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Anotace: Dialog mezi Sokratem a jeho žákem Faidrem v prostředí athénského venkova, kam se oba vydají na procházku a ve stínu olivovníku přemýšlejí nad posmrtným osudem duše. Platón, autor dialogu, představuje duši jako vozataje, kterým je rozum, nejlepší část duše. Ta se musí vyrovnat se žádostivostí, která ji táhne k zemi, a s pomocí lepší části duše - statečností, se může znovu vrátit do své původní domoviny, světa idejí. Kniha je hodně náročná na abstraktní myšlení, ale nabízí půvabný básnický jazyk. Navíc překlad Platóna z pera Františka Novotného je považován obecně za nejlepší. Euthyfrón
Anotace: V dialogu Euthyfrón se Sókratés zamýšlí nad podstatou zbožnosti. Zbožnost nepředstavuje výlučně citový vztah člověka k božství, ale má mnohem širší význam: chování člověka ve společnosti, rodině i obci vyplývající z jeho loajality vůči božskému řádu. Tento etický princip má podobu absolutní a nezávislé ideje. Immanuel Kant
Prolegomena ke každé příští metafyzice, jež se bude moci stát vědou
Anotace: Klasické dílo z r. 1783 ozřejmuje analytickým způsobem obsah autorovy Kritiky čistého rozumu, zpracované syntetickou metodou. Jsou v něm podrobeny rozboru podmínky našeho možného poznání. Kant pátrá po charakteru poznatků v dosavadních vědách a vytváří ideu nové vědy vížící se k subjektu. Tento druhý český překlad spisu je moderně uzpůsoben (terminologicky, lexikálně, stylisticky), aniž se vzdaluje syntaxi Kantově. Evropa a doba poevropská
Anotace: Filozofický výklad základů a kořenů evropské civilizace. Paul Ricoeur
Filosofie vůle I
Fenomenologie svobody
Anotace: První díl rozsáhlého projektu Filosofie vůle nazvaný Fenomenologie svobody. Ricoeur se zde pokouší o fenomenologický popis základních struktur lidské vůle: rozhodování, tělesného pohybu a svolení s tím, co nelze změnit. Kritias
Anotace: Dialog Kritiás je nedokončený a obsahuje „politický mýtus“ o Atlantidě. Člověk a technika
Příspěvek k jedné filozofii života
Anotace: Významný německý idealistický filozof shrnuje své pojetí vývoje člověka a rozvíjí teorii o technice jako taktice života člověka i společnosti Immanuel Kant
Kritika praktického rozumu
Anotace: Kniha navrhuje univerzální racionální etiku, založenou na „kategorickém imperativu“. Zrození tragédie
Anotace: Významný myslitel druhé poloviny 19. století Friedrich Nietzsche byl ve svých 24 letech – tehdy se stal profesorem řeckého jazyka a literatury na univerzitě v Basileji — považován za mimořádně nadaného filologa. Jeho filosofické myšlení zásadně ovlivnil spis A. Schopenhauera Svět jako vůle a představa. Oba tyto vlivy, filologický a filosofický, se potkávají v Nietzscheho knižní prvotině Zrození tragédie z ducha hudby ještě se třetím: jeho obdivem a přátelstvím k R. Wagnerovi. Lidský život, píše Nietzsche, inspirován Schopenhauerovou metafyzikou pravůle, je bytostně ohrožen, plný bolesti, úzkosti a beznaděje. Tím, co má člověku pomoci snášet jeho osud, je umění. Ve starověkém Řecku pak Nietzsche nachází pojmenování dvou základních principů v umění působících: princip apollinský, jehož úkolem je tragickou skutečnost lživě zkrášlovat a harmonizovat, a tak poskytnout smrtelníkům požitek estetické slasti dovolující zapomenout, a princip dionýský, původnější a hlubší, výraz nespoutanosti a opojení, v němž se mísí hrůza, bolest i titánský vzdor. Působení těchto dvou principů pak autor sleduje v řecké filosofii a umění i v soudobé kultuře. Martin Buber
Já a Ty
Anotace: Nejslavnější kniha Martina Bubera, Já a Ty z roku 1923, je jedinečným příspěvkem k filozofii dialogu. Buber zde rozlišuje dvě základní nastavení, jež charakterizuje výrazy „Já–Ty“ a „Já–Ono“. Zatímco v postoji „Já–Ono“ vytváří člověk zkušenosti, kategorizuje, co je od něj odděleno, a zachází s tím jako s věcí, v postoji „Já–Ty“ se cele účastní vztahu, v němž jeden druhého proměňuje. Za odcizením a nenaplněním v moderní společnosti stojí to, že způsob „Já–Ty“ je opomíjen. Jen ve vztahu „Já–Ty“ se může plně rozvinout jedincovo Já a každý vztah „Já–Ty“ je v posledku vztahem k Bohu, jenž je věčným Ty. We Philologists
Anotace: A search for a definition of what classical culture really should be. The Red Pony
Anotace: Raised on a ranch in northern California, Jody is well-schooled in the hard work and demands of a rancher's life. He is used to the way of horses, too; but nothing has prepared him for the special connection he will forge with Gabilan, the hot-tempered pony his father gives him. With Billy Buck, the hired hand, Jody tends and trains his horse, restlessly anticipating the moment he will sit high upon Gabilan's saddle. But when Gabilan falls ill, Jody discovers there are still lessons he must learn about the ways of nature and, particularly, the ways of man. The Pearl
