History & Surveys
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:R. J. Hollingdale [Hollingdale, R. J.]

Even here I have much to endure, I he wrote;] the summer this sear is hotter and more full of electricity I! I than usual, which is detrimental to me. ...
( Category: Philosophers July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-18 | Author:Schlagel, Richard H.

As is well known there are two opposing views on the nature of the cathode rays. The earlier one . . . adopted by the English physicists, considers the rays ...
( Category: History & Surveys July 21,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Will Durant

V. On Religion and Reason Does this appear trite, and timid, and conservative? But it was not so; on the contrary, this bold denial of “rational” theology, this frank reduction ...
( Category: History & Surveys June 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-18 | Author:Berlin, Isaiah, Hardy, Henry, Israel, Jonathan

VI In this connection it is worth considering Herder’s attitude to three great eighteenth-century myths which fed the stream of nineteenth-century nationalism. The first is that of the superiority of ...
( Category: History & Surveys June 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-07 | Author:Louis Althusser [Althusser, Louis]

C. Countenancing the Contentf It would seem that we have worked our way to the end of the critical undertaking by which the post-Hegelian mind attempted to dispel the vague ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism June 15,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-06-14 | Author:Errico Malatesta

23. THE INSURRECTION BUT HOW WILL THIS REVOLUTION BE ACHIEVED? Naturally one must begin with the insurrectionary act which sweeps away the material obstacles, the armed forces of the government ...
( Category: European June 15,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-06-14 | Author:Canales, Jimena

CHAPTER 22 Telegraph, Telephone, and Radio How did advances in electromagnetic communication technologies inform Bergson’s understanding of Einstein’s work? Despite fully accepting “the invariance of the electromagnetic equations,” which were ...
( Category: Relativity June 15,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Cary Wolfe [Wolfe, Cary]

admitting that “the power of Dancer in the Dark is undeniable,” David Ansen, in Newsweek, called it “a magnificent sham” riddled with “emo- tional sadism. ”4 What is going here? ...
( Category: Humanism June 14,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1884-01-15 | Author:Herbert Spencer [Spencer, Herbert]

CHAPTER IX. CRITICISMS AND EXPLANATIONS. §56. Comparisons of the foregoing chapters with one another, suggest sundry questions which must be answered partially, if not completely, before anything can be done ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality June 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-06-30 | Author:Francis Bacon [Bacon, Francis]

Table of Contents Cover NOVUM ORGANUM OR TRUE SUGGESTIONS FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE PREFACE APHORISMS—BOOK I: ON THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE AND THE EMPIRE OF MAN APHORISMS—BOOK II: ON ...
( Category: Rationalism June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 1999-07-22 | Author:Ronald H. Nash [Nash, Ronald H.]

( Category: History & Surveys June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-17 | Author:Arthur Schopenhauer [Schopenhauer, Arthur]

* * * PSYCHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. Every animal, and especially man, requires, in order to exist and get on in the world, a certain fitness and proportion between his will and ...
( Category: History & Surveys June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2000-03-08 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

This kind of argument is best expressed at the level of the separate genes. At each genetic locus, the gene most likely to be favoured is the one that is ...
( Category: Modern June 12,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 1998-01-15 | Author:Aristotle [Aristotle]

( Category: History & Theory June 12,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2004-08-25 | Author:Jennifer Michael Hecht

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 June 11,2015 )