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Free Download Herbert Marcuse, "Reason and Revolution "
English | ISBN: 1032533919 | 2023 | 416 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1397 KB + 3 MB
Few philosophers have had a more lasting impact on the philosophy of history than Friedrich Hegel. Reason and Revolution is Herbert Marcuse’s brilliant interpretation of Hegel’s philosophy and the influence it has had on political thought, from the French Revolution to the twentieth century.

Free Download David Owen, "Hume’s Reason"
English | 2002 | pages: 245 | ISBN: 0199252602, 0198238312 | PDF | 1,4 mb
David Owen explores Hume’s account of reason and its role in human understanding, seen in the context of other notable accounts by philosophers of the early modern period. Owen offers new interpretations of many of Hume’s most famous arguments, about demonstration and the relation of ideas, induction, belief, and scepticism. Hume’s Reason will be illuminating not just to historians of modern philosophy but to all philosophers who are concerned with the workings of human cognition.

Free Download David S. Owen, "Between Reason and History: Habermas and the Idea of Progress"
English | 2002 | pages: 233 | ISBN: 079145410X, 0791454096 | PDF | 1,5 mb
Examines crucial moments of transition in Spanish culture and society during both dictatorship and democracy.

Free Download Return to Reason: The Science of Thought (Audiobook)
English | November 10, 2020 | ASIN: B085YF9K59 | M4B@125 kbps | 3h 24m | 185.51 MB
Author: Scientific American
Narrator: Janet Metzger
Why do facts fail to change people’s minds? In this audiobook, we examine how we form our beliefs and maintain them with a host of cognitive biases, the difference between intelligence and thinking rationally, and some solutions for how to overcome these obstacles both in reasoning with others and in dealing with our own prejudices.

Free Download Beatrix Himmelmann, "The Court of Reason: Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress"
English | ISBN: 3110700700 | 2021 | 885 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
The Proceedings present the contributions to the 13th International Kant Congress which was held at the University of Oslo, August 6-9, 2019. The congress, which hosted speakers from more than thirty countries and five continents, was dedicated to the topic of the court of reason. The idea that reason stands before itself as a tribunal characterizes the whole of Kant’s critical project. Without such a court, reason falls into conflict with itself. With such a court in place, however, it may succeed in establishing the possibility and limits of metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, law and science. The idea of reason being its own judge is not only pivotal to a proper understanding of Kant’s philosophy, but can also shed light on the burgeoning fields of meta-philosophy and philosophical methodology. The 2019 Kant Congress put special emphasis on Kant’s methodology, his account of conceptual critique, and the relevance of his ideas to current issues in especially political philosophy and the philosophy of law. Additional sections discussed a wide range of topics in Kant’s philosophy.

Free Download Michael Frauchiger, "Reason, Justification, and Contractualism: Themes from Scanlon "
English | ISBN: 3110738430 | 2021 | 170 pages | EPUB | 1263 KB
This book collects major original essays developed from lectures given at the award of the Lauener Prize 2016 to T. M. Scanlon for his outstanding oeuvre in Analytical philosophy. In Contractualism and Justification, Scanlon identifies some difficulties in his theory and explores possible ways to deal with them. In Improving Scanlon’s Contractualism, D. Parfit recommends revisions and extensions of Scanlon’s theory, while R. Forst suggests in Justification Fundamentalism that Scanlon may want to replace reason with justification as his foundational concept. T. Nagel raises fundamental questions concerning Moral Reality and Moral Progress, and S. Mantel offers in On How to Explain Rational Motivation a critical discussion of Scanlon’s cognitivist theory of motivation. Z. Stemplowska does the same for Scanlon’s conception of responsibility in Substantive Responsibility and the Causal Thesis, and S. Olsaretti suggests in Equality of Opportunity and Justified Inequalities an alternative to Scanlon’s arguments against economic inequalities. All contributors receive extensive replies by Scanlon. For anyone interested in Scanlon’s seminal work in moral and political philosophy, the present volume is utterly indispensable.

Free Download Foucault and Political Reason By Barry, Andrew(Editor);Osborne, Thomas(Editor);Rose, Nikolas(Editor)
1996 | 278 Pages | ISBN: 1857284313 | PDF | 17 MB
These twelve essays provide a critical introduction to Foucault’s work on politics, exploring its relevance to past and current thinking about liberal and neo-liberal forms of government. Moving away from the great texts of liberal political philosophy, this book looks closely at the technical means with which the ideals of liberal political rationalities have been put into practice in such areas as schools, welfare, the insurance industry, and the self-esteem movement in California.

Free Download Violence – Reason – Fear: Interdisciplinary approaches and theoretical approaches
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3658408855 | 335 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 4 MB
The book explores the question of the significance of fear and reason in the context of cultural violence and subjective different experiences of violence. Perspectives from the social sciences, educational philosophy and cultural studies open up an interdisciplinary approach to violence of culture and media, the experience of fear and vulnerability as well as strangeness and rage.

Free Download The Reason of the Gift By Jean-Luc Marion
2011 | 119 Pages | ISBN: 0813931789 | PDF | 2 MB
This book represents a continuation of Jean-Luc Marion’s work on givenness as a foundational concept. A former student of Jacques Derrida, Marion is known for his work in seventeenth-century French philosophy, for his theory of "God without being," and for his reformulation of phenomenology. Marion’s groundbreaking work on givenness is articulated through attentive readings in a striking array of philosophical texts. The four pieces collected here, based on the fall 2008 Richard Lectures at the University of Virginia, expand upon and go beyond the lines of Marion’s previous work and exemplify the intersection of his own constructive brilliance with his talent and rigor as a historian of philosophy. Reengaging philosophers long central to Marion’s own work (Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas) and highlighting the significance of lesser-known but decisive influences (Natorp, Rickert, Meinong), these lectures will be valuable to readers interested in the ongoing conversation seeking to bridge the divide between Continental and analytic philosophies, particularly through the exploration of common points of origin. These pieces tackle some of the most pressing debates in contemporary European philosophy and offer students of Marion material to ponder as they seek to further understand his influences. Taken together, these essays form an important volume by a major figure in contemporary philosophy.

Free Download Christopher Wolfe, "Natural Law and Public Reason"
English | 2000 | pages: 215 | ISBN: 0878407669, 0878407650 | PDF | 24,2 mb
"Public reason" is one of the central concepts in modern liberal political theory. As articulated by John Rawls, it presents a way to overcome the difficulties created by intractable differences among citizens’ religious and moral beliefs by strictly confining the place of such convictions in the public sphere.