Philosophy
epub |eng | 2009-02-19 | Author:Amir D Aczel [Aczel, Amir D]

It seems that Beeckman had also been experiencing a transformation through his interactions with Descartes. He developed a burning ambition to establish himself as a leading scientist, and perhaps even ...
( Category: Mathematics January 17,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-16 | Author:Benhabib, Seyla

Exit, Voice, and the State: Confronting the Fate of the German Democratic Republic Among the most impressive characteristics of Hirschman as a social and political thinker, besides his graceful capacity ...
( Category: Philosophy January 17,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael J. Sandel

The Argument from Moral Arbitrariness Rawls presents this argument by comparing several rival theories of justice, beginning with feudal aristocracy. These days, no one defends the justice of feudal aristocracies ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2001-01-13 | Author:Nicholas Fearn

15 Kant’s Spectacles Putting man at the centre of the universe Hi-fi buffs can detect differences in the clarity of musical recordings that a non-enthusiast would never notice. They devote ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics January 14,2019 )
epub | | | Author:The Ethics of Liberty

17. BRIBERY As in the case of blackmail, bribery has received a uniformly bad press, and it is generally assumed that bribery should be outlawed. But is this necessarily true? ...
( Category: Business Culture January 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-30 | Author:More, Thomas [More, Thomas]

Social Relations This would seem to be the place to give some account of the forms of social life – how the citizens behave to one another, and their manner ...
( Category: Classics January 13,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard K. Payne

Buddhavacana? Speech and Authority Attention to the dhāraṇī in the Lotus Sūtra introduces an additional issue into the already complex question of the authority of the speech of a buddha ...
( Category: Philosophy January 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-14 | Author:Bertrand Russell [Russell, Bertrand]

The Ultimate Constituents of Matter23 I WISH to discuss in this article no less a question than the ancient metaphysical query, “What is matter?” The question, “What is matter?” in ...
( Category: Philosophy January 12,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Kotsko,Carlo Salzani

17 Friedrich Nietzsche VANESSA LEMM THE ETERNAL RECURRENCE OF THE SAME Readers of Giorgio Agamben would agree that the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) is not one of his primary ...
( Category: Philosophy January 7,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Charles Manners

LXI If the mind, when filled with some desire, should seek a goal, it only hides the Light. Song of Mahamudra ‘I CAN ACCEPT that the real me is more ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides January 6,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ronit Lentin

Importantly, however, although Palestinian women are particularly jeopardized by evictions and house demolitions, subject to Israeli sovereignty that disregards Palestinian housing needs and uses legalistic excuses to demolish their homes, ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-05 | Author:Jacob Needleman

4.49 Be like the jutting rock against which waves are constantly crashing, and all around it the frothing foam of the waters then settles back down. “Oh, I am so ...
( Category: Philosophy January 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-27 | Author:David Detmer [Detmer, David]

Linguist John Lyons remarked that within a few decades of publication, Chomskyan linguistics had become “the most dynamic and influential” school of thought in the field. His work in automata ...
( Category: Americas January 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-03 | Author:Kevin S. Decker

Our destiny, our being’s heart and home, Is with infinitude, and only there; With hope it is, hope that can never die, Effort, and expectation, and desire, And something evermore ...
( Category: Philosophy January 4,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-01-02 | Author:Michael D. Gordin

6 · Strangest Bedfellows Harold Urey disliked Immanuel Velikovsky. Winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his 1932 discovery of deuterium (a heavy isotope of hydrogen), Urey had ...
( Category: Earth Sciences January 3,2019 )