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Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Alan Watts was a philosopher, lecturer and the West's foremost popularizer of Asian religion & philosophy. This autobiography tracks his spiritual and philosophical evolution from a child of religious conservatives in rural England to a spiritual teacher who challenged Westerners to challenge convention and think for themselves.
64) Voltaire: a life
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Davidson tells the whole, rich story of Voltaire's life (1694-1778): his early imprisonment in the Bastille; exile in England and his mastery of English; an obsession with money, of which he made a huge amount; a scandalous love life; his infatuation with Frederick the Great; a long exile on the borders of Switzerland; his passion for watch-making; his human rights campaigns and his triumphant return to Paris to die there as celebrity extraordinaire....
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Eighteen-year-old Robert Weekes is a practitioner of empirical philosophy-an arcane, female-dominated branch of science used to summon the wind, shape clouds of smoke, heal the injured, and even fly. Though he dreams of fighting in the Great War as the first male in the elite US Sigilry Corps Rescue and Evacuation Service-a team of flying medics-Robert is resigned to mixing batches of philosophical chemicals and keeping the books for the family business...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A soaring intellectual narrative starring the radical, brilliant, and provocative philosophers Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Ayn Rand by the critically acclaimed author of Time of the Magicians, Wolfram Eilenberger The period from 1933 to 1943 was one of the darkest and most chaotic in human history, as the Second World War unfolded with unthinkable cruelty. It was also a crucial decade in the dramatic, intersecting lives of...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"An ambitious new history of philosophy in English that broadens the canon to include many lesser-known figures. Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote that "philosophy should be written like poetry." But philosophy has often been presented more prosaically as a long trudge through canonical authors and great works. But what, Jonathan Rée asks, if we instead saw the history of philosophy as a haphazard series of unmapped forest paths, a mass of individual...
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Pensadores y conceptos clave volume BA6
Publisher
Blackie Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Reseña del editor: Encuadernada en cartoné, se trata de una guía en la que mediante sencillos gráficos e ilustraciones se explican más de 200 conceptos y personajes clave del pensamiento occidental. Su principal cometido es redescubrir 2.600 años de historia de la filosofía de una forma accesible y muy visual. Su autor es reconocido en el sector editorial por obras en las que ante todo cuida el diseño y el valor visual.
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70) Confucius
Author
Publisher
Mitchell Lane Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Although he lived thousands of years ago, in a place and time before any type of mass media and/or communications existed much beyond that of the spoken word, the wisdom of Confucius has survived over the centuries. His sayings and philosophy are still widely practiced today -- a remarkable achievement for someone who exists primarily in the dusty pages of history books."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"As a scholar of Jewish law, a physician, and a philosopher, Maimonides was a singular figure. His work in extracting all the commanding precepts of Jewish law from the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud, interpreting and commenting on them, and translating them into terms that would allow students to lead sound Jewish lives became the model for translating God's word into a language comprehensible by all. His work in medicine--which brought him such fame...
Author
Publisher
LEA
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
"Ellas desafiaron los prejuicios y los mandatos. Ellas fueron perseguidas e incluso asesinadas. Ellas fueron excluidas de la historia de la filosof̕a. Un libro para recuperar del olvido la vida y la obra de 22 fil̤sofas desde la Antig|edad cl̀sica hasta hoy"--
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Language
English
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Western philosophy is a vast intellectual tradition, the product of thousands of years of revolutionary thought built up by a rich collection of brilliant minds. When most of us study philosophy, we're focusing only on the Western intellectual tradition brought about by people such as Aristotle, Descartes, and Nietzsche. But to understand the Western intellectual tradition is to only get half of the story. Just as important, and just as valid a contribution...
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Dorling Kindersley Limited, parte de Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Un fabuloso recorrido por la vida y obra de filósofos ilustres que han marcado la historia del pensamiento y del mundo. Desde Platón y Confucio hasta Marx y Nietzsche, esta obra de referencia de filosofía recopila las biografías de más de 100 filósofos y pensadores de todo el mundo, épocas y contextos históricos, desvelando los entresijos de sus vidas, relaciones, estudios y obra. Cada doble página se centra en el perfil y vida de un filósofo...
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