and they approach the topic from a number of directions including a discussion of individuals including Chomsky, Piaget and Eysenck. more...

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Jean Beaufret is perhaps best known for posing the questions to which Martin Heidegger responded in his famous "Letter on Humanism." These questions, hastily written in a Paris café, constitute an early and improvised moment that was to form a profound philosophical engagement and friendship between the two thinkers. Mark Sinclair presents, for the first time in English translation, the first of four volumes of Beaufret's essays. This volume covers Beaufret's development of Heidegger's approach to Greek thinking in six essays "The Birth of Philosophy," "Heraclitus and Parmenides," "Reading Parmenides," "Zeno," "A Note on Plato and Aristotle," and "Energeia and Actus." Dialogue with Heidegger is an essential supplement to Heidegger's own work and a vital study of philosophy in its own right. more...

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Examines how Dr Diderot borrowed from Lucretius, Buffon, Maupertuis, and probability theory, and combines ideas from these sources to hypothesize that species are mutable and that all life arose randomly from a single prototype. more...

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