Anotace: “There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.” The Pastures of Heaven
Anotace: In Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck’s beautifully rendered depictions of small yet fateful moments that transform ordinary lives, these twelve early stories introduce both the subject and style of artistic expression that recur in the most important works of his career. Each of these self-contained stories is linked to the others by the presence of the Munroes, a family whose misguided behavior and lack of sensitivity precipitate disasters and tragedies. As the individual dramas unfold, Steinbeck reveals the self-deceptions, intellectual limitations, and emotional vulnerabilities that shape the characters’ reactions and gradually erode the harmony and dreams that once formed the foundation of the community. This edition includes an introduction and notes by James Nagel. The Long Way
Anotace: First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world, these stories reflect Steinbeck’s characteristic interests: the tensions between town and country, laborers and owners, past and present. Included here are the O. Henry Prize-winning story “The Murder”; “The Chrysanthemums,” perhaps Steinbeck’s most challenging story, both personally and artistically; “Flight,” “The Snake,” “The White Quail,” and the classic tales of “The Red Pony.” With an introduction and notes by John H. Timmerman. a Russian Journal
Anotace: Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travelers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad – now Volgograd – but through the countryside of the Ukraine and the Caucasus. Hailed by the New York Times as "superb" when it first appeared in 1948, A Russian Journal is the distillation of their journey and remains a remarkable memoir and unique historical document. What they saw and movingly recorded in words and on film was what Steinbeck called "the great other side there … the private life of the Russian people." Unlike other Western reporting about Russia at the time, A Russian Journal is free of ideological obsessions. Rather, Steinbeck and Capa recorded the grim realities of factory workers, government clerks, and peasants, as they emerged from the rubble of World War II—represented here in Capa’s stirring photographs alongside Steinbeck’s masterful prose.Through it all, we are given intimate glimpses of two artists at the height of their powers, answering their need to document human struggle. This edition features an introduction by Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw. Diplomacy
Anotace: A brilliant, sweeping history of diplomacy that includes personal stories from the noted former Secretary of State, including his stunning reopening of relations with China. The Short Reign of Pippin IV
A Fabrication
Anotace: In his only work of political satire, The Short Reign of Pippin IV, John Steinbeck turns the French Revolution upside down as amateur astronomer Pippin Héristal is drafted to rule the unruly French. Steinbeck creates around the infamous Pippin the most hilarious royal court ever: Pippin’s wife, Queen Marie, who “might have taken her place at the bar of a very good restaurant”; his uncle, a man of dubious virtue; his glamour-struck daughter and her beau, the son of the so-called “egg king” of Petaluma, California; and a motley crew of courtiers and politicians, guards and gardeners. This edition includes an introduction by Robert Morsberger and Katharine Morsberger. Sofoklés
The Seven Plays in English Verse
Anotace: One of the most famous poets from classical antiquity, Sophocles was one of three important ancient Greek tragedians, the others being Aeschylus and Euripides. Writing during the 5th century BC, Sophocles created some one hundred and twenty three plays during his lifetime, of which only seven have survived in their entirety. Included in this edition are those seven complete plays, as translated by Lewis Campbell and include the following: Antigone, Aias (Ajax), Oedipus the King, Electra, The Trachinian Maidens (The Trachiniae), Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. These classic tragedies are essential reading and their influence on modern literature and drama is a profound one. The Problem of China
