The book deals with a central question for the understanding of reality and the way in which human beings relate to it. Humans are creatures that can deliberate and define their actions by virtue of ...

Ralph Cudworth’s (1617-1688) True Intellectual System of the Universe is considered the high point of philosophical production by the Cambridge Platonists. In this work, Cudworth compresses all of ...

In den Meditationes de prima philosophia (1641) erweist Descartes die Tauglichkeit der von ihm gefundenen erkenntnistheoretischen Methode für die Grundlegung gewisser Erkenntnis. Husserl über das ...

What is Man? The author deals with this question on the basis of the structural elements which appear to constitute our prior understanding of ourselves and the world – for example the idea of a ...

A persistent puzzle in mainstream contemporary moral philosophy is why people should strive to do good and to be good.Today it is often ignored that there is more to the human nature than what can be ...

Ziel der vorliegenden Einführung ist es, den Text der 'Kritik der reinen Vernunft' zu erschließen und dabei auch unterschiedliche Interpretationsrichtungen und -haltungen zu Wort kommen zu lassen, ...

Arthur Schopenhauer, so streitbar und sperrig wie seine Frisur. Einer der intelligentesten Köpfe, die je in deutscher Sprache parliert haben. Ebenso sperrig erscheint manchmal und manchen sein ...

Moses Mendelssohn ist einer der wichtigsten Denker der deutschen Aufklärungsphilosophie. Seine Abhandlung über die Evidenz in Metaphysischen Wissenschaften gewann 1763 den Preis der Königlichen ...

Franz Brentano's 1862 dissertation represents a milestone in the systematic exploration of Aristotelian metaphysics in the nineteenth century. The focus of the work is on the Aristotelian table of ...

One building block is placed on top of another one, an atom of sodium combines with an atom of chlorine. Do new things result in each case? Or, to put it more generally, under what conditions do ...