Buku ini mempelajari peripde terakhir dalam sejarah filsafat barat, yaitu periode yang meliputi abad ke-20 sampai dengan sekarang. Karena ingin membicarakan filsuf-filsuf kontemporer dengan sedikit…
Buku ini berisikan pokok inti dari pembahasan tentang filsafat, mulai dari pengertian dari filsafat itu sendiri. Dalam buku ini penyajannya lebih sederhana dan mudah dipahami. Sejarah filsafat bara…
This book is intended to open up to a wider circle of intelligent readers the comprehension of the Divine Comedy. The essential facts in the history of culture out of which the poem takes its rice …
The religious, philosophical, and ethico-political antecedents of the poem were seen to be long, rich, and complicated. Its literary forebears appears, by comparison, brief and scanty.
Fear and Trembling (F&T) is based on the story in Genesis 21-22 of God ordering Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac. Kierkegaard says in F&T, "If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at …
The author calls this work a supplement to his "History of Medieval Philosophy," and it does certainly read like a supplement. De Wulf never dives too deep into any one topic, treating most things …
Christianity began as a little-known Jewish sect, but rose within 300 years to dominate the civilized world. It owed its rise in part to inspired moral leadership, but also to its success in assimi…
Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author, who was the first existentialist philosopher. He asks in the Introduction, "Is an historic…
In November 1499, Erasmus recounted in a letter to John Sixtin informal but heated theological dispitation which had recently taken place over dinner at an Oxford college. Erasmus was careful to no…
" An ambitious and much welcomed series...The books will be welcomed not only by those who are interested in deepening their knowledge of the Western spritual tradition but also by those who are lo…