The Perennial Philosophy is defined by its author as "The metaphysic that recognizes a divine Reality substantial to the world of things and lives and minds." With great wit and stunning intellect, Aldous Huxley examines the spiritual beliefs of various religious traditions and explains them in terms that are personally meaningful.
In the revised and updated edition of this classic introductory text, Martin Hollis leads his readers through the age–old philosophical questions of free choice and human nature, appearance and reality, reason and experience.
Dialog filsafat dengan sains dan (pelbagai aspek) kehidupan dunia semakin urgen dikembangkan mengingat kian menganganya ketimpangan antara wilayah pemikiran filsafat dengan sains dan dinamika praksis kehidupan. Perkembangan sains mutakhir yang sedemikian pesat, tanpa menafikan pelbagai manfaatnya, justru makin menyulitkan manusia untuk memahami dan memaknainya. Begitu pula, perkembangan global …
Buku ini membahas tiga tema besar dalam filsafat Barat: tubuh, kesadaran, dan kekuasaan. Ketiga tema ini disorot dengan tiga pendekatan utama dalam filsafat Barat kontemporer: deskripsi (fenomenologi), kritik (filsafat kritis), dan dekonstruksi (poststrukturalisme). Seperti dalam karya-karya sebelumnya, penulis memusatkan diri pada problem epistemologis, sosial, dan politis. Penulis melakukan b…
Few thinkers have addressed the political horrors and ethical complexities of the twentieth century with the insight and passionate intellectual integrity of Hannah Arendt. She was irresistible drawn to the activity of understanding, in an effort to endow historic, political, and cultural events with meaning. Essays in Understanding assembles many of Arendt’s writings from the 1930s, 1940s, a…
First published in 1967, Writing and Difference, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics. The book's first half, which includes the celebrated essay on Descartes and Foucault, shows the development of Derrida's method of deco…