Philosophy
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Ian McEwan [Mcewan, Ian]

Fifteen On the way home I turned south off the motorway where the Chilterns rise and drove to the field. I parked exactly where Logan had, with the car banked ...
( Category: Literary December 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Ian McEwan [McEwan, Ian]

For a long time he lay on his back smoking, staring into the blackness of the cavernous roof. The corporals’ snores rose and fell in counterpoint. He was exhausted, but ...
( Category: Alternate History Science Fiction December 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-09 | Author:Barry Stroud

Notes: This essay was first published in R. Barrett and R. Gibson (eds.), Perspectives on Quine (Blackwell, Oxford, 1990). (1) W. V. Quine, ‘On What There Is’, in his From ...
( Category: Analytic Philosophy December 15,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-11-30 | Author:Wells, George Albert [Wells, George Albert]

And from thence he arose and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered into a house, and would have no man know it: yet he ...
( Category: New Testament December 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:John Stuart Mill [Mill, John Stuart]

* Especially is this true if we take into consideration Asia as well as Europe. If a Hindoo principality is strongly, vigilantly, and economically governed; if order is preserved without ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality December 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-19 | Author:Carl Porter

Here Dylan’s thought is at its most absolutistic point: Christianity is the truth, and therefore any view at odds with it must be false. To maintain such a strong absolutist ...
( Category: Rock December 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Kahlil Gibran [Gibran, Kahlil]

The Essence of Poetry TRUTH, THE GOAL OF POETRY In the history of high learning, poetry has become part of the “liberal arts” and especially of rational philosophy ever since ...
( Category: Modern December 4,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Kahlil Gibran [Gibran, Kahlil]

HONEYED POISON IT WAS a beautiful morn of dizzying brilliance in North Lebanon when the people of the village of Tula gathered around the portico of the small church that ...
( Category: Eastern December 4,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Kahlil Gibran [Gibran, Kahlil]

* * Gibran, in his articles about Avicenna, Al Farid and Al Ghazali, left no doubt about his admiration for these great Arabic philosophers and made clear his belief in ...
( Category: Inspirational & Religious December 4,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Kahlil Gibran [Gibran, Kahlil]

*A rich abbey in North Lebanon with vast lands, occupied by scores of monks called Alepoans. (Editor’s note.) The Enchanting Houri The Enchanting Houri WHERE are you leading me, Oh ...
( Category: Inspirational & Religious December 4,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Kahlil Gibran [Gibran, Kahlil]

Until when shall the people remain asleep? Until when shall they continue to glorify those Who attained greatness by moments of advantage? How long shall they ignore those who enable ...
( Category: Middle Eastern December 4,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Kahlil Gibran [Gibran, Kahlil]

The Sons of the Goddess And the Sons of the Monkeys HOW STRANGE Time is, and how queer we are! Time has really changed, and lo, it has changed us ...
( Category: Middle Eastern December 4,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-09 | Author:Anitra Lynn McLeod

Chapter 8 Kian was hoping to have a reprieve from pain long enough to get a good look at his Earthling. But just as he’d always known, there was no ...
( Category: Music December 3,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-02-22 | Author:Carrier, Richard [Carrier, Richard]

Quote from: Carl Sagan, “Does Truth Matter? Science, Pseudoscience, and Civilization,” Skeptical Inquirer 20:6 (1996), p. 29. Still important is William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in ...
( Category: Philosophy December 2,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gibran, Kahlil, Ghougassian, Joseph P.

3. PARABLES ON POLITICAL AUTHORITY The purpose of this present section is twofold. On one hand, it serves as a conclusion for Chapter Five; on the other hand, it delves ...
( Category: Philosophy December 2,2014 )