Filosofía – Antigüedad al presente

Los Col·loquis de la insigne ciutat de Tortosa és una magnífica obra literària escrita per Cristòfol Despuig el segle XVI. Malgrat la distància que ens en separa, els temes tractats són de plena vigè …

El Llibre de paraules i dites de savis i filòsofs és una obra de caràcter didàctic i moralitzador que recull 753 sentències provinents d'origens diversos. Feta per encàrrec del rei Jaume II, rec …

Isabel de Villena és l'única escriptora medieval en llengua catalana de la qual en coneixem el nom i escriu la seva obra al llarg del segle XV, compartint temps amb els millors escriptors del se …

This book is a history of human views and ideas and their related motives and consequences, from pre-history and early civilization through Judaic, Greek, and Christian heritages, and all the way up …

A Treatise of the Laws of Nature , originally titled De Legibus Naturae, first appeared in 1672 as a theoretical response to a range of issues that came together during the late 1660s. It conveyed a …

For the past 200 years, Kant has acted as a lens–sometimes a distorting lens–between historians of philosophy and early modern intellectual history. Kant’s writings about Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, …

In the vein of Charles Louis Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws (1748) and William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769), De Lolme’s account of the English system of government e …

Samuel Pufendorf’s Of the Nature and Qualification of Religion (published in Latin in 1687) is a major work on the separation of politics and religion. Written in response to the revocation of the Ed …

Here is the evolution of man through the eyes of Dr. Carus. Opening with a chapter on divinity, he then charts the rise of man: “Anthropoid Apes, ” “Primitive Man, ” “Neanderthal Man, ” as well as fu …

“A gripping exploration of some of society’s biggest contradictions.… [Natality] is a fascinating read.” —Dana Suskind, MD, author of Parent Nation An exhilarating exploration of natality, a much-nee …