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Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 30
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Series
Proceedings of the British Academy volume no.149
Publisher
Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Creates a history of human scientific achievement as revealed by the lives and individual accomplishments of such scientists as Andreas Vesalius, Nicholaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Charles Darwin, Galileo, and Gregor Mendel.
18) Cartesius
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Italiano
Description
René Descartes was known as the "Father of modern philosophy." Depicts the seventeenth-century thinker's agonized struggle to assert the primacy of reason. An intimate, psychological study of obsession and existential crisis.
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
p1998.
Language
English
Description
"Focuses on the revolution of the intellect that seized Europe between 1600 and 1800 -- a revolution whose lights and shadows are all around us still. This course consolidates and enhances material from two of Professor Kors's earlier courses, The origin of the modern mind and The mind of the enlightenment"--container.
Author
Series
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
This course explores how leading Western philosophers and theologians such as Kant, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Martin Buber, Bertrand Russell, Martin Heidegger, Rowan Williams, and Jacques Derrida have defined and debated, defended and attacked religion. Some are pious and some are atheists. Some are philosophers who explain why religion is essential for human life, and some are philosophers who just as rationally explain why religion is...
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