Philosophy
mobi |eng | 2013-08-21 | Author:Warburton, Nigel [Warburton, Nigel]
Positive Freedom Some philosophers have attacked the idea that negative freedom is the sort of freedom we should strive to increase. They argue that positive freedom is a far more ...
( Category:
Movements & Periods
September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1926-01-01 | Author:H.L. Mencken
5. Utopia Thus the ideal of democracy is reached at last: it has become a psychic impossibility for a gentleman to hold office under the Federal Union, save by a ...
( Category:
Democracy
September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1995-01-19 | Author:Paine, Thomas & Mark Philp [Paine, Thomas]
Having thus spoken of constitutions generally, as things distinct from actual governments, let us proceed to consider the parts of which a constitution is composed. Opinions differ more on this ...
( Category:
History & Theory
September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-08-11 | Author:Edmonds, David & Warburton, Nigel [Edmonds, David]
NW: But this isn’t a historical relativism about scientific truth, is it? DP: No, no, just the opposite. Relativism would be the position you would adopt if you were persuaded ...
( Category:
Metaphysics
September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-31 | Author:Baggini, Julian [Baggini, Julian]
See also 1. The evil demon 28. Nightmare scenario 62. I think, therefore? 98. The experience machine 52. More or less Carol had decided to use a large slice of ...
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Logic & Brain Teasers
September 29,2014 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 1991-09-18 | Author:Mill, John Stuart [Mill, John Stuart]
VII OF TRUE AND FALSE DEMOCRACY; REPRESENTATION OF ALL, AND REPRESENTATION OF THE MAJORITY ONLY IT has been seen, that the dangers incident to a representative democracy are of two ...
( Category:
Utilitarianism
September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-02 | Author:Baggini, Julian [Baggini, Julian]
Hit 13 This is a flagrant contradiction. If you agree that it is justifiable to base one’s beliefs about the external world on a firm, inner conviction, regardless of the ...
( Category:
Logic & Brain Teasers
September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-20 | Author:Hills, Debra [Hills, Debra]
Discriminating definitions Some words are not easy to define. Try these: ■ poverty ■ intelligence ■ masculinity. Compare yours with the dictionary definitions. How similar were they? Words like these ...
( Category:
Logic & Language
September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-09-02 | Author:Ben Dupré
the condensed idea Bludgeoning of the people by the people? timeline 507 BC Cleisthenes introduces democratic reforms in Athens AD 1651 Hobbes discusses balance between state power and individual liberty ...
( Category:
Movements
September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-09-05 | Author:Cave, Peter [Cave, Peter]
Back to behavioural basics We are neither born aware of linguistic meanings nor lucky recipients of magical learning. We develop language from infancy with people using terms such as ‘pain’, ...
( Category:
Reference
September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-05-05 | Author:Dennett, Daniel C [Dennett, Daniel C]
44. When Does Speciation Occur? A curious feature of evolution by natural selection is that it depends crucially on events that “almost never” happen. For instance, speciation, the process in ...
( Category:
Epistemology
September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-05-25 | Author:Gensler, Harry J. [Gensler, Harry J.]
At least two are rich = = For some x and some y: x≠y, x is rich, and y is rich. (∃x)(∃y)(∼x=y · (Rx · Ry)) The pair of quantifiers ...
( Category:
Logic & Language
September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Dupré, Ben [Dupré, Ben]
The false face of Islam Given the staggering success of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it was perhaps inevitable, and certainly unhelpful, that al-Qaeda – however nebulous an entity it is ...
( Category:
General
September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-07-21 | Author:Pigliucci, Massimo [Pigliucci, Massimo]
An even broader challenge to the gene's eye view of things has been brought by the resurgence of the idea of group selection, which – in its naïve version – ...
( Category:
Philosophy
September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-07-27 | Author:Julian Baggini;Peter S. Fosl
3.9 Facts/values Women can feed infants through lactation.'Ien days from conception, it is still not finally determined whether a fetus will go on to divide into twins. Cocoa bought at ...
( Category:
Ethics & Morality
September 29,2014 )
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