Philosophy
epub |eng | 2011-03-08 | Author:Ferguson, Andrew [Ferguson, Andrew]

A monk asked Daguang, “People like Bodhidharma become ancestors, right?” Daguang said, “No.” The monk said, “If Bodhidharma isn’t our ancestor, then why did he come from the west?” Daguang ...
( Category: World February 2,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2014-12-21 | Author:Albert Low

1 Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane (New York: Harvest Books, 1957), p. 22. 2 Ibid., p. 27 The world center is not a geographical center but a dynamic ...
( Category: Philosophy February 2,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Richard L. Rubenstein [Rubenstein, Richard L.]

If the researchers really believe these experiments are safe for humans, why do they go to the prisons for the subjects? Why don’t they try them out in their own ...
( Category: Holocaust February 2,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-22 | Author:Mantak Chia

Fig. 5.20. Sixth position 2. Following the movements described earlier in this chapter for the basic structure, bring the earth’s force up and through your body. 3. As your heart ...
( Category: Taoism January 30,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Sloan Wilson

FIGURE 7.1 AYN RAND’S WORLDVIEW In short, Rand’s worldview adds a layer of unreality on top of the unreality of Homo economicus. Those who become believers acquire a kind of ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:Philosophy & Psychology

1. Schellenberg (2010) also puts forward a mixed position. But her conception of the intentional element of perception is different from the one suggested here. While she promotes a Fregean ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 29,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould [Gould, Stephen Jay]

The Opening of the Fifth and Sixth Seals, the Distribution of White Garments Among the Martyrs and the Fall of Stars (1498), Albrecht Dürer. Woodcut from The Revelation of Saint ...
( Category: Rationalism January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 1985-01-28 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould

( Category: Philosophy January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-21 | Author:Michel de Montaigne

And when we others do foolishly fear a kind of death, when as we have already passed and daily pass so many others. For not only (as Heraclitus said) the ...
( Category: Renaissance January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-29 | Author:Leo Tolstoy [Tolstoy, Leo]

19 The fog lifted enough to reveal the wet tops of the reeds. Here and there the fog turned to dew that dampened the road and the weeds by the ...
( Category: War January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Iceberg Slim

During my long, idiotic quest for something for nothing, I met under nonsociable conditions in four penitentiaries an army of hacks, bulls, screws—prison guards. At least ninety-eight percent of them ...
( Category: African-American Studies January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Paul L. Maier

SEVENTEEN The White House limousine delivered Jon to the address he had specified in Georgetown. Sandy McHugh wouldn’t hear of his staying at a hotel, though Jon did have one ...
( Category: Suspense January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-20 | Author:Slavoj Zizek [Žižek, Slavoj]

NOTES Unless otherwise indicated, all of the jokes are from unpublished manuscripts. 1. The Year of Dreaming Dangerously (London: Verso, 2012), 39–40. 2. Less Than Nothing (London: Verso, 2012), 599. ...
( Category: Jokes & Riddles January 29,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2004-03-16 | Author:Isaac Asimov

Measures on Hyper Base had been taken in a sort of rattling fury—the muscular equivalent of an hysterical shriek. To itemize them in order of both chronology and desperation, they ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction January 28,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Guillen

VICI On February 29, 1812, Faraday leapt up the stone steps and rushed through the heavy doors of London’s Royal Institution. Symbolically, it was like the storming of Bastille, except ...
( Category: History January 26,2015 )