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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “michael quante”
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  • Handbook of Potentiality

    Edited by Kristina Engelhard, Michael Quante ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume congregates articles of leading philosophers about potentials and potentiality in all areas of philosophy and the empirical sciences in which they play a relevant role. It is the first encompassing collection of articles on the metaphysics of potentials and potentiality.Potentials play an important role not only in our everyday understanding of objects, persons and systems but also in ... Read more

    $260.09 USD

  • Thick (Concepts of) Autonomy

    Personal Autonomy in Ethics and Bioethics

    Edited by James F. Childress, Michael Quante ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book explores, in rich and rigorous ways, the possibilities and limitations of “thick” (concepts of) autonomy in light of contemporary debates in philosophy, ethics, and bioethics.Many standard ethical theories and practices, particularly in domains such as biomedical ethics, incorporate minimal, formal, procedural concepts of personal autonomy and autonomous decisions and actions. Over the ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • The Philosophy of Recognition

    Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

    by Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch, Frederick Neuhouser, Michael Quante, Ludwig Siep, Terry Pinkard, Daniel Brudney, Andreas Wildt, Nancy Fraser, Jay M. Bernstein, HeikkiI käheimo0, Axel Honneth1, Emmanuel Renault2, Jean-Philippe Deranty3, Arto Laitinen4 ...
    The theory of recognition is now a well-established and mature research paradigm in philosophy, and it is both influential in and influenced by developments in other fields of the humanities and social sciences. From debates in moral philosophy about the fundamental roots of obligation, to debates in political philosophy about the character of multicultural societies, to debates in legal theory ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

  • Personal Identity as a Principle of Biomedical Ethics

    by Michael Quante ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book brings together the debate concerning personal identity (in metaphysics) and central topics in biomedical ethics (conception of birth and death; autonomy, living wills and paternalism). Based on a metaphysical account of personal identity in the sense of persistence and conditions for human beings, conceptions for beginning of life, and death are developed. Based on a biographical ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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    by Alfred North Whitehead ...
    One of the major philosophical texts of the 20th century, Process and Reality is based on Alfred North Whitehead’s influential lectures that he delivered at the University of Edinburgh in the 1920s on process philosophy.Whitehead’s master work in philsophy, Process and Reality propounds a system of speculative philosophy, known as process philosophy, in which the various elements of reality into a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Social Construction of Reality

    A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

    by Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann ...
    A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced "a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally" (George Simpson, American Sociological Review ).In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and ... Read more

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  • Aquinas

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Edward Feser ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Charting the life and thought of this hugely influential medieval thinker.The ultimate introduction to the greatest medieval philosopher, Saint Thomas Aquinas“At last. A concise, accessible and compelling introduction to Aquinas’s thought.” Kelly James Clark, Professor of Philosophy, Calvin CollegeThe greatest of the medieval philosophers, Thomas Aquinas sought to reconcile Christian doctrine with ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Insight, Volume 3

    by Bernard Lonergan ...
    Series Book 3 - Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan
    Insight is Bernard Lonergan's masterwork. It aim is nothing less than insight into insight itself, a comprehensive view of knowledge and understanding, and to state what one needs to understand and how one proceeds to understand it.In Lonergan's own words: 'Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but also you ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • One-Dimensional Man

    Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

    by Herbert Marcuse ...
    Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in the ensuing decade of radical political change. This second edition, newly introduced by Marcuse scholar Douglas Kellner, presents Marcuse's best-selling work to another generation of readers in the context of contemporary events. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Metaphysics of Evolution

    Evolutionary Theory in Light of First Principles

    by Fr. Chad Ripperger ...
    In his encyclical Humani Generis, Pope Pius XII stressed the importance of preserving the traditional Catholic approach to philosophy. In his work The Metaphysics of Evolution, Fr. Chad Ripperger demonstrates that the theory of evolution is incompatible with the metaphysics of the Catholic tradition. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Scholastic Metaphysics

    A Contemporary Introduction

    by Edward Feser ...
    Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction provides an overview of Scholastic approaches to causation, substance, essence, modality, identity, persistence, teleology, and other issues in fundamental metaphysics. The book interacts heavily with the literature on these issues in contemporary analytic metaphysics, so as to facilitate the analytic reader's understanding of Scholastic ideas ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Beautiful Risk of Education

    by Gert J. J. Biesta ...
    This is a book about what many teachers know but are increasingly being prevented from talking about: that real education always involves a risk. The risk is there because, as W. B. Yeats has put it, education is not about filling a bucket but about lighting a fire. It is there because students are not to be seen as objects to be moulded and disciplined, but as subjects of action and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD