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Ton Lemaire Onder dieren
voor een diervriendelijker wereld
Wetenschappelijke en filosofische beschouwingen over de relatie tussen mensen en dieren in verleden en heden en een pleidooi voor een manier van denken en doen waarin dieren humaner worden bezien en behandeld.
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Nederlands | ePub2 | Ambo|Anthos, Amsterdam | 2017
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Coen Simon Oordeel zelf
waarom niemand hetzelfde wil en iedereen hetzelfde doet
Filosofische essays over de mogelijkheid om tot een goed oordeel te komen over maatschappelijke vraagstukken in tijden van digitale media.
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Nederlands | ePub2 | Ambo|Anthos, Amsterdam | 2017
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Angela Saini Inferieur
De kracht van de vrouw en hoe de wetenschap achter de feiten aan liep
Er heersen hardnekkige vooroordelen over vrouwen. Zo zouden zij minder sterk, minder technisch en minder intelligent zijn dan mannen. In 'Inferieur' ontmaskert Angela Saini deze vooroordelen voorgoed. Dat doet ze met overdonderend wetenschappelijk bewijs en pakkende voorbeelden uit de neurowetenschap, psychologie, geneeskunde, antropologie en evolutiebiologie. 'Inferieur' is onmisbaar voor wie genoeg heeft van seksisme en quasi-intellectueel machogedrag. Eerder verschenen onder de titel 'Ondergeschikt'....
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Nederlands | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Ten Have, Utrecht | 2020
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Thomas H. Macho Van wie is je leven?
cultuurgeschiedenis van de zelfdoding
Volgens Albert Camus is er maar één serieus filosofisch probleem: de zelfdoding. Van wie is je leven? laat met vele voorbeelden zien welke betekenis suïcide in de westerse cultuur heeft gekregen. Volgens Thomas Macho vond in de twintigste eeuw een belangrijke verschuiving plaats in hoe wij tegen zelfdoding aankijken. We hebben een andere stervenscultuur gekregen. Waar suïcide eerder vooral als uitdrukking van psychologische ziekte werd beschouwd, zien wij haar nu in toenemende mate in termen...
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Nederlands | ePub2 | Ten Have, Utrecht | 2020
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Taoïsme
een weg van Oost naar West?
"Quand la Chine s'éveillera, le monde tremblera". Deze visionaire uitspraak van Napoleon I lijkt actueler dan ooit. China is 'in'. Niet alleen het numerieke overwicht van de Chinezen in de wereldbevolking, maar vooral de enorme economische expansie en de voorzichtige politieke openheid in China maken dat het Westen 'plots' de Chinese realiteit heeft ontdekt. Om de Chinezen en hun traditionele leefwijzen beter te doorgronden heeft men ook in toenemende mate belangstelling voor de Chinese cultuur....
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Nederlands | 91 pagina's (PDF, 1,6 MB) | UPL in Context, [Leuven] | 2017
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Bettina Stangneth Leugens lezen
Filosofische verhandeling over de rol die leugens spelen in het menselijk leven.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | ePub2 | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2019
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Natural spectaculars
aspects of plutarch’s philosophy of nature
The value of Plutarch's perception of physical reality and his attitude towards the natural spectacle. Plutarch was very interested in the natural world around him, not only in terms of its elementary composition and physical processes, but also with respect to its providential ordering and marvels. His writings teach us a lot about his perception of physical reality and about his attitude to the natural spectacle. He found his greatest inspiration in the ontological and epistemological framework...
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Engels | 254 pagina's (PDF, 1,8 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Jan Drost Als de liefde voorbij is
Pleidooi voor de manier van leven waarin liefhebben, leren liefhebben en blijven liefhebben centraal staan.
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Nederlands | 272 pagina's (ePub2, 0,9 MB) | De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam | 2017
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Claudius Ptolemaeus (Alexandrinus) Ptolemy's tetrabiblos in the translation of William of Moerbeke
Claudii Ptolemaei liber iudicialium
First ever edition of the Latin translation of Ptolemy's masterwork. This is the first edition ever of Moerbeke's Latin translation of Ptolemy's celebrated astrological handbook, known under the title Tetrabiblos or Quadripartitum (opus). Ptolemy's treatise (composed after 141 AD) offers a systematic overview of astrological science and had, together with his Almagest, an enormous influence up until the 17th century. In the Latin Middle Ages the work was mostly known through translations from the...
