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The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
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This best-selling dictionary is written by one of the most famous philosophers of our time, and it is widely recognized as the best dictionary of its kind. Comprehensive and authoritative, it covers every aspect of philosophy from Aristotle to Zen. With clear and concise definitions, it provides lively and accessible coverage of not only Western ...
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Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics
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It is not only in our dark hours that scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism dog ethics. Whether it is a matter of giving to charity, or sticking to duty, or insisting on our rights, we can be confused, or be paralysed by the fear that our principles are groundless. Many are afraid that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as ...
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Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy
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What am I? What is consciousness? What is the difference between past and future? Does the world presuppose a creator? Do we always act out of self-interest? This is a book about the big questions in life: knowledge, consciousness, fate, God, truth, goodness, justice. It is for anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not ...
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Lust
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Lust, says Simon Blackburn, is furtive, headlong, always sizing up opportunities. It is a trail of clothing in the hallway, the trashy cousin of love. But be that as it may, the aim of this delightful book is to rescue lust "from the denunciations of old men of the deserts, to deliver it from the pallid and envious confessor and the stocks and ...
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Truth: A Guide for the Baffled
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The author of the highly popular book "Think" illuminates "the most exciting and engaging issue in the whole of philosophy"--the age-old war over truth.
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Plato's Republic: A Biography
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Simon Blackburn
Plato is perhaps the most significant philosopher who has ever lived and "The Republic," composed in Athens in about 375 BC, is widely regarded as his most famous dialogue. Its discussion of the perfect city -- and the perfect mind -- laid the foundations for Western culture and, for over two thousand years, has been the cornerstone of Western ...
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Plato's Republic
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Blackburn explains the judicial, moral, and political ideas in "The Republic." He also examines its remarkable influence and unquestioned staying power, and shows why, from St. Augustine to 20th-century philosophers, Western thought is still conditioned by Platos book. Unabridged. 1 MP3 CD.
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Ethics: a Very Short Introduction
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Simon Blackburn
Our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures is dogged by scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism, by the fear that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and tribalistic, or competitive and aggressive. In this 'sparklingly clear' (Guardian) introduction to ethics, Simon Blackburn ...
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Truth: A Guide
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Blackburn offers a tour de force exploration of what he calls "the most exciting and engaging issue in the whole of philosophy"--the age-old war over truth. Among the questions Blackburn considers are: Is science mere opinion, can historians understand another historical period, and indeed can one culture ever truly understand another?
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Spreading the Word: Groundings in the Philosophy of Language
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Simon Blackburn
Provides a comprehensive introduction to the major philosophical theories attempting to explain the workings of language.
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Anglo-Saxon England
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Simon Keynes (Editor), Malcolm Godden (Editor), Mark Blackburn (Editor)
Four very different kinds of Anglo-Saxon thinking are clarified in this volume: traditions, learned and oral, about the settlement of the country, study of foreign-language grammar, interest in exotic jewels as reflections of the glory of God, and a mainly rational attitude to medicine. Publication of no less than three discoveries augments our ...
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Ruling Passions
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Simon Blackburn
Simon Blackburn puts forward a compelling original philosophy of human motivation and morality. He maintains that we cannot get clear about ethics until we get clear about human nature. So these are the sorts of questions he addresses: Why do we behave as we do? Can we improve? Is our ethics at war with our passions, or is it an upshot of those ...
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How to Read Hume
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Simon Blackburn
'Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man' - David Hume. David Hume is generally recognized as the United Kingdom's greatest philosopher, as well as a notable historian and essayist, and a central figure of the Enlightenment. Yet his work is delicately poised between scepticism and naturalism, between despair at the ...
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Essays in Quasi-Realism
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Simon Blackburn
This volume collects together some influential essays in which Simon Blackburn explores one of the most profound and fertile of philosophical problems: the way in which our judgements relate to the world. This debate has centered on realism, or the view that what we say is validated by the way things stand in the world, and a variety of ...
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Reason & Prediction
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Simon Blackburn
An original study of the philosophical problems associated with inductive reasoning. Like most of the main questions in epistemology, the classical problem of induction arises from doubts about a mode of inference used to justify some of our most familiar and pervasive beliefs. The experience of each individual is limited and fragmentary, yet the ...
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Ruling Passions: A Theory of Practical Reasoning
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Simon Blackburn puts forward a compelling original philosophy of human motivation and morality. He maintains that we cannot get clear about ethics until we get clear about human nature. So these are the sorts of questions he addresses: Why do we behave as we do? Can we improve? Is our ethics at war with our passions, or is it an upshot of those ...
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Enumeration of Finite Groups
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Simon R Blackburn, Peter M Neumann, Geetha Venkataraman
How many groups of order n are there? This is a natural question for anyone studying group theory, and this Tract provides an exhaustive and up-to-date account of research into this question spanning almost fifty years. The authors presuppose an undergraduate knowledge of group theory, up to and including Sylow's Theorems, a little knowledge of ...
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Meaning, Reference and Necessity: New Studies in Semantics
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A volume of studies in philosophical logic by a group of younger philosophers in the UK. There is a core of problems in the theory of meaning which have been accorded a central importance by philosophers, logicians and theoretical linguists, and which have stimulated some of the most powerful and original work in these subjects. The contributors ...
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Pensar: Una Incitacion a la Filosofia
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Simon Blackurn, Simon Blackburn
Este es un libro sobre las grandes cuestiones de la vida: que soy?, presupone el mundo un creador?, actuamos siempre de forma egoista?, que son el conocimiento, la conciencia, el destino, Dios, la verdad, la bondad o la justicia? El texto esta dirigido a todos aquellos que creen que las grandes cuestiones existen, y tienen una gran importancia, ...
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Lujuria
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Platon, Der Staat
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Simon; Hetzel Blackburn, Andreas
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Truth
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Simon Blackburn (Editor), Keith Simmons (Editor)
The aim of the series is to bring together important recent writing in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly periodicals, which may not be conveniently available to the university student or the general reader. The editors of each volume contribute an introductory essay on the items chosen and on the ...
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Anatomy Questions for the Mrcs
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Christopher Wood, Simon Blackburn, Omar Faiz (Consultant editor)
This is the only revision resource devoted to anatomy at MRCS level with over 200 questions grouped by anatomical region, each with five true/false parts. "Anatomy Questions for the MRCS" comes in a portable, user-friendly paperback format with answer sections clearly marked to help determine weak areas of knowledge and reinforce learning. Written ...
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Dictionary of Philosophy: a Guide to All Aspects of Philosophy, From Aristotole to Zen
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La Historia De La Republica De Platon/ the History of the Republic of Platon (Spanish Edition)
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