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“…Stanley Rosen argues that in Zarathustra Nietzsche lays the groundwork for philosophical and political revolution, proposing a change in humanity's condition that would be achieved by eliminating the decadent existing race and breeding a new race to take its place. …”

“…Particularism is a justly popular 'cutting-edge' topic in contemporary ethics across the world. Many moral philosophers do not, in fact, support particularism (instead defending "generalist" theories that rest on particular abstract moral principles), but nearly all would take it to be a position that continues to offer serious lessons and challenges that cannot be safely ignored. …”
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“…"Many texts about anxiety are based either in the philosophical tradition or within the medical model under the guise of discussions about post-traumatic stress disorder. …”

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“…This volume offers an insight into the relationship between Ernst Cassirer and modern philosophy through the comparison with three emblematic figures of the philosophical horizon of the seventeenth-century: Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz. …”

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“…At the heart of Beckjord’s study, though, is a fundamental philosophical problem: the slippery nature of truth—especially when dictated by stories. …”

“…Starting from Adorno's dictum, what arts and culture could be after the reality of Auschwitz, the philosopher Sabine Kock takes central argumentations of Theodor W. …”

“…"Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973), the first French existentialist and phenomenologist, was a world-class Catholic philosopher, an accomplished playwright, drama critic and musician. …”

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“…The contributions connect thinkers from antiquity through the Middle Ages and include philosophers from the three major monotheistic faiths-Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. …”

“…Since, in France, the ability to imitate well is a state qualification necessary to access offices of elite power, the political, aesthetic, and philosophical critique of mimesis became one of the defining features of sentimental empiricist thought. …”

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“…In his pages, a host of texts and discourses -- biblical and midical, legal and philosophical -- are made to converge upon a decisive tenet of Christian late antiquity: humans' natural freedom. …”

“…Contemporary philosophers frequently assume that Kant never seriously engaged with Spinoza or Spinozism-certainly not before the break of Der Pantheismusstreit, or within the Critique of Pure Reason. …”

“…Human dignity as a constitutional value / Arthur Chaskalson -- Human dignity in German law / Eckart Klein -- Human dignity in Israeli jurisprudence / David Kretzmer -- The religious and philosophical background of human dignity and its place in modern constitutions / Chrisitan Starck -- Human dignity: philosophical aspects. …”

“…First, drawing on Whole Trait Theory in psychology and Aristotelian virtue ethics, we offer accounts of virtue and character that are both philosophically sound and psychologically realistic-and thus, able to be meaningfully operationalized into empirically measurable variables. …”

“…This book will be of interest to philosophers, educators and educational philosophers…”