Philosophy
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Alice Munro [Alice Munro]

had labored at for me. I remember a red V-necked sweater often worn by her, and a pleated Royal Stewart skirt. Maybe Gloria and Susannah thought of her as the ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-07-06 | Author:Frédéric Bastiat [BASTIAT, FRÉDÉRIC]

Fénelon’s idyll on Crete is still more fascinating. Mentor is made to say: All that you will see in this wonderful island is the result of the laws of Minos. ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 28,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-08-16 | Author:Murray N. Rothbard

____________________ 1. On the crucial legal and philosophical distinction between patents and copyrights, see Murray N. Rothbard, Man, Economy, and State (Princeton, N.J.: D. Van Nostrand, 1962), vol. 2, pp. ...
( Category: Radicalism September 28,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:Weiss, Brian L. [Weiss, Brian L.]

Chapter NINE Each week another layer of neurotic fears and anxieties was stripped away from Catherine. Each week she appeared a bit more serene, a bit softer and more patient. ...
( Category: ESP September 28,2014 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:Sam Harris

Chapter 5 THE FUTURE OF HAPPINESS No one has ever mistaken me for an optimist. And yet when I consider one of the more pristine sources of pessimism—the moral development ...
( Category: Ethics September 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1984-09-26 | Author:Barnes, Jonathan, Aristotle [Barnes, Jonathan]

[5] 2 · From these the rest are derived in all their variety of chromatic effects by blending of them and by their presence in varying strengths. The different shades ...
( Category: Greek & Roman September 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-04 | Author:Clive James [James, Clive]

THOMAS MANN So enormous at first glance that he might convince us he can safely be read about rather than read, Thomas Mann (1875–1955) is nevertheless the twentieth-century cultural figure ...
( Category: Humanism September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 1998-09-21 | Author:Elvira Woodruff [Woodruff, Elvira]

Your brother, Levi P.S. For getting home after dark, I received the punishment of having to pluck chickens for the quilting-bee supper. “Ain't folks tired of eating chicken all the ...
( Category: Education & Reference September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Piers Anthony [Anthony, Piers]

• • • We went to Phobos. This was the tiniest of satellites., an ellipsoid whose longest dimension was barely twenty seven kilometers. The total surface area was about five ...
( Category: Logic & Language September 22,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-05 | Author:Slavoj Zizek

19 Café Revolution If we could presuppose the minimal safety and freedom, what should the leftist revolution aim for? SŽ: Again, this is a very good question. I think that ...
( Category: Political September 22,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:James, Aaron [James, Aaron]

PSYCHOPATHS AND MORAL BLINDNESS In our proposal, the asshole is blameworthy because of a failure of seeing. But here one might object that the bare fact of having certain mistaken ...
( Category: Social Philosophy September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-05 | Author:Michael Martin

Christian apologists might argue that these seemingly conflicting passages can be reconciled by a passage from Paul: "I am not ashamed of the gospel: it is the power of God ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality September 22,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-05-31 | Author:Schneider, Susan [Schneider, Susan]

Thus, amid a welter of convoluted prose, was born the cyborg. The acronym “cyborg” stood for Cybernetic Organism or Cybernetically Controlled Organism; it was a term of art meant to ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 17,2014 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:David Deutsch

11 The Multiverse The idea of a ‘doppelgänger’ (a ‘double’ of a person) is a frequent theme of science fiction. For instance, the classic television series Star Trek featured several ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 17,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:E. M. Cioran & Richard Howard & Eugene Thacker [Cioran, E. M. & Howard, Richard & Thacker, Eugene]

Conditions of Tragedy If Jesus had ended his career upon the Cross, if he had not been committed to resuscitation—-what a splendid tragic hero! His divine aspect has cost literature ...
( Category: Humanism September 16,2014 )