In 'Inleiding tot de verwondering' werkt Cornelis Verhoeven het aloude idee uit dat filosoferen begint met het toelaten van verwondering en het loslaten van vanzelfsprekendheid. Verwondering is iets dat je overkomt en gaat aan het vragen en het denken vooraf. Ze wordt het startpunt van een ontdekkingstocht waarin Verhoeven je stap voor stap tot filosoferen brengt. Deze Inleiding tot de verwondering zou dus ook een praktische ‘inleiding in de filosofie’ kunnen heten.

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Deze levendige ontmoetingen met zen zijn aangrijpend, direct, humoristisch, paradoxaal en verlichtend. De herkenbare situaties maken ze buitengewoon toegankelijk.

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In this remarkable work, Weil analyses the causes of oppression, its mechanisms and forms, and questions revolutionary responses while presenting a prophetic view of a way forward.

In this brilliant, provocative and controversial work, Russell questions the reliability of our assumptions about knowledge – how it is we come to know what we ‘know’ – and investigates the relationship between ‘individual’ and ‘scientific’ knowledge.

With a new foreword by Scott Austin

'I hope that these essays may illustrate the thesis that all history is or should be the history of problem situations, and that in following this principle we may further our understanding of the Presocratics and other thinkers of the past. The essays also try to show the greatness of the early Greek philosophers, who gave Europe its philosophy, its science, and its humanism.' - Karl Popper, from the preface

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An examination of the concepts of nothingness and freedom, both of which are derived from the ability of consciousness to imagine objects both as they are and as they are not - ideas that would drive Sartre's existentialism and entire theory of human freedom.

One of the foremost scientists and thinkers of our time, David Bohm worked alongside Oppenheimer and Einstein. In Science, Order and Creativity he and physicist F. David Peat propose a return to greater creativity and communication in the sciences.

An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry was first published in 1897 and marks Bertrand Russell's first foray into analytic philosophy, a movement in which Russell is one of the founding members and figurehead. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Michael Potter.