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In this succinct yet ample work, Zhao Tingyang, one of China`s most distinguished intellectuals, provides a profoundly original philosophical interpretation of China`s story and also develops a Chinese worldview for the future. Over the past few decades, the question Where did China come from? has absorbed the thoughts of many of China`s best historians. Zhao, keenly aware of the persistent and pernicious asymmetry in the prevailing way scholars have gone about theorizing China according to Western concepts and categories, has tasked both Chinese and Western scholars to "rethink China." Zhao introduces what he terms a distinctively Chinese centripetal "whirlpool" model of world order to interpret the historical progression of China’s tianxia (All under Heaven) identity construction. In this book, Zhao forwards a compelling thesis not only on how we should understand China, but also on how China until recently has understood itself.

Ervaringen van de Nederlandse auteur (geb. 1931), die in een boeddhistisch klooster leerling wordt van een Zen-meester.

Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a powerful, philosophical challenge to the most widely held political and social positions of our age -- liberal, socialist and conservative.

"Individuals have rights," Nozick writes in his opening sentence, "and there are things no person or group may do to them without violating their rights." The work that follows is a sophisticated and passionate defence of the rights of the individual as opposed to the state.

The author argues that the state is justified only when it is severely limited to the narrow function of protection against force, theft and fraud and to the enforcement of contracts. Any more extensive activities by the state, he demonstrates, will inevitably violate individual rights.

Among the many achievements of the work are an important new theory of distributive justice, a model of utopia, and an integration of ethics, legal philosophy and economic theory into a profound position in political philosophy which will be discussed for years to come.

Met onder andere het geestelijk testament van C.G. Jung, dat deze op 85-jarige leeftijd (1960) voor de auteur formuleerde

Hoe meer kennis, hoe meer liefde (naar Paracelsus)

A programme for socio-economic change in the world today.

Auteur is psychotherapeute, dit boek gaat over synchroniciteit, zinvol toeval. 

Depressie en doodsdrift

over getallen, de maya`s, het jaar 2012, het vrouwelijk principe en Jung

This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy. The ideas that have undergirded our civilization for 2500 years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment into the modern world. He introduces us to the great thinkers and their ideas, starting with Plato, Aristotle, and the other founders of Western thought. In the second part of the book he takes us through a thousand years of medieval philosophy, and shows us the rich intellectual legacy of Christian thinkers like Augustine, Aquinas, and Ockham. Moving into the early modern period, we explore the great works of Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Leibniz, Spinoza, Hume, and Kant, which remain essential reading today. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Hegel, Mill, Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein again transformed the way we see the world. Running though the book are certain themes which have been constant concerns of philosophy since its early beginnings: the fundamental questions of what exists and how we can know about it. The nature of humanity, the mind, truth, and meaning, the place of God in the universe, how we should live and how society should be ordered. Anthony Kenny traces the development of these themes through the centuries. We see how the questions asked and answers offered by the great philosophers of the past remain vividly alive today. Anyone interested in ideas and their history will find this a fascinating and stimulating read.

The classic chronicle of Chinese philosophical thought from the third millennium to the 20th century.

From the sage-kings of ancient China to the 1911 overthrow of the oldest monarchical system in the world, Chinese philosophy has evolved and influenced schools of thought around the world. In an accessible voice, A Short History of Chinese Philosophy clearly illuminates Confucianism, Taoism, Mohism, Yin-Yang, and more. For those interested in philosophy or Asian studies, this is the perfect window into ancient and modern Chinese ideology.

Essay over het fenomeen migratie tijdens de Egyptische, Griekse en Romeinse oudheid. Historicus Jona Lendering vertelt in ‘Wahibre-em-achet en andere Grieken’, het Themaboekje van de Week van Klassieken 2019, over de tienduizenden migranten in de Oudheid. De Griek Wahibre-em-achet was er daar één van. Als de inscriptie van zijn sarcofaag in het RMO in Leiden niet de namen had vermeld van zijn ouders, Alexikles en Zenodota, zou niets ons hebben doen vermoeden dat hij van Griekse afkomst was. Op hun reizen namen de migranten nieuwe ideeën mee, maar gevaarlijke ziektes werden ook via de reizende massa verspreid. De mens is in het verleden veel mobieler geweest dan wordt gedacht. Jona Lendering schrijft in ‘Wahibre-em-achet en andere Grieken’ over deze landverhuizers aan de hand van zowel antieke verhalen over migratie en archeologisch onderzoek als sociale wetenschappen en de meest recente DNA-vondsten

De idealen van de Franse Revolutie sijpelden in heel Europa door. Een generatie jonge dichters en filosofen dacht na over een nieuwe politieke indeling van Europa die niet langer gebaseerd moest zijn op erfelijke opvolging. Zo ook in universiteitsstad Jena, in het oosten van Duitsland. Belangrijke intellectuelen streken hier neer om met gelijkgestemden te filosoferen over de toekomst. 0Centrale figuren waren de gebroeders Schlegel en hun echtgenotes, de filosoof Schelling en dichter Novalis. Het terreurbewind in Frankrijk, waarbij aristocraten en edellieden via de gruwelijke guillotine waren vermoord, leek hen niet de oplossing. Ze zochten eerder naar een geweldloze oplossing om de idealen 'vrijheid, gelijkheid en broederschap' in praktijk te brengen. Het individu moest centraal staan, waarbij vrijheid van denken het grootste goed was. Een verandering waarvan de impact nog altijd duidelijk merkbaar is. 0Aan de hand van talrijke anekdotes, bronnen en kleurrijke voorbeelden neemt Neumann de lezer mee naar een bijzondere periode uit de geschiedenis. Hij schetst een beeld van een markante gemeenschap van invloedrijke denkers en kunstenaars die aan de wieg stonden van belangrijke hervormingen in de aanloop naar de moderniteit.

Exploring a time of profound change, this book details the intellectual ferment after the fall of the Han dynasty. Questions about “heaven” and the affairs of the world that had seemed resolved by Han Confucianism resurfaced and demanded reconsideration. New currents in philosophy, religion, and intellectual life emerged to leave an indelible mark on the subsequent development of Chinese thought and culture. This period saw the rise of xuanxue (“dark learning” or “learning of the mysterious Dao”), the establishment of religious Daoism, and the rise of Buddhism. In examining the key ideas of xuanxue and focusing on its main proponents, the contributors to this volume call into question the often-presumed monolithic identity of this broad philosophical front. The volume also highlights the richness and complexity of religion in China during this period, examining the relationship between the Way of the Celestial Master and local, popular religious beliefs and practices, and discussing the relationship between religious Daoism and Buddhism.

Historisch blijft alles op elkaar lijken, maar soms wordt het goede onderdrukt

In the 19th century American Protestants firmly believed that when progress had run its course, there would be a Second Coming of Christ, the world would come to a supernatural End, and the predictions in the Apocalypse would come to pass. During the years covered in James Moorhead's study, however, moderate and liberal mainstream Protestants transformed this postmillennialism into a hope that this world would be the scene for limitless spiritual improvement and temporal progress. The sense of an End vanished with the arrival of the new millennium.

Kritiek op de westerse cultuur wegens het ontbreken van een deugdelijke metafysische grondslag, aangetoond door beschouwende analyses van kunstwerken en filosofisch-spirituele bronnen.

Biografie van de Nederlandse filosoof G.J.P.J. Bolland (1854-1922).