Philosophy
epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-04-23 | Author:Eagleton, Terry [Eagleton, Terry]

Chapter 3 The eclipse of meaning Consider this brief exchange in Anton Chekhov’s play Three Sisters: MASHA: Isn’t there some meaning? TOOZENBACH: Meaning? … Look out there, it’s snowing. What’s ...
( Category: Religious Studies February 24,2018 )
epub, pdf, mobi |eng | 2004-04-21 | Author:Catherine Osborne [Osborne, Catherine]

* * * Xenophanes . . . says that everything is unknowable, when he writes: ‘And the clear truth no man has seen nor will there be anyone in a ...
( Category: Philosophy February 24,2018 )
epub, pdf, mobi |eng | 2000-10-11 | Author:Quentin Skinner [Skinner, Quentin]

Machiavelli’s main concern at this point is to remind new rulers of their most basic duty of all. A wise prince ‘should not be troubled about becoming notorious for those ...
( Category: Politics & Government February 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-14 | Author:John Robertson [Robertson, John]

Political economy What confirms Rousseau’s centrality is that his challenge was answered. None was clearer in doing so, moreover, than Adam Smith. As we have seen, Smith was without illusion ...
( Category: Philosophy February 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-24 | Author: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 February 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-29 | Author:Leigh Phillips [Phillips, Leigh]

How do we return to an age of steady innovative advance and ever increasing leisure time? In essence, we have to repeat the trick of how we achieved the Golden ...
( Category: Earth Sciences February 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 1996-02-24 | Author:Shamdasani, Sonu, Jung, C. G.

1 Hauer described the viśuddha cakra as “the cleansed one, or cleansing” (HS, 69). 2 Ibid., 75. 3 Hauer stated of the anāhata cakra: “This heart lotus is the cakra ...
( Category: Psychology February 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Alain De Botton [Botton, Alain de]

2. Why do we change our minds about what we find beautiful? In 1907 a young German art historian named Wilhelm Worringer published an essay entitled ‘Abstraction and Empathy’, in ...
( Category: Architecture February 24,2018 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2016-01-01 | Author:Jason Brennan

7 Civil Rights: Freedom of Speech and Lifestyle Let’s turn now from economic liberties to civil liberties, such as the freedom of lifestyle choice, sexual freedom, the right of assembly, ...
( Category: Philosophy February 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 1971-01-01 | Author:B. H. Liddell Hart [Hart, B. H. Liddell]

PART III: WAR AND PEACE . The desire for power History shows that a main hindrance to real progress is the ever-popular myth of the “great man.” While “greatness” may ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources February 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-20 | Author:Reich, Robert B.

* * * — America’s political and economic leaders paid little heed when, in the years leading up to the financial crisis of 2008, highly paid bankers pocketed huge sums ...
( Category: Politics & Government February 21,2018 )
epub | | 2010-03-02 | Author:Proust, Marcel [Proust, Marcel]

Experimentaba algo más que la alegría de un éxito, casi la hilaridad de una alegre broma. "-¡Ah!, está bueno -dijo cuando se repuso-. Un poco más, ¡rediez!, eso es lo ...
( Category: Graphic Novels February 20,2018 )
epub | | 2009-12-13 | Author:Berkeley, George [Berkeley, George]

Según esta doctrina, aunque un artífice haya hecho el resorte y los engranajes de un reloj y haya prefijado sus movimientos ajustándolos de manera conveniente, con todo puede pensar que ...
( Category: Philosophy February 20,2018 )
epub | | | Author:Albert Camus

III Así, durante semanas y semanas, los prisioneros de la peste se debatieron como pudieron. Y algunos de ellos, como Rambert, llegaron incluso a imaginar que seguían siendo hombres libres, ...
( Category: European February 20,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2017-02-15 | Author:Mikal Hem

6 BE SURE TO SLEEP AROUND AMONG DICTATORS PAST AND PRESENT are people with astonishing sexual appetites. Perhaps the reason for this is simple: faced with limitless available sex, any ...
( Category: Politics & Government February 20,2018 )