epub |eng | 2020-06-15 | Author:John Gray

4 Nationalism . . . What is here entailed is that the highest ends for which men have rightly striven and sometimes died are strictly incompatible with one another. Even ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:Donald D. Palmer

...and The last line of this “ecstatic lecture,” as Kierkegaard calls it, reveals another layer of meaning behind his skirmish with the aesthetic mentality. Perhaps the conclusion of the “lecture” ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-12 | Author:Robert Cavalier

Socrates draws a picture of the legions of the gods, led by Zeus, moving upward toward the outer vault of the heavens. Here they gaze beyond the cosmos and upon ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-08 | Author:Donald D. Palmer

According to Sartre, being-in-itself (reality as it is prior to any human intervention in it) has no meaning and no value. It just is. Meaning and value happen in the ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2013-06-14 | Author:G. A. Cohen

5. It matters that bullshit can come in the non-intention-freighted form by which I am exercised. For there is, today, a great deal of my kind of bullshit in certain ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-06 | Author:Eric LeMay

…which all give rise to an egotistical way of thinking. By looking at ourselves as some sort of “thinking thing”, we implicitly place ourselves, both individually and collectively, at the ...

mobi |eng | 2015-02-10 | Author:Aditi Singhal & Sudhir Singhal

994 = p + p + r 994 = PaPeR or it can be PiPeR, PePpeR also. Using 9 as b, other possible words can be BieBeR. Using the above ...

epub |eng | 2020-04-22 | Author:Matthew B. Crawford

Act III: Hare Scramble On Memorial Day weekend, 2018, I rode east on Route 10 to Surry, Virginia, to watch my friend Barron compete in a hare scramble race. These ...

epub |eng | 2020-05-19 | Author:Zachary D. Carter [Carter, Zachary D.]

* * * — By 1938, Walter Lippmann was perhaps the most influential American man of letters. His column for the New York Herald Tribune was syndicated nationwide, and though ...

epub |eng | 2012-05-27 | Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

{121} Discourse on Political Economy {122} Rousseau’s essay “Political Economy” was first published in the fifth volume of the Encyclopédie, which appeared in November 1755. It acquired the title by ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-25 | Author:Emily Wilson

SENECA’S WEALTH Poison is drunk from gold. 24 We turn now to one of the most fraught questions about Seneca’s life story: his vast accumulation of wealth under Nero. 25 ...

epub |eng | 2015-02-14 | Author:Peter Kreeft [Kreeft, Peter]

III TWO POPULAR PSEUDO-SOLUTIONS 13. Diversion We now turn from the problem (points 3-12) to modernity’s two most popular pseudo-solutions, Diversion and Indifference (points 13 and 14). Pascal diagnoses them ...

epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Plato & Plato

He struck his chest, and his heart he scolded thus: 94e “Bear up, my heart! Much worse you have endured.”125 Do you think Homer composed these lines in the belief ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2005-06-29 | Author:Plotinus

18. There remains still something to be said on the question whether the Soul uses deliberate reason29 before its descent and again when it has left the body. Reasoning is ...

mobi |eng | 2003-07-30 | Author:

FRAGMENTS AND REFERENCES TO KNOWN WORKS It is Dionysius of Halicarnassus, in his essay On the Style of Demosthenes, who preserves for us the only substantial fragment that survives of ...