THE STORY OF PHILOSOPHY / by Magee, Bryan, 1930-2019, author 582550

“…Now updated and with a fresh new look, the highly successful The Story of Philosophy traces more than 2,500 years of Western philosophy, from Plato and Aristotle in ancient Greece to Saint Augustine and medieval philosophy, the golden century of German philosophy, Bertrand Russell and Albert Camus of the modern era, and much more. …”

The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism / by Han, Byung-Chul, author 654995, Steuer, Daniel, translator 654996, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…Han does this comparatively by confronting and contrasting the insights of Zen Buddhism with the philosophies of Plato, Leibniz, Fichte, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Heidegger and others, showing that Zen Buddhism and Western philosophy have very different ways of understanding religion, subjectivity, emptiness, friendliness and death. …”
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The Social Relativity of “Right - Duty" as Viewed in Religious Discourse by Seyed Mahmood Nejati

“…The concept of right-duty is originally a concept of Western philosophy (sociopolitical philosophy, moral - legal philosophy) and modern social sciences (theory of citizenship). …”
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E. LEVINAS IR ETINĖS FILOSOFIJOS ĮTEISINIMAS– ATSAKYMAS A. MICKŪNUI by Jolanta Saldukaitytė

“…The author also argues that the ethical metaphysics defended by Levinas is not the discourse of power nor does it reject Western philosophy. Rather, by recognizing the full significance of inter-subjectivity deeper ethical dimension of meaning is revealed, and hence Western philosophy is deepend and Levinas kept within the bounds of philosophy. …”
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Sending in die nabloei van die Marxisme-Leninisme by P. Verster

“…The idea of freedom as essential part of Western philosophy is discussed in relation with Marxism/Leninism. …”
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Review of "The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality" by Joel Michael Reynolds (University of Minnesota Press) by Kora Dzbinski

“…Joel Micheal Reynolds’s The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality unpacks the exclusion and demonization of disability within Western philosophy and bioethics. Through the lens of morality and phenomenology, Reynolds demonstrates a fundamental misrepresentation of disability that conflates disabled life with pain, suffering, and death. …”
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Rene descartes: Colossus of binaries – real or perceived? by Sandeep Alex

“…Rene Descartes lived in the 17th century and is considered as the father of Western philosophy. He is generally credited with popularizing the concept of mind–body dualism. …”
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Higher Education as a Common Good in China: A Case Study for Ideas and Practices by Jiangang Zhu

“…The traditional Confucian philosophy of education has been replaced dramatically by modern western philosophy. However, since the communist party came to power in 1949, the philosophy of higher education has experienced much more dramatic changes. …”
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“The Noblest of all Things is Water” by Andrea Dezi

“…This essay studies the connection of Schelling's thought with Florensky's ideas on the Milesian origin of Western philosophy, attempting to illuminate, on the borderline between the philosophy of nature and the philosophy of mythology, the powerful antinomian structure of Florensky’s thesis. …”
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Difficulties and Veins in the Interpretation of Aristotelian Thought, the Limit, and the Not-being by Héctor Sevilla Godínez

“…Afterwards, distinct veins of Aristotelian thought are analyzed according to the main focuses of their diverse interpreters in the history of Western philosophy. In third order, a revision is made of the concept of the not-being in Aristotle, alluding to new possibilities of interpretation as a function of his idea of the limit…”
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Rola poznania naukowego w filozofii Karla Jaspersa (The role of the scientific world orientation in the philosophy of Karl Jaspers) by Dawid Kolasa

“…Karl Jaspers’ doctrine was a continuation of the great tradition of Western philosophy, which sought “the being”. In his conception “the being” was conceived in three ways: as objective being (“being of things”), as subjective being (“me”) and as absolute being (“the being itself”). …”
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Absolute Metaphors and Metaphors of the Maternal by Nicole Miglio

“… The pregnant female body and, more generally, the generative process tout court have been linked with metaphors since the dawn of Western philosophy, though this history has only recently been taken up and critically discussed (Rigotti 2010; Cavarero 1995). …”
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HERACLITUS’ DISCURSIVE AUTHORITY by L. Jordaan

“…<p>His enigmatic thought has led to many interpretations, which in turn have led to their own important developments in Western philosophy.1 On the other hand, his often radical statements have with equal frequency led to his simple dismissal as an eccentric. …”
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THE RENOVATION OF THE QUESTION OF BEING IN LENINGRAD ONTOLOGICAL SCHOOL by A. I. Ivanenko

“…The paper focuses on the  relations between renovation of the question of being in Western philosophy and “the Renaissance of ontology” in Russia. …”
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DARI KONSUMERISME KE KONSUMTIVISME (Dalam Perpektif Sejarah Filsafat Barat) by Armaidy Armawi

“…In this paper, the author tries to analyze of the consumptive behavior, especially the wasteful consumption of modern men and unfold of the intrinsic values and philosophical background of consumerism in the history of philosophy perspective (pre and modern western philosophy). He also tries to retrace the meaning movement of the consumerism to consumptivism (high mass consumption) and its social implication to the development of history of human civilization and their environment. …”
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Nicholas Cusanus and the Problem of Ignorance. A Minor Polemic with the Interpretation of Étienne Gilson by Antoni Śmist

“…Nicholas Cusanus is often seen as a pivotal figure in the history of Western philosophy. His writings are sometimes viewed as an attempt to reject the traditional scholarly knowledge, troubled by manifold tensions and crises, in order to prevent the collapse of Western Christianity under the weight of its complex architecture of knowledge. …”
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Pencarian Dasar-dasar Filosofis bagi Keberadaan Filsafat Nusantara by Ganang Dwi Kartika

“…Besides that, the definitions, which come from Western, invite another question. If there is Western philosophy, then what about Eastern philosophy, especially Nusantara philosophy? …”
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Écologie cybernétique : le retour de l’utopie ou une alternative possible ? by Ioanna Neophytou

“…Through the work of the artist and writer James Bridle, AI will be contextualised within an ethic that is respectful of other-than-human intelligence forms, thus questioning the anthropocentrism of Western philosophy and history.…”
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Humean and an African Causal Theory: A Comparative Study by godvin azenabor

“…The concept of causality is fundamental to our understanding of the world. the idea of causality was made popular, in Western Philosophy, by David Hume; one of the best-know British empiricists. …”
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Introduzione by Nicola Di Stefano, Stefano Oliva

“…The relationship between music and language is one of the main axes of Western philosophy of music. In particular, the link between music and literature has fostered an intense debate that resulted in a plurality of different solutions. …”
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