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Free Download Nāgārjuna’s Madhyamaka : a philosophical introduction By Nāgārjuna; Westerhoff, Jan; Nāgārjuna, Nagarjuna, Nāgārjuna
2009 | 242 Pages | ISBN: 0195375211 | EPUB | 17 MB
The Indian philosopher Acharya Nagarjuna (c. 150-250 CE) was the founder of the Madhyamaka (Middle Path) school of Mahayana Buddhism and arguably the most influential Buddhist thinker after Buddha himself. Indeed, in the Tibetan and East Asian traditions, Nagarjuna is often referred to as the ‘second Buddha.’ His primary contribution to Buddhist thought lies is in the further development of the concept of sunyata or ’emptiness.’ For Nagarjuna, all phenomena are without any svabhaba, literally ‘own-nature’ or ‘self-nature’, and thus without any underlying essence. In this book, Jan Westerhoff offers a systematic account of Nagarjuna’s philosophical position. He reads Nagarjuna in his own philosophical context, but he does not hesitate to show that the issues of Indian and Tibetan Buddhist philosophy have at least family resemblances to issues in European philosophy

Free Download Evangelos Koumparoudis, "Medicine in the Post-consumerist Society: A Philosophical Overview "
English | ISBN: 3838217659 | 2024 | 220 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Evangelos Koumparoudis offers a unique philosophical perspective on various aspects of medical practices in our post-consumerist society. Through an exploration of political philosophy, specifically the works of Lyotard, Baudrillard, Bauman, and Gungov, he sheds light on the ways in which meaning and sense are produced, and how mechanisms of manipulation are at play. By drawing upon phenomenology, hermeneutics, and post-structuralism, Koumparoudis offers a deeper understanding of these concepts.

Free Download Massimo Dell’Utri, "Hilary Putnam’s Philosophical Naturalism: Making Philosophy Matter for Life"
English | ISBN: 166691231X | 2024 | 276 pages | EPUB, PDF | 400 KB + 2 MB
Hilary Putnam’s Philosophical Naturalism: Making Philosophy Matter for Life emphasizes both the nature of Hilary Putnam’s link to the Neopositivist tradition and his progressive critical departure from it. Massimo Dell’Utri argues that one of the main senses of this departure resides in implicitly revealing that there is no opposition between philosophy concerned with hard technical questions and philosophy concerned with "how to live." It is this innovative combination that made Putnam offer what is widely regarded as the most sensible interpretation of philosophical naturalism ever articulated. From the latter comes a multilevel image of reality, the realization of which required a lifelong reflection not only on science and its importance, but also on mathematics, knowledge, mind, truth, religion, morality, and more. This variegated reflection provides insight into how, despite shifts in opinion, Putnam’s thought reveals strong continuities and a systematic backbone issues of central philosophical importance.

Free Download Klaus Mathis, Deborah Shannon, "Efficiency Instead of Justice?: Searching for the Philosophical Foundations of the Economic Analysis of Law"
English | 2009 | pages: 222 | ISBN: 1402097972, 9048182034 | PDF | 3,9 mb
Economic analysis of law is an interesting and challenging attempt to employ the concepts and reasoning methods of modern economic theory so as to gain a deeper understanding of legal problems. According to Richard A. Posner it is the role of the law to encourage market competition and, where the market fails because transaction costs are too high, to simulate the result of competitive markets. This would maximize economic efficiency and social wealth.

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 The Sculpted Word: Epicureanism and Philosophical Recruitment in Ancient Greece
by Bernard Frischer
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0520358686 | 368 Pages | True PDF | 19.5 MB

Free Download Bernard Frischer, "Sculpted Word: Epicureanism and Philosophical Recruitment in Ancient Greece"
English | ISBN: 0520307356 | 2022 | 370 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
This study of the recruitment techniques used by the philosophical schools of Hellenistic Greece. Bernard Frischer focusses on the Epicureans, who are of special interest because their approach was at once extremely passive and extremely successful. Unlike other philosophical schools, which depended primarioly on public lectures and books, the Epicureans avoided contract with the dominant culture and attracted members by erecting statues of Epicurus and their other master in public places. These iconologically rich, "sculpted words" appealed to teh very people most likely to be attracted to Epicureanism, those most likely to accept the philosophy of materialism, sensationalism, and the repression of feeling, and those who sought a way of life sperate from teh dominant culture. This book is an innovative application of an inter-disciplinary humanistic an social-scientific approach to ancient Greek philosophy and art. It will appeal to those interested in the history of these subjects and those interested in the sociology of knowledge and communication. This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.

Free Download Huaping Lu-Adler, "Kant and the Science of Logic: A Historical and Philosophical Reconstruction"
English | ISBN: 0190907134 | 2018 | 272 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Immanuel Kant’s enduring influence on philosophy is indisputable. In particular, Kant transformed debates on the fundamental questions in logic, and it is the significance and complexity of this accomplishment that Huaping Lu-Adler here explores.

Free Download German Dictionary of Philosophical Terms Worterbuch Philosophischer Fachbegriffe Englisch: Vol 1: German-English/English-German (Routledge Bilingual Specialist Dictionaries , So2) By Philip Herdina, Elmar Waibl
1998 | 2 Pages | ISBN: 0415178908 | PDF | 28 MB
The dictionary contains some 20,000 technical terms, covering all areas of philosophy including topical and philosophically related terminology from related disciplines such as art, religion, psychology, natural sciences, law, politics, feminism and ecology.

Free Download Brian Bruya, "The Philosophical Challenge from China"
English | ISBN: 0262028433 | 2015 | 393 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Rigorously argued and meticulously researched, an investigation of current topics in philosophy that is informed by the Chinese philosophical tradition.