Philosophy
azw3 |eng | 2013-02-13 | Author:Daniel C. Russell

Acting virtuously requires that the agent knows what she is doing (rather than her acting accidentally or unintentionally), that she acts for a reason and, moreover, for the right reason ...
( Category: Happiness September 25,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:Michael O'Meara [O'Meara, Michael]

Not a few indicators (IQ tests, SAT scores, US Army entrance exams) suggest that the population’s mean intelligence is in conspicuous decline. One liberal critic estimates that “the number of ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 25,2018 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2015-06-14 | Author:Ludwig Klages [Klages, Ludwig]

On the Progress-Philistine. Listen to him chattering about how far “we” have come, how wonderful is the time in which “we” live, and how delightful are the gadgets that are ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling September 25,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Franklin, Benjamin [Franklin, Benjamin]

TO MISS MARY STEVENSON Philada March 25, 1763. MY DEAR POLLEY, Your pleasing Favour of Nov. 11 is now before me. It found me as you suppos’d it would, happy ...
( Category: Historical September 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-19 | Author:Miguel De Unamuno

Were diviner than a loveless God Amid his worlds, I will dare to say. The essence of the divine is Love, Will that personalizes and eternalizes, that feels the hunger ...
( Category: Philosophy September 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Miguel de Unamuno [Unamuno, Miguel de]

The essence of the divine is Love, Will that personalizes and eternalizes, that feels the hunger for eternity and infinity. It is ourselves, it is our eternity that we seek ...
( Category: Philosophy September 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:Simon Wiesenthal [Wiesenthal, Simon]

REBECCA GOLDSTEIN Moral abstractions can achieve a firm universality precisely because they are abstract. The fine details that come with real life can make for obscurity, complexity, and confoundment. I ...
( Category: Philosophy September 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-15 | Author:Gerald Gaus [Gaus, Gerald]

Figure 3-6. The small world of an open society Such an Open Society will not be characterized by a shared ideal. Through the interactions of its constituent “republican” communities it ...
( Category: Philosophy September 24,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1963-01-01 | Author:G. I. Gurdjieff [Gurdjieff, G. I.]

As a conclusion to this chapter devoted to Prince Lubovedsky, I will describe in detail the tragic death of Soloviev, which occurred in exceedingly peculiar circumstances. THE DEATH OF SOLOVIEV ...
( Category: Philosophy September 24,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-12-25 | Author:Chomsky, Noam [Chomsky, Noam]

§ 4.4. The role of categorial rules We have defined the categorial component as the system of rewriting rules of the base—that is, the system of base rules exclusive of ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar September 23,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rupert Spira

The world as it is normally conceived is, like the body, an abstraction made of a series of fleeting perceptions. However, we cannot deny the reality of our experience of ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality September 22,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-10-05 | Author:Greer, Sandra C. [Greer, Sandra C.]

Summary: Underrepresented Groups in Science In 1960 in the United States, there were 6 percent or 7 percent women working in all science and engineering.57 In 2015, there were about ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 21,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-09-12 | Author:Savage, Roger W. H. [Savage, Roger W. H.]

Example 4.2 Arnold Schoenberg, Erwartung, mm. 411–413. Source: Arnold Schönberg “Erwartung|Monodram in 1 Akt|für Sopran und Orchester|op. 17” © Copyright 1916, 1950 by Universal Edition A.G., Wien/UE 13612 www.universaledition.com. Adorno’s ...
( Category: Music September 21,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-06-30 | Author:Hacker, P. M. S. [Hacker, P. M. S.]

14 Hume, Treatise of Human Nature [1739] (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1976), p. 624. 15 Williams, ‘Deciding to Believe’, p. 147. 16 D. Davidson, ‘Actions, Reasons, and Causes’, repr. in ...
( Category: Philosophy September 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-01 | Author:Kwame Anthony Appiah

COLOR INSIDE THE LINES In the twenty-first century, one might have hoped to see signs that race thinking and the hostilities grounded in race—the problem of the color line—might be ...
( Category: Sociology September 21,2018 )