Philosophy
epub |eng | 2024-08-24 | Author:Plato & Beresford, Adam [Plato & Beresford, Adam]

‘You really mustn't think,’ I said, ‘that I have any aim in asking you all these questions beyond a simple desire to investigate; to investigate all aspects of being good, ...
( Category: Good & Evil September 23,2024 )
epub |eng | 2022-10-04 | Author:Kieran Setiya [Setiya, Kieran]

THERE ARE SOME who take the fact of suffering hard. Born in Paris on February 3, 1909, the philosopher Simone Weil lived to see her homeland under German occupation during ...
( Category: Consciousness & Thought September 23,2024 )
epub |eng | 2022-12-06 | Author:Riggle, Nick [Riggle, Nick]

Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean— the one who has flung herself out of the grass, ...
( Category: Humanism September 23,2024 )
epub |eng | 1921-01-01 | Author:Russell, Bertrand [Russell, Bertrand]

"exactly" might seem an overstatement, and it might seem more correct to say that ideas APPROXIMATELY represent impressions. Such modifications of Hume's principle, however, do not affect the problem which ...
( Category: Epistemology September 22,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-04-14 | Author:Gerd B. Achenbach [Achenbach, Gerd B.]

( Category: Methodology September 19,2024 )
epub |eng | 1912-01-01 | Author:Initiates, The Three [Initiates, The Three]

The Plane of Matter (A) comprises the forms of Matter in its form of solids, liquids, and gases, as generally recognized by the text-books on physics. The Plane of Matter ...
( Category: Metaphysics September 19,2024 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-01 | Author:Hitz, Zena [Hitz, Zena]

CHAPTER 2 Learning Lost and Found Action is the pointer of the balance. One must not touch the pointer, but the weights. —SIMONE WEIL, GRAVITY AND GRACE, TRANS. ARTHUR WILLS ...
( Category: Epistemology September 18,2024 )
epub |eng | 1979-04-01 | Author:Hofstadter, Douglas R. [Hofstadter, Douglas R.]

Subsystems and Shared Code Typical subsystems might be those that represent the people we know intimately. They are represented in such a complex way in our brains that their symbols ...
( Category: Logic & Language September 17,2024 )
epub |eng | 2020-09-29 | Author:Holiday, Ryan & Hanselman, Stephen [Holiday, Ryan & Hanselman, Stephen]

ATHENODORUS CANANITES THE KINGMAKER (Ah-thee-na-DOOR-us Kah-na-KNEE-tays) Origin: Tarsus B. 74 BC D. 7 AD The Roman Republic bled out alongside Cato and Cicero. What emerged was the Roman Empire, a ...
( Category: Ancient Greek & Roman September 17,2024 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Seneca [Seneca]

On Clemency Introduction ROBERT A. KASTER The Treatise Soon after Nero succeeded his adoptive father, Claudius, in October 54, Seneca hailed him and savaged his dead predecessor in a lampoon, ...
( Category: Reference September 15,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-12-12 | Author:Peter Singer & Shih Chao-Hwei [Singer, Peter & Chao-Hwei, Shih]

* * * — Singer: In thinking about our discussion last night, I feel I should emphasize that although we ended on a disagreement, there is also an important element ...
( Category: Utilitarianism September 15,2024 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-05 | Author:Seneca [Seneca]

EPILOGUE: PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH Seneca greatly admired Socrates, who met death with equanimity, a scene dramatized by Plato in the dialogue Phaedo. In AD 65, Seneca too got an ...
( Category: Social Philosophy September 14,2024 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-01 | Author:Cicero, Marcus Tullius [Cicero, Marcus Tullius]

HOW TO WIN AN ARGUMENT Whoever, then, wants to achieve such resemblance through imitation, must pursue this goal by frequent and extensive practice, and particularly by writing. Our friend Sulpicius’s ...
( Category: Social Philosophy September 14,2024 )
pdf | | | Author:Gaston Bachelard; Edith Farell; Frederick Farell

( Category: Aesthetics September 13,2024 )