Julius Hermann Von Kirchmann Books

This is an expanded edition of James Ellington's translation of Kant's essay, in which Kant replies to one of the standard objections to his moral theory as presented in the main text: that it requires us to tell the truth even in the face of harmful consequences.

Presents the author's mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of reality and the hard-headed view that all processes are the material. In this book, the author argued instead that the reality or substance of things lies in their concrete forms.

René Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method he outlined the contrast between mathematics and experimental sciences, and the extent to which each one can achieve certainty. Drawing on his own work in geometry, optics, astronomy and physiology, Descartes developed the hypothetical method that characterizes modern science, and this soon came to replace the traditional techniques derived from Aristotle. Many of Descartes' most radical ideas - such as the disparity between our perceptions and the realities that cause them - have been highly influential in the development of modern philosophy.

Immanuel Kants kleinere Schriften zur Ethik und Religionsphilosophie ist ein hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe von 1870. Hansebooks widmet sich der Erhaltung historischer Literatur und bringt seltene Werke zurück, um das historische Wissen für zukünftige Generationen zu bewahren.

1637 veröffentlichte Descartes anonym seinen „Discours de la méthode“, ein bedeutendes populärwissenschaftliches Werk. Es behandelt Erkenntnistheorie, Ethik, Metaphysik und Physik, betont logische Analyse, moralisches Verhalten und die rationale Erklärung der Natur. Der Neusatz folgt der Ausgabe von 1870.