Anotace: In 1920 the philosopher Bertrand Russell spent a year in China as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Beijing (then Peking), where his lectures on mathematical logic enthralled students and listeners, including Mao Tse Tung, who attended some of Russell’s talks. Written at a time when China was largely regarded by the West as backward and weak, The Problem of China sees Russell rise above the prejudices of his era and presciently assess China's past, present and future. Russell brings his analytical and insightful eye to bear on some fundamental aspects of China’s history and politics, cautioning China against adopting a purely Western model of social and economic development, which he regarded as characterized by a combination of greed and militarism. Beginning with an overview of nineteenth-century Chinese history and considering China's relations with Japan and Russia, Russell then contrasts Chinese civilization with Western. He devotes a fascinating chapter to the character of the Chinese, which he argues is complex but ultimately defined by a ‘pacific temper’. With uncanny foresight, Russell predicts China’s resurgence, but only if it is able to establish an orderly government, promote industrial development under Chinese control and foster the spread of education. The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
Anotace: Bertrand Russell’s Practice and Theory of Bolshevism is a first-hand account of the great British philosopher’s journey to Russian in 1920. It is a classic and enduring analysis of communism in practice, and a careful polemic with Communist ideology. But more than this, it is a portrait of the turbulent infancy of the Soviet Republic, and a report on Russell’s meeting with such great historic figures as Lenin, Trotsky, and Gorky. Friedrich Schiller
The Piccolomini
Anotace: This is the second part of the Wallenstein trilogy by German playwright and mastermind Friedrich Schiller. The work as a whole produced a profound impression, and it is certainly Schiller's masterpiece in dramatic literature. He brings out with extraordinary vividness the ascendency of Wallenstein over the wild troops whom he has gathered around him, and at the same time we are made to see how the mighty general's schemes must necessarily end in ruin, not merely because a plot against him is skilfully prepared by vigilant enemies, but because he himself is lulled into a sense of security by superstitious belief in his supposed destiny as revealed to him by the stars. Wallenstein is the most subtle and complex of Schiller's dramatic conceptions, and it taxes the powers of the greatest actors to present an adequate rendering of the motives which explain his strange and dark career. The love-story of Max Piccolomini and Thekla is in its own way not less impressive than the story of Wallenstein with which it is interwoven. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
Anotace: Suetonius, chronicler of the extraordinary personalities of the first dynasties to rule the Roman Empire, was the greatest Latin biographer. His colourful work, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, is, along with Tacitus, the major source for the period from Julius Caesar to Domitian. He sets out in vivid detail a great range of aspects illuminating the emperor's characters, their habits, from table to bedchamber - their intrigues, their loves and their deaths. Himself a court official, he quotes from a variety of sources, from the official and private documents as well as from old anecdotes, gossip, songs and jokes, giving an unparalleled oblique view of his subjects. Long familiar to students of classics, he found a new audience as the main source for Robert Graves' novels and the subsequent television series I, Claudius. The Letters
Anotace: Providing a series of fascinating views of Imperial Rome, The Letters of the Younger Pliny also offer one of the fullest self-portraits to survive from classical times. Pliny's lively and very personal letters address an astonishing range of topics, from a deeply moving account of his uncle's death in the eruption that engulfed Pompeii, to observations on the early Christians—"a desperate sort of cult carried to extravagant lengths"—from descriptions of everyday life in Rome, with its scandals and court cases, to Pliny's life in the country. Isaac Newton
The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended
Anotace: The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended is a work of historical chronology written by Sir Isaac Newton, first published posthumously in 1728. Since then it has been republished. The work, some 87,000 words, represents one of Newton's forays into the topic of chronology, detailing the rise and history of various ancient kingdoms throughout antiquity. The Histories
Volume II
