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Emotions as ‘the early form of knowledge about the surrounding world’ constitute a necessary component of the human psyche. Nevertheless, through the ages of the development of mankind, the emotional aspect was often regarded as a dispensable part of human nature, which...
The book tackles significant problems that each historian of law faces in the light of present decline of philosophical, ethical and ideological canons in the overall context of western civilization.The issues discussed in the book manifest themselves in the question...
This book criticizes the suggestive implication of newer bioethics that we need a new ethical paradigm in order to handle with the innovations of medicine and biotechnology. It holds that these innovations have a suggestive character at all which is not relevant however...
This book introduces identity politics into the analysis of international relations. Through the usage of identification approaches, combined with an extensive presentation of the specific features of Norwegian nation-building, it offers a lucid account of how Norway’s...
In recent years, calls for a new humanism have arisen from a variety of voices across the spectrum of philosophy, expressing frustration with outdated models of the human that cannot account for the richness of our social being. The postmodern deconstruction of the...
Europe is the community of nations which, in the favorable conditions of a small yet extremely diversified continent, took over and developed the legacy of Greco-Roman civilization transformed and enriched by Christianity. Philosophy, theology, liturgy, religion,...
This volume is devoted to the person and work of Leszek Kolakowski, who died in July 2009. At the turn of the 1940s and 1950s, Leszek Kolakowski belonged to a group of young intellectuals actively supporting on the «ideological front» and in the University of Warsaw the...
This book takes as its point of departure an enthusiasm for Baltic Sea region history which appeared in some European countries after the fall of the Iron Curtain. In search for the historiographical traditions and earlier concepts which the post-Cold War concept of the...
What is striking in the current reception of Wittgenstein is just how wide-ranging his influence has become among those who are trying to elaborate an alternative to the rationalistic framework dominant today. Pragmatists and deconstructionists are at the forefront of...
This volume is a collection of articles dealing with the function of scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity. It is a result of the cooperation between the Center for the Study of Antiquity and Christianity (C-SAC) at the University of Aarhus and international...
This volume is dedicated to Barbara Skarga – her works, profile and biography. It is a unique character in the Polish intellectual life, but also virtually unknown abroad, except a meager milieu of her readership in France. Dubbed «the first Lady of Polish Philosophy»...
In Hegel was right the author demonstrates that the tradition of the grand philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant and Hegel) made the gift of some key theses of crucial importance for the humanity. These theses widely resist the positivism and skepticism...
Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist die Zusammenstellung der Quellen der Philosophie und Phänomenologie der Religion in der Perspektive einiger auf OttosDas Heilige gerichteten Überlegungen. Unter dem Gesichtspunkt der neuen Religionserfahrungsanalysen lenken diese Erwägungen...
Embodying Pragmatism is the first monograph in English devoted to Richard Shusterman, an internationally renowned philosopher and one of today’s most innovative thinkers in pragmatism and aesthetics. The book presents a comprehensive account of Shusterman’s principal...
Formulierte Kant mit der Frage „Was soll ich tun?" noch das moralphilosophische Postulat eines unbedingten Sollens, so setzt Hegel den revolutionären Schritt, das Sollen selbst begrifflich zu fassen: Das Sollen wird als Denkbestimmung Gegenstand der Logik. In...
Der Autor untersucht verschiedene Antworten auf die grundlegende existentiell-ethische Frage, wie man über sein eigenes Leben bestimmen soll. Dabei werden drei grundlegende Denkparadigmen betrachtet. Im aristotelischen Paradigma steht die Wahrheit als grundlegendes...
Die jüngste Vergangenheit führte vor Augen, in welchem Ausmaß Gesetze, Verordnungen und Erlässe die persönliche Freiheit jedes Bürgers eines Staates einschränken können. Der vorliegende Band geht der Frage nach, ob das positive, gesetzte Recht unhinterfragt zu...
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