This exciting essay focuses on the explanation and analysis of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, one the most influential works in history and whose understanding, due to its complexity and depth, escapes comprehension on a first reading. Whether you have already read Critique of Pure Reason or not, this essay will allow you to immerse yourself in each and every one of its meanings, opening a window to Kant's philosophical thought and his true intention when he created this immortal work.
This exciting essay focuses on the explanation and analysis of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, one the most influential works in history and whose understanding, due to its complexity and depth, escapes comprehension on a first reading. Whether you have already read Critique of Pure Reason or not, this essay will allow you to immerse yourself in each and every one of its meanings, opening a window to Kant's philosophical thought and his true intention when he created this immortal work.
This exciting essay focuses on the explanation and analysis of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, one the most influential works in history and whose understanding, due to its complexity and depth, escapes comprehension on a first reading. Whether you have already read Phenomenology of Spirit or not, this essay will allow you to immerse yourself in each and every one of its meanings, opening a window to Hegel's philosophical thought and his true intention when he created this immortal work.
This exciting essay focuses on the explanation and analysis of Arthur Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation, one the most influential works in history and whose understanding, due to its complexity and depth, escapes comprehension on a first reading. Whether you have already read The World as Will and Representation or not, this essay will allow you to immerse yourself in each and every one of its meanings, opening a window to Schopenhauer's philosophical thought and his true intention when he created this immortal work.
This exciting essay focuses on the explanation and analysis of David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, one the most influential works in history and whose understanding, due to its complexity and depth, escapes comprehension on a first reading. Whether you have already read A Treatise of Human Nature or not, this essay will allow you to immerse yourself in each and every one of its meanings, opening a window to Hume's philosophical thought and his true intention when he created this immortal work.
This exciting essay focuses on the explanation and analysis of Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, one the most influential works in history and whose understanding, due to its complexity and depth, escapes comprehension on a first reading. Whether you have already read Being and Time or not, this essay will allow you to immerse yourself in each and every one of its meanings, opening a window to Heidegger's philosophical thought and his true intention when he created this immortal work.
This book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice. Santos argues that Western domination has profoundly marginalised knowledge and wisdom that had been in existence in the global South. She contends that today it is imperative to recover and valorize the epistemological diversity of the world. Epistemologies of the South outlines a new kind of bottom-up cosmopolitanism, in which conviviality, solidarity and life triumph against the logic of market-ridden greed and individualism.
This profound exploration of one of the core notions of philosophy—the concept of existence itself—reviews, then counters (via Meinongian theory), the mainstream philosophical view running from Hume to Frege, Russell, and Quine, summarized thus by Kant: “Existence is not a predicate.” The initial section of the book presents a comprehensive introduction to, and critical evaluation of, this mainstream view. The author moves on to provide the first systematic survey of all the main Meinongian theories of existence, which, by contrast, reckon existence to be a real, full-fledged property of objects that some things possess, and others lack. As an influential addition to the research literature, the third part develops the most up-to-date neo-Meinongian theory called Modal Meinongianism, applies it to specific fields such as the ontology of fictional objects, and discusses its open problems, laying the groundwork for further research. In accordance with the latest trends in analytic ontology, the author prioritizes a meta-ontological viewpoint, adopting a dual definition of meta-ontology as the discourse on the meaning of being, and as the discourse on the tools and methods of ontological enquiry. This allows a balanced assessment of philosophical views on a cost-benefit basis, following multiple criteria for theory evaluation. Compelling and revealing, this new publication is a vital addition to contemporary philosophical ontology.
How modern philosophers use and perpetuate myths about prehistoryThe state of nature, the origin of property, the origin of government, the primordial nature of inequality and war why do political philosophers talk so much about the Stone Age? And are they talking about a Stone Age that really happened, or is it just a convenient thought experiment to illustrate their points?Karl Widerquist and Grant S. McCall take a philosophical look at the origin of civilisation, examining political theories to show how claims about prehistory are used. Drawing on the best available evidence from archaeology and anthropology, they show that much of what we think we know about human origins comes from philosophers imagination, not scientific investigation.Key FeaturesShows how modern political theories employ ambiguous factual claims about prehistoryBrings archaeological and anthropological evidence to bear on those claimsTells the story of human origins in a way that reveals many commonly held misconceptions
The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most important philosophical texts ever written. Like Copernicus, Kant dared to question the ordinary perspective from which we habitually view the world. Kant's moderate form of skepticism is known as "transcendental idealism," and its primary tenet is that we cannot know things as they are in themselves because we only know things as they appear to us. His thesis had a monumental influence on the culture of the last two centuries, giving rise to cultural movements and theoretical approaches including: German Idealism, Romanticism, Modernism, Marxism, Existentialism, Psychoanalysis, Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, and even Quantum Physics.
