Philosophy
epub |eng | 2008-08-05 | Author:Geertz, Clifford [Geertz, Clifford]

Essentialism and Epochalism The interplay of essentialism and epochalism is not, therefore, a kind of cultural dialectic, a logistic of abstract ideas, but a historical process as concrete as industrialization ...
( Category: Anthropology July 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-30 | Author:Richard Smoley

CHAPTER SIX A JUST UNIVERSE? In chapter 1, I mentioned a study of comparative attitudes toward fairness in humans and in our close relatives the chimpanzees. The study showed that ...
( Category: Religious Studies July 22,2017 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-12-31 | Author:Daniel C. Dennett

( Category: Religious Studies July 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-14 | Author:Erica Benner

12 How to Win Towards the end of 1504, in his poem Decennale, Niccolò stands back and surveys Italy’s hectic political biography over the past decade. He is thirty-five, a ...
( Category: Europe July 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-20 | Author:Cicero [Cicero, Marcus Tullius]

Thus nature favours nothing solitary, but always inclines towards some kind of assistance, which the dearest friend provides in the most agreeable way. Yet even though this same nature communicates ...
( Category: Philosophy July 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-18 | Author:Three Initiates

The Plane of Matter (A) comprises the forms of Matter in its form of solids, liquids, and gases, as generally recognized by the text-books on physics. The Plane of Matter ...
( Category: Occult & Paranormal July 21,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lucretius

1. After this line, several lines are missing. 2. Having proved to his satisfaction that the soul is mortal. Lucretius now ends Bk. III with a series of exhortations to ...
( Category: Philosophy July 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-31 | Author:William Lane Craig [Craig, William Lane]

THE TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT: A SIMPLE FORMULATION The fine-tuning of the universe is due to physical necessity, chance, or design. It is not due to physical necessity or chance. Therefore, it ...
( Category: Theology July 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-24 | Author:J. N. Mohanty

Nondifference (Tādātmya) This is the fundamental relation according to Advaita Vedānta. But nondifference is the absence of difference. How can an absence function as a relation? To show that it ...
( Category: Philosophy July 12,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-08-26 | Author:Penguin Classics [Classics, Penguin]

CHAPTER 2 AWARENESS The Pali word translated here as ‘awareness’ is appamāda, the opposite of pamāda, ‘intoxication’, ‘carelessness’, ‘unawareness’. As often in Pali, the negative suffix has a stronger force ...
( Category: Buddhism July 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-08 | Author:Michael Murphy [Murphy, Michael]

Epilogue BUT THE STORY DID not quite end there (indeed in many respects it is not over yet). During the following week a remarkable incident occurred in the cathedral of ...
( Category: Golf July 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-08 | Author:Jessica Frazier [Frazier, Jessica]

It is this person who knows and ‘enters’ the whole world, both identifying with it and transcending its particularities. Again, there is a striking difference from the self-as-consciousness conceived in ...
( Category: Religious Studies July 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-11-25 | Author:Gregory Chaitin [Chaitin, Gregory]

A century of work has not sufficed to solve this problem! An important milestone was the proof by the combined efforts of Gödel and Paul Cohen that the usual axioms ...
( Category: Philosophy July 9,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-28 | Author:Harding, Douglas [Harding, Douglas]

(5) Practising Headlessness Now the “hard” part begins, which is the repetition of this headless seeing-into-Nothingness till the seeing becomes quite natural and nothing special at all; till, whatever one ...
( Category: Buddhism July 8,2017 )