Philosophy
mobi |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:David Hume

AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS SECTION I. OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF MORALS. DISPUTES with men, pertinaciously obstinate in their principles, are, of all others, the most irksome; ...
( Category: Modern October 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

BOOK III. 1. MY son Marcus, Cato, who was nearly of the same age with Publius Scipio, the first of the family that bore the name of Africanus, represents him ...
( Category: Reference October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Hume, David [Hume, David]

* * * PART 7 * * * But here, continued PHILO, in examining the ancient system of the soul of the world, there strikes me, all on a sudden, ...
( Category: Philosophy October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Epictetus

CHAPTER VIII. HOW WE ARE TO EXERCISE OURSELVES AGAINST THE SEMBLANCES OF THINGS. IN the same manner as we exercise ourselves against sophistical questions, we should exercise ourselves likewise in ...
( Category: Philosophy October 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-28 | Author:Simon Blackburn

Part Three Foundations It is time to pick up some unfinished business. In Part One, I tried to deflect some of the hostile thoughts many people voice about ethics. But ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Thomas Aquinas

WHETHER THIS NAME GOD IS A NAME OF THE NATURE? We proceed thus to the Eighth Article:— Objection 1. It seems that this name, God, is not a name of ...
( Category: Philosophy October 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

as Terence, whom I have just quoted, says; but he says it in the person of Gnatho, — a sort of friend which only a frivolous mind can tolerate. But ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality October 27,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-10-28 | Author:Raymond Wacks

Chapter 5 Law and society So far we have been preoccupied with normative legal theory, and its endeavours to explain the concept of law, as it were, from within. That ...
( Category: Philosophy October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-28 | Author:Tony Hope

18. An attempt to assassinate the British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, in 1843, led to the establishment of the legal rules for determining when a person is not guilty ...
( Category: Medical Ethics October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-10-03 | Author:Paul Brunton

4.3 Historical Perspectives 85 The history of a nation is really a translation from the history of its soul. 86 History returns periodically to the same basic problems, the same ...
( Category: Metaphysics October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-05 | Author:Mary Midgley

6 SELVES AND SHADOWS 1 THE PROBLEM OF SELF-DECEPTION We come back now to our original problem—the attempt to make wickedness understandable—absolved, if all has gone well, from various objections ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality October 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-10 | Author:Simon Blackburn

The notable thing about this argument is that it is purely a priori. It purports to prove God's existence simply from considering the concept or definition of God. It is ...
( Category: Modern October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Plutarch

as if the light of the sun fell not upon another star, but upon night and darkness. And as for what Posidonius says, that the depth of the moon’s body ...
( Category: Medieval October 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

BOOK III. I. AFTER these words from Balbus, Cotta said, looking at him with a smile, You tell me too late, Balbus, what cause I am to defend, for during ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-11-16 | Author:Christopher Hitchens

30 From Roger’s Version JOHN UPDIKE This great American writer is as far as I know not an atheist, but he has the novelist’s ability to put an admirable argument ...
( Category: Atheism October 27,2014 )