epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2003-11-30 | Author:George Berkeley [Berkeley, George]

103. ATTRACTION SIGNIFIES THE EFFECT, NOT THE MANNER OR CAUSE.--The great mechanical principle now in vogue is attraction. That a stone falls to the earth, or the sea swells towards ...

epub |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:Thom, Martin, Ogien, Ruwen

16 AND IF SEXUALITY WERE FREE? What would a world in which sexuality were free be like? We put our capacities to give sexual pleasure at the disposal of others ...

mobi |eng | 2015-04-21 | Author:Sjöstedt-H, Peter [Sjöstedt-H, Peter]

Even if it were effectual, democracy is neither an objectively good institution. Plato argued against democracy as he considered it rule by a mob who are generally unwise and ignorant ...

epub |eng | 2001-01-12 | Author:Laurence Lampert

Lying and Dreaming SECTIONS 192–93 The two sections on the role of Socrates and Plato in the natural history of our morality lead to two sections on more general lessons ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-12-25 | Author:Terry Eagleton [Eagleton Terry]

Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course N'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont; Even so my bloody thoughts, ...

mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

VII When the historical sense reigns unchecked and drags with it all its consequences, it uproots the future, because it destroys illusions and takes from existing things the atmosphere in ...

epub |eng | 2015-10-03 | Author:Neiman, Susan

SCHOPENHAUER: THE WORLD AS TRIBUNAL Consider Schopenhauer as exclamation point. He was out of touch with his times, a century he saw scrambling to get rid of Kant and drink ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Russ Roberts [Roberts, Russ]

We have enough troubles of our own. Taking on the suffering of others in full measure would be too hard. Our ability to sympathize with others is limited. But that ...

mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Kappes, Tonya [Kappes, Tonya]

“Hi,” the little old woman with the sweet southern voice was suddenly hovering over me. She was no bigger than four feet tall with a small black pillbox hat nestled ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Michael Shermer [Shermer, Michael]

The Happiness Principle: Personal Right and Wrong In addition to asking the moral receiver, what other criteria might we use to judge the rightness or wrongness of an action? For ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2015-01-18 | Author:Dallas G. Denery II [Denery II, Dallas G.]

FROM LIES TO CIVILITY With their advocacy of the well-timed lie, the pious fraud, and just hypocrisy, both John of Salisbury and Christine de Pizan completed the intellectual journey from ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-12 | Author:Tomas Sedlacek

5 Descartes the Mechanic The standpoint of economic theory is Cartesian. These are the roots of the homo oeconomicus, as narrow a concept of man as can be imagined . ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-02 | Author:Hardy, Henry, Banville, John, Berlin, Isaiah

Appendix: Violence and Terror TWO EXCERPTS FROM MAISTRE’S SOIRÉES I The Violence of Nature THE FIRST EXCERPT IS THE FULL text of the passage from Maistre translated in part on ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Richard L. Rubenstein [Rubenstein, Richard L.]

If the researchers really believe these experiments are safe for humans, why do they go to the prisons for the subjects? Why don’t they try them out in their own ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Iceberg Slim

During my long, idiotic quest for something for nothing, I met under nonsociable conditions in four penitentiaries an army of hacks, bulls, screws—prison guards. At least ninety-eight percent of them ...