Hume

a guide for the perplexed

Continuum's "Guides for the Perplexed" are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject difficult to fathom, these books explain and explore key themes ...

Kant

a guide for the perplexed

Continuum's "Guides for the Perplexed" are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject difficult to fathom, these books explain and explore key themes ...

Descartes vivo

ejercicios de hermenéutica cartesiana

Obra colectiva de interrogación y escucha de la obra de Descartes más allá de los tópicos habituales. Descartes vivo aborda diferentes aspectos relacionados con una «hermenéutica cartesiana»; aporta una relectura de la obra de Descartes y, al mismo tiempo, una explicitación de la teoría y ...

Understanding german idealism

"Understanding German Idealism" provides an accessible introduction to the philosophical movement that emerged in 1781, with the publication of Kant's monumental "Critique of Pure Reason", and ended fifty years later, with Hegel's death. The thinkers of this period, and the themes they developed ...

Immanuel Kant

vigencia de la filosofía crítica

La vigencia de la filosofía crítica se explica por su carácter paradójicamente inconcluso. La crítica de la razón, de la que Kant decía que no podía ser sino una, y en la que de ningún modo es permitido opinar, nunca estará acabada porque en el ...

The Cambridge companion to Hobbes's Leviathan

This Companion makes a new departure in Hobbes scholarship, addressing a philosopher whose impact was as great on Continental European theories of state and legal systems as it was at home. This volume is a systematic attempt to incorporate work from both the Anglophone and ...

The Cambridge companion to Renaissance Philosophy

The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy provides an introduction to a complex period of change in the subject matter and practice of philosophy. The philosophy of the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries is often seen as transitional between the scholastic philosophy of the Middle Ages and ...

El discurso del método

El Discurso, texto eminentemente filosófico, marca el punto de ruptura con el mundo conceptual del medievo, dominado por la escolástica. Al mismo tiempo, y junto a su valor fundamental, es también una crónica del pensamiento, un libro de memorias, una elaboración científica en la que ...

Machiavel et la tradition philosophique

Machiavel, théoricien du pouvoir politique, de son exercice et de sa conservation a inspiré ou servi de repoussoir à plus d'un chef de guerre, espion ou gouvernant, à commencer par Charles Quint, dont il vit l'armée mettre Rome à feux et à sang ...

Michel de Montaigne

la culminación del escepticismo en el Renacimiento

INDICE: Reconsideración crítica del escepticismo de Montaigne. Montaigne y el escepticismo antiguo. La apología de Montaigne. Michel de Montaigne más allá de la figura: el hombre y su sociedad. A modo de conclusión.

Spinoza

Para Spinoza, la sustancia es la realidad, que es causa de sí misma y a la vez de todas las cosas; que existe por sí misma y es productora de toda la realidad; por tanto, la naturaleza es equivalente a Dios. Dios y el mundo ...

Rival enlightenments

civil and metaphysical philosophy in Early Modern Germany

Rival Enlightenments, first published in 2001, is a major reinterpretation of early modern German intellectual history. Ian Hunter approaches philosophical doctrines as ways of fashioning personae for envisaged historical circumstances, here of confessional conflict and political desacralization. He treats the civil philosophy of Pufendorf and ...

Early modern philosophy

essential readings with commentary

"Early Modern Philosophy" is a complete introduction to the most significant and influential philosophers of the first part of the modern era. Spanning the 16th through the early part of the 18th century, early modern philosophy marks a critical shift in the ideas that have ...

Collected works of John Stuart Mill

Born in London in 1806 into a pedigree of intellect, and educated at the knee of his father, the Scottish philosopher James Mill, John Stuart Mill became one of the 19th century's most influential writers on economics and social philosophy. Liberty Fund is pleased ...

Opere complete=Oeuvres complètes.T.IV: De l'infinito, universo e mondi=De l'infini de l'univers et des mondes

" Ce ne seront point, ô Filoteo, les rumeurs de la foule,l'indignation du vulgaire, les protestations des idiots, le mépris de tel ou tel satrape, la stupidité des insensés, l'idiotie des cuistres, les affirmations des menteurs, les plaintes des méchants et la détraction ...

Kant's cosmopolitan theory of Law and peace

Kant is widely acknowledged for his critique of theoretical reason, his universalistic ethics, and his aesthetics. Scholars, however, often ignore his achievements in the philosophy of law and government. At least four innovations that are still relevant today can be attributed to Kant. He is ...

The Cambridge history of eighteent-century philosophy

More than thirty eminent scholars from nine different countries have contributed to The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy - the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of the subject available in English. For the eighteenth century the dominant concept in philosophy was human nature and so it ...

Goethe y el epílogo de la rebelión de las masas

INDICE: Aviso preliminar. Goethe y el epílogo de La rebelión de las masas. Ironías de la historia. Hacia la reforma del hombre mismo. El futurismo como alienación. Los caminos de Cervantes (Algunos ejemplos). Orteguiana.

De la urbanidad en las maneras de los niños

(de civilitate morum puerilium)

En 1530, seis años antes de su muerte, Erasmo de Rotterdam entregaba a la imprenta un breve texto titulado De civilitate morum puerilium, dedicado al Príncipe niño Enrique de Borgoña. Este opúsculo conoció en los países europeos un éxito sin precedentes. El trabajo de Erasmo ...

A companion to Kant

This companion provides an authoritative survey of the whole range of Kant's work, giving readers an idea of its immense scope, its extraordinary achievement, and its continuing ability to generate philosophical interest. Written by an international cast of scholars, it covers all aspects of ...