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...
El presente volumen reúne una serie de trabajos, algunos de ellos inéditos, que Bernard Williams escribió sobre una variedad de temas, óperas concretas y compositores. Dos aspectos de la música poseen especial importanci...
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...
Claims that while we are in many ways different from the Greeks the differences are not to be traced to a shift in basic conceptions of ethical life. This book argues that we are more like the ancients than we are prepared to acknowledge, and only whe...
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...