Reason's Grief: An Essay on Tragedy and Value

Reason's Grief: An Essay on Tragedy and

📁 Reason's Grief: An Essay on Tragedy and Value

✍ George W. Harris 📂 Library 📅 2006 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

In Reason's Grief, George Harris takes W. B. Yeats's comment that we begin to live only when we have conceived life as tragedy as a call for a tragic ethics, something the modern West has yet to produce. He argues that we must turn away from religious understandings of tragedy and the human conditio

Being and Reason: An Essay on Spinoza's

📁 Being and Reason: An Essay on Spinoza's Metaphysics

✍ Martin Lin 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

In Being and Reason, Martin Lin offers a new interpretation of Spinoza's core metaphysical doctrines with attention to how and why, in Spinoza, metaphysical notions are entangled with cognitive, logical, and epistemic ones. For example, according to Spinoza, a substance is that which can be

On Grief and Reason

📁 On Grief and Reason

✍ Brodsky, Joseph 📂 Fiction 📅 1995 🏛 FSG 🌐 English

Overview: JOSEPH BRODSKY [Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky] (1940-1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972, settling in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters. Brodsky

Imposing values: an essay on liberalism

📁 Imposing values: an essay on liberalism and regulation

✍ Arnold, N. Scott 📂 Library 📅 2009;2011 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

Having Reasons: An Essay on Rationality

📁 Having Reasons: An Essay on Rationality and Sociality

✍ Frederic Schick 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 Princeton University Press 🌐 English

This important contribution to choice theory examines two theories of motivation and two kinds of explanation of behavior that they support. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previousl

Spirit and Man: An Essay on Being and Va

📁 Spirit and Man: An Essay on Being and Value

✍ Nathan Rotenstreich (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 1963 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English

Nathan Rotenstreich, 1914-1993, was Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was the Rector of this University and the Vice President of the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities. Some of his well known essays are: Between Past and Present, Spirit</e