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Free Download Leonardo V. Distaso, "The Paradox of Existence: Philosophy and Aesthetics in the Young Schelling (Topoi Library, 5)"
English | 2004 | pages: 186 | ISBN: 9048166683, 1402024908 | PDF | 1,3 mb
This book is not a merely historical reconstruction of Schelling’s thought; its main goal is to provide a contribution for a better comprehension of the importance of the philosophical quest of the young German philosopher from within, which represents a turning point for the whole thought of modernity. I did not describe the various fields of Schelling’s work, but I pointed out the central position of his Aesthetics, through the analysis of the inner mechanisms of his concepts. This mechanism, in my opinion, shows the reason why an Aesthetic philosophy is possible, and why its origin can be traced to Kant’s Aesthetics (particularly in Kant’s Critique of Judgement) and in the speculations of the early post-Kantian philosophy. The young Schelling’s philosophical problems precede his encounter with Fichte’s philosophy. Schelling discovers these problems, related to Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Wolff, Leibniz and Kant, in the protestant college of the Stift in Tübingen. Fichte confirmed the necessity of an urgent reform of transcendental philosophy, and offered to the young philosopher a philosophical dictionary and an orientation. Schelling exploited these resources with a great degree of autonomy, independence and originality. In these years Hölderlin’s influence on Schelling was much greater. Schelling’s and Hölderlin’s speculations, in these crucial years, were tightly connected.

Free Download The Four Realms of Existence: A New Theory of Being Human by Joseph E. LeDoux
English | October 24, 2023 | ISBN: 0674261259 | 368 pages | MOBI | 4.61 Mb
One of the world’s leading experts on mind and brain takes us on an expedition that reveals a new view of what makes us who we are.

Free Download UKIraklis (Hercules) Ioannidis, Dartford Grammar School, "Altruism or the Other as the Essence of Existence A Philosophical Passage to Being Altruistic "
English | ISBN: 9004448381 | 2021 | 414 pages | PDF | 52 MB
Ioannidis relies on existential and feminist psychoanalysis to provide a radical and intertextual philosophical analysis of altruism. Following Nietzsche, he traces altruism to the phenomenon of giving ones word.

Free Download Existence, Historical Fabulation, Destiny by A-T. Tymieniecka
English | PDF (True) | 2009 | 443 Pages | ISBN : 1402098014 | 5.3 MB
Surging from the ontopoietic vital timing of life, human self-consciousness prompts the innermost desire to rise above its brute facts. Imaginatio creatrix inspires us to fabulate these facts into events and Descriptions with personal significance attempting to delineate a life-course in life-stories within the ever-flowing stream – existence.

Free Download James M. Magrini, "Philosophical Sojourns in Aesthetics, Existence, and Education"
English | ISBN: 1527591972 | 2023 | 195 pages | PDF | 2 MB

Free Download Denying Existence: The Logic, Epistemology and Pragmatics of Negative Existentials and Fictional Discourse By Arindam Chakrabarti (auth.)
1997 | 260 Pages | ISBN: 9048147883 | PDF | 8 MB
This book tries to explore, in language as non-technical as possible, the deepest philosophical problems regarding the logical status of empty (singular) terms such as `Pegasus’, `Batman’, `The impossible staircase departs in Escher’s painting `Ascending-Descending’+ etc., and regarding sentences which deny the existence of singled-out fictional entities. It will be fascinating for literary theorists with a flair for logic, to students of metaphysics and philosophy of language, and for historians of philosophy interested in the fate of the Russell-Meinong debate. For teachers of these aspects of analytic philosophy this will provide a textbook which goes beyond the Western tradition (without plunging into any mystical Eastern `Emptiness’, which is what some previous comparative philosophers did!).

Free Download Meaning and Existence in Mathematics by Charles Castonguay
English | PDF | 1972 | 168 Pages | ISBN : 3709171156 | 24.2 MB
The take-over of the philosophy of mathematics by mathematical logic is not complete. The central problems examined in this book lie in the fringe area between the two, and by their very nature will no doubt continue to fall partly within the philosophical re mainder. In seeking to treat these problems with a properly sober mixture of rhyme and reason, I have tried to keep philosophical jargon to a minimum and to avoid excessive mathematical compli cation. The reader with a philosophical background should be familiar with the formal syntactico-semantical explications of proof and truth, especially if he wishes to linger on Chapter 1, after which it is easier philosophical sailing; while the mathematician need only know that to "explicate" a concept consists in clarifying a heretofore vague notion by proposing a clearer (sometimes formal) definition or formulation for it. More seriously, the interested mathematician will find occasional recourse to EDWARD’S Encyclopedia of Philosophy (cf. bibliography) highly rewarding. Sections 2. 5 and 2. 7 are of interest mainly to philosophers. The bibliography only contains works referred to in the text. References are made by giving the author’s surname followed by the year of publication, the latter enclosed in parentheses. When the author referred to is obvious from the context, the surname is dropped, and even the year of publication or "ibid. " may be dropped when the same publication is referred to exclusively over the course of several paragraphs.

Free Download Anthropologies of Entanglements: Media and Modes of Existence (Thinking Media) edited by Lorenz Engell, Christiane Voss, Tim Othold
English | September 21, 2023 | ISBN: 1501375148 | True EPUB/PDF | 328 pages | 6.5/41.6 MB
Media and human modes of existence are always already intertwined and interdependent. The notion of the anthropocene has further stimulated a new examination of ideas about human agency and responsibility. Various approaches all emphasize relational concepts and the situatedness and embodiment of human-and also non-human-existences and experiences. Their common interest has shifted from any so-called ‘human nature’ to the multitude of cultural, topographical, technical, historical, social, discursive, and media formats with which human existences are entangled.

Free Download The Existence Principle By Quentin Gibson (auth.)
1998 | 197 Pages | ISBN: 9401061270 | PDF | 6 MB
When we ask whether something exists, we expect a yes or no answer, not a further query about what kind of existence, how much of it, whether we mean existence for you or existence for me, or whether we are asking about some property which it might have. In this book, this simple requirement is defended and pursued into its various and sometimes surprising implications. In the course of this pursuit, such questions arise as `Do appearances exist?’ `Do unknowable things exist?’ `Do past and future exist?’ `Does God necessarily exist?’ This novel and non-technical approach to important philosophical questions will be of interest to senior students of philosophy and, indeed, to all general readers with philosophical interests.

Free Download M. A. Roberts, "The Existence Puzzles: An Introduction to Population Ethics"
English | ISBN: 0197544142 | 2024 | 280 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 14 MB