Filosofía y Política en el siglo XXI

Un libro fundamental en la historia del pensamiento: la obra que dejó, para publicar después de su muerte, un cura del norte de Francia del siglo XVIII, Jean Meslier, al que leyeron todos los ilustrados radicales. Un testimonio estremecedor y una sincera declaración de ateísmo. Primera traducción completa al castellano. "El autor de Memoria contra la religión —Laetoli publica ahora la primera edición íntegra del texto en castellano— fue considerado por los pensadores del siglo XVIII como un revolucionario y entró en los libros de Historia como el padre del ateísmo." Guillaume...

The volume results from a seminar sponsored by the 'Foundation for Intellectual History' at the Herzog August Bibliothek, WolfenbÃ1/4ttel, in 1992. Starting with the theory of regressus as displayed in its most developed form by William Wallace, these papers enter the vast field of the Renaissance discussion on method as such in its historical and systematical context. This is confined neither to the notion of method in the strict sense, nor to the Renaissance in its exact historical limits, nor yet to the Aristotelian tradition as a well defined philosophical school, but requires a new...

Have you ever experienced a moment when a seemingly random event also seemed strangely meaningful or even miraculous?. It can be as simple as anticipating a phone call, but coincidences always impress us. This is a book on coincidences, and how religion and science have studied that phenomenon.

Why should we care about animals? What can we do for them, and what can we stop doing against them? These are some of the important questions that this book seeks to address through clearly-exposed arguments and an abundance of facts and examples. It points out to the weakness of many preconceived notions about animals, it uncovers the harsh conditions under which many animals live, and it provides conclusive reasons for the importance of the cause of animal rights.