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The authors of the 3 books in this volume -Confucius, Mencius, Laozi- lived from the 6th to the 4th century BC, a span of remarkable spiritual awakening when philosophers and religious leaders in diverse cultures appeared as teachers.

Signature Press, 2008; 196 pp.; EN; hb

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No thinker has had a more profound influence on Western civilization than Aristotle - in the Middle Ages many questions were settled by appeal to his authority alone, and he was often referred to simply as The Philosopher.

Collector's Library, 2004; 344 pp.; EN; S; hb

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Hanah Arendt's writing was fundamentally rooted in her understanding of war and its political significance. This book assesses the full range of her historical and conceptual writing on war.

Oxford, 2007; 223 pp.; EN; index; hb

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Perhaps the most famous of all of Alan Watts's works, The Book delves into the cause and cure of the illusion that the self is a separate ego, housed in a bag of skin, which confronts a universe of physical objects that are alien and stupid.

Vintage; 163 pp.; EN; ills. b/w; pb

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An unusual perspective on the cultural and political milieu at the time of the emergence of Christianity. Bock attempts to penetrate the historical events in order to expose the spiritual undercurrents that shaped Greco-Roman civilization and Judaism.

Floris Books; 368 pp.; EN; index; hb

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Shows how a strong impulse toward historical concerns was formalized in 4 German faculties -philosophy, theology, law, medicine-biology- and focuses on the figures in whose works the sense of history was first manifested -Hegel, Niebuhr, Savigny.

Cornell, 2004; 215 pp.; EN; index; hb

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What is the relationship between contemporary intellectual culture and the European Enlightenment it claims to reject. Cascardi revisits the arguments advanced in Horkheimer and Adorno's seminal work Dialectic of Enlightenment.

Cambridge; 268 pp.; EN; index; pb

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Ancius Manlius Severinus Boethius, 475-526, possessed a formidable intellect, wrote many books. He wrote his most famous work Consolation of Philosophy as a dialogue between himself and Philosophy, depicted as a wise and compassionate woman.

Signature Press, 2008; 169 pp.; EN; hb

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What is cunning, and how did it develop a pejorative connotation. Herzog applies his erudite style and barbed humor to his examination of the idea of cunning and how it connects to our concepts of rationality and morality.

Princeton, 2006; 197 pp.; EN; index; hb

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Kuhn explores the ways in which Decameron's sexual themes lead into philosophical inquiry, moral argument, and aesthetic and literary criticism. Stories and storytelling are to be interpreted in terms of a wider cultural context.

Columbia, 2005; 177 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Grayling's profile of Rene Descartes, 1596-1650, is a general-interest biography that follows the life stages of the flesh-and-blood Descartes. An informative presentation of the man behind Cogito, Ergo Sum.

St. Martins Press, 2006; 303 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hb

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This is the first book to trace systematically the philosophical origins and development of the idea that the improvement of human understanding requires public activity, through discussion of the work of Descartes, Locke, Hobbes, Leibniz and Spinoza.

Cambridge, 2001; 220 pp.; EN; index; hb

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In this compact, beautifully illustrated book, Bloom again combines his lifelong interests in religion and literature, first observing our present-day obsession with angels. Every angel is terrifying, Rilke wrote. For Bloom, too, this is true...

Yale, 2007; 71 pp.; EN; ills. col; S; hb

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Deze 130 aforismen vormen het werk Novum organum -Nieuw werktuig-, uit 1620, van filosoof Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, dat nieuwe kennis van de natuur en nieuwe toepassingen brengt ter verheffing van het lot van mensen en levensstandaard.

Klement, 2006; 180 pp.; NL; index; hb

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Four billion years ago, there was no free will on our planet, because there was no life. What kinds of freedom have evolved since then. Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world. Dennett sets out to answer these questions.

Viking 2003; 347 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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This volume brings together the key theorethical and historical writings of 19th-century German socialist thought. Marx and Engels from the Communist Manifesto, Bebel's Anti-Semitism and Social Democracy, Rosa Luxemburg's Reform or Revolution.

Continuum; 330 pp.; EN; pb

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The project of remaking the world without God -the Enlightenment- has failed. Royal concludes that since religion is a permanent part of human nature, our efforts should be directed into promoting a dynamic interplay of faith, reason, and modern freedoms.

Encounter Books, 2006; 311 pp.; EN; index; hb

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De goddelijke komedie bestaat uit drie grote gedichten, waarin de dichter drie afdelingen van het hiernamaals bereist. De zoete stijl met zijn losjes doorlopende metrum en zijn omarmende rijm maakt zijn komedie tot een volmaakt kunstwerk.

Athenaeum, 2008; 927 pp.; NL; index; hb

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Almeder refutes scientific naturalism, or scientism, which holds that the only legitimate claims about the world are those that can be tested by the methods of the natural sciences. He proposes instead a rationally defensible form - harmless naturalism.

Open Court, 1999; 235 pp.; EN; index; hb

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Machiavellist - een gangbaar woord voor een politicus die in zijn persoonlijke moraal alles ondergeschikt aan zijn eigen machtuitoefening. In De heerser kan zo iemand opzoeken waarom dat moet, en hoe. Filosofische analyse van het begrip macht.

Athenaeum, 2009; 218 pp.; NL; index; pb

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Hegel's Philosophy of Right is a classic text in the history of western political thought. While it is a hugely important and exciting piece of philosophical writing, Hegel's ideas and style are notoriously difficult to understand. A concise introduction.

Continuum, 2007; 160 pp.; EN; index; pb

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In this major contribution to the understanding of Heidegger, Lafont applies the core methodology of analytic philosophy -language analysis- to Heidegger's work, providing both a clearer exegesis and a critique of his approach to language.

Cambridge, 2000; 298 pp.; EN; index; hb

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Early modern philosophers looked for inspiration to the later ancient thinkers when they rebelled against the dominant Platonic and Aristotelian traditions. The impact of the Hellenistic philosophers on Descartes, Spinoza a.o is ripe for reassessment.

Cambridge, 2003; 330 pp.; EN; index; hb

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In Help, the author raises the questions we ask every day and in every relationship that matters to us. What does it mean to help? When does our help amount to hindrance? Help invites us to ponder what is at stake when we try to assist others.

Harper, 2004; 276 pp.; EN; index; hb

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