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Provides a look at how Spinoza went from being one of Judaism's most notorious outcasts to one of its most celebrated, if still highly controversial, cultural icons, and a powerful and protean symbol of the first modern secular Jew. This book chronicles Spinoza's posthumous odyssey from marginalized heretic to hero.

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Shows how the Four Books - "The Greater Learning", "The Analects", "The Mencius", and "The Doctrine of the Mean" - have been read and understood by the Chinese since the twelfth century. This book provides an introduction to the later imperial Confucian tradition; and illustrates the nature of the standard educational curriculum.

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Includes an English translation of Arab Sicilian sage Ibn Zafar's Sulwan al-Muta', a manual of statecraft written 350 years before Machiavelli's The Prince. Analysis of the principles of good leadership, with examples from both the mediaeval and modern world.

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This collection of essays suggests that Spinoza is an unsuspected but very real presence in the work of contemporary philosophers from Deleuze to Derrida. This text articulates that presence, aiming to make the influence and significance of Spinoza clear for a new generation of philosophers.

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This is a collection of five essays debating the nature and scope of ancient scepticism, and providing an introduction to the thought of the original sceptics. The book seeks to shed new light on how their thought relates to sceptical arguments in modern philosophy.

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This is a collection of five essays debating the nature and scope of ancient scepticism, providing an introduction to the thought of the original sceptics. The book seeks to shed new light on how their thought relates to sceptical arguments in modern philosophy.

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In the Louvre museum hangs a portrait that is considered the iconic image of Rene Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher. And the painter of the work The Dutch master Frans Hals--or so it was long believed, until the work was downgraded to a copy of an original. But where is the authentic version, and who painted it Is the ma

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In the Louvre museum hangs a portrait of a middle-aged man and he is dressed in the starched white collar and black coat of the typical Dutch burgher. The painting is now the iconic image of Ren Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher. This book offers an exploration of a celebrated philosopher's world and work.

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This, the 21st volume in the "Library of Living Philosophers", consists of 24 papers by major figures in philosophy, each addressing a key problem arising in A.J. Ayer's work. Most of the critical papers are answered in detail by Ayer himself.

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This, the 21st volume in the "Library of Living Philosophers", consists of 24 papers by major figures in philosophy, each addressing a key problem arising in A.J. Ayer's work. Most of the critical papers are answered in detail by Ayer himself.

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Part of a series of studies of contemporary philosophers, this volume focuses on Alfred North Whitehead.

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This volume is one of the most significant documents on the thought of the giant of the twentieth-century philosophy. Russell's 'Reply to Criticisms, ' supplemented by a 1971 'Addendum, ' displays his unrivalled clarity, perceptiveness, and scalpel-like wit, on topics ranging from mathematical logic to political philosophy, from epistemology to philosophy of history.

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The intellectual autobiography of von Wright, the renowned Scandinavian philosopher, born in Helsinki in 1916. The work also contains 32 major criticisms of his ideas and von Wright's replies to each of these papers.

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Part of a series of studies of contemporary philosophers, this volume focuses on Jean-Paul Sartre.