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Engels | Latijn | 456 pagina's (PDF, 6,6 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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John P. Doyle On the borders of being and knowing
some late scholastic thoughts on supertranscendental being
Sylvester Mauro, S.J. (1619-1687) noted that human intellects can grasp what is,what is not, what can be, and what cannot be. The first principle, 'it is not possible that the same thing simultaneously be and not be,' involves them all. The present volume begins with Greeks distinguishing 'being' from 'something' and proceeds to the late Scholastic doctrine of 'supertranscendental being,' which embraces both. On the way is Aristotle's distinction between 'being as being' and 'being as true' and his...
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Engels | 350 pagina's (PDF, 3,7 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Franco Trabattoni Essays on Plato’s epistemology
An Innovating approach to Plato's philosophy. Through a careful survey of several significant Platonic texts, mainly focussing on the nature of knowledge, Essays on Plato's Epistemology offers the reader a fresh and promising approach to Plato's philosophy as a whole. From the very earliest reception of Plato's philosophy, there has been a conflict between a dogmatic and a sceptical interpretation of his work and thought. Moreover, the two sides are often associated, respectively, with a metaphysical...
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Engels | 336 pagina's (PDF, 1,8 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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The concept of love in 17th and 18th century philosophy
"Love is joy with the accompanying idea of an external cause." Spinoza's definition of love (Ethics Book 3, Prop. LIX) manifests a major paradigm shift achieved by seventeenth century Europe in which the emotions, formerly seen as normative "forces of nature," were embraced by the new science of the mind. We are determined to volition by causes. This shift has often been seen as a transition from a philosophy laden with implicit values and assumptions to a more scientific and value-free way of understanding...
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Engels | Frans | Duits | 270 pagina's (PDF, 1,3 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Recognition and redistribution in multinational federations
World's leading theorists of multinational justice on sub-state national minority groups. Almost without exception, multinational states across the West are facing existential crises precipitated by the resurgence of sub-state national minority groups. This edited volume brings together many of the world's leading theorists of multinational justice in order to analyse two of the most frequent areas of debate and dispute in multinational federations: recognition and redistribution. The authors address...
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Engels | 246 pagina's (PDF, 2,3 MB) | Leuven University Press, 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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Ancient perspectives on Aristotle's De anima
Aristotle's treatise On the Soul figures among the most influential texts in the intellectual history of the West. It is the first systematic treatise on the nature and functioning of the human soul, presenting Aristotle's authoritative analyses of, among others, sense perception, imagination, memory, and intellect. The ongoing debates on this difficult work continue the commentary tradition that dates back to antiquity. This volume offers a selection of papers by distinguished scholars, exploring...
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Engels | 218 pagina's (PDF, 1,5 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Magdalena Bieniak The soul-body problem at Paris, ca. 1200-1250
Hugh of St-Cher and his contemporaries
The soul-body problem was among the most controversial issues discussed in 13th century Europe, and it continues to capture much attention today as the quest to understand human identity becomes more and more urgent. What made the discussion about this problem particularly interesting in the scholastic period was the tension between the traditional dualist doctrines and a growing need to affirm the unity of the human being. This debate is frequently interpreted as a conflict between the 'new' philosophy,...
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Engels | Latijn | 264 pagina's (PDF, 5,6 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Radulphus Brito Quaestiones super priora analytica Aristoteles
The history of logic and its development during the medieval period. Radulphus Brito's Quaestiones super Priora Analytica Aristotelis is a major work written in the early 1300s which treated Aristotle's text devoted to the theory of the syllogism. Brito, perhaps one of the most influential medieval thinkers known as the Modistae, examines both categorical and hypothetical syllogisms. In his text, based on six known manuscripts which are complete or nearly complete, Brito was critical of many of the...
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Engels | 684 pagina's (PDF, 4,8 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Averroes' natural philosophy and its reception in the Latin west
The impact of Averroes' natural philosophy on the history of philosophy and science. Ibn Rushd (1126-1198) or Averroes, is widely known as the unrivalled commentator on virtually all works by Aristotle. His commentaries and treatises were used as manuals for understanding Aristotelian philosophy until the Age of the Enlightenment. Both Averroes and the movement commonly known as 'Latin Averroism' have attracted considerable attention from historians of philosophy and science. Whereas most studies...
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Engels | Frans | 272 pagina's (PDF, 1,6 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Franciscus de Marchia Reportatio IIA
(Quaestiones in secundum librum Sententiarum) qq. 13-27
The texts edited in this volume deal with angelology and anthropology, and particularly with the nature and the functions of immaterial substances like angels and the human rational soul. Marchia discusses such controversial issues as universal hylomorphism, i.e., whether angels and the rational soul are composed of both matter and form (q. 13), the immortality of the soul (qq. 18-19), and the nature and the object of the intellect and will (qq. 20, 21), as well as the functionality of the angelic...
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Engels | Latijn | 413 pagina's (PDF, 5,2 MB) | Leuven University Press, 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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