Product Description: The Big Questions series is designed to let renowned experts confront the 20 most fundamental and frequently asked questions of a major branch of science or philosophy. Each 3000-word essay simply and concisely examines a question that has eternally perplexed enquiring minds, and provides answers from history's great thinkers...read more

More than four hundred new entries are contained in the revised and updated edition of this wide-ranging and authoritative reference that covers every aspect of philosophy, from Aristotle to Zen, and contains more than three thousand alphabetical entries that encompasses world philosophical traditions, hundreds of influential philosophers, terms and concepts, and more.

Product Description: Die großen Fragen behandeln grundlegende Probleme und Konzepte in Wissenschaft und Philosophie, die Forscher und Denker seit jeher umtreiben. Anspruch der ambitionierten Reihe ist es, die Antworten auf diese Fragen zu präsentieren und damit die wichtigsten Gedanken der Menschheit in einzigartigen Übersichten zu bündeln...read more

This is a text about the big questions in life: knowledge, consciousness, fate, God, truth, goodness, justice. It is for anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not know how to approach them. 'Think' sets out to explain what they are and why they are important.

Presenting an introduction to ethics, this work tackles the moral questions surrounding birth, death, happiness, desire, and freedom. It also shows us how we should think about the meaning of life, and how we should mistrust the soundbite-sized absolutes that often dominate moral debates.

Product Description: David Hume is generally recognized as England's greatest philosopher, as well as a notable historian and essayist. Yet his work is delicately poised between scepticism and naturalism, between despair at the limited powers of the mind and optimism at the progress we can make by understanding it...read more

Product Description: La República de Platón, sus orígenes, sus significados y su vigencia en nuestros días.Escrito en Atenas hacia el siglo IV antes de Cristo, La República es un texto fundamental para comprender el pensamiento moral y político de Occidente...read more

A detailed analysis of Plato's influential philosophical treatise reveals how The Republic laid the political foundations of Western culture; explains the judicial, moral, and political ideas in the volume; and examines its influence on the modern world. Read by Simon Vance. Simultaneous.

A detailed analysis of Plato's influential philosophical treatise reveals how The Republic laid the political foundations of Western culture; explains the judicial, moral, and political ideas in the volume; and examines its influence on the modern world. Read by Simon Vance. Simultaneous.

A detailed analysis of Plato's influential philosophical treatise reveals how The Republic laid the political foundations of Western culture; explains the judicial, moral, and political ideas in the volume; and examines its influence on the modern world. Read by Simon Vance. Simultaneous.

A distinguished philosopher illuminates the age-old war over truth between one side that believes in plain, unvarnished facts and the other side that believes that judgment is clouded with false notions of absolute truth, in an exploration of the long-standing philosophical battle.

Lust, says Simon Blackburn, is furtive, headlong, always sizing up opportunities. It is a trail of clothing in the hallway, the trashy cousin of love. But be that as it may, the aim of this delightful book is to rescue lust "from the denunciations of old men of the deserts, to deliver it from the pallid and envious confessor and the stocks and pillories of the Puritans, to drag it from the category of sin to that of virtue." Blackburn, author of such popular philosophy books as Think and Being Good, here offers a sharp-edged probe into the heart of lust, blending together insight from some of the world's greatest thinkers on sex, human nature, and our common cultural foibles. Blackburn takes a wide ranging, historical approach, discussing lust as viewed by Aristophanes and Plato, lust in the light of the Stoic mistrust of emotion, and the Christian fear of the flesh that catapulted lust to the level of deadly sin. He describes how philosophical pessimists like Schopenhauer and Sartre contributed to our thinking about lust and explores the false starts in understanding lust represented by Freud, Kinsey, and modern "evolutionary psychology." But most important, Blackburn reminds us that lust is also life-affirming, invigorating, fun. He points to the work of David Hume (Blackburn's favorite philosopher) who saw lust not only as a sensual delight but also "a joy of the mind." Written by one of the most eminent living philosophers, attractively illustrated and colorfully packaged, Lust is a book that anyone would lust over.

Product Description: Available as a set through this special offer, here are seven engaging meditations on sin, written by some of our most eminent authors. Includes Greed, Gluttony, Envy, Lust, Sloth, Anger, and Pride.

Product Description: La lujuria, según Simon Blackburn, es furtiva, impetuosa, oportunista. Es una pieza de ropa en el vestíbulo, el pariente maleducado del amor. Pero, sea como sea, este libro se propone rescatarla &@171;de las condenas de los viejos de los desiertos, liberarla de los pálidos y envidiosos confesores, terminar con el flagelo y el cilicio de los puritanos, elevarla de la categoría de pecado a la de virtud&@187;...read more