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Pioniers in de praktische filosofie
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ISBN: 9789491693250 Year: 2014 Publisher: Leusden ISVW

Action and ethics in Aristotle and Hegel : escaping the malign influence of Kant
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ISBN: 0754636399 Year: 2006 Volume: *10 Publisher: Hampshire, UK ; Burlington, USA Ashgate

Bound to act : models of action and dramas of inaction
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ISBN: 0804733309 Year: 1999 Publisher: Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press

Descartes's theory of action
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ISBN: 9004152059 9786611399597 1281399590 9047409973 9789047409977 9789004152052 9789004152052 9781281399595 6611399593 Year: 2006 Volume: 142 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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This volume has a single goal: to argue that Descartes’s most fundamental discovery is not the epistemological subject, but rather the underlying free agent without whom no epistemological subject is possible. This fresh interpretation of the Cartesian “cogito” is defended through a close reading of Descartes’s masterpiece, the Meditations . Special attention is paid to the historical roots of Descartes’s interest in free agency, particularly his close ties to the French School of spirituality. Three aspects of Descartes’s personal evolution are considered: his aesthetic evolution from Baroque concealment to Classicism, his political evolution from feudal nostalgia to modern secularism, and his spiritual evolution from Stoic wisdom to active engagement in the world through the scientific project.

A treatise on efficacy : between Western and Chinese thinking
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ISBN: 0824828151 0824828305 0824843142 Year: 2004

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In this highly insightful analysis of Western and Chinese concepts of efficacy, François Jullien subtly delves into the metaphysical preconceptions of the two civilizations to account for diverging patterns of action in warfare, politics, and diplomacy. He shows how Western and Chinese strategies work in several domains (the battlefield, for example) and analyzes two resulting acts of war. The Chinese strategist manipulates his own troops and the enemy to win a battle without waging war and to bring about victory effortlessly. Efficacity in China is thus conceived of in terms of transformation (as opposed to action) and manipulation, making it closer to what is understood as efficacy in the West. Jullien's brilliant interpretations of an array of recondite texts are key to understanding our own conceptions of action, time, and reality in this foray into the world of Chinese thought. In its clear and penetrating characterization of two contrasting views of reality from a heretofore unexplored perspective, A Treatise on Efficacy will be of central importance in the intellectual debate between East and West.

The act of thinking
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ISBN: 0262134462 Year: 2004

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"In this monograph, Derek Melser argues that the core assumption of both folk psychology and cognitive science - that thinking goes on in the head - is mistaken. Melser argues that thinking is not an intracranial process of any kind, mental or neural, but is rather a learned action of the person."--Jacket.

Philosophie de l'action : contribution critique à la théorie analytique de l'action
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ISSN: 03787893 ISBN: 2803100983 9782803100989 Year: 1993 Volume: 2 Publisher: [Bruxelles] : Académie royale de Belgique = Koninklijke Academie van België,


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Handeln als Grundbegriff christlicher Ethik : zur Differenz von Ethik und Moral
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ISBN: 3290171272 Year: 1983 Volume: vol 127 Publisher: Zürich Theologischer Verlag

Dynamics in action : intentional behavior as a complex system
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ISBN: 0262100819 0262600471 0585176248 0262276542 9780585176246 9780262276542 9780262100816 9780262600477 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,

Handeln und Verursachen
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ISBN: 3465030729 Year: 2000 Volume: 79 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Vittorio Klostermann

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