History & Surveys
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-07-20 | Author:Adam Smith

PART VI. OF THE CHARACTER OF VIRTUE. CONSISTING OF THREE SECTIONS.1 INTRODUCTION. When we consider the character of any individual, we naturally view it under two different aspects; first, as ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality November 11,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-12-12 | Author:Henry David Thoreau

Flint's, or Sandy Pond, in Lincoln, our greatest lake and inland sea, lies about a mile east of Walden. It is much larger, being said to contain one hundred and ...
( Category: Anthologies November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-01 | Author:Jurriaan Kamp [Kamp, Jurriaan]

OVERPOPULATION IS A MYTH We keep hearing it again and again: There’s no way our world can become a healthier and better place because there are just too many of ...
( Category: History & Surveys November 7,2014 )
epub |deu | 2005-08-14 | Author:Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels [Marx, Karl & Engels, Friedrich]

1. Einfache Reproduktion Bei einfacher Reproduktion wird der jährlich oder mit mehreren Umschlägen innerhalb des Jahrs periodisch produzierte und realisierte Mehrwert individuell, d.h. unproduktiv, konsumiert von seinen Eignern, den Kapitalisten. ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism November 7,2014 )
epub |deu | 2012-07-20 | Author:Schopenhauer, Arthur [Schopenhauer, Arthur]

Praedicabilia a priori der Zeit des Raumes der Materie 1) [Zeit] Es giebt nur eine Zeit, und alle verschiedenen Zeiten sind Theile derselben. 1) [Raum] Es giebt nur einen Raum, ...
( Category: History & Surveys November 6,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:Rosa Luxemburg [Luxemburg, Rosa]

INDICATIONS ON THE SCOPE OF SLAVERY The question of the size of the slave trade in Greece and in the ancient world is generally a point of contention among scholars, ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-30 | Author:Noys, Benjamin [Noys, Benjamin]

Machinic revolution must therefore go in the opposite direction to socialistic regulation; pressing towards ever more uninhibited marketization of the processes that are tearing down the social field, ‘still further’ ...
( Category: Cultural October 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-28 | Author:Edward Craig

10. Every subject talks its own talk. In a rough and ready way we all make a distinction between perceiving and thinking. It is one thing to see the objects ...
( Category: History & Surveys October 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Confucius

II. THE CLASSICS CONFUCIAN ANALECTS BOOK I CHAPTER1. The Master said, “Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? 2. “Is it not delightful to have ...
( Category: Confucianism October 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:David Hume

AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS SECTION I. OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF MORALS. DISPUTES with men, pertinaciously obstinate in their principles, are, of all others, the most irksome; ...
( Category: Modern October 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-10 | Author:Simon Blackburn

The notable thing about this argument is that it is purely a priori. It purports to prove God's existence simply from considering the concept or definition of God. It is ...
( Category: Modern October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Will Durant & Ariel Durant [Durant, Will & Durant, Ariel]

intellectual liberty? Has all the progress of philosophy since Descartes been a mistake through its failