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Joop van Hezik Reconsidering Utopia
i have simply asked for permission
Joop van Hezik brings philosophy to life, in more ways than one. He shows that the ideology of `economic growth is the basis of our modern societies and economies, and even of our sustainable development policies. In this ideology people and nature seem to be merely instruments for economic growth. This results in destruction and the failure of sustainable development policies at all geographical levels. As Van Hezik clearly demonstrates, we need utopian thinking to reflect on the real values of...
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Engels | 221 pagina's (ePub2, 0,9 MB) | Studio nonfiXe, Vught | 2014
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Katrien Schaubroeck The normativity of what we care about
a love-based theory of practical reasons
A love-based reason theory as a new perspective in the debate on practical reasons. Reasons and obligations pervade our lives. The alarm clock gives us a reason to get up in the morning, the expectations of colleagues or clients give us a reason to do our jobs well, the misery in developing countries gives us a reason to donate money to Oxfam, a headache gives us a reason to take an aspirin. Looking for unity in variety, philosophers wonder why a consideration counts as a reason to do something....
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Engels | 207 pagina's (PDF) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2013
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Henrico de Gandavo Syncategoremata
Henrico de Gandavo adscripta
The Stadsbibliotheek of Brugge houses a manuscript (ms. 510, f. 227ra-237vb) that holds a short logical text on the Syncategoremata, e.g. words that are not subjects or predicates in proposition. In this manuscript the text is ascribed to Henry of Ghent, who was a leading thinker of the second half of the thirteenth century. The highly interesting text contains some typical themes of Henry of Ghent, e.g. the distinction between esse essentiae and esse existentiae, which further supports the attribution...
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Engels | Latijn | 160 pagina's (PDF, 2,7 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2011
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Greg Houwer Into the white
Kafka and his metamorphoses
Into the White lays bare a hidden overall logic in Kafka's work. Instead of restoring an initial but perturbed balance - the standard pattern for a piece of fiction -, Kafka's characters always do the opposite: they do everything they can to maintain the imbalance. The book shows how this should be linked to Kafka's own attitude as a writer. Writing, for Kafka, always gave birth to promises that could not be kept. It opens up gates that the writer is not allowed to enter. In the stories that deal...
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Engels | ePub2, 0,3 MB | Acco, Leuven | 2011
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Whose weight is it anyway?
essays on ethics and eating
It is a simple truth: nobody can do without food. But to solely describe food as a biological need would be too limited, neglecting the fact that food is a social and cultural practice as well. Despite its appearance, food is not even morally neutral. It is this moral aspect that is being explored in the book. Scholars from various disciplines address the ethical perspective of changing food habits in general, and the promotion of healthy eating in particular. While it is certainly the case that...
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Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | Acco, Leuven | 2011
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Gerard D.C. Kuiken The original Gita
comments and word-for-word Sanskrit translations
The original gita Comments and Word-for-Word Sanskrit Translations Available in English for the first time, The Original Gita focuses on the basic philosophical and practical essentials of life and living. The questions:What is thought? What is space-time? What is life-death? are examined to give a foundation for the understanding of the Gita. The author comments on the 209 verses of The Original Gita, and a Sanskrit-to-English word-for-word translation is given of the 319 verses in the classic Bhagavad...
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Engels | 192 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | SU De Ronde Tafel, 's-Gravenhage | 2010
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Henricus de Gandavo Summa (quaestiones ordinariae) art. XXV-XXVII
Das Buch bietet die erste kritische Edition der Artikel XXV-XXVII der Summa (Quaestiones ordinariae) des Heinrich von Gent. Dabei leistet es einen Beitrag zur Geschichte der Formen und Pfade der Ideenvermittlung im Mittelalter und zur mittelalterlichen Buchkultur. Die Kollationierung der Handschriften der Artikel XXV-XXVII und die Untersuchung ihrer materiellen Überlieferung haben der Editorin erlaubt, den Prozess der Ausarbeitung, Publikation und Verbreitung einer Portion von Heinrichs Summa über...
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Duits | Latijn | PDF, 7,6 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2020
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Regards sur les traditions philosophiques (XIIe-XVIe siècles)
Des perspectives nouvelles sur les diverses faces du thème de la tradition au Moyen Age Le volume étudie comment les médiévaux ont compris et discuté les traditions philosophiques et, ce faisant, de quelle manière ont-ils participé à en formuler de nouvelles. Il analyse également dans quelle mesure les historiens ont-ils reconstitué ce sujet. Réunissant dix-sept études de cas allant de Hugues de Saint-Victor à Pietro Pomponazzi, le volume présente des perspectives nouvelles sur les...
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Frans | PDF, 1,7 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Jiddu Krishnamurti Commentaries On Living 1
In this series of commentaries J. Krishnamurti, one of the great thinkers of our time, touches upon many human problems-our hopes, our fears, our illusions, our beliefs, our prejudices-and in the simplest language seems to pierce to their roots. ; The sheer simplicity is breathtaking. The reader is given, in one paragraph, often in one sentence, enough to keep him exploring, questioning, thinking for days. ; -Anne Morrow Lindbergh. ; The insight, spiritual and poetic, of these commentaries is as...
Engels | PDF, 1,3 MB | Krishnamurti Foundation America, [Nederland] | 2016
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Jiddu Krishnamurti Commentaries On Living 2
In this series of commentaries J. Krishnamurti, one of the great thinkers of our time, touches upon many human problems-our hopes, our fears, our illusions, our beliefs, our prejudices-and in the simplest language seems to pierce to their roots. ; The sheer simplicity is breathtaking. The reader is given, in one paragraph, often in one sentence, enough to keep him exploring, questioning, thinking for days. ; -Anne Morrow Lindbergh. ; The insight, spiritual and poetic, of these commentaries is as...
Engels | PDF, 1,3 MB | Krishnamurti Foundation America, [Nederland] | 2016
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Jiddu Krishnamurti Social Responsibility
In this incredibly penetrating talk, Krishnamurti describes the psychological pressures of life and how these pressures affect right living: We were saying that any form of pressure on the brain affects our whole way of life. We were also saying that this pressure affects our activities, our attitudes, our character, and our way of living. The pressure--economic, social, ethical, and religious--invariably distorts not only our actions but the quality of the brain ... ideals affect, oppress, and act...
Engels | PDF, 1,1 MB | Krishnamurti Foundation America, [Nederland] | 2016
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Jiddu Krishnamurti Why Do You Live With Stress
In this incredibly penetrating talk, Krishnamurti describes the psychological pressures of life and how these pressures affect right living: ; We were saying that any form of pressure on the brain affects our whole way of life. We were also saying that this pressure affects our activities, our attitudes, our character, and our way of living. The pressure - economic, social, ethical, and religious - invariably distorts not only our actions but the quality of the brain ... ideals affect, oppress, and...
Engels | PDF, 0,7 MB | Krishnamurti Foundation America, [Nederland] | 2016
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Jörn Müller Willensschwäche in Antike und Mittelalter
eine Problemgeschichte von Sokrates bis Johannes Duns Scotus
Mit 'Willensschwäche' wird gemeinhin eine Situation gekennzeichnet, in der jemand wider besseres Wissen bzw. gegen seinen eigenen Vorsatz handelt. Die philosophische Relevanz dieses Alltagsproblems liegt in der damit verbundenen Infragestellung unseres Selbstverständnisses als rationale Akteure sowie in der Frage nach den involvierten handlungstheoretischen und psychologischen Erklärungsmustern für ein solches Handeln. Dieses Buch bietet die erste umfassende Geschichte dieses Problems im antiken...
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Duits | 826 pagina's (PDF, 6,8 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Aurora Corti L'adversus Colotem di Plutarco
storia di una polemica filosofica
In-depth analysis of Plutarch's anti-Epicurean treatise Adversus Colotem. L'Adversus Colotem, composto intorno al 100 d.C., fa parte, insieme al non posse e al de latenter vivendo, della cosiddetta 'trilogia anti-epicurea' di Plutarco. Questo volume analizza l'Adversus Colotem nel suo complesso, approfondendone, in particolar modo, le strategie polemiche, le alleanze filosofiche e le tecniche argomentative. Il libro si articola in quattro capitoli, rispettivamente dedicati: 1) all'analisi della struttura...
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Italiaans | 326 pagina's (PDF, 1,6 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Les dialogues platoniciens chez Plutarque
stratégies et méthodes exégétiques
La question du platonisme de Plutarque constitue un sujet crucial tant pour les spécialistes de Plutarque que pour ceux qui s'intéressent à la réception ancienne de Platon. Alors que les publications précédentes sur cette question se sont concentrées sur la nature de la fidélité de Plutarque à la philosophie platonicienne et sur la façon dont les thèses platoniciennes sont présentées dans le cadre du médio-platonisme, le présent volume tente plutôt, à travers une approche polyvalente,...
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Frans | 164 pagina's (PDF, 1,8 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Miroir et savoir
la transmission d'un thème platonicien, des Alexandrins à la philosophie arabo-musulmane; actes du colloque international tenu à Leuven et Louvain-la-Neuve, les 17 et 18 novembre 2005
Grâce à sa grande richesse, la métaphore platonicienne du miroir a été adoptée, amplifiée et élaborée dans l'Antiquité par une multitude d'auteurs, certes tous d'inspiration platonicienne, mais appartenant à la fois au paganisme et au christianisme. Lorsqu'on étudie cette métaphore dans le corpus philosophique, mystique et poétique en terre d'Islam, on constate qu'il ne s'agit pas d'une récurrence fortuite, d'un lieu commun, d'un archétype de la pensée humaine. Il s'agit au contraire...
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Frans | 310 pagina's (PDF, 5,9 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Alexandra Michalewski La puissance de l'intelligible
la théorie plotinienne des formes au miroir de l'héritage médioplatonicien
La nature des Formes intelligibles d'Antiochus à Plotin. L'ouvrage propose une histoire de l'interprétation de la nature des Formes intelligibles d'Antiochus à Plotin. Il met en lumière l'importance du refus plotinien de l'artificialisme médioplatonicien qui considère les Formes comme des pensées du dieu et subordonne leur causalité à celle du démiurge, fabricant du monde. En considérant les Formes comme des réalités vivantes et intellectives, Plotin bouleverse le sens de la causalité...
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Frans | 280 pagina's (PDF, 2,8 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2014
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Francesco Verde Elachista
la dottrina dei minimi nell'epicureismo; with English summary
The first monograph entirely devoted to the Epicurean doctrine of minimal parts. The Epicurean doctrine of minimal parts (ta elachista) is a crucial aspect of Epicurus's philosophy and a genuine turning point compared to the ancient atomism of Leucippus and Democritus. This book consists of three chapters: a philological and theoretical analysis of the primary sources (Epicurus and Lucretius) of the doctrine, a reconstruction of its likely historical background (Xenocrates, Aristotle, Diodorus Cronus),...
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Italiaans | 440 pagina's (PDF) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2013
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