Philosophy
epub |eng | 2007-12-06 | Author:Kant, Immanuel; Walker, Nicholas; Meredith, James Creed

Indeed this concept leads reason into an order of things entirely different from that of a mere mechanism of nature, which mere mechanism no longer proves adequate in this domain. ...
( Category: Rationalism December 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-06 | Author:Richard Bourke

X A DREADFUL STATE OF THINGS MADRAS AND BENGAL, 1777–1785 10.1 Introduction As Burke pondered the implications of a formal pact with the American colonies that might help bring to ...
( Category: History & Theory December 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2000-12-04 | Author:Waterfield, Robin;

DIOGENES OF APOLLONIA Diogenes is something of a throwback—a Milesian kind of philosopher in a post-Parmenidean world. He is also an eclectic, borrowing not just from Anaxagoras and Leucippus (as ...
( Category: Greek & Roman December 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2006-12-04 | Author:Descartes, René; Maclean, Ian;

PART THREE Finally, just as it is not enough, before beginning to rebuild the house in which one lives, to do no more than demolish it, make provision for materials ...
( Category: Modern December 5,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-28 | Author:Charles Darwin [Darwin, Charles]

When the suppliant kneels and holds up his hands with the palms joined, he represents a captive who proves the completeness of his submission by offering up his hands to ...
( Category: Developmental Biology November 30,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Gilles Châtelet [Châtelet, Gilles]

Notes 1. On these questions, see K. Polanyi, The Great Transformation. The modern form of this transformation is of course the need for ‘flexibility’ of work. 2. Hydraulic despotisms play ...
( Category: Philosophy November 30,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Steven Nadler

9 “The Jew of Voorburg” IN 1665, the village of Voorburg, just outside The Hague, was in the grip of a rancorous civil dispute over who would be the next ...
( Category: General November 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-27 | Author:Brook Ziporyn [Ziporyn, Brook]

Krug’s Pen Revisited We must be unequivocal about this. The claim here is that the terms “necessary contradiction” and “identity” are interchangeable, and that for any coherence whatsoever to “be ...
( Category: Buddhism November 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-05 | Author:Soren Kierkegaard [Kierkegaard, Soren]

Luther makes a good distinction in the sermon on the Second Sunday after Epiphany (Epistle) between reproving or punishing and damning. The one who damns wants the evil to come ...
( Category: Existentialism November 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-03 | Author:Melissa Ambrosini

Exercise with Heart Movement is the other key element of feeling fabulously healthy. I used to exercise out of fear of getting fat. I have never been seriously overweight, but ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory November 23,2016 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | | Author:Norman Kretzmann

64 This introduction of Aquinas’s concept of will is based mainly on ST Ia.80.1; for a similar account, different in some important respects, see the earlier QDV 22.4. 65 For ...
( Category: History & Surveys November 22,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Don Garrett [Don Garrett]

Altruism and the primacy of the self As was the case with the apparent instances of prudential desire, apparent instances of altruistic desire pose a prima facie threat to Spinoza’s ...
( Category: Modern November 22,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:John Cottingham [John Cottingham]

PHILOSOPHICAL OBJECTIONS TO THE PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION The demonstration of the truth rule begs the question against the skeptical supposition. That it does beg the question will be apparent, even to ...
( Category: Modern November 22,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Vere Chappell [Vere Chappell]

Besides looking forward to a more recent distinction, Locke's distinction between knowledge and belief also looks back to an older one: the Aristotelian distinction between “scientific knowledge” and “opinion.” Knowledge, ...
( Category: Modern November 22,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:A. A. Long [A. A. Long]

NOTES A version of this chapter has already appeared as part of the chapter “Anaxagoras and the Atomists” in C. C. W. Taylor, ed. Routledge History of Philosophy, Vol. I, ...
( Category: Greek & Roman November 22,2016 )