BERNARD WILLIAMS

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 importancia para él: las exigencias de la composición, interpretación y representación de la ópera, por una parte, y la inmediatez y la f...

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 ...

This classic and challenging introduction to Descartes by one of the most distinguished modern philosophers, not only analyses Descartes' project of founding knowledge on certainty, but uncovers the philosophical motives for his search.