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David Hume Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion had not yet been published when he died in 1776. Even though the manuscript was mostly written during the 1750s, it did not appear until 1779. The subject itself was too delicate and controversial, and Hume’s dialectical examination of religious knowledge was especially provocative. What should we teach young people about religion? The characters Demea, Cleanthes, and Philo passionately present and defend three sharply different answers to that question....
Engels | 6 uur 25 minuten (287 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy
From the Spirit of Music
"The Birth of Tragedy" stands alongside Aristotle’s "Poetics" as essential works for all who seek to understand poetry and its relationship to human life. In this, his first book, Nietzsche developed a way of thinking about the arts that unites the Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus as the central symbol of human existence. Although tragedy serves as the focus of this work, music, visual art, dance, and the other arts can also be viewed using Nietzsche’s analysis and integration of the Apollonian and...
Engels | 3 uur 15 minuten (141 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Henri Bergson An Introduction to Metaphysics
The basic principles that Bergson articulates, especially his way of thinking about reality as a dynamic process and his view of human beings as creative and evolving, should be helpful to anyone who seeks to go beyond simply dealing with the practical demands of daily life and consider the nature of things. Of special importance is Bergson’s claim that it is both possible and necessary to know from the inside rather than confining our attention to external perspectives and points of view. Intuition...
Engels | 2 uur 5 minuten (91 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Alfred North Whitehead Whitehead’s The Function of Reason
Whitehead presented these three lectures at Princeton University in 1929. Although 85 years have passed, his central thesis and his analysis remain remarkably current. The scientific materialism that Whitehead opposed with such vigor continues to dominate in academic circles, and even now those who question that worldview are often accused of being anti-scientific. This is especially true in discussions of the nature of the human mind and its relation to the body (particularly the brain). It is hard...
Engels | 2 uur 34 minuten (112 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Albert A. Anderson Anderson’s Reality and the Arts
Art is the creative manifestation of essences. In order to understand the relation between art and reality, we need a philosophical guide. The best way to comprehend how the creative act of imagining enables the mind to seek reality is to employ the kind of dialectical thinking that Plato used in his dialogues. Beginning with the shadows on the wall of the cave in which each person dwells, that process gradually enables us to grasp the essences that are manifested in individual works of art. Without...
Engels | 4 uur 7 minuten (179 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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John Stuart Mill Mill’s On Liberty
John Stuart Mill’s "On Liberty" was first published in 1859. In the 21st century this text confirms Socrates’ claim that "it is only the life of true philosophy that scorns the life of political ambition" (Plato’s Republic, 521). Mill’s thinking about freedom in civic and social life examines fundamental principles shared among conservative, liberal, and radical politicians. The life of true philosophy stands outside the political battles that are rampant in society and seeks the political wisdom...
Engels | 6 uur 11 minuten (277 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Immanuel Kant Kant’s Foundations of Ethics
These works articulate the most fundamental principles of Kant’s ethical and political world-view. "What is Enlightenment?" (1784) and "Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785) challenge all free people to think about the requirements for self-determination both in our individual lives and in our public and private institutions. Kant’s "Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals" is dedicated to the proposition that all people can know what they need to know to be honest,...
Engels | 5 uur 5 minuten (228 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Baruch Spinoza Politiek traktaat
Het Politiek traktaat is Spinoza’s antwoord op de problemen van zijn tijd. Na het rampjaar 1672 bevond Nederland zich in grote moeilijkheden. In de loop van de zeventiende eeuw was ons land telkens veranderd van staatsvorm: van een republiek onder leiding van raadspensionarissen tot een quasimonarchie met stadhouders die via staatsgrepen aan de macht waren gekomen en vice versa. In het Politiek traktaat pleit Spinoza voor een duurzame en stabiele staatsvorm berustend op een mengvorm van monarchie,...
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Nederlands | ePub2, 0,9 MB | Ambo|Anthos, Amsterdam | 2020
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Waarom ik van Simone de Beauvoir houd
Zestien vrouwelijke schrijvers, essayisten, columnisten en filosofen schrijven een brief aan Simone de Beauvoir. Ze vertellen haar waarom ze schatplichtig zijn aan haar oeuvre. Waarom gaat hun hart sneller kloppen van De Beauvoir? Zijn de fans van het eerste uur nog steeds zo enthousiast over haar? En hoe inspireert ze nieuwe generaties feministes? Met brieven van: Nadia de Vries, Daan Borrel, Heleen Debeuckelaere, Aafke Romeijn, Hasna El Maroudi, Khadija al Mourabit, Ayaan Abukar, Linda Duits,...
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Nederlands | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Ten Have, Utrecht | 2020
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Th.C.W. Oudemans Moeder natuur
de plaats van de mens in de kosmos
Persoonlijke beschouwingen omtrent de plaats van de mens binnen of tegenover de natuur en tegenover de levenswetenschappen ervan.
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Nederlands | ePub2, 66 MB | Ten Have, Utrecht | 2020
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