Philosophy
epub |eng | 2011-03-31 | Author:Mark T. Conard

The irrationality of Alvy’s provincialism is apparent in this scene because neither Annie nor Rob reciprocate his criticisms. In fact, both Annie and Rob do their best to ignore Alvy ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2010-09-20 | Author:David Rakoff [Rakoff, David]

II. The Boulevard of Broken Dreams Superman has taken the morning off. Although appearing among us in mufti, he is immediately identifiable by his square jaw and the comma of ...
( Category: Humor March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-11 | 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 March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joshua Slocum

CHAPTER XII Seventy-two days without a port—Whales and birds—A peep into the Spray’s galley—Flying-fish for breakfast—A welcome at Apia—A visit from Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson—At Vailima—Samoan hospitality—Arrested for fast riding—An ...
( Category: Narratives March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1995-01-02 | Author:Alasdair MacIntyre [MacIntyre, Alasdair]

The Manifesto begins with outlining the history of society. It contains a fine recognition of the achievements of the bourgeoisie as well as a denunciation of the evils, of bourgeois ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-07-06 | Author:Jennifer Hecht [Hecht, Jennifer]

THE HISTORICAL PROBLEM CALLED RABELAIS A center of fresh doubt in these years was at the court of Margaret of Navarre. She lived from 1492 to 1549, right through the ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-03-25 | Author:Michael Foley

9 The Atrophy of Experience It is getting towards the end of the afternoon of a heavily overcast day at the end of November. Light has long since abandoned the ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2000-03-25 | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche [Nietzsche, Friedrich]

272 Signs of nobility: never thinking of degrading our duties into duties for everybody; not wanting to delegate, to share, one’s own responsibility; counting one’s privileges and their exercise among ...
( Category: Modern March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-07-31 | Author:Frances Yates [FRANCES YATES]

The question of the influence of Giorgi on Spenser is complicated by the fact that Spenser is adapting the thinking and outlook of the Friar of Venice to his panegyric ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-03-14 | Author:Michel de Montaigne [Montaigne, Michel de]

( Category: Humanism March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, azw, pdf |eng | 2009-06-30 | Author:Sun Tzu [Tzu, Sun]

When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food. If those who are sent to draw water begin by themselves drinking, the army is ...
( Category: Military Technology March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Adam Gopnik [Gopnik, Adam]

In Caspar David Friedrich’s 1819 Monastery Graveyard in the Snow (Cloister Cemetery in the Snow), winter scenes recall ancient ones — snow opens the door unto a lost, mystical, medieval ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Teofilo F. Ruiz

History and the World of Matter If what I describe here is easily understood, part of our experience, part of our need for physical and emotional comfort, how can it ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Jennifer Hecht [Jennifer Michael Hecht]

13 Eating In the medieval West, on feast days, people gorged themselves in animalistic sensualism. In periods of fast they rejected food, sex, and physical effort as antithetical to holiness. ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-01 | Author:Wagner, E. J.

But Bertha Merrett’s family and friends were insistent that suicide would have been abhorrent to her. There had been nothing in her demeanor prior to the shooting that indicated depression. ...
( Category: Criminal Law March 26,2014 )