Francis Bacon 
Francis Bacon: The New Organon [EPUB ebook] 

Written when Maine de Biran was coming into his philosophical maturity, in 1807, ”Of Immediate Apperception” was the first complete statement of his own philosophy of the will. It was the winning e …

”I gradually came to the conclusion that I should prefer a field in which one could hope to know more at the end of one”s life than when one had begun.” So thought Isaiah Berlin toward the end of …

This book outlines a new conception of political aesthetics based on the notion of order as an aesthetic category pertaining to human perception. Engaging with the thought of a range of figures, incl …

In this first English translation of the prize-winning Dutch title Leven is Een Kunst, Paul van Tongeren creates a new kind of virtue ethics, one that centres on how to ”live well” in our contempor …

Shedding new light on the theme of ‘crisis’ in Husserl”s phenomenology, this book reflects on the experience of awakening to one”s own naïveté. Beginning from everyday examples, Knies examines how …

For centuries, philosophers have addressed the ontological question of whether God exists. Most recently, philosophers have begun to explore the axiological question of what value impact, if any, God …

Originally published in 1984, this work is organised in three parts. Each part consists of several related chapters. Each chapter explores the assumptions and implications of a closely related group …

Reformulating a problem of both constitutionalism and liberalism discussed in the works of Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Hannah Arendt, and Alexis de Tocqueville, the book examines one generally overlo …

This book offers a unique account of the role imagination plays in advancing the course of freedom’s actualization. It draws on Paul Ricoeur’s philosophical anthropology of the capable human being as …

Both new instructors teaching media ethics for the first time and mature faculty — who recognize that media ethics instruction deserves more than being worked into the professional classes — find m …