Philosophy
mobi |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Robert Green Ingersoll [Ingersoll, Robert Green]

When Voltaire was born the church ruled and owned France. It was a period of almost universal corruption. The priests were mostly libertines, the judges cruel and venal. The royal ...
( Category: United States July 31,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-01 | Author:George H. Smith [Smith, George H.]

Charles Bradlaugh (1833-1891) was the most important atheist ever produced by Britain. A superb orator, writer, and organizer, Bradlaugh replaced Holyoake as the militant force in British freethought. He edited ...
( Category: Philosophers July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sun-Tzu [Sun-Tzu]

When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food. If those who are sent to draw water begin by themselves drinking, the army is ...
( Category: Strategy July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-04 | Author:Michael L. Peterson [Peterson, Michael L.]

4 Initial Deep Problems RP faces some deep problems already. One is this: Why are we to think that all will be well for everybody, or everybody who is decent? ...
( Category: Philosophy July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:Arthur Schopenhauer [Schopenhauer, Arthur]

ON CRITICISM. The following brief remarks on the critical faculty are chiefly intended to show that, for the most part, there is no such thing. It is a rara avis; ...
( Category: Modern July 31,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-07 | Author:Arthur Schopenhauer [Schopenhauer, Arthur]

SUPPLEMENTS TO THE THIRD BOOK. Et is similis spectatori est, quod ab omni separatus spectaculum videt. Oupnekhat, Vol. I, p. 304. [“And he is like a spectator, because, separated from ...
( Category: Metaphysics July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 1886-01-02 | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche [Nietzsche, Friedrich]

Part Six: We Scholars 204 At the risk that moralizing will here too prove to be what it has always been – namely an undismayed montrer ses plaies, as Balzac ...
( Category: Criticism July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-04 | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche [Nietzsche, Friedrich]

II. In order to describe properly what an event my first look into Schopenhauer's writings was for me, I must dwell for a minute on an idea, that recurred more ...
( Category: Classical July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-23 | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche [Nietzsche, Friedrich]

15. The Modesty of Man.—How little pleasure is enough for the majority to make them feel that life is good! How modest is man! [pg 195] 16. Where Indifference is ...
( Category: Free Will & Determinism July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-07 | Author:Arthur Schopenhauer [Schopenhauer, Arthur]

* * * HUMAN NATURE. Truths of the physical order may possess much external significance, but internal significance they have none. The latter is the privilege of intellectual and moral ...
( Category: Reference July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 1991-07-30 | Author:Robert M. Pirsig

17 It was a long way to the hotel but Phædrus felt like walking it. After that blow-up with Lila he needed to walk. This city always made him feel ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:R. J. Hollingdale [Hollingdale, R. J.]

Even here I have much to endure, I he wrote;] the summer this sear is hotter and more full of electricity I! I than usual, which is detrimental to me. ...
( Category: Philosophers July 31,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Russ Roberts [Roberts, Russ]

We have enough troubles of our own. Taking on the suffering of others in full measure would be too hard. Our ability to sympathize with others is limited. But that ...
( Category: Good & Evil July 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-17 | Author:Abram, David [Abram, David]

The moral efficacy of the landscape—this power of the land to ensure mindful and respectful behavior in the community—is mediated by a whole class of stories that are regularly recounted ...
( Category: Existentialism July 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-08 | Author:Stephen Joseph Williams [Williams, Stephen Joseph]

…attempts to explain the connection between mind and reality, and therefore the presence of cognition and universe in the same phrase. In explaining this relationship, the CTMU shows that reality ...
( Category: Metaphysics July 21,2015 )