The authors of this volume explore the nature of humanity and a person's relationship to society, and insights on human thought, death, awakening insight, cosmic order, and the problem of the fragmented mind. At the heart of these discussions lies each of our own ideas about ourselves, a consciousness made up of all sorts of misconceptions about the "me".

The authors of this volume explore the nature of humanity and a person's relationship to society, and insights on human thought, death, awakening insight, cosmic order, and the problem of the fragmented mind. At the heart of these discussions lies each of our own ideas about ourselves, a consciousness made up of all sorts of misconceptions about the "me".

Graham Priest presents an expanded edition of his exploration of the nature and limits of thought. Embracing contradiction and challenging traditional logic, Priest engages with issues across philosophical borders, from the historical to the modern, from Eastern to Western, and from the continental to the analytic. He has added new chapters on European and Indian philosophy, an...(展开全部)

Graham Priest presents a new, expanded edition of his highly original exploration of the nature and limits of thought. Drawing on recent developments in the field of logic, Priest shows that the description of such limits leads to contradiction, and argues that these contradictions are in fact true. Beginning with an analysis of the way in which these limits arise in pre-Kantia...(展开全部)

""The Limits of Liberty" is concerned mainly with two topics. One is an attempt to construct a new contractarian theory of the state, and the other deals with its legitimate limits. The latter is a matter of great practical importance and is of no small significance from the standpoint of political philosophy."--Scott Gordon, "Journal of Political Economy" James Buchanan offer...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·M.布坎南，出生于1919年，是公共选择理论的主要奠基人，在1986年获得了诺贝尔经济学奖，现为乔治·梅森大学布坎南政治经济学研究中心总顾问。他的研究领域包括财政学、公共选择和政治经济学。主要著作有《同意的计算：立宪民主的逻辑基础》（与戈登·图洛克合著）、《民主过程中的财政》、《自由的限度》、《自由、市场与国家》等。

A liberal society seeks not to impose a single way of life, but to leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends. It therefore must govern by principles of justice that do not presuppose any particular vision of the good life. But can any such principles be found? And if not, what are the consequences for justice as a moral and political ideal? Thes...(展开全部)

A liberal society seeks not to impose a single way of life, but to leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends. It therefore must govern by principles of justice that do not presuppose any particular vision of the good life. But can any such principles be found? And if not, what are the consequences for justice as a moral and political ideal? Thes...(展开全部)

A liberal society seeks not to impose a single way of life, but to leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends. It therefore must govern by principles of justice that do not presuppose any particular vision of the good life. But can any such principles be found? And if not, what are the consequences for justice as a moral and political ideal? Thes...(展开全部)

A liberal society seeks not to impose a single way of life, but to leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends. It therefore must govern by principles of justice that do not presuppose any particular vision of the good life. But can any such principles be found? And if not, what are the consequences for justice as a moral and political ideal? Thes...(展开全部)