Malebranche's Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion is in many ways the best introduction to his thought, and provides the most systematic exposition of his philosophy as a whole. In it, he presents clear and comprehensive statements of his two best-known contributions to metaphysics and epistemology, namely, the doctrines of occasionalism and vision in God; he also states h...(展开全部)

For this important selection from Weber, sections of text from Weber's major works ("Gesammelte", "Aufsatze Zur Religionssoziologie", including "The Protestant Ethic" and the "Spirit of Capitalism"; "General Economic History"; and "The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilisations") have been carefully edited and substantially translated to form a coherent and integrated volume. ...(展开全部)

The purpose of the present study is to undertake a confrontation of the thought of Martin Heidegger and of Thomas Aquinas on the question of Being and the problem of metaphysics.

The thirteen essays here collected were first presented at the twenty-third meeting of the Hegel Society of America, held from October 31 to November 2, 2014 at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. The conference title was “Hegel Without Metaphysics?” but this collection bears the title Hegel and Metaphysics in acknowledgement of the fact that all of the presenters, t...(展开全部)

The thirteen essays here collected were first presented at the twenty-third meeting of the Hegel Society of America, held from October 31 to November 2, 2014 at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. The conference title was “Hegel Without Metaphysics?” but this collection bears the title Hegel and Metaphysics in acknowledgement of the fact that all of the presenters, t...(展开全部)

Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays contains complete translations of the two essays that constitute the best introduction to Leibniz's complete thought: 'Discourse on Metaphysics', a short course in his metaphysics, written in 1686 at the time his mature thought was just crystalising and 'Monadology' of 1714, a summary of Leibniz's mature metaphysics, written late in his...(展开全部)

Providing a unique perspective on China's changing relationship with religion, this groundbreaking book explores the role the Chinese state continues to play in religious revival today. Throughout China, spaces for religious expression and practice have been rebuilt, revived, and contrived for display by local officials hoping to cash in on tourist revenue. Faiths on Display ar...(展开全部)

David Hume's Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, first published in 1779, is one of the most influential works in the philosophy of religion and the most artful instance of philosophical dialogue since the dialogues of Plato. It presents a fictional conversation between a sceptic, an orthodox Christian, and a Newtonian theist concerning evidence for the existence of an intel...(展开全部)