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A versatile gentleman
consistency in Plutarch's writing; studies offered to Luc van der Stockt on the occasion of his retirement
Essays on erudite versatility in Plutarch's works. Plutarch was a brilliant Platonist, an erudite historian, a gifted author of highly polished literary dialogues, a priest of Apollo at Delphi, and a devoted politician in his hometown Chaeronea. He felt confident in the most technical and specialized discussions, yet was not afraid of rhetorical generalizations. In his voluminous oeuvre, he appears as a sharp polemicist and a loving father, an ardent pupil but also a kind, inspiring teacher, a sober...
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Engels | 310 pagina's (PDF, 1,4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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The concept of love in 17th and 18th century philosophy
"Love is joy with the accompanying idea of an external cause." Spinoza's definition of love (Ethics Book 3, Prop. LIX) manifests a major paradigm shift achieved by seventeenth century Europe in which the emotions, formerly seen as normative "forces of nature," were embraced by the new science of the mind. We are determined to volition by causes. This shift has often been seen as a transition from a philosophy laden with implicit values and assumptions to a more scientific and value-free way of understanding...
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Engels | Frans | Duits | 270 pagina's (PDF, 1,3 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Recognition and redistribution in multinational federations
World's leading theorists of multinational justice on sub-state national minority groups. Almost without exception, multinational states across the West are facing existential crises precipitated by the resurgence of sub-state national minority groups. This edited volume brings together many of the world's leading theorists of multinational justice in order to analyse two of the most frequent areas of debate and dispute in multinational federations: recognition and redistribution. The authors address...
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Engels | 246 pagina's (PDF, 2,3 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Adri Blonk Love
Love and happiness: few people will not be looking for these things in their life. Sometimes the search takes up a lifetime. Especially where unconditional love and happiness are concerned, it is not an easy quest. People often look for the answer in money, possessions, prestige, power, relationships and the like. They tend to find that while these can contribute to short-term happiness, they are not a permanent solution. People need to look beyond these things to discover where they can find true...
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Engels | 244 pagina's (PDF, 0,5 MB) | U2pi BV, Den Haag | 2019
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Clover Stroud The wild other
a memoir
Nadat haar moeder een hersenbeschadiging oploopt bij het paardrijden, gaat een jonge vrouw op zoek naar haar identiteit en reist door Ierland en Rusland om haar verdriet te verwerken.
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Engels | 277 pagina's | Hodder &Stoughton, London | 2017
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Islam & Europe
challenges and opportunities
Dedicated to increasing our knowledge and awareness of the ever-growing diversity and pluralism of global society, Forum A. & A. Leysen has initiated an annual debate/lecture series, beginning with a focus on Islam in today's world and in Europe in particular. Seven well-known influential authorities - each an active participant in the public debate on the global role of Islam past, present and future - recently presented papers at the first Intercultural Relations Conference sponsored by Forum A.&...
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Engels | 192 pagina's (PDF, 3,1 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Between text and tradition
Pietro d’Abano and the reception of Pseudo-Aristotle’s Problemata physica in the Middle Ages
New insights into Pietro d'Abano's unique approach to translations. The commentary of Pietro d'Abano on Bartholomew's Latin translation of Pseudo-Aristotle's Problemata Physica, published in 1310, constitutes an important historical source for the investigation of the complex relationship between text, translation, and commentary in a non-curricular part of the corpus Aristotelicum. As the eight articles in this volume show, the study of Pietro's commentary not only provides valuable insights into...
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Engels | Frans | 280 pagina's (PDF, 1,6 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Kadoc The intimate
polity and the catholic church; laws about life, death and the family in so-called catholic countries
The waning influence of the Catholic church in the ethical and political debate. For centuries the Catholic Church was able to impose her ethical rules in matters related to the intimate, that is, questions concerning life (from its beginning until its end) and the family, in the so-called Catholic countries in Western Europe. When the polity started to introduce legislation that was in opposition to the Catholic ethic, the ecclesiastical authorities and part of the population reacted. The media...
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Engels | 224 pagina's (PDF, 2,1 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Gender and christianity in modern Europe
beyond the feminization thesis
Case studies upon the use of concepts like feminization and masculinization in relation to christianity. Since the 1970s the feminization thesis has become a powerful trope in the rewriting of the social history of Christendom. However, this 'thesis' has triggered some vehement debates, given that men have continued to dominate the churches, and the churches themselves have reacted to the association of religion and femininity, often formulated by their critics, by explicitly focusing their appeal...
