Philosophy
epub |eng | 2011-03-09 | Author:Hales, Steven D.;

17 Secularism, Liberalism, and Relativism AKEEL BILGRAMI Abstract This chapter explores the issue of relativism in ethics and politics by looking to a specific form of ethical and political conflict ...
( Category: History & Surveys January 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-26 | Author:Peter Adamson [Adamson, Peter]

37 Neither the Time Nor the Place Ḥasdai Crescas In the construction business, they’ll often dynamite an old building to make room for a new one, and something similar has ...
( Category: Judaism January 11,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Buridan

Chapter 2: The Division of Modal Propositions into Composite and Divided Now, in the second chapter, we must acknowledge that modal propositions of this sort are commonly of two types. ...
( Category: Aesthetics January 10,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Heidegger, Martin; Fritsch, Matthias; Gosetti-Ferencei, Jennifer Anna

b) Sensuous Objects Not only what and how something marvelous here occurs, however, but also the diversity of the contents which enter the memoria, and how they do so, generates ...
( Category: Phenomenology January 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-06 | Author:Henry David Thoreau

Ploughing, harrowing, and furrowing, 7 50 Too much. Beans for seed, 3 12½ Potatoes " 1 33 Peas " 0 40 Turnip seed, 0 06 White line for crow fence, ...
( Category: United States January 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-18 | Author:Ernest Holmes [Holmes, Ernest]

Lesson Five: Introduction A mystic is not a mysterious person; but is one who has a deep, inner sense of Life and Unity with the Whole; mysticism and mystery are ...
( Category: New Thought January 8,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Zamoyski

* * * *Chopin’s expletives are typical of the unguarded way he wrote to his close friends, and should certainly not be taken, as they might be today, to denote ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians January 8,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charlotte J. Beck

Renunciation Suzuki Roshi said, “Renunciation is not giving up the things of this world, but accepting that they go away.” Everything is impermanent; sooner or later everything goes away. Renunciation ...
( Category: Personal Transformation January 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-14 | Author:Malabou, Catherine; Shread, Carolyn; Crockett, Clayton

X. THE FANTASTIC AND PHILOSOPHY: LEVINAS The second source of the philosophical “fantastic” is Levinas’s philosophy. Levinas diverts the category of “fantastic” from its strictly aesthetic bonds (poetic, novelistic, cinematographic…) ...
( Category: Deconstruction January 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-07 | Author:Darwin, Charles; Beer, Gillian; Beer, Gillian

CHAPTER IX ON THE IMPERFECTION OF THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD On the absence of intermediate varieties at the present day—On the nature of extinct intermediate varieties; on their number—On the vast ...
( Category: Political January 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-21 | Author:Allan Bloom

BOOK IX “Well,” I said, “the tyrannic man himself remains to be considered—how he is transformed out of the democratic man, and, once come into being, what sort of man ...
( Category: Democracy December 10,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Peter Godfrey-Smith

6 OUR MINDS AND OTHERS From Hume to Vygotsky In one of the most famous passages in all of philosophy, David Hume in 1739 looked inside his mind in an ...
( Category: Consciousness & Thought December 9,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:Ian Bogost

SO URGENT HAS our mistrust of things become, we have begun to embrace restraint at any cost. Asceticism is in, and it’s glamorous. Marie Kondo, a Japanese organizing consultant, has ...
( Category: Social Sciences December 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Siri Hustvedt

Phantasy Land in Its Sincere and Ironic Modes The idea that immortality is just around the bend via machine intelligence has been avidly promoted by Ray Kurzweil, scientist, inventor, and ...
( Category: Women in Art December 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Voltaire; Fletcher, John; Cronk, Nicholas

ON EZEKIEL (D’ÉZÉCHIEL) On some singular passages in this prophet, and on some ancient customs IT’S generally agreed today that ancient customs must not be judged in the light of ...
( Category: Religious December 7,2016 )