Branner, H.C. Humanismens krise.--Hansen, Martin A. Eneren og massen.

El texto muestra la complejidad de la discusión en torno al sentido y la dirección de la historia, en especial, la dificultad mayor de una dotación de sentido en favor del desarrollo histórico en el mundo actual. El ensayo reconstruye brevemente la posición pesimista de la Escuela de Frankfurt sobre..

Originally published in 1918, this book contains edited English translations of French texts written by the Jansenist inhabitants of Port-Royal during the seventeenth century. Barnard provides an introduction with historical background to the state of education in France at the time, and annotates each translation with pertinent historical and literary references. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of education and the history of faith schools.

Este artículo muestra el probable origen de las concepciones del desarrollo linear ascendente, cuyos representantes más conocidos en la era moderna fueron Hegel y Marx. En contraposición al concepto circular de la evolución histórica, que fue el predominante en muchas culturas, las doctrinas del des..

The fundamental tenet of contemporary sociobiology, namely the assumption of a single process of evolution involving the selection of genes, is critically examined. An alternative multiple-level, multiple-process model of evolution is presented which posits that the primary process that operates via selection upon the genes cannot account for certain kinds of biological phenomena, especially complex, learned, social behaviours. The primary process has evolved subsidiary evolutionary levels and processes that act to bridge the gap between genes and these complex behaviours. The (...) subsidiary levels are development, individual animal learning, and socioculture itself. It is argued that individual learning is pivotal to the derivation and biological analysis of culture. The differences between cultural and noncultural societies are stressed. It is concluded that such a multiple-level model of evolution can form the basis for reconciling opposing sides in the sociobiology debate. (shrink)

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Discussions range from the paradoxes of Zeno to Heidegger's conception of truth, with greatest emphasis on Hegel. The questioning is always meticulous without being pedantic. Whether dealing with an individual thinker or a problem in the history of ideas, Koyre enters into a dialogue which brings his subject to life in a compelling way.--W. H. C.

This anthology is designed to introduce the reader to existentialism by arranging texts according to their views on five specific themes—phenomenology and ontology, the existential subject, inter-subjectivity, religion and atheism, and psychotherapy. The anthologist's desire to acquaint the reader with the diversity of existentialism has led him to cite forty-seven authors, with the result that the selections from any given author on a given subject are very brief: Heidegger is allowed five pages on ontology, Nietzsche one page on religion, etc. (...) In order to make such abbreviations appear viable, the anthologist has contrived discourses by pasting together sentences which in the original texts are paragraphs and even pages apart. It is doubtful, therefore, that this "critical reader" will enable the student to form a critical judgment of existentialism.—H. C. (shrink)

The theme of this work is most simply stated by recalling the question that reputedly vexed the auditors of Plato's lecture on the Good—what does the Good have to do with mathematics? or, what is wisdom that it unites knowledge of nature and knowledge of political matters? Burkert hopes to throw light on this question through philological and historical investigations of sources and events bearing on Pythagoras, his pupil Philolaos and Plato. The book will be considered an important contribution to (...) philological studies of Pythagoras. In view of the author's documentation and thoroughness, it should also prove helpful to those interested in classical mathematics and the mathematical sciences, such as music and astronomy, and their relation to philosophy.—H. C. (shrink)