The philosophy of the human sciences has emerged in the 20th century as a fundamental area of philosophical inquiry. This volume incorporates essays by prominent philosophers and covers such topics as rationality, variability and methodologucal and metaphysical peculiarities of the human sciences.
Edmund D. Pellegrino has played a central role in shaping the fields of bioethics and the philosophy of medicine. His writings encompass original explorations of the healing relationship, the need to place humanism in the medical curriculum, the nature of the patient's good, and the importance of a virtue-based normative ethics for health care. ......
The Philosophy of Drama provides an in-depth and erudite exploration of human existence as a dramatic existence, interpreted in terms of encounter, dialogue, reciprocity, erring, temptation, condemnation, and justification. In this magnum opus, Catholic philosopher Jozef Tischner offers a philosophical interpretation of the human experience and ......
The Phenomenology of Spirit, first published in 1807, is G. W. F. Hegel's remarkable philosophical text that examines the dynamics of human experience from its simplest beginnings in consciousness through its development into ever more complex and self-conscious forms. The work explores the inner discovery of reason and its progressive expansion ......
This important volume examines the ethical concerns of multinational corporations in the production, distribution, and use of pharmaceuticals in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The 33 contributors to the book, which include pharmaceutical executives, religious activists, consumer advocates, officials of nongovernmental organizations, ......
Each of these essays is offered from the perspective of a specialty within the diverse and interdisciplinary field of medieval studies. They consider the development, present status and future prospects both of the specialty and of the broader context of medieval studies in the American university.
In The News and Other Poems, David Citino confronts and attempts to make sense of the news. He explores the good and bad ways the world has of careening into a life and sending it off course. Citino tries to understand how we come to know what we know, driven as we are by haughty assumptions about the world we're making and the control we think we ......
In this highly engaging book, Costantino Esposito argues that nihilism is not merely the loss of the classic values of the Western tradition-rather, it presents a critical opportunity to ask pertinent, timely questions about the meaning of self and the world. Nihilism is a problem that has troubled the culture, philosophy, and worldview of ......
