За свою научную карьеру В. Вундт опубликовал множество работ – от статей в специализированных журналах до фундаментальных трудов, одним из которых является «Система философии» – итог творческой деятельности ученого. В первую часть «Системы философии» вошли размышления ученого о мышлении, познании, понятии рассудка. В частности он поднимает такие вопросы, как признаки и формы мышления, воспринимающее, рассудочное и разумное познание, формы поняти ...
Каждому знакомо имя Аристотеля – древнегреческого философа, ученика Платона и воспитателя великого Александра Македонского. Не менее известен и его сборник сочинений «Метафизика». В нем античный философ вводит термин «теология», подвергает критике учение Платона об идеях и описывает четыре первоначала – форму, материю, цель и перводвижитель. Произведение Аристотеля стало одним из значимых трудов в истории античной философской мысли, которое повл ...
Труды Владимира Соловьева затрагивают множество проблем философии и религии, истории и политики, этики, эстетики и искусства – автор обладал редким даром просто говорить о самых сложных предметах. В это издание вошло наиболее значительное из произведений философа, в котором отразились основные взгляды Соловьева на вопросы смысла жизни, доброты и добродетели, нравственности человека и общества. ...
Wittgenstein presents a concise, comprehensive, and systematic treatment of Ludwig Wittgenstein's thought from his early work, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, to the posthumous publication of On Certainty, notes written just prior to his death. A substantial scholarly addition to our understanding of one of the most original and influential thinkers of the twentieth century, by renowned Wittgenstein scholar, Hans Sluga Proposes an original new i ...
Reflecting the profound influence he continues to exert on popular consciousness, Camus examines the complete body of works of French author and philosopher Albert Camus, providing a comprehensive analysis of Camus’ most important works—most notably The Myth of Sisyphus, The Stranger, The Fall, The Plague, and The Rebel—within the framework of his basic ethical orientation. Makes Camus’ concerns clear in terms that will resonate with contemporar ...
In a focused assessment of one of the founding members of the liberal tradition in philosophy and a self-proclaimed “Under-Labourer” working to support the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, the author maps the full range of John Locke’s highly influential ideas, which even today remain at the heart of debates about the nature of reality and our knowledge of it, as well as our moral and political rights and duties. Comprehensive i ...
Few philosophers have left a legacy like that of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. He has been credited not only with inventing the differential calculus, but also with anticipating the basic ideas of modern logic, information science, and fractal geometry. He made important contributions to such diverse fields as jurisprudence, geology and etymology, while sketching designs for calculating machines, wind pumps, and submarines. But the common presentat ...
The world is populated with many different objects, to which we often attribute properties: we say, for example, that grass is green, that the earth is spherical, that humans are animals, and that murder is wrong. We also take it that these properties are things in their own right: there is something in which being green, or spherical, or an animal, or wrong, consists, and that certain scientific or normative projects are engaged in uncovering t ...
In this engaging and comprehensive introduction to the topic of toleration, Andrew Jason Cohen seeks to answer fundamental questions, such as: What is toleration? What should be tolerated? Why is toleration important? Beginning with some key insights into what we mean by toleration, Cohen goes on to investigate what should be tolerated and why. We should not be free to do everythingNmurder, rape, and theft, for clear examples, should not be tole ...
