The Philosophy of José Gaos

The Philosophy of José Gaos
Author: Pio Colonnello
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2022-06-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004458948

This book is a critical introduction for English-speaking philosophers to the main lines of thought of José Gaos, an outstanding twentieth-century philosopher who was active first in Spain and then in Mexico. The study traces philosophical methods and cultural themes in Spain, the European continent in general, and Latin America. The author skillfully applies phenomenology to the deep questions raised by Gaos concerning being, time, language, and meaning. Peter Cocozzella has painstakingly translated this ground-breaking study from Italian. Myra Moss and Giovanni Gullace have added useful introductory material. A comprehensive bibliography is included. Values in Italian Philosophy (VIP) offers the English-speaking world outstanding works by classic and contemporary Italian thinkers as well as books on Italian philosophy.

History of Philosophy

History of Philosophy
Author: Julian Marias
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2012-10-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0486121933

Thorough and lucid survey of Western philosophy from pre-Socratics to mid 20th century — major figures, currents, trends. Valuable section on contemporary philosophy — Brentano, Ortega, Heidegger, others. "Brevity and clarity of exposition..." — Ethics.

The Sublime Seneca

The Sublime Seneca
Author: Erik Gunderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2015-01-26
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1316240975

This is an extended meditation on ethics in literature across the Senecan corpus. There are two chapters on the Moral Letters, asking how one is to read philosophy or how one can write about being. Moving from the Letters to the Natural Questions and Dialogues, Professor Gunderson explores how authorship works at the level both of the work and of the world, the ethics of seeing, and the question of how one can give up on the here and now and behold instead some other, better ethical sphere. Seneca's tragedies offer words of caution: desire might well subvert reason at its most profound level (Phaedra), or humanity's painful separation from the sublime might be part of some cruel divine plan (The Madness of Hercules). The book concludes by considering what, if anything, we are to make of Seneca's efforts to enlighten us.

Brill's Companion to Seneca

Brill's Companion to Seneca
Author: Andreas Heil
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 895
Release: 2015-03-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004217088

This new and important introduction to Seneca provides a systematic and concise presentation of this author’s philosophical works and his tragedies. It provides handbook style surveys of each genuine or attributed work, giving dates and brief descriptions, and taking into account the most important philosophical and philological issues. In addition, they provide accounts of the major steps in the history of their later influence. The cultural background of the texts and the most important problem areas within the philosophic and tragic corpus of Seneca are dealt with in separate essays.

On Essence

On Essence
Author: Xavier Zubiri
Publisher:
Total Pages: 540
Release: 1980
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

Life Truth in its Various Perspectives

Life Truth in its Various Perspectives
Author: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9401720851

What is truth? This fascinating spectrum of studies into the various rationalities of our human dealings with life - psychological, aesthetic, economic, spiritual - reveals their joints and calls for a new approach to truth. Putting both classical and contemporary conceptions aside, we find the primogenital ground of truth in the networks of correspondences, adequations, relevancies, and rationales at work in life's becoming. Does this plurivocal differentiation mean that the status of truth is relative? On the contrary, submits Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, given the universal significance of the crucial instrument of the logos of life, "truth is the vortex of life's ontopoietic unfolding".