Philosophy
epub |eng | | Author:Ben A. Minteer

FIGURE 5.2 “Mr. Weaver bags a tiger.” This photo, which is believed to have been taken by the photographer Victor Albert Prout in 1869, is one of the very few ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology January 3,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Meghan Griffith

SOME CURRENT INCOMPATIBILIST PROPOSALS For those who remain unconvinced that moral responsibility and freedom are compatible with determinism, this chapter will provide a number of alternatives. Recall that incompatibilism is ...
( Category: Philosophy January 3,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Anthony Preus

METRODORUS OF CHIOS Μητρόδωρος ὁ Χίος. (4th BCE.) Atomist, student of Nessus of Chios or of Democritus (Diogenes Laertius IX.58); he is said to have taught Diogenes of Smyrna who ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Thesauruses January 2,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-08-06 | Author:Jonathan Glover

2 Questions for the Person Thinking of Suicide Where someone contemplating suicide is sufficiently in control of himself to deliberate about his course of action, two factors are relevant to ...
( Category: Philosophy January 1,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:von Moltke, Johannes;

PAISAN: A PARADIGMATIC FILM The average spectator knows more about reality than is offered him in our movie houses. It should be the other way round. SIEGFRIED KRACAUER, “The Mirror ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence January 1,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-11 | Author:Emanuele Coccia

We do not inhabit the Earth, we inhabit the air through the atmosphere. We are immersed in it exactly as the fish is immersed in the sea. And what we ...
( Category: Philosophy December 31,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Miyamoto Musashi

It is difficult to write about such matters in detail. Read what I have outlined here and find ways to work it out for yourself. These three initiatives must be ...
( Category: Individual Sports December 30,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Thorpe, Lucas.

ideal Kant rejects the Platonic theory of ideas. According to Plato’s theory, the world as we experience it is a pale copy or shadow of a world of ideal forms, ...
( Category: Philosophy December 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-12-29 | Author:Corngold, Stanley

Moses and the prophets had developed a religion that was centrally concerned with ethics and left no room whatsoever for torture either in this life or in the hereafter; indeed ...
( Category: Philosophy December 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-31 | Author:Albert Linderman [Linderman, Albert]

The Birth of “Me.” Simply being aware of and perceiving the mockingbird sounds is only one part of reality as we know it—the part divorced from individualistic analysis or logical ...
( Category: Philosophy December 29,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-12 | Author:Alain de Botton

Unfortunately, the very artistry of Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and Flaubert has the tendency to suggest that it would have been apparent even from a news-in-brief that there was something signifìcant about ...
( Category: Humor December 29,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:R. Keith Loftin,Joshua R. Farris

Chapter 11 Sanctification and Physicalism R. ScottSmith For the Christian, sanctification is the process by which we grow into the likeness of Jesus Christ. As image bearers, Christians can become ...
( Category: Philosophy December 29,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Swami Rama,Rudolph Ballentine,Swami Ajaya & RUDOLPH BALLENTINE & SWAMI AJAYA

EEG FREQUENCIES AND WAVE FORMS SLEEP AND HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS Modern sleep researchers say that sleep includes two distinct states.27 One is associated with dreaming and is identified in experiments by ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling December 29,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-27 | Author:Sommers, Tamler.

Metaskepticism and Free Will Subjectivism The previous discussion leads me to the final position I will consider: the position that Double termed “metacompatibilism” and later “free will subjectivism.” According to ...
( Category: Philosophy December 28,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Tyler Cowen [Cowen, Tyler]

Who should sacrifice, and when? Under more normal circumstances, with a long time horizon, a utilitarian or consequentialist framework may still recommend that some individuals sacrifice significant parts of their ...
( Category: Economics December 28,2018 )