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Against the Current by Lilla Mark Hardy Henry Berlin Isaiah Hausheer Roger
epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Lilla, Mark, Hardy, Henry, Berlin, Isaiah, Hausheer, Roger

* * * 1 xlviii/1. 1 W iii 190. 17. 1 lo. cit. (11/1). 2 B i 378. 7. 3 B v 265. 37. 4 B v 264. 36. 1 ...
( Category: Criticism March 11,2015 )
Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
mobi |eng | | Author:Bertrand Russell

Having failed to conciliate the Medici, Machiavelli was compelled to go on writing. He lived in retirement until the year of his death, which was that of the sack of ...
( Category: History & Surveys March 4,2015 )
A Brief History of Thought by Luc Ferry
epub |eng | | Author:Luc Ferry

It is no longer a case therefore of piecing together or reconstituting a human world, Kant’s ‘realm of ends’, where men are at last equal in dignity. To postmodern eyes, ...
( Category: History & Surveys March 3,2015 )
The Crooked Timber of Humanity by Hardy Henry Banville John Berlin Isaiah
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 ...
( Category: Good & Evil March 3,2015 )
Absolute Recoil by Slavoj Zizek
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Slavoj Zizek

Aquinas, of course, takes care to avoid the obscene implication that the good souls in Heaven might take some pleasure in observing the terrible suffering of other souls. He proceeds ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism February 13,2015 )
The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Schopenhauer Arthur
azw |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:Schopenhauer, Arthur [Schopenhauer, Arthur]

( Category: European January 17,2015 )
Schopenhauer by Julian Young
mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-05-07 | Author:Julian Young

ART AND PHILOSOPHY If one seeks to refute Plato’s denigration of art by describing it in the terms which he reserves for philosophy one runs the risk of obliterating the ...
( Category: Medieval Thought January 17,2015 )
The courtier and the heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the fate of God in the modern world by Stewart Matthew
mobi |eng | 2006-01-15 | Author:Stewart, Matthew [Stewart, Matthew]

SOMEWHERE ON THE left bank of the Seine, another individual was beginning to trace the contours of the new world. In light of the new ideas radiating from The Hague, ...
( Category: History & Surveys January 6,2015 )
Descartes' Bones by Russell Shorto
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-10-13 | Author:Russell Shorto

The skull of Descartes. Across the forehead, in Swedish, is an accusation of a theft in 1666 that began the skull’s peregrinations. Above it is a poem in Latin celebrating ...
( Category: History & Surveys December 27,2014 )
Zibaldone by Leopardi Giacomo
epub |eng | 2013-07-16 | Author:Leopardi, Giacomo [Leopardi, Giacomo]

This consequence derives from the principle assumed. But since the principle is false, so too the consequence is not true, and this proposition if considered again just by itself, will ...
( Category: History & Surveys December 27,2014 )
Meaning, Understanding, and Practice Philosophical Essays by Barry Stroud
epub |eng | 2014-05-09 | Author:Barry Stroud

Notes: This essay was first published in R. Barrett and R. Gibson (eds.), Perspectives on Quine (Blackwell, Oxford, 1990). (1) W. V. Quine, ‘On What There Is’, in his From ...
( Category: Analytic Philosophy December 15,2014 )
Nietzsche by Robert Wicks
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Wicks [Wicks, Robert]

One can interpret the beautiful Helen as representative of a nourishing and protecting mother-wife force – one that is positively supportive in a psychological sense, insofar as Helen is comparable ...
( Category: History & Surveys November 22,2014 )
La vida eterna by Fernando Savater; Fernando Savater
mobi |es | 2006-12-31 | Author:Fernando Savater; Fernando Savater

Capítulo séptimo. De la vida al espíritu «¿Qué íntima lealtad, qué religión última será la más adecuada a un espíritu ya por entero libre y desilusionado?» George SANTAYANA, La religión ...
( Category: Religious November 11,2014 )
Origin of Species (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Charles Darwin
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Darwin

Causes of the Sterility of first Crosses and of Hybrids.—We may now look a little closer at the probable causes of the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids. These ...
( Category: Developmental Biology November 11,2014 )
Works of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
epub |eng | 2008-10-15 | Author:Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche [Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm]

An Epode - Among Friends 1. It's nice, in silence together, Even nicer, laughing together -- Underneath the silken skies Amidst moss and books, here lie Friends, our joyous laughter ...
( Category: Existentialism November 11,2014 )

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