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We sailed from Peru, (where we had continued for the space of one whole year) for China and Japan, by the South Sea; taking with us victuals for twelve months; and had good winds from the east, though soft and weak, for five months space, and more. But the wind came about, and settled in the west for many days, so as we could make little or no way, and were sometime in purpose to turn back. But then again there arose strong and great winds from the south, with a point east, which carried us up (for all that we could do) towards the north; by which time our victuals failed us, though we had made good spare of them.

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Examining selected periods of history, the Spanish philosopher examines the nature and reactions of man during turbulent periods

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Product Description: Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen...read more

Nietzsche claimed to be a philosopher of the future, but he was appropriated as a philosopher of Nazism. His work inspired a long study by Martin Heidegger and essays by a host of lesser disciples attached to the Third Reich. In 1935, however, Karl Jaspers set out to "marshall against the National Socialists the world of thought of the man they had proclaimed as their own philosopher." The year after publishing "Nietzsche," Jaspers was discharged from his professorship at Heidelberg University by order of the Nazi leadership.Jaspers does not fall into the same trap as idealogues do, citing bits and pieces from Nietzsche's work to reinforce already held opinions. Instead, he openly shows the wide range of Nietzsche's views, including his endorsement of wars and warriors, his prophecies of world struggle and "new masters," and the cruel arrogance of the supermen. Yet Jaspers finds Nietzsche's philosophy to be extraordinary not only because he foresaw all the monstrosities of the twentieth century, but also because he saw through them."The appearance which Nietzsche's work presents can be expressed figuratively: it is as though a mountain wall had been dynamited; the rock, already more or less shaped, conveys the idea of a whole. But the building for the sake of which the dynamiting seems to have been done has not been erected. However, the fact that the work lies about like a heap of ruins does not appear to conceal its spirit from the one who happens to have found the key to the possibilities of construction; for him, many fragments fit together. But not unambiguously; many functionally suitable pieces are present in numerous, only slightly varied repetitions, others reveal themselves as precious and unique forms, as though each were meant to furnish a cornerstone somewhere or a keystone for an arch."--Karl Jaspers, from the introduction

Describes and analyzes the major philosophers and philosophical issues from the pre-Socratics to the philosphy of logical analysis (view table of contents)

Product Description: Am 20. Mai 1953 habe ieh in der Sitzung der Arbeitsgemeinsehaft fur Forsehung, Abteilung Geisteswissensehaften, uber die Ars coniecturalis des groBen deutschen Philosophen Nikolaus von Kues (1401-1464) einen Vor trag gehalten. Es sehloB sieh eine lange Diskussion an, an der sieh Frau Minister Teusm und die Herren Professoren J...read more

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Product Description: 1 Zu den Ausgaben der Werke Hegels vgl. Anhang. Die "Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts" werden nach der "Neuen kritischen Aus- gabe" der Werke (Hegels Samtliche Werke, hrsg. v. Joh. Hoffmeister, Bd. XII, Ham- 4 burg 1955 ) in der §§-Einteilung zitiert...read more

Product Description: The present work is intended once again to draw the attention of readers to the resources opened up by Spinoza for the elucidation of the classical problems of philosophy. Today these problems are too often taken to be merely verbal, so that answers to them so far as these are metaphysical are confidently claimed to be "nonsense...read more

Product Description: Diese funfbandige Aristoteles-Ausgabe in griechischer Sprache ist (mit Ausnahme von Bd III) ein fotomechanischer Nachdruck der massgeblichen Aristoteles-Ausgabe von 1831-1870. Band I und II enthalt die Werke Aristoteles. In Band III wird die durch O...read more