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"This new anthology of early modern philosophy enriches the possibilities for teaching this period by highlighting not only metaphysics and epistemology but also new themes such as virtue, equality and difference, education, the passions, and love. It contains the works of 43 philosophers, including traditionally taught figures such as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, as well as less familiar writers such as Lord Shaftesbury, Anton Amo, Julien Offray de La Mettrie, and Denis Diderot. It also highlights the contributions of women philosophers, including Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, Gabrielle Suchon, Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz, and Emilie Du Châtelet."--

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The current essay aims to highlighting the importance of Magris' Utopia e disincanto. The year of its first publication (1999) was a watershed moment in his career, as it paved the way to a new season of public engagement and historical analysis, which can be also seen in his later essays and novels. Twenty years later, Utopia e disincanto is still a manifesto for modernity, a deeply contemporary book where Magris' analytical view is headed towards an idea of universal literature, an idea of Weltliteratur that should be a tool to understand the changes in which mankind is involved. Literature is meant to be a tool to investigate the dark sides hidden among the folds of History.

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Pourquoi étudier la philosophie ? A quoi servent les cours de philosophie au cégep ? Voilà des questions auxquelles tout professeur est sommé de répondre à l'occasion. Et même si elles ne sont pas explicitement formulées, on les sent suspendues dans l'air du temps, parfois au-dessus de la tête de certains décideurs qui aimeraient bien édulcorer la formation générale, question de l'alléger ou de la rendre plus attrayante.Pourtant, à divers degrés, toutes et cous philosophent, et ont besoin de le faire. C'est une exigence d'autant plus essentielle que ni la science ni les religions ne peuvent se substituer à la réflexion philosophique. Cet ouvrage se propose donc d'éclairer la signification et la pertinence de la philosophie aujourd'hui. En tâchant de cerner la nature et le rôle de cette dernière, il s'efforce de répondre avec clarté et sans détour à ces questions, livrant du même coup un vibrant plaidoyer pour cette activité proprement humaine qu'est philosopher.

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In this book, Kovács looks at the role of thought experiments and intuition in ethical reasoning through examples from fiction, biblical parables, and academic philosophy. The volume provides professors of ethics with a practical toolkit to discuss abstract moral questions through stories and imaginary scenarios in lecture halls, and to reach out not only to the minds, but also to the hearts of their students.

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David Hume (1711-1776) swam in the eighteenth-century philosophic waters created and dominated by Scottish Presbyterian thought and politics. Robert Case argues that this reformed environment is expressed, however inchoately, in much of what Hume wrote. Hume's eighteenth-century views on experience, customs, and common life provide a viable social and political framework for American contemporary life. If the New Testament writer Jude marinated his theological thoughts in the midst of the prevailing Jewish culture of his day in order to arrive at the inspired narrative of his little book, and if the American founding fathers can be said to establish a ""Christian"" nation, however that is defined, David Hume can be said to have been greatly influenced by the Scottish political and theological pieties of John Knox (1513-1572), Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661) and their successors. Into our post-Christian culture, David Hume's notion of the power of custom offers a non-religious-based society as an alternative for securing stable, secure, and satisfying social relationships and structures in which Christianity can flourish. Robert Case's principal objective is to show how Hume's ambassadorial task of straddling the world of the academy and the world of the main street is relevant for today's American post-Christian evangelical mindset.

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