Gao Yuan Gao 
Freedom From Passions in Augustine [PDF ebook] 

Like Kant, the German Idealists, and many neo-Kantian philosophers before him, Nietzsche was persistently concerned with metaphysical questions about the nature of objects. His texts often address qu …

In Time and Death Carol White articulates a vision of Martin Heidegger“s work which grows out of a new understanding of what he was trying to address in his discussion of death. Acknowledging that t …

John Mc Dowell“s Mind and World has, since its publication in 1994, become a seminal text, putting forward many new ideas on the manner in which concepts mediate the relation between minds and the w …

‚This volume deals with the development of Chinese hermeneutics, or exegetic systems, from their beginnings to the twentieth century. The contributors address critical issues in the study of Chinese …

Teaching for Moral Imagination: An Interdisciplinary Exploration examines the multifaceted nature of morality and ethics, moral development, and moral education so to provide educators with a clear y …

Skepticism remains a central and defining issue in epistemology, and in the wider tradition of Western philosophy. To better understand the contemporary position of this important philosophical subje …

This is Volume XX of a series of twenty-two looking at 20th Century Philosophy. Originally published in 1924, this includes part one of two of a collection of personal statements by contributors like …

This book bears witness to the current reawakening of interest in Reid“s philosophy. It first examines Reid“s negative attack on the Way of Ideas, and finds him to be a devastating critic of his pr …

Liberal Utilitarianism and Applied Ethics explores the foundations of early utilitarianism and, at the same time, the theoretical bases of social ethics and policy in modern Western welfare states. M …

Human Dignity in Bioethics brings together a collection of essays that rigorously examine the concept of human dignity from its metaphysical foundations to its polemical deployment in bioethical cont …