La tragedia del diavolo: Fede, ragione e potere nel mondo by Sadik al-Azm

The Bioethics of Regenerative Medicine: 102 (Philosophy and Medicine)

Regenerative medication is wealthy with promethean grants. using human embryonic stem cells in learn is justified through its advocates by way of grants to remedy a variety of ailments and disabilities, from Alzheimer’s and Parkinsonism to the result of middle assaults and spinal wire accidents. extra extensively, there's the promethean attract of having the ability to revamp human organic nature by way of the ambitions and issues of people.

Self, Reality and Reason in Tibetan Philosophy: Tsongkhapa's Quest for the Middle Way (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism)

The paintings explores the old and highbrow context of Tsongkhapa's philosophy and addresses the severe matters concerning questions of improvement and originality in Tsongkhapa's concept. It additionally bargains greatly with certainly one of Tsongkhapa's fundamental issues, specifically his makes an attempt to illustrate that the center method philosophy's deconstructive research doesn't negate the truth of the standard global.

Cultivating Personhood: Kant and Asian Philosophy

Authors from world wide unite with a purpose to domesticate discussion among Asian and Western philosophy. The papers forge a brand new, East-West comparative direction generally variety of concerns in Kant reports. the concept that of personhood, the most important for either traditions, serves as a springboard to deal with matters resembling wisdom acquisition and schooling, ethics and self-identity, religious/political group development, and cross-cultural knowing.

Polyphony Embodied - Freedom and Fate in Gao Xingjian’s Writings (Chinese-Western Discourse)

Like artists, vital writers defy unequivocal interpretations. Gao Xingjian, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, is a worldly author, deeply rooted within the chinese language prior whereas stimulated by means of paragons of Western modernity. the current quantity brings jointly for the 1st time a suite of essays at the issues of freedom and destiny within the artistic works of Gao Xingjian.