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Great Ideas of Philosophy 2nd Edition volume 39
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Hegel's Reason in History and other works inspired a transcendentalist movement that spanned Europe, Great Britain, and the United States.
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Great Ideas of Philosophy 2nd Edition volume 20
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Apart from trade schools devoted to medicine and law, the university as we know it did not come into being until 12th-century Paris.
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Great Ideas of Philosophy 2nd Edition volume 34
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The extraordinary documents written in support of the proposed constitution represent a profound legacy in political philosophy.
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Great Ideas of Philosophy 2nd Edition volume 50
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The contemplative. The active. The fatalistic. The hedonistic. There are good but limited arguments for each of these.
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Great Ideas of Philosophy 2nd Edition volume 49
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Turing is famous for breaking Germany's famed World War II Enigma code, but, as a founder of modern computational science, he also wrote influentially about the possibilities of breaking the mind's code.
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Great Ideas of Philosophy 2nd Edition volume 48
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Meaning arises from conventions that presuppose not only a social world but a world in which we share the interests and aspirations of others.
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Great Ideas of Philosophy 2nd Edition volume 14
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What sort of life is right for humankind, and what is it about us that makes this so?
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Great Ideas of Philosophy 2nd Edition volume 56
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What guidance does moral philosophy provide in the domain of medicine, where life-and-death decisions are made daily?
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Great Ideas of Philosophy 2nd Edition volume 16
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The Jewish Christians, Hellenized or Orthodox, defended a monotheistic source of law.
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Great Ideas of Philosophy 2nd Edition volume 37
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In founding the now-discredited theory of phrenology, Franz Gall nevertheless helped define today's brain sciences.
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Great Ideas of Philosophy 2nd Edition volume 60
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We consider various theological arguments for and against belief in God, including those of Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Reid, and William James.
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Great Ideas of Philosophy 2nd Edition volume 47
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Working in the realm of common sense, James directed the attention of philosophy and science to that ultimate arena of confirmation in which our deepest and most enduring interests are found.
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Great Ideas of Philosophy 2nd Edition volume 31
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David Hume was perhaps the most influential philosopher to write in English, carrying empiricism to its logical end and thus grounding morality, truth, causation, and governance in experience.
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Great Ideas of Philosophy 2nd Edition volume 38
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The idea of freedom developed by Goethe, Schiller, and other romantic idealists forms a central chapter in the Long Debate over whether or not science has overstepped its bounds.
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Great Ideas of Philosophy 2nd Edition volume 27
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In the century after Newton's death, the Enlightenment's major architects of reform and revolution defended their ideas in terms of Newtonian science and its implications.
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Great Ideas of Philosophy 2nd Edition volume 21
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There were really two great renaissances. The first occurred at Oxford in the 13th century: the recovery of experimental inquiry by Roger Bacon and others.
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Great Ideas of Philosophy 2nd Edition volume 41
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A student of the classics, Nietzsche came to regard the human condition as fatally tied to needs and motives that operate at the most powerful levels of existence.