Télécharger le livre :  De Bono Coniugali and De Sancta Virginitate

De bono coniugali andDe sancta virginitate were written in the same year (AD 401). In them Augustine rebuffs the Manichees, who argued that marriage was evil, and the fellowers of Jovinian, who argued that the married state was as meritorious as that of virginity. The...
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Télécharger le livre :  The Reason's Proper Study

Bob Hale and Crispin Wright draw together here the key writings in which they have worked out their distinctive neo-Fregean approach to the philosophy of mathematics. The two main components in Frege's mathematical philosophy were his platonism and his logicism -- the...
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Télécharger le livre :  Truth and the Absence of Fact

Hartry Field presents a selection of thirteen essays on a set of related topics at the foundations of philosophy; one essay is previously unpublished, and eight are accompanied by substantial new postscripts. Five of the essays are primarily about truth, meaning, and...
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Télécharger le livre :  Learning from Six Philosophers, Volume 2

Jonathan Bennett engages with the thought of six great thinkers of the early modern period: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume. While not neglecting the historical setting of each, his chief focus is on the words they wrote. What problem is being...
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Parution : 2001-02-22

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Télécharger le livre :  Natural Goodness

Philippa Foot has for many years been one of the most distinctive and influential thinkers in moral philosophy. Long dissatisfied with the moral theories of her contemporaries, she has gradually evolved a theory of her own that is radically opposed not only to emotivism...
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Télécharger le livre :  Learning from Six Philosophers, Volume 1

Jonathan Bennett engages with the thought of six great thinkers of the early modern period: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume. While not neglecting the historical setting of each, his chief focus is on the words they wrote. What problem is being...
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Télécharger le livre :  The Cult of Saint Thecla

Thecla, a disciple of the apostle Paul, became perhaps the most celebrated female saint and 'martyr' among Christians in late antiquity. In the early church, Thecla's example was associated with the piety of women - in particular, with women's ministry and travel....
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Télécharger le livre :  The Landowners of the Argentine Pampas

This is a social and political history of the Argentine landowners, for many decades Latin America's most affluent propertied class. Roy Hora develops a historically based view of how socio-economic and political change affected the landowners and was in turn affected...
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Parution : 2001-01-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy

Robert Hanna presents a fresh view of the Kantian and analytic traditions that have dominated continental European and Anglo-American philosophy over the last two centuries, and of the relation between them. The rise of analytic philosophy decisively marked the end of...
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Parution : 2001-01-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Agency and Responsibility

Is it ever possible for people to act freely and intentionally against their better judgement?Is it ever possible to act in opposition to one's strongest desire? If either of these questions are answered in the negative, the common-sense distinctions between...
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Parution : 2001-01-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Essays on Ethics and Method

Essays on Ethics and Method is a selection of the shorter writings of the great nineteenth-century moral philosopher Henry Sidgwick. Sidgwick's monumental work The Methods of Ethics is a classic of philosophy; this new volume is a fascinating complement to it. These...
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Parution : 2000-12-21

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Télécharger le livre :  Paulinus Noster

The aristocratic convert, Paulinus of Nola, was revered by contemporaries and correspondents, like Augustine of Hippo and Sulpicius Severus, as Paulinus noster - 'our Paulinus'. But his role as a shaper of, and exemplar to, the early Christian Church has, until...
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Télécharger le livre :  War and Competition between States

In the five hundred years covered by this volume there was scarcely a year which passed without either war or some open demonstration of hostility between the many sovereign powers which governed Europe. States and peoples lived under the shadow of war, were...
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Parution : 2000-11-23

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Télécharger le livre :  The Old Latin Gospels

This book is the first overall study of the texts and language of the Old Latin Gospels, the versions of the four Gospels that predate the Vulgate of Jerome. In this book three main questions are addressed. Do the various extant manuscripts represent the remains of many...
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Parution : 2000-11-16

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Télécharger le livre :  The History of the University of Oxford: Volume VII: Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part 2

Volume VII of The History of the University of Oxford completes the survey of nineteenth-century Oxford begun inVolume VI. After 1871 both teachers and students at Oxford were freed from tests of religious belief. The volume describes the changed mental climate in which...
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Télécharger le livre :  Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500-1700

This book explores the varied vernacular forms and rich oral traditions which were such a part of popular culture in early modern England. It focuses, in particular, upon dialect speech and proverbial wisdom, "old wives' tales" and children's lore, historical legends...
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Parution : 2000-11-09

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Télécharger le livre :  Logical Properties

The concepts of identity, existence, predication, necessity, and truth are at the centre of philosophy and have rightly received sustained attention. Yet Colin McGinn believes that orthodox views of these topics are misguided in important ways. Philosophers and...
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Parution : 2000-11-09

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Télécharger le livre :  Knowledge and its Limits

Knowledge and its Limits presents a systematic new conception of knowledge as a fundamental kind of mental stage sensitive to the knower's environment. It makes a major contribution to the debate between externalist and internalist philosophies of mind, and breaks...
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Parution : 2000-11-03

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Télécharger le livre :  Hume's Problem

Colin Howson offers a solution to one of the central, unsolved problems of Western philosophy, the problem of induction. In the mid-eighteenth century David Hume argued that successful prediction tells us nothing about the truth of the predicting theory. No matter how...
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Parution : 2000-11-02

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Télécharger le livre :  New Essays on the A Priori

The topics of a priori knowledge and a priori justification have long played a prominent part in epistemology and the theory of meaning. Recently there has been a surge of interest in the proper explication of these notions. These newly commissioned essays, by a...
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Parution : 2000-10-26

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