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Tolerance: The Beacon of the Enlightenment
Inspired by Voltaire’s advice that a text needs to be concise to have real influence, this anthology contains fiery extracts by forty eighteenth-century authors, from the most famous philosophers of the age to those whose brilliant writings are less well-known. These passages are immensely diverse in style and topic, but all have in common a passionate commitment to equality, freedom, and tol…
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Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined
How do we evaluate ambiguous concepts such as wellbeing, freedom, and social justice? How do we develop policies that offer everyone the best chance to achieve what they want from life? The capability approach, a theoretical framework pioneered by the philosopher and economist Amartya Sen in the 1980s, has become an increasingly influential way to think about these issues. Wellbeing, Freed…
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Autobiografie scolastiche e scelta universitaria
The transformations of our society place the onus on the teaching professions to acquire new skills to enable them to respond to the needs of a complex reality in constant evolution. This is why the Degree Course for Professional Educator has gone through ongoing radical changes over recent years, designed to synthesise the theoretical and practical dimensions. This book is aimed at recording s…
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Aufklärung, Wissenschaft und lebensentfaltende Bildung
Aufklärung durch Wissenschaft war und ist die große Hoffnung der Moderne. Peter Faulstich greift das Verhältnis von Aufklärung, Bildung und Wissenschaft grundlegend auf und kontrastiert die Epochenprobleme der Aufklärung mit gegenwärtigen Debatten.Es zeigt sich ein Fortwirken der Fragen bis heute - wenn auch in veränderter Form. Der Rückbezug zur Aufklärung - als Aufgreifen unabgeschlo…
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Ästhetik der Unabgeschlossenheit
Der Programmatik des lebenslangen Lernens ist ein Subjektverständnis eingeschrieben, welches das Denken an aufklärerische Wurzeln zurückführt - und zwar im Sinne einer durch Menschen verantworteten und allein auf menschliche Vernunft begründeten Selbststeuerung. Peter Schlögl zeigt: Dieser andauernde Auftrag gewollter Unabgeschlossenheit an jeden Einzelnen kann als Daseinsmetaphorik geles…
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TASTE
Taste usually occupies the bottom of the sensorial hierarchy, as the quintessentially hedonistic sense, too close to the animal, the elemental and the corporeal, and for this reason disciplined and moralised. At the same time, taste is indissolubly tied to knowledge. To taste is to discriminate, emit judgement, enter an unstable domain of synaesthetic normativity where the certainty of metaphys…
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Die Kalenderbriefe des Georg Albrecht Hamberger - im Kontext der Kalenderrefo…
Mit der päpstlichen Bulle „Inter Gravissimas“ wurde 1582 der nach Papst Gregor XIII. benannte Gregorianische Kalender eingeführt. In Deutschland wurde dieser Kalender anfangs nur von katholisch regierten Ländern übernommen. Die protestantischen lehnten ihn grundsätzlich - weil vom Papst angeordnet - ab. Das führte zum Paradoxon einer doppelten Kalenderführung in Deutschland während …
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Die Europaidee im Zeitalter der Aufklärung
In view of the challenges—many of which are political—that different European countries are currently facing, scholars who work on the 18th century have compiled this anthology which includes earlier recognitions of common values and past considerations of questions which often remain pertinent nowadays. During the Enlightenment, many men and women of letters envisaged the continent’s fut…
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World Religions
This module will provide students with an introduction to religion as an academic discipline. The module Learning Unit will familiarize students with the difficulties of defining religion as an academic category, explore academic theories for understanding individual religious impetus, and provide a definitional criteria for the term ‘World Religion.’ From there, the student will analyze th…
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Philosophy in the Humanities
This textbook is an introduction to philosophy in the humanities. It covers the foundations of philosophy, axiology, epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy in practice.
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