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Engels | 240 pagina's (PDF, 15 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Modern Islamic thinking and activism
dynamics in the West and in the Middle East
Innovative research of 'Islam at work' in geographical and social contexts. Modern Islamic Thinking and Activism presents a series of scholarly papers in relation to Islamic thinking, activism, and politics in both the West and the Middle East. The reader will apprehend that Islam is not the monolithic religion so often depicted in the media or (earlier) in the academic world. The Islamic world is more than a uniform civilization with a set of petrified religious prescriptions and an outdated view...
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Engels | 214 pagina's (PDF, 3 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Geert Roskam Plutarch's Maxime cum principibus philosopho esse disserendum
an interpretation with commentary
The question of the political relevance of philosophy, and of the role which the philosopher should play in the government of his state, was often discussed in Antiquity. Plato's ideal of the philosopher-king is well-known, but was precisely his failure to realise his political ideal in Syracuse not the best argument against the philosopher's political engagement? Nevertheless, Plato's ideal remained attractive for later Greek thinkers. This is illustrated, for instance, by one of Plutarch's short...
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Engels | 252 pagina's (PDF, 3,9 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Origins and ends of the mind
philosophical essays on psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis claims that the individual human mind is structured by its childhood relationships with its parents. But the theory of attachment, evolutionary psychology and contemporary philosophy of mind have all recently re-introduced new dimensions of innateness into mental development and pathology. If attachment is an instinct, then what is the psychological status of the child's relation to the mother? If the mind is in part a product of evolution, then how far down do the inhibitory mechanisms...
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Engels | 218 pagina's (PDF, 1,3 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Kadoc Mission & science
missiology revised
Science as an instrument to justify religious missions in secular society. The relationship between religion and science is complex and continues to be a topical issue. However, it is seldom zoomed in on from both Protestant and Catholic perspectives. By doing so the contributing authors in this collection gain new insights into the origin and development of missiology. Missiology is described in this book as a "project of modernity," a contemporary form of apologetics. "Scientific apologetics" was...
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Engels | Frans | 438 pagina's (PDF, 3,4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Toon Lauwen Pols Potten®
family of things
Beschrijving van de ontwerpen en producten van Pols Potten, een handelsfirma in potten voor bloemen en planten.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 285 pagina's | Aerial Media Company, Tiel | 2017
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Everyday life practices of Muslims in Europe
Bijdragen over de dagelijkse gewoonten van moslims in Europa.
Non-fictie
Engels | 234 pagina's (PDF, 1,4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Bianca Grootfaam I was looking for love
powers on the earth
The non-fiction story in this book is about me and some of the situations my family members and I went through. I rather not talk about others, but you need to understand what my background is and what my foundation was made of in order to understand my struggle in life. I want you to learn from my mistakes. All I can tell you in short about my story is that I was looking for love. Are you too looking for love? It is necessary for you to understand that there is a power that guides your destiny....
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Engels | ePub2, 4 MB | Highly Favored Publishing, Veenendaal | 2017
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Leendert Sonnevelt | Jip Bierkens | Romée Beernink Dutch design today
be the future; Dutch Design Awards 2017
Rijk geïllustreerde gids over de hedendaagse Nederlandse vormgeving bij het 15-jarig bestaan van de Dutch Design Awards.
Non-fictie
Engels | 81 pagina's | Lecturis, [Eindhoven] | 2017
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Desiderius Erasmus Collected works of Erasmus; New Testament scholarship
Non-fictie
Engels | 256 pagina's | University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Buffalo | 2017
Gedrukt boek
Taoufik Ilaoui Hospital for the Soul
Non-fictie
Engels | 159 pagina's | Uitgeverij Nejem, 's-Gravenhage | 2017
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WOTH·Wonderful Things·Studio Rietveld's design factory re_newed
Catalogus bij de renovatie van het gebouw dat tussen 1956 en 1960 onder leiding van Gerrit Rietveld werd gebouwd voor weverij De Ploeg in Bergeijk en dat thans wordt gebruikt door Bruns Tentoonstellings Ontwikkelaar.
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 148 pagina's | Aerial Media Company, Tiel | 2017
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