Philosophy
epub |eng | | Author:Wolfson, Elliot R.;

THE GIFT UNGIFTED: GIVING BEYOND THE GIVER AND THE GIVEN The mythopoeic power of imagining the force of life as a gift and the lingering psychological need to render transcendence ...
( Category: Philosophy November 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-01 | Author:Hoff, Johannes;

CHAPTER 11 Cusa’s Inversion of Modern Perspective “The landscape thinks itself in me . . . and I am its consciousness.”1 This sentence of Paul Cézanne is consistent with Cusa’s ...
( Category: Philosophy November 12,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Baring, Edward; Gordon, Peter E.;

Unprotected Religion Radical Theology, Radical Atheism, and the Return of Anti-Religion JOHN D. CAPUTO Postmodern theology has come of age.1 It now has its own countermovement, philosophers marching under the ...
( Category: Philosophy November 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-11 | Author:Rudolf Taschner

“The two zeros at the bottom are obvious: if both of them swerve away, neither of them can show off to the other. Neither of them has won, but equally ...
( Category: Philosophy November 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-23 | Author:Lilla, Mark.

We need a new mythology. However, this mythology must be in the service of the ideas, it must become a mythology of reason…. Thus the enlightened and the unenlightened must ...
( Category: Philosophy November 12,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1965-01-21 | Author:Thomas Merton

Man Is Born in Tao Fishes are born in water Man is born in Tao. If fishes, born in water, Seek the deep shadow Of pond and pool, All their ...
( Category: Philosophy November 11,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2000-11-09 | Author:Eco, Umberto [Eco, Umberto]

4.3 WILD CATEGORIZATION At the level of NC there is a continuous organizing and reordering of “wild” categories, most of which spring from the recognition of constant precategorial features. For ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-17 | Author:Sakyong Mipham

True Listening It is said that when the Buddha first taught, two deer approached, knelt down, and raised their ears. They symbolize the act of listening, a sublime way of ...
( Category: Philosophy November 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-16 | Author:Leszek Kolakowski

Faith: Why should we believe? BLAISE PASCAL 1623–62 Pascal did not want to be a philosopher. He did not think of himself as one, and it is probably fair to ...
( Category: Philosophy November 11,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Butler, Shane.,Purves, Alex.

Even though severed limbs and toes continue to twitch, and lopped off heads still maintain a semblance of life, Lucretius denies that there is any sensation of pain because of ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 11,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Andrew Heywood

Models of group politics Some commentators believe that the pattern and significance of group politics are derived entirely from factors that are specific to each political system. The role of ...
( Category: Politics & Government November 11,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Will Durant

keep. I will enter on my so&rse, and nothing shall prevent tne from pursuing it.'* * And so he persevered, through poverty and obscurity, sketching and writing and rewriting his ...
( Category: Philosophy November 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-10-31 | Author:Robert Mayhew [Mayhew, Robert]

You say the predominant trend of nineteenth-century intellectuals was collectivist and statist. But didn’t Nietzsche advocate individualism? What’s your estimate of him? It’s a low estimate, philosophically. I disagree with ...
( Category: Philosophy November 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-23 | Author:Reider, Patrick J.

Notes 1http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/6/26/oklahoma-new-earthquakecapitaloflower48.html [accessed September 7, 2015]. 2As I’ve discussed elsewhere, there are really two separable forms of idealism and thus two idealist traditions in modern Western philosophy. One of these, ...
( Category: Philosophy November 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-06 | Author:Peter Stothard [STOTHARD, PETER]

21.7.14 Miss R turns a new page in her SENECA notepad. She also has a red-and-black-squared calendar for 1987 on her knee and a slim edition of ‘On Gifts’ in ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People November 10,2017 )