H B Nisbet

Biographic Data

ID1008424
NAMEH B Nisbet
GIVEN NAMESH B
FAMILY NAMENisbet
SIGNATURENISBET H B
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1967
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX0

  • On the Scientific Ways of Treating Natural Law, on its Place in Practical Philosophy, and its Relation to the Positive Sciences of Right (1802–1803)

    Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel, Lawrence Dickey et al.EDITORCHAPTERHegel2012

    It is true that the science of natural law, like other sciences such as mechanics and physics, has long been recognised as an essentially philosophical science and – since philosophy must have parts – as an essential part of philosophy. But it has shared the fate of the other sciences in that the philosophical element in philosophy has been assigned exclusively to metaphysics, and the sciences have been allowed little share in it; instead, they h…

  • Philosophical and theological writings

    Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, H B NisbetCHAPTERLessing2012

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  • On the proof of the spirit and of power (1777)

    Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, H B NisbetCHAPTERLessing2012

    because of the prodigious miracles which may be proved by this argument among many others, that traces of them still remain among those who live according to the will of the Word.Origen, Against Celsus

  • Lessing

    Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, H B NisbetBOOKLessing2012

  • The education of the human race (1777–80)

    Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, H B NisbetCHAPTERLessing2012

    All these things are in certain respects true for the same reason that they are in certain respects false. Augustine Berlin, 1780 Editor's preface I published the first half of this essay in my Contributions . I am now in a position to add the rest. The author has placed himself on a hill, from which he believes he can see rather more than the prescribed course of his present day's journey. But he does not call on any hasty traveller, who wishes …

  • German Romantic Literary Theory

    Ernst Behler, H B Nisbet et al.EDITORBOOKGerman Romantic Literary Theory2009

  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

    Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, H B NisbetBOOKLessing2005

    Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–81), thinker, dramatist and controversialist of many-sided interests, is the most representative figure of the German Enlightenment. His defence of Spinoza, who had traditionally been condemned as an atheist, provoked a major controversy in philosophy, and his publication of H. S. Reimarus' radical assault on Christianity led to fundamental changes in Protestant theology. This volume presents the most comprehensive …

  • Kant

    Open AccessImmanuel Kant, Michael Friedman et al.TRANSLATORBOOKKant1991

    The original edition of Kant: Political Writings was first published in 1970, and has long been established as the principal English-language edition of this important body of writing. In this new, expanded edition, two important texts illustrating Kants's view of history are included for the first time: his reviews of Herder's Ideas on the Philosophy of The History of Mankind and Conjectures on the Beginning of Human History; as well as the essa…

  • Hegel

    Open AccessG W F Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel et al.TRANSLATORBOOKHegel1991

    This book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of the Philosophy of Right. Hegel's last major published work, is an attempt to systematize ethical theory, natural right, the philosophy of law, political theory and the sociology of the modern state into the framework of Hegel's philosophy of history. Hegel's work has been interpreted in radically different ways, influencing many political movements fr…

  • Elements of the Philosophy of Right

    Open AccessGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, H B NisbetCHAPTER1991

    This book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of the Philosophy of Right. Hegel's last major published work, is an attempt to systematize ethical theory, natural right, the philosophy of law, political theory and the sociology of the modern state into the framework of Hegel's philosophy of history. Hegel's work has been interpreted in radically different ways, influencing many political movements fr…

  • Texte, Motive und Gestalten der Goethezeit. Festschrift fur Hans Reiss

    Franz Futterknecht, John L Hibberd et al.ARTICLEGerman Studies Review1991

  • Karl Ludwig Von Knebel's Hexameter Translation of Lucretius

    Open AccessH B NisbetARTICLEGerman Life and Letters1988

  • German Aesthetic and Literary Criticism

    Richard J Rundell, Richard Rundell et al.ARTICLEThe German Quarterly1987

  • Goethe and the Scientific Tradition

    Walter Schatzberg, H B NisbetARTICLEModern Language Notes1975

  • Herder, Goethe, and the Natural ‘Type’

    H B NisbetARTICLEPublications of the English…1967

    (1967). Herder, Goethe, and the Natural ‘Type’. Publications of the English Goethe Society: Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 83-119.