Bernard Williams fue uno de los más grandes filósofos de su generación. " La ética y los límites de la filosofía " no solo ha sido reconocida como su obra más importante, sino que se ha convertido...
La suerte es importante en prácticamente todas las esferas de nuestra vida, incluida la felicidad. Pero, con todo, tendemos a considerar injusto que pueda inmiscuirse en el juicio moral. Y esto se debe a que la moral se define, precisamente por...
Este libro se centra en lo que denomino, en sentido amplio, ideas éticas de los griegos: en particular, en las de acción responsable, justicia, y en las motivaciones que llevan a las personas a hacer cosas admiradas y respetadas. Mi objetivo...
Uno de los filósofos modernos más prestigiosos, Bernard Williams, es el autor de este estudio sobre Descartes. En él ha tratado de analizar tanto el proyecto del fundamento del pensamiento de Descartes sobre la certeza como de descubr...
Bernard Williams was one of the most important philosophers of the past fifty years, but he was also a distinguished critic and essayist with an elegant style and a rare ability to communicate complex ideas to a wide public. This is the first collection...
Descartes has often been called the âfather of modern philosophyâ. His attempts to find foundations for knowledge, and to reconcile the existence of the soul with the emerging science of his time, are among the most...
âRemarkably lively and enjoyable..It is a very rich book, containing excellent descriptions of a variety of moral theories, and innumerable and often witty observations on topics encountered on the way.â - Times Literar...
We tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had primitive ideas of the self, of responsibility, freedom, and shame, and that now humanity has advanced from these to a more refined moral consciousness. Bernard Williams's original and radical book questions...
What can--and what canât--philosophy do? What are its ethical risks--and its possible rewards? How does it differ from science? In Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline , Bernard Williams addresses these questions and presents a striking...
Before his death in 2003, Bernard Williams planned to publish a collection of historical essays, focusing primarily on the ancient world. This posthumous volume brings together a much wider selection, written over some forty years. His legacy lives on...
Bernard Williams is remembered as one of the most brilliant and original philosophers of the past fifty years. Widely respected as a moral philosopher, Williams began to write about politics in a sustained way in the early 1980s. There followed a stream...
Like the two earlier volumes of Bernard Williams' papers published by Cambridge University Press, Problems of the Self and Moral Luck, Making Sense of Humanity will be welcomed by all readers with a serious interest in philosophy. It is published alongsid...
Ethical concepts are, or purport to be, normative. They make claims on us: they command, oblige, recommend, or guide. Or at least when we invoke them, we make claims on one another; but where does their authority over us - or ours over one another - come...