History & Surveys
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-18 | Author:Paul Kleinman [Kleinman, Paul]

RESPONSIBILITY When discussing free will, one must also discuss the idea of responsibility; particularly the distinction between responsibility and moral responsibility. Responsibility is when one takes on a task or ...
( Category: History & Surveys October 12,2015 )
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2004-06-01 | Author:Bertrand Russell [Russell, Bertrand]

CHAPTER IX. THE WORLD OF UNIVERSALS At the end of the preceding chapter we saw that such entities as relations appear to have a being which is in some way ...
( Category: Philosophy & Social Aspects October 12,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-09-22 | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

B O O K I I I 1 7 4 and warlike souls which are difficult to conquer, whether with fear or with pity, but which find it useful to ...
( Category: Modern October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Walsh [Walsh, Michael]

And as the Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan added centuries later, perhaps mindful of his own membership in the Nazi party when it stood him in good stead with the ...
( Category: Reform & Policy October 10,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-08-10 | Author:Walsh, Michael [Walsh, Michael]

And as the Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan added centuries later, perhaps mindful of his own membership in the Nazi party when it stood him in good stead with the ...
( Category: Reform & Policy October 10,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-09-21 | Author:Hazareesingh, Sudhir [Hazareesingh, Sudhir]

Letters from America A possibility of salvation for the structuralist project opened up from without. From the late 1960s there was an increasing dissemination of the works of contemporary French ...
( Category: History & Theory October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sartre, Jean-Paul, Priest, Stephen

II. The Present In contrast to the Past which is in-itself, the Present is for-itself. What is its being? There is a peculiar paradox in the Present: On the one ...
( Category: Existentialism October 4,2015 )
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 ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality October 4,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-22 | Author:Alain De Botton [Botton, Alain de]

In this view, our notion of reality is at variance with actual reality, because it is so often shaped by inadequate or misleading accounts. Because we are surrounded by clichéd ...
( Category: European September 22,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1991-01-25 | Author:Immanuel Kant [Kant, Immanuel]

C Indirectly, i.e. in so far as he takes the duty of the people upon himself, the supreme commander has the right to impose taxes upon the people for their ...
( Category: Reference September 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-31 | Author:Corngold, Stanley, Kaufmann, Walter A.

54 The quintessence of this higher law was condensed into a classical sentence by the prophet Micah, in the eighth century B.C.: “He has told you, man, what is good ...
( Category: History & Surveys September 1,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew Stewart

As therefore the highest perfection of intellectual nature lies in a careful and constant pursuit of true and solid happiness, so the care of ourselves, that we mistake not imaginary ...
( Category: History & Surveys August 27,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-08-29 | Author:Sunshine, Glenn S. [Sunshine, Glenn S.]

CHAPTER 7 A NEW PARADIGM OF KNOWLEDGE While the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Wars of Religion, the implications of the New World, and Pyrrhonical skepticism were breaking down the medieval ...
( Category: Rome August 24,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-05-27 | Author:Luper, Steven [Luper, Steven]

Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941. Contrast the following propositions: There are two boxes in Joe Smith's garage. Pearl Harbor has been attacked. These are not eternal truths. ...
( Category: Humanism August 19,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2006-09-18 | Author:Mary M. Keys [Keys, Mary M.]

All the “objections” Aquinas entertains against this depiction of the social repercussions of individual acts hinge on a surprisingly familiar claim, common in liberal political theory: that some human actions ...
( Category: History & Surveys August 19,2015 )