Anotace: The Histories is the first historical work by Rome's most accomplished and challenging historian, Tacitus. It narrates the brutal civil wars which broke out in AD 68–9 across the Roman Empire after the suicide of the last Julio-Claudian emperor, Nero. Volume II covers the bloody finale of the war between two of those emperors, Otho and Vitellius, and the emerging challenge from the eventual victor, Vespasian. The progression of events, kaleidoscopic and gripping, unfolds over a broad geographical sweep and is presented by Tacitus with consummate artistry. This commentary on Histories Volume II elucidates historical questions, clarifies Tacitus' historiographical techniques and explains grammatical difficulties of the Latin for students. It also includes a Latin text, relevant maps, and a comprehensive introduction discussing historical, literary and stylistic questions. The Histories
Volume I
Anotace: As the first historical work by Rome's greatest historian, the Histories hold a crucial place in the study of Latin literature. Volume I covers the beginning of the infamous "Year of the Four Emperors" (69 c.e.), which brought imperial Rome to the brink of destruction after the demise of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Its account of the ensuing power struggles is unmatched for detail and interest. This edition includes the Latin text and provides a complete commentary accessible to students of intermediate level as well as an extensive introduction discussing historical, literary and stylistic issues. Friedrich Schiller
The Death of Wallenstein
Anotace: In the last part of the Wallenstein trilogy the conflict anticipated in the second play erupts and leads to a tragic conclusion. Having learned that the negotiators he has sent to bargain with the Swedes have been intercepted by imperial troops, Wallenstein supposes that the emperor now has damning evidence of his treason. After some hesitation and intense pressure exerted by Illo, Terzky and especially the latter's spouse, Countess Terzky, Wallenstein decides to burn his bridges: he will enter into official alliance with the Swedes. The Confessions
Anotace: When it was first published in 1781, The Confessions scandalised Europe with its emotional honesty and frank treatment of the author's sexual and intellectual development. Since then, it has had a more profound impact on European thought. Rousseau left posterity a model of the reflective life - the solitary, uncompromising individual, the enemy of servitude and habit and the selfish egoist who dedicates his life to a particular ideal. The Confessions recreates the world in which he progressed from incompetent engraver to grand success; his enthusiasm for experience, his love of nature, and his uncompromising character make him an ideal guide to eighteenth-century Europe, and he was the author of some of the most profound work ever written on the relation between the individual and the state. Political Ideals
Anotace: Originally published in 1917, this early work by Bertrand Russell still offers much thought-provoking material on the subject of political philosophy. Russell criticizes both capitalism and socialism based on his strong conviction that everything of value comes ultimately from the individual. The only true aim of politics, he says, is to give free play, as far as possible, to every person's natural creativity. This means that political systems should be designed to curb the deadening forces of acquisition, power, and convention, all of which tend to stifle individual creative impulses.Russell names four main goals that an ideal political system should accomplish: the greatest possible production of goods and technical progress; securing distributive justice; ensuring security against destitution; and, most importantly, the liberation of creative impulses and the limiting of possessive impulses.While capitalism efficiently accomplishes the first goal — producing goods and fostering technological innovation — it does little to guarantee the remaining goals. On the other hand, socialism offers little incentive to creativity and is notoriously inefficient in the production of goods and in technological progress, even though it goes a long way toward ensuring equitable distribution of wealth and eliminating the specter of destitution. But individual liberty is subordinated to the demands of the state.Russell suggests that in an ideal system there would be autonomy within each politically important group and the principle of employee-ownership and self-governance within businesses would be the norm. Government would serve only as a neutral authority to decide questions between the various self-governing groups.Vintage Russell, this collection of concise essays should be on the bookshelf of everyone interested in political science or the relation of the individual to society. Zobrazeno: 2971-3000 z celkem 3470 záznamů Začátek | Předchozí | Následující | Konec
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