PETER ADAMSON

Nothing could be simpler Dont wear a suitDr Michael Lowella mildmannered American, unshakeably decent and at the top of his professionaccepts an invitation to a weekend reunion of Oxford college friends. He is looking forward to meeting some of themincluding front-line Canadian medic Helene Hevre and the Australian advertising genius Toby Jenks. But the big attraction is the serene young woman from Karachi who rejected him twenty years ago because he was just a little bit too dull.As the weekend gets under way and old loves and tensions arise, an audacious suggestion is made. It begins as a joke. But it is a joke that none of them can forget.Moving between Oxford, New York, Washington, Geneva and Abidjan, this compelling political thriller is the story of five ordinary people who find themselves drawn into an extraordinary conspiracya gamble that could force the hand of governments and affect the lives of millions. But if it should go wrong Daring, ingenious and profoundly moving, The Kennedy Moment is masterful storytelling from an author whose career has put him at the heart of international affairs.

Philosophy written in Arabic and in the Islamic world represents one of the great traditions of Western philosophy. Inspired by Greek philosophical works and the indigenous ideas of Islamic theology, Arabic philosophers from the ninth century onwards put forward ideas of great philosophical and historical importance. This collection of essays, by some of the leading scholars in Arabic philosophy, provides an introduction to the field by way of chapters devoted to individual thinkers (such as al-Farabi, Avicenna and Averroes) or groups, especially during the classical period from the ninth to the twelfth centuries. It also includes chapters on areas of philosophical inquiry across the tradition, such as ethics and metaphysics. Finally, it includes chapters on later Islamic thought, and on the connections between Arabic philosophy and Greek, Jewish, and Latin philosophy. The volume also includes a useful bibliography and a chronology of the most important Arabic thinkers.

Este valioso texto presenta una de las tradiciones intelectuales más ricas y profundas del mundo: la filosofía de la India clásica.Peter Adamson y Jonardon Ganeri presentan los primeros mil años, partiendo de textos tan antiguos como las escrituras vedicas y las Upani?ads, para pasar a continuacion al estudio de los sutras, asi como al desarrollo del budismo y el jainismo, y concluir con la influencia de la filosofia india en tradiciones como la griega y la islamica, evaluando asi su impacto sobre el pensamiento occidental posterior.Esta introduccion a la historia de la filosofia india se destaca por guiar al lector, a partir de las propias fuentes, a traves de la variedad y la densidad de los argumentos indios en todas las ramas del quehacer filosofico. Al mismo tiempo, resalta su valor para la discusion filosofica en general, en relacion con debates contemporaneos sobre la conciencia, el lenguaje y la accion correcta, entre muchos otros.