Philosophy
epub |eng | 2004-07-29 | Author:Frank Close [Close, Frank]

The basic spark chamber consists of parallel sheets of metal separated by a few millimetres and immersed in an inert (less reactive) gas such as neon. When a charged particle ...
( Category: Physics September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Simon Blackburn [Blackburn, Simon]

I breathed a bit stertorously. ‘He said that, did he?’ ‘Yes, sir.’ ‘Well you can tell him from me he’s an ass. Are my things packed?’ As Bertie judiciously remarks ...
( Category: Philosophy September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Stephen Eric Bronner [Bronner, Stephen Eric]

Anticipating utopia Ernst Bloch liked to quote those words. But he believed that utopia requires a more robust political and philosophical underpinning—and he sought to provide just that in his ...
( Category: Sociology September 6,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-10-10 | Author:La Rochefoucauld, Heard, John

233. Excessive zeal in discharging an obligation is a form of ingratitude. 234. It is easier to curb gratitude than hope or desire. 235. Pride hates to owe, and vanity ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-05 | Author:Dacher Keltner [Keltner, Dacher]

BENEDICK Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am lov’d of all ladies, only you excepted; and I would I could find in my heart that I ...
( Category: Mental Health September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-08-15 | Author:Frans de Waal [Waal, Frans de]

In an essay called “Conjectures on the Beginnings of Human History,” Kant speculated that the form of self-consciousness that underlies our autonomy may also play a role in the explanation ...
( Category: Evolution September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-30 | Author:Scott Kaelen [Kaelen, Scott]

DIGGING FOR CHRISTIAN GOLD (DEBATING A THEIST) You might ask yourself if it's really worth engaging in debate with any theist at all, but it can be; some theists are ...
( Category: Atheism September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Richard E. Rubenstein [Rubenstein, Richard E.]

WHILE WILLIAM OF AUVERGNE was pouring out his thoughts on natural philosophy and theology, Aristotle's "nature books" remained banned at the University of Paris, as well as at several other ...
( Category: Religious Studies September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-15 | Author:Sam Dolgoff

Man, Society, and Freedom . . . The doctrinaire liberals, reasoning from the premises of individual freedom, pose as the adversaries of the State. Those among them who maintain that ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-03 | Author:Putman, Daniel.

Hiding Behind a Role In the shock experiment one way that the teachers avoided responsibility for shocking the learner was to focus on the process or technique. Some “teachers” ignored ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling September 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2005-09-03 | Author:Žižek, Slavoj; Santner, Eric L.; Reinhard, Kenneth [Žižek, Slavoj]

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK Neighbors and Other Monsters: A Plea for Ethical Violence Critique of Ethical Violence? In one of his stories about Herr Keuner, Bertolt Brecht ruthlessly asserted the Platonic core ...
( Category: Philosophy September 4,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2010-04-21 | Author:Perin, Casey [Perin, Casey]

4 Appearances and Action Sextus presents Scepticism as a kind of philosophy but also, and no less, as a possible way of life. And since antiquity the claim that Scepticism ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar September 3,2018 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-02-23 | Author:Jerrold Levinson [Levinson, Jerrold]

The point I am making here is that a good deal of interest in instrumentation in the period in which it emerged from the “ad lib” stage had to do ...
( Category: Philosophy September 3,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Virginia Woolf

THREE HERE THEN IS your own letter. In that, as we have seen, after asking for an opinion as to how to prevent war, you go on to suggest certain ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-02 | Author:Andrew Gregory

Philolaus Philolaus of Croton lived from around 470 bce to around 385 bce. Philolaus wrote one book, On Nature, which if Pythagoras indeed wrote nothing, is probably the first book ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 3,2018 )