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Offering a reading of Kant's "Critique of Judgment", this book draws on the great volume of philosophical work on the text and on the context of 18th Century aesthetics. His text is used as a basis on which to construct a radical alternative solution to the antinomy of taste, the basic problem of the aesthetic.

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Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment is widely held to be the seminal work of modern aesthetics. In recent years it has been the focus of intense interest and debate not only in philosophy but also in literary theory and all disciplines concerned with the aesthetic.

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Offering a comprehensive overview and introduction to the concept of relativism and relativistic arguments, this book investigates the reasons that contribute to the 'evergreen' status of relativism and asks: why does relativism remain a constant occurrence in the writings of the humanities and what accounts for its popular appeal

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Relativism, the view that knowledge is relative to time, culture, group and/or individual, remains a pervasive intellectual position in philosophy. This book investigates several varieties of relativism proposed over the centuries and identifies relativism as a central strand of thought that permeates much of post-colonial and postmodern thinking.

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Kant argues that beauty is subjective, but the judgment of taste about beauty is capable of universal validity. This work re-examines the relationship between "free play" and the "form of purposiveness" in Kant's aesthetics, and restores the "aesthetic ideas" to their rightful centrality in Kant's theory.

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In modern philosophy, German idealism, Hegel in particular, is said to have made significant innovative steps in redefining the meaning, scope and use of dialectic. This book brings together an international team of expert contributors in a discussion of Hegelian dialectic.

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In modern philosophy, German idealism, Hegel in particular, is said to have made significant innovative steps in redefining the meaning, scope and use of dialectic. This title studies the significance of Hegel's dialectic. It examines the epistemological import of Hegelian dialectic in the widest sense.

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Franz Brentano (1838-1917) is almost unique as a forefather of both Analytic and Continental philosophy. His claim to fame is the reintroduction of intentionality (the 'aboutness' of consciousness) to the modern philosophy of mind. This book offers interpretations of a central philosophical concept employed in the Brentano School.

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Philosophers who wish to argue for the rationality of belief in God frequently employ a 'god-of-the-gaps' strategy. Drawing on work in the theory of action, this book shows that we can attribute God's agency to an event in nature without eliminating the possibility that it might be explained scientifically.

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Because of Baruch Spinoza's radical transformation of the concept of God, he has been characterized as "God-intoxicated man." This book provides an exploration of what Spinoza understood God to be; how, for him, the infinite and eternal power of God is expressed; and how finite human beings can have a true idea of God.

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An historical analysis that challenges traditional readings which have reduced two of German idealism's most important thinkers to opposing caricatures: Hegel the uncompromising systematist, blind to the novelty and contingency of human life and Schelling the protean thinker, drawn to all manner of pseudoscientific charlatanry.

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A timely and original study that unites two growing areas of research in Hegel and Schelling Studies.

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Provides an assessment of feminist rejections of rationality and a reconstruction of the concept to meet feminist demands. This book represents a sustained argument for a feminist theory of rationality. It opens by asking the question: is reason inherently masculine

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Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus are arguably the most celebrated representatives of the 'Golden Age' of scholasticism. Looking at the belief of Aquinas maintaining that our knowledge of God is confused and Scotus that it is accurate, here, the author argues that the truth about Aquinas and Scotus lies somewhere in the middle.

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Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus are representatives of the 'Golden Age' of scholasticism. They are known for their work in natural theology, which seeks to demonstrate tenets of faith without recourse to premises rooted in dogma or revelation. This book offers an examination of natural theology in the 'Golden Age' of scholastic philosophy.

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Shows how tolerance connects with the practice of philosophy. This book examines the virtue of tolerance as it appears in several historical contexts: Socratic philosophy, Stoic philosophy, Pragmatism, and Existentialism.

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Re-assesses the contributions of Hegel and Schelling to post-Kantian metaphysics and the contributions of these great German Idealist thinkers to contemporary thought. This book shows how far we still have to go in mining the thought of Hegel and Schelling and how exciting, as a result, we can expect twenty-first century philosophy to be.

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Proposes that agents must be motivated correctly to acquire knowledge, even in the case of perception. This book examines the empirical research in cognitive science and moral psychology to build an account of knowledge wherein an agent must perform acts of virtue in order to get knowledge.

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Combining conceptual analysis with well established empirical evidence, this is an important new book in analytical epistemology.