epub |eng | 2019-08-12 | Author:José Ortega y Gasset

DECLINE AND PERFECTION The conditions so far mentioned merely define the level at which the novel begins; they mark the waterline, as it were, of its continent. In the following ...

epub |eng | | Author:Sandra Garrido

Experimental Evidence of the Effect of Sad Music on Mood In the first study (Garrido & Schubert, 2015a), 335 participants self-selected one piece of sad music and one piece of ...

epub |eng | 2019-08-13 | Author:Philippe J. Dubois

12. Did Curiosity Kill the . . . Bird? The Audacity of the Robin FROM BIRTH TO DEATH, a bird’s life is one long series of risks. Flying, finding food, ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Nicholas Guardiano

Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, trans. Ronald Melville (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997). Source: By permission of Oxford University Press. Figure 1.1 Thomas Cole, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Kulka

This brings us back to the deceptive nature of kitsch, which earlier we were unable to explain. At the beginning of this chapter we quoted a remark of Matei Calinescu, ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-11 | Author:Dietrich von Hildebrand [von Hildebrand, Dietrich]

* * * 1. The relationship between the written characters and the sounds is not that of meaning; similarly, the relationship between the written and the spoken word is not ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-03 | Author:Davis, Duane

Hand/La Main How is the hand implied in the eye’s perception of the world? Is seeing derived from touching, yet at a distance? The hand grasps things, writes letters, and ...

azw3 |eng | 2015-02-11 | Author:Christopher Scott Sevier [Sevier, Christopher Scott]

From this passage, the meaning of beauty as proportion, first in Augustine and derivatively in Aquinas, emerges. The beautiful image “fills the measure of that of which it is the ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-18 | Author:Robin Mackay [Mackay, Robin]

1. See the work of C. Dutilh Novaes, e.g. Formal Languages in Logic: A Philosophical and Cognitive Analysis, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012). 2. See K. Stanovich, What Intelligence Tests ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:Dominic McIver Lopes

The New Theory and the Third Art As in science, a theory in philosophy prevails if it enables us to explain or shed light on important phenomena better than its ...

epub |eng | 2014-01-02 | Author:Julian Baggini [Baggini, Julian]

CHARCUTERIE If you’re looking for the traditional foodstuff that most flies in the face of current health advice, head to the charcuterie counter. Red-meat consumption has been linked with colorectal ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2019-05-29 | Author:Adolf Loos [Loos, Adolf]

Ornament and Crime (1908) In the womb, the human embryo passes through the entire phase of evolution corresponding to the evolution of the animal kingdom. And when the human being ...

epub |eng | | Author:Rhett Diessner

Beautiful Nature Makes Us Nicer Jia Wei Zhang and another team of researchers (Zhang, Piff, et al. 2014) produced a series of studies with the auspicious title, “An Occasion for ...

epub |eng | 2016-05-01 | Author:Benjamin, Walter

Teaching Aid PRINCIPLES OF THE WEIGHTY TOME, OR HOW TO WRITE FAT BOOKS I. The whole composition must be permeated with a protracted and wordy exposition of the initial plan. ...

epub |eng | 2015-02-26 | Author:Chakrabarti, Arindam

CHAPTER TEN A Complex Web: Approaches to Time in Rajput and Mughal Painting B. N. GOSWAMY Mughal art is secular, intent upon the present moment, and profoundly interested in individuality ...