Philosophy
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:Albert Einstein [Einstein, Albert]

The Field In Newtonian mechanics, space and time play a dual rôle. First, they play the part of carrier or frame for things that happen in physics, in reference to ...
( Category: Relativity June 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-20 | Author:Alain Badiou

7 Event and Political Organization This localized rallying in a square, on avenues or in factories, this quantitative contraction or compaction – all this acts as reality, because what informs ...
( Category: Political June 21,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Sellars, John [John Sellars]

We can schematize this process as follows: For the cosmos to develop all of its myriad forms, all four of the elements are required. Yet if the fire out of ...
( Category: Greek & Roman June 20,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Will Durant

V. On Religion and Reason Does this appear trite, and timid, and conservative? But it was not so; on the contrary, this bold denial of “rational” theology, this frank reduction ...
( Category: History & Surveys June 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-18 | Author:MacIntyre, Alasdair, Williams, Bernard, Berlin, Isaiah, Hardy, Henry

1 [Aristotle spoke of history (by contrast with poetry) as ‘what Alcibiades did and suffered’: Poetics 1451b11.] 1 Oeuvres de Condorcet, ed. A. Condorcet O’Connor and M. F. Arago (Paris, ...
( Category: Modern June 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-18 | Author:Berlin, Isaiah, Hardy, Henry, Israel, Jonathan

VI In this connection it is worth considering Herder’s attitude to three great eighteenth-century myths which fed the stream of nineteenth-century nationalism. The first is that of the superiority of ...
( Category: History & Surveys June 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-18 | Author:Berlin, Isaiah, Hardy, Henry, Margalit, Avishai

1 See G. V. Plekhanov, ‘Buki az–ba’ (1918), repr. in God na rodine (Paris, 1921), ii 257–68 at 268. 2 [This talk was broadcast in December 1956, shortly after the ...
( Category: Modern June 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-21 | Author:Berlin, Isaiah [Berlin, Isaiah]

1953–1955 ALL SOULS CLEARLY NOTHING WILL ever be the same again.1 IB flew home, arriving early on Sunday 13 December, and spent ‘two quite cheerful days’2 with his father in ...
( Category: Philosophers June 19,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-06-18 | Author:Berlin, Isaiah, Hardy, Henry, Galston, William, Cherniss, Joshua L.

Liberty [2] On the one hand we must have absolute liberty: unless man does what he does absolutely freely, it is not he who is acting; there is no action, ...
( Category: Modern June 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Elizabeth Jane Howard [Howard, Elizabeth Jane]

PART THREE 1 One morning – it must have been a blurb-writing day – I noticed that Cecil seemed unusually absorbed by a proof copy he was reading. When I ...
( Category: European June 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-16 | Author:Franz Brentano [Brentano, Franz]

[29] (p. 19). When I affirmed that the language of common life offers no suitable terms for activities of feeling qualified as right, I did not mean thereby to deny ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality June 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-07 | Author:Slavoj Zizek

4 Melancholy and the Act in which the reader will be surprised to learn that anyone who is not a melancholic, or does not agree that we are thrown into ...
( Category: History & Theory June 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Thierry Bardini [Bardini, Thierry]

since Plato). In other words, anamnesis will bring back eternal ideas, closer to God’s intellect, but not to his will. As long that you ascribe a drive (a will) to ...
( Category: Humanism June 17,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hubert Krivine

Fig 35. Doppler-Fizeau effect. When Earth moves away from star S, as at E2, it receives from star S light of lower frequency than when it is at E1, at ...
( Category: History & Philosophy June 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-03 | Author:Gray, John

JUNG’S ARYAN UNCONSCIOUS, OR WHAT MYTHS ARE NOT Freud held back from considering ways in which myth might be renewed. His errant colleague Carl Jung had shown where that led. ...
( Category: Humanism June 16,2015 )