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Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Michael Tanner
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2000-10-18 | Author:Michael Tanner [Tanner, Michael]

It is a powerful passage, but for all its ponderable wisdom it is strange coming from a prophet. For prophets do not argue, they announce. And so by what methods ...
( Category: Modern December 14,2015 )
The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka by Ernst Pawel
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Ernst Pawel [Pawel, Ernst]

Brod had only two weeks’ vacation and went straight home from Paris. Kafka had an additional week, which he spent at a Naturheilsanatorium —a naturopathic sanatorium—at Erlenbach, near Zurich, a ...
( Category: German November 20,2015 )
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-30 | Author:Ray Monk [Monk, Ray]

I have wanted to show by means of language-games the vague way in which we use ‘language’, ‘proposition’, ‘sentence’.5 There are many things, such as orders, which we may or ...
( Category: Philosophers October 12,2015 )
In Search of Sir Thomas Browne by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
epub |eng | | Author:Hugh Aldersey-Williams

electricity (PE, 1646): Browne’s lithe visual imagination yields him some uncanny insights into these mysterious new phenomena. Drawing an analogy with the circular motion observed when one blows on motes ...
( Category: Philosophers September 12,2015 )
Atheism, Ayn Rand, and Other Heresies by George H. Smith
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-01 | Author:George H. Smith [Smith, George H.]

Charles Bradlaugh (1833-1891) was the most important atheist ever produced by Britain. A superb orator, writer, and organizer, Bradlaugh replaced Holyoake as the militant force in British freethought. He edited ...
( Category: Philosophers July 31,2015 )
Nietzsche - the Man and His Philosophy by R. J. Hollingdale
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:R. J. Hollingdale [Hollingdale, R. J.]

Even here I have much to endure, I he wrote;] the summer this sear is hotter and more full of electricity I! I than usual, which is detrimental to me. ...
( Category: Philosophers July 31,2015 )
In My Own Way by Alan Watts
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Alan Watts

Chicago, Illinois, July 5, 1950 In his position, could any response have been more courteous and charitable? 1 J. P. de Caussade, Abandonment to the Divine Providence, trans. Ella McMahon ...
( Category: Philosophers July 11,2015 )
The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Will Durant

V. On Religion and Reason Does this appear trite, and timid, and conservative? But it was not so; on the contrary, this bold denial of “rational” theology, this frank reduction ...
( Category: History & Surveys June 20,2015 )
Enlightening: Letters 1946 - 1960 by Berlin Isaiah
epub |eng | 2015-05-21 | Author:Berlin, Isaiah [Berlin, Isaiah]

1953–1955 ALL SOULS CLEARLY NOTHING WILL ever be the same again.1 IB flew home, arriving early on Sunday 13 December, and spent ‘two quite cheerful days’2 with his father in ...
( Category: Philosophers June 19,2015 )
A CHILD AL CONFINO by Eric Lamet
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-12 | Author:Eric Lamet

16 Pietro Russo and Ettore Costa The names of North African towns — Tobruk, Tripoli, Bengazi — were on every internee's lips. Was it Feldmarschall Rommel or was it General ...
( Category: World War II June 13,2015 )
Ecce Homo (The Autobiography of Friedrich Nietzsche) by Friedrich Nietzsche; Anthony M. Ludovici
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche; Anthony M. Ludovici

6 To give an idea of me as a psychologist I take a curious piece of psychology which occurs in ‘Beyond Good and Evil’ – I forbid, by the way, ...
( Category: Philosophers June 11,2015 )
Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity by Rebecca Goldstein
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-11 | Author:Rebecca Goldstein

Rabbi Saul Levi Morteira Rabbi Morteira, by both inculcation (his teacher in Venice was the antimystical Leon de Medina) and inclination, was of a nonmystical cast. Though he was not ...
( Category: Jewish June 11,2015 )
Three Philosophical Poets
mobi |eng | 2011-09-28 | Author:George Santayana

* * * IV. GOETHE'S FAUST * * * In approaching the third of our philosophical poets, there is a scruple that may cross the mind. Lucretius was undoubtedly a ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 29,2015 )
Story of Philosophy (Touchstone Books) by Durant Will
epub |eng | 2012-07-23 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]

VI. On Politics and Eternal Peace The Prussian government might have pardoned Kant’s theology, had he not been guilty of political heresies as well. Three years after the accession of ...
( Category: History & Surveys May 11,2015 )
Tete-a-Tete by Hazel Rowley
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Hazel Rowley

NINE CRYSTAL BLUE EYES January 1951–December 1954 Sartre had changed, it was true. He had always worked hard, but now, with the help of corydrane, he had turned himself into ...
( Category: Authors April 5,2015 )

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