Consciousness and Self-Knowledge in Medieval Philosophy
While often traced to Descartes, self-knowledge is a perennial theme. This volume studies its treatment in the Medieval Latin West, focusing on Aquinas. It explores how the intellect grasps itself and how transformative self-knowledge leads to virtue, happiness, and fulfillment.
Ethics of Social Consequences
This anthology showcases new and unconventional views of many traditional moral values, such as humanity, human dignity, justice and responsibility. The contributions analyse these values and approaches from the point of view of non-utilitarian consequentialism.
The Radicalism of Departure
Spiessens proposes an entirely new reading of Max Stirner’s philosophical magnum opus Der Einzige und sein Eigentum. This exciting interpretation clears the way for a philosophical rehabilitation of Stirner’s ideas.
This book applies Hegel’s Absolute Idealism to Christian orthodox confession, showing his system is grounded in the Trinity and Incarnation. Tracing philosophy from Aristotle to Hegel, it addresses revelation, creation, sacraments, and ecumenism, revealing philosophy as worship.
This text represents a mirror of Kantian studies in North America. It gathers papers presented at the various study groups of the North American Kant Society, along with contributions from hosts, session chairs, and keynote speakers.
Reflections on Contemporary Values, Beliefs and Behaviours
This book presents important issues that affect us all, from sex and religion to parenting and self-confidence. Illustrated with personal anecdotes and contrasting philosophy with science, it explores why our advanced world still faces unhappiness and conflict.
We are caught in the mirror, under its spell. Mirrors direct us without our awareness because we do not perceive them as they are. This book explores a philosophy of mirrors through art and culture, opening up their hidden world and offering a challenge to organization theory.
The Value of Life
Research on the monetary value of saving life has produced nonsensical results, yet the field thrives. An almost forgotten theory of science explains why researchers persist and how scientific theories can be upheld even when the evidence against them seems massive.
For Thomas Aquinas, ethics is not a set of moral precepts but the cultivation of virtues for human flourishing. Natural law, reflecting the eternal, is awakened within us. Crowned by faith, hope, and love, this vision is summed up in the Beatitudes.
This publication features presentations given at the 14th International Conference on Philosophical Practice, and will be of significance and interest not only for philosophers and philosophical practitioners, but also for psychotherapists, counsellors, and other professionals.
From Monophysitism to Nestorianism
This book argues that early orthodoxy was not a linear progression. Instead, the church navigated the narrow strait between Nestorianism and Monophysitism by continually changing sides in the Ecumenical Councils, ultimately outwitting both heresies to forge its own path.
This collection of papers on comparative philosophy challenges academic philosophy’s focus on Western thought. By opening a dialogue across cultures, these chapters explore philosophy’s politico-aesthetic dimension, demonstrating the equality of marginalized voices.
This book offers a precise way of “looking at things” to re-define the relationship between film and political philosophy. It provides new reflections on the domain’s themes, appealing to academics interested in political philosophy, media studies, and cultural studies.
Jennings traces the theory of Radical Dependence through its various forms in Berkeley’s philosophical works, showing how this idea unifies Berkeley’s various phases of philosophical development.
Leading philosophers bring new methods and aims to the practice of philosophy, showing how they can serve their communities and civilization. This anthology is valuable for philosophers, professionals in education and helping disciplines, and the general public.
This volume explores Socratic rationalism, the major alternatives to it within political philosophy, and the potential impact of its return in contemporary times. It takes a multifaceted approach with contributions from scholars in the fields of philosophy and political science.
From Marx to Warner
Tittenbrun gives an in-depth analysis of several important theories of social class and stratification, both past and present. The central argument in his monograph is that there are only two classical theories of social class, namely those developed by Marx and Weber.
Axel Honneth’s Social Philosophy of Recognition
This book reconstructs Axel Honneth’s recognition theory in the context of the conflict between autonomy and social cohesion. It proposes the Reconstructive Normative Simulation (RNS) to examine social pathologies by locating deficiencies in the social spheres of our lives.
The Possibility of the Sublime
After Professor Jane Forsey argued that a theory of the sublime is impossible, this volume gathers international scholars to challenge her claim. In a tightly focused debate, they defend the sublime as an aesthetic category, concluding with a final response from Forsey herself.
Combining philosophy, science, and literature, Toliver examines lingering misconceptions of world history as a continuing source of international tension, showing beliefs incompatible with natural history continue to intensify nationalism and support terrorist movements.