Critical and comparative analysis on the philosophical thoughts of ʻAlī Sharīʻatī and Sir Muhammad Iqbal, 19th and 20th centuries Muslim philosophers.

Cosmology and the development of human society.

Sanskrit text, with Sanskrit commentary of Anantaśaktipāda and English explanation on Śaivism, and Hindu philosophy.

Study on the contributions of Vācaspatimiśra, fl. 976-1000 and Vijñānabhikṣu, 16th cent., commentrators and philosophers to Sankhya and Yoga philosophy.

Bakhsh-i avval. Akhlāq-i Islāmī -- Bakhsh-i duvvum. Ādāb-i ijtimāʻī.

Influence of social culture change to the human development in Vietnam.

In addition to thin concepts like the good, the bad and the ugly, our evaluative thought and talk appeals to thick concepts like the lewd and the rude, the selfish and the cruel, the courageous and the kind -- concepts that somehow combine evaluation and non-evaluative description. Thick concepts are almost universally assumed to be inherently evaluative in content, and many philosophers claimed them to have deep and distinctive significance in ethics and metaethics. In this first book-length treatment of thick (...) concepts, Pekka Väyrynen argues that all this is mistaken. Through detailed attention to the language of thick concepts, he defends a novel theory on which the relationship between thick words and evaluation is best explained by general conversational and pragmatic norms. Drawing on general principles in philosophy of language, he argues that many prominent features of thick words and concepts can be explained by general factors that have nothing in particular to do with being evaluative. If evaluation is not essential to the sort of thinking we do with thick concepts, claims for the deep and distinctive significance of the thick are undermined. The Lewd, the Rude and the Nasty is a fresh and innovative treatment of an important topic in moral philosophy and sets a new agenda for future work. It will be essential reading to anyone interested in the analysis and the broader philosophical significance of evaluative and normative language. (shrink)

Interpretation of Amr̥tānubhava, work on Advaita philosophy, by Jñānadeva, fl. 1290.

Este es el libro más personal y más original del principal filósofo del Derecho mexicano de su generación. Se trata de una obra de madurez que es el reflejo de muchas lecturas y de muchas vivencias. Entre las lecturas se encuentran las de los autores con los que Rodolfo Vázquez entabla aquí un diálogo a propósito de la religión: Spinoza, Bayle, Voltaire, Hume, Feuerbach, James, Russell, Gaos, Tierno Galván, Horkheimer, Camus, Dworkin y Octavio Paz. Y en ese ejercicio intelectual que (...) tiene mucho de autobiográfico (el diálogo lo es también con los diversos yoes del autor: a la madurez se llega con esfuerzo y no es tampoco una estación de destino) se van dibujando las etapas por las que habría transcurrido su itinerario vital en materia de religión: indiferencia, apasionamiento, secularización y ateísmo, hasta llegar a la serenidad del agnóstico que no echa de menos a Dios. Con una prosa ágil y precisa, Rodolfo Vázquez muestra en esta obra que los grandes temas de la filosofía se pueden tratar de manera amena y profunda al mismo tiempo. Y nos hace ver incluso que los problemas que giran en torno a la idea de Dios o de lo sagrado pueden resultar de interés también para aquellos que no tienen oído para la religión. (shrink)

Study of the Dvaita and Advaita philosophy of Nyāyamr̥ta and Advaitasiddhi, two classical text.

Life and work of George Edward Moore, 1873-1958, philosopher.

On theories in Indian Philosophical Systems.

Islamic ethics -- Early works to 1800. ; Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, -1504 or 150; Akhlāq-i Muḥsinī.