Author: David J. Rosner
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2018-12-04
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1498540120
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book takes a different approach to the history of philosophy, exploring a neglected theme, the relationship between catastrophe and philosophy. The book analyzes this theme within texts from ancient times to the present, from a global perspective. The book’s focus is timely and relevant today, as the planet is certainly facing a number of impending catastrophes right now, e.g., environmental degradation, overpopulation, the threat of nuclear war, etc.
Author: Barend Christoffel Labuschagne
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 469
ISBN-13: 9004172076
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Exploring the pre-political en pre-legal spiritual infrastructure from which modern, liberal democracies in the West live, but cannot guarantee, this book inquires the relations between religion, politics and law from a philosophical perspective, discussing historical, systematical and practical issues.
Author: Robin Douglass
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-12-05
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1108421989
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first book-length study in English of Thomas Hobbes's On the Citizen, containing twelve original essays by leading Hobbes scholars.