Defensora de los derechos de la mujer, de la causa obrera y, muy especialmente, de la necesidad de una reforma penitenciaria que acabara con el hacinamiento y la inseguridad jurídica en la que vivían los presos, Concepción Arenal (1820-1893) es la pensadora más original y lúcida del siglo xix español. A pesar de las limitaciones a las que tuvo que enfrentarse como mujer con una marcada vocación filosófica —en una época todavía muy misógina—,...

Friedrich Nietzsche, der sehr religiös erzogen wurde, stellt Moral per se in seinem Werk "Jenseits von Gut und Böse" als Fehler, bzw. Übel in der Menschheitsgeschichte dar und erläutert, dass vor der Erfindung und der Verbreitung von Moral unter den Menschen, diese Handlungen nur nach deren Nutzen bewertet haben – nicht, ob sie böse oder gut sind. Nietzsche tritt dafür ein, sich auf die Vorstellungen solcher von ihm beschriebenen vormoralischen...

First published in 1954, "Stolen Legacy" is the thought-provoking and controversial book by George G. M. James, a Guyanese-American historian and author. James makes the argument that Greek philosophy originated in Ancient Egypt, rather than Greece and was stolen and used without acknowledgement by Greek philosophers. In support of his premise, James contends that when Alexander the Great invaded Egypt and sacked the Royal Library at Alexandria he...

Eminent Princeton Philosopher Paul Ramsey looks at the lives and ideas of nine famous Moralists of the modern age. The featured philosophers are - Paul Tillich, Karl Marx, H. Richard Niebuhr, Fyodor Dostoevski, Reinhold Niebuhr, Jacques Maritain, Jean-Paul Sartre, Emil Brunner and Edmond Cahn. "The greatness of the men whose insight and reflections are the subject of the following chapters is obviously a sufficient justification for this volume....

G. A. Cohen (1941-2009) was the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, University of Oxford, from 1985 to 2008. At the time of his death, he held the Quain Chair in Jurisprudence at University College London. His books include Finding Oneself in the Other and On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice, and Other Essays in Political Philosophy (both Princeton). Jonathan Wolff is professor of philosophy and dean of the Faculty...

This book explores in detail the relation between ontology and ethics in the early work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, notably the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and, to a lesser extent, the Notebooks 1914-1916. Self-contained and requiring no prior knowledge of Wittgenstein's thought, it is the first book-length argument that his views on ethics decisively shaped his ontological and semantic thought. The book's main thesis is twofold. It argues that the...

Este é o último texto filosófico de René Descartes, publicado em 1649, o único que trata diretamente dos problemas da vida moral. O livro foi escrito para a princesa Elizabeth e também é conhecido pelo título de Tratado das Paixões. Sem dúvida o autor pretende com esse Tratado sobre a vida moral esclarecer as relações entre a alma e o corpo.

Explores the evolution of Heidegger's thinking about nature and its relevance for environmental ethics. In Naturalizing Heidegger, David E. Storey proposes a new interpretation of Heidegger's importance for environmental philosophy, finding in the development of his thought from the early 1920s to his later work in the 1940s the groundwork for a naturalistic ontology of life. Primarily drawing on Heidegger's engagement with Nietzsche, but also on...

First published in 1516, Saint Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism. Through the voice of the mysterious traveler Raphael Hythloday, More describes a pagan, communist city-state governed by reason. Addressing such issues as religious pluralism, women's rights, state-sponsored education, colonialism, and justified warfare, Utopia seems remarkably contemporary nearly five centuries after it was written, and it...

This book is concerned with the problem of how men actually think. The aim of these studies is to investigate not how thinking appears in textbooks on logic, but how it really functions in public life and in politics as an instrument of collective action. Philosophers have too long concerned themselves with their own thinking. When they wrote of thought, they had in mind primarily their own history, the history of philosophy, or quite special fields...