Philosophy
mobi |eng | 2009-02-28 | Author:Cave, Peter [Cave, Peter]

5 With politics Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. E. M. Forster How should society be run? Politics raises this question ...
( Category: Humanism September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:van den Brink-Budgen, Roy

As you can see, the author’s inference that advertising creates young drinkers is drawn from four (or, as we’ll see, really five) evidence-claims. In addition, one of these (‘By the ...
( Category: Study Guides September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2008-08-31 | Author:Cave, Peter [Cave, Peter]

* * * We may deal quickly with the scenario sketched, once we have the background question: what’s wrong with eating people? After all, I had not consented to their ...
( Category: Criticism September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-10-03 | Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

CONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSAL FOR CORSICA Prefatory Note The Corsican Republic, under the leadership of Pasquale Paoli, had proclaimed its independence from Genoa and sovereignty in 1755. Rousseau, an admirer of the ...
( Category: Modern September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-07-29 | Author:Kemp, Gary & Tracy Bowell [Kemp, Gary]

C) If you smoke, then, probably, you will get cancer. What, then, does ‘Smoking causes cancer' mean? Roughly, what it means is that each person is more likely to develop ...
( Category: Logic & Language September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-10-25 | Author:Konner, Joan [Konner, Joan]

The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors. . . . For my part, I would ...
( Category: Philosophy September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-24 | Author:Warburton, Nigel [Warburton, Nigel]

CHAPTER 22 The Owl of Minerva GEORG W.F. HEGEL ‘The owl of Minerva flies only at dusk.’ This was the view of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831). But what does ...
( Category: History & Surveys September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Pigliucci, Massimo [Pigliucci, Massimo]

PART IV LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP CHAPTER 11 THE HORMONES OF LOVE You can’t blame gravity for falling in love. —ALBERT EINSTEIN THE GOD OF LOVE LIVES IN A STATE OF ...
( Category: Biology September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-02-02 | Author:Baggini, Julian [Baggini, Julian]

3. Identity is not what matters It is time to confess that in defending the idea that psychological continuity is the basis of our identity over time, I’ve so far ...
( Category: Consciousness & Thought September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Singer

In the preceding section, we discussed justifiable killing of beings who have never been capable of choosing to live or die. Ending a life without consent may also be considered ...
( Category: Medical Ethics September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-13 | Author:Harrison, Victoria S. [Harrison, Victoria S.]

DEPENDENT CO-ARISING The key to the Buddhist account of the causal relations that generate our experience of ourselves and of our world is the theory of dependent co-arising (sometimes translated ...
( Category: Taoism September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2004-08-02 | Author:Mcinerny, D.Q. [Mcinerny, D.Q.]

The form of the conjunctive argument, expressed symbolically, is A ⋅ B. Both A and B represent complete statements. An example in plain English: “Anne is a sophomore at the ...
( Category: Logic & Language September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-04-04 | Author:Trevor Curnow

* * * Amongst the many things that can be bought, there are several that many people think should not be bought. The reasons for these views are not always ...
( Category: Reference September 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-05-16 | Author:James Garvey & Jeremy Stangroom

René Descartes, in a portrait attributed to Frans Hals (c.1649 or later). The painting now hangs in the Louvre. Descartes prepared for life as a lawyer but quickly saw that ...
( Category: History & Surveys September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-31 | Author:Peter Cave

27. A GAZELLE, A SLOTH AND A CHICKEN 14. INDOCTRINATION: WHEN BELIEVING GOES WRONG 2. PINTER AND ISABELLA: TETHERING THEM DOWN Emotions 19 ADDICTED TO LOVE Allow me to introduce ...
( Category: Satire September 29,2014 )