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This is the first English translation of Santob do Carrion's Proverbios morales (Moral Proverbs) and also the first book-length study of that monumental work. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist o

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With the news constantly filled with images of human immorality and indecency, it would seem that human nature is selfish, greedy and cruel. This text argues that although we publicly describe ourselves as having no moral nature, we do in fact behave morally.

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Controversies about abortion, the environment, pornography, AIDS, and similar issues naturally lead to the question of whether there are any values that can be ultimately justified, or whether values are simply conventional. This book argues that the moral and political uncertainties are due to a deep change in our society.

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An original collection of essays that aimsto grasp Nietzsche's prescience through Heidegger's critique of hisunderstanding ofnihilism. >

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Includes the essays that offer an attempt to grasp Nietzsche's prescience through Heidegger's critique of it, and so by attempting to think through the philosophical consequences of the last century in reading the signs of our own condition. This book also provides a discussion of some of the lesser-known texts of the later Heidegger.

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The Myth of Evil explores a contradiction at the heart of modern thought about what it is to be human: the belief that a human being cannot commit a radically evil act purely for its own sake and the evidence that radically evil acts are committed not by inhuman monsters, but by human beings.

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The work sketches the main outlines of Indian naturalism as it appears in both systematic and unsystematic speculation before its decline in the Indian Middle Ages, which began around the time of Muhammed.

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An examination of ideas and ideals of medieval courtly love and the transition into later Romantic love, analyzing the work of Dante, Shakespeare, and Schopenhauer, among many others.

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An analysis of concepts of bestowal, appraisal, imagination, and idealization followed by explorations into the writings of thinkers that include Plato, Ovid, and Martin Luther.

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Offers a theory of rationality, the one characteristic deemed to fix humanity's "specialness." This book combines speculations with investigations to portray the nature and status of rationality and the essential role that imagination plays in this singular human aptitude.

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These essays center around two questions: Does truth have an underlying nature And if so, what sort of nature does it have

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The interest in aesthetics in Philosophy, Literary and Cultural Studies is growing rapidly. 'The new aestheticism' contains exemplary essays by key practitioners in these fields which demonstrate the importance of this area of enquiry.

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This collection of essays addresses the significance of Bergson's philosophical legacy for contemporary thought, his work is examined in terms set by modern debates in metaphysics, relativity theory, evolutionary theory, philosophy of mind, environmentalism and aesthetics.

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Martin Heidegger's work is pivotal in the history of modern European philosophy. The New Heidegger presents a comprehensive and stimulating overview of, and introduction to, the work of one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of our time.

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Martin Heidegger's work is pivotal in the history of modern European philosophy. The New Heidegger presents a comprehensive and stimulating overview of, and introduction to, the work of one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of our time.

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Brings together some of the world's most important contemporary writers from such diverse fields as metaethics, epistemology and moral psychology to explore the advanced implications of and challenges to Robert Audi's intuitionism - the idea that human beings have an intuitive sense of right and wrong - in ethics.