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Martin Heidegger's Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation presents crucial elements for understanding Heidegger's thinking from 1936 to 1940. Heidegger offers a radically different reading of a text that he had read decades earlier, showing how his relationship with Nietzche's has changed, as well as how his understandings of the differences between animals and humans, temporality and history, and the Western philosophical tradition developed. With...
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Alain Badiou's 1983—1984 lecture series on "the One" is the earliest of his seminars that he has chosen to publish. It focuses on the philosophical concept of oneness in the works of Descartes, Plato, and Kant-a crucial foil for his signature metaphysical concept, the multiple. Badiou declares that there is no "One": there is no fundamental unit of being; being is inherently multiple.
What is novel in Badiou's view of multiplicity is his reliance...
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"We should be grateful to Schopenhauer for managing to express the truth about life so beautifully." -Alain De Botton, author of The Consolations of Philosophy
"Schopenhauer's philosophy has had a special attraction for those who wonder about life's meaning, along with those engaged in music, literature, and the visual arts." -Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Essential Schopenhauer delivers the first comprehensive English anthology...
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In the vast expanse of human experience, the metaphor of life as a train journey serves as a compelling lens through which we can explore the intricate tapestry of existence. Within these pages lies a profound exploration of seven key facets of this metaphor, each shedding light on the depth and complexity of our journey through time.As we embark on the exploration of "Journey of Reflection: Navigating Life's Tracks," the metaphorical train becomes...
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