Simone de Beauvoir, novelist, dramatist, and philosopher, was the most distinguished woman writer in modern France. A leading exponent of French existentialism, her work complements, though it is independent of, that of Jean-Paul Sartre. In "The Ethics of Ambiguity," Madame de Beauvoir penetrates at once to the central ethical problems of modern man: what shall he do, how shall he go about maki…
Including two new essays, this remarkable volume is an updated edition of Davidson's classic Essays on Actions and Events (1980). A superb work on the nature of human action, it features influential discussions of numerous topics. These include the freedom to act; weakness of the will; the logical form of talk about actions, intentions, and causality; the logic of practical reasoning; Hume's th…
Buku ini bertujuan memberikan gambaran bahwa setiap hubungan antarmanusia adalah hubungan cinta-benci. Mendalami hubungan yang kita jalin dengan orang lain akan membantu kita mendalami dengan lebih baik teka-teki tentang diri kita sendiri.
This book is a defense of modal realism; the thesis that our world is but one of a plurality of worlds, and that the individuals that inhabit our world are only a few out of all the inhabitants of all the worlds. Lewis argues that the philosophical utility of modal realism is a good reason for believing that it is true.
Setiap kita melangkah selalu ditentukan oleh suatu pilihan. Sejauh mana kita dapat memilih kehendak yang baik dan benar dalam kebebasan penuh? Apakah pilihan kita sudah sesuai dengan kehendak Sang Pencipta? Bagaimana kita dapat menemukan kehendak-Nya dalam menentukan pilihan? Jika Anda ingin menemukan jawabannya baca buku ini. Buku ini ditulis dengan latar belakang Kitab Suci Kristiani yang dap…