englischThis volume collects a variety of hitherto dispersed essays concerning the author’s Reflection System Theorie, bridging a vexatious gap between action-theory and social-system theory by the principle of interpersonal reflection and its levels. This approach provides a striking solution to [...]
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The enclosed Proceedings are a selection, by 41 of the Society's scholars, of the papers presented at the Eleventh Symposium Platonicum of the International Plato Society, held in Brasilia, Brazil, under the auspices of the University of Brasilia. The volume covers all major issues related to the [...]
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englischIn times of general uncertainty people seek orientation for a humane life. This text offers important impulses for self-orientation, founded on an ‚inclusive conception of man‘, which balances logos and spirituality. From this wholesome view on life an awareness may grow which gives access [...]
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englischThe mind-body problem is central to the modern philosophical and cultural debate because we cannot understand what man is until we understand what consciousness is and how it interacts with the body. Although many suggestions have been offered, no convincing account has as yet appeared. [...]
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The enclosed Proceedings are a selection, by 41 of the Society's scholars, of the papers presented at the Eleventh Symposium Platonicum of the International Plato Society, held in Brasilia, Brazil, under the auspices of the University of Brasilia. The volume covers all major issues related to the [...]
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englischThe basis of political life in modern media societies is the ability to shape and use one's own public personality in a self-determined manner.
Modern democracies are media democracies. In the media-public is the possibility to evaluate and criticize politics effectively. The skillful use [...]
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This book concerns the soul/body problem in Plato and Aristotle. Established as well as early career scholars actually working on Plato and Aristotle explore - under different points of view as well as through original readings and interpretations - the manifold dimensions involved in the conception [...]
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Die Tatsache, dass etliche Werke Bolzanos den Zensoren in Wien und Rom ein Dorn im Auge waren, ist seit langem bekannt. Im vorliegenden Buch wird sie nun aber zum ersten Mal gründlich untersucht. Dabei werden nicht bloß die Hintergründe durchleuchtet, die zur Verurteilung von Bolzanos Werken [...]
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englischFor a long time, Parmenides was considered the first true metaphysician in history, a theorist of a disembodied being inaccessible to scientific knowledge of the world. Giovanni Cerri, in his Eleatic Lectures, returns to his well-known interpretation of the Eleate as a scientist fully aware [...]
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Der bekannte russische Philosoph Nikolaj A. Berdjaev wurde im Jahre 1922 aus Russland ausgewiesen. Vom Marxismus über den Idealismus zum Christentum - so kann man seine philosophische und weltanschauliche Entwicklung beschreiben. Das vorliegende, vor über 100 Jahren erschienene Buch enthält eine [...]
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