Philosophy
azw3 |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Joseph Westfall

This is the kind of friendship that Gilgamesh and Enkidu, or Achilles and Hector, could have had (even though they didn’t become friends in life, Achilles certainly respected Hector in ...
( Category: Philosophy July 22,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-10-11 | Author:Jonardon Ganeri

CONCLUSION Kamalaśīla thus concludes in a way that makes clear, again, the extent to which he is always thinking within a tradition—the extent, that is, to which philosophy is for ...
( Category: Social Philosophy July 22,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Karl Marx

J JAILS Stables designed to improve ethics by herding together the sinners. As sin will always come out on top, the result of this process is invariably the acquisition of ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism July 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-31 | Author:Victoria Margree [Margree, Victoria]

Neither celebrating science and technology uncritically, nor dismissing them, the Dialectic instead mounts a passionate call to the Left to give up its dangerous romanticization of nature and ‘rather than ...
( Category: Individual Philosophers July 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-12-14 | Author:Jacob Blumenfeld [Blumenfeld, Jacob]

Thinking and speaking are fundamental properties of the human being. Fine, Stirner retorts, but I do not want to be just human. To be merely human is to adapt oneself ...
( Category: Individual Philosophers July 18,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Daniel Smith [Smith, Daniel]

Sufficient reason or the ground [he writes] is strangely bent: on the one hand, it leans towards what it grounds, towards the forms of representation; on the other hand, it ...
( Category: Movements & Periods July 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-18 | Author:Garrett Dailey [Dailey, Garrett]

This phenomenon is often called “Tall Poppy Syndrome,” which originated from a story that famed historian Herodotus recounts in his book, Histories: “[Periander] had sent a herald to Thrasybulus and ...
( Category: Philosophy July 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-17 | Author:Emmeline Pankhurst [Emmeline Pankhurst]

CHAPTER VIII Almost immediately after the events chronicled in the preceding chapter I sailed for my second tour through the United States. I was delighted to find a thoroughly alive ...
( Category: Women July 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Brandon W. Forbes & George A. Reisch [Forbes, Brandon W. & Reisch, George A.]

What You’ll Get when You Mess with Us This theme of the absurd is present throughout Radiohead’s work. What they ask at the very beginning of OK Computer is whether ...
( Category: Philosophy July 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-11 | Author:Ronald Dworkin [Dworkin, Ronald]

The original intention. The distinction between enumerated and unenumerated rights, which many revisionist lawyers have emphasized, is therefore wholly unhelpful to them. But their most important proposal, about how to ...
( Category: Living Wills July 14,2019 )
epub |eng | 1986-06-07 | Author:Ponder, Catherine [Ponder, Catherine]

houseboy in the Midwest seemed an impossibility. She was about to give up on the idea when she chanced to mention it to her father. He replied, "Just for fun, ...
( Category: Mental & Spiritual Healing July 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 1987-08-14 | Author:Donald Winch [Winch, Donald]

Agriculture versus manufacturing In the first Essay Malthus employed the self-interest principle and Smith’s system of natural liberty to counter Godwin’s utopian ideas, but he was not prepared to endorse ...
( Category: Economic History July 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-19 | Author:Sarah Sentilles

• • • I projected a photograph of an Iraqi girl splattered with her parents’ blood onto the screen at the front of the classroom. The girl is young—five years ...
( Category: Philosophy July 9,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-02 | Author:Patricia Churchland

Chapter 7 Free Will, Habits, and Self-Control BRAIN MECHANISMS FOR SELF-CONTROL BUTCH FANCIED himself quite the ferocious watchdog. He was a terrier who belonged to the MacFarlanes, our kindly neighbors ...
( Category: Neurology July 9,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2006-02-14 | Author:Thich Nhat Hanh [Hanh, Thich Nhat]

25 The Gardener Mind consciousness is the root of all actions of body and speech. Its nature is to manifest mental formations, but its existence is not continuous. Mind consciousness ...
( Category: Karma July 6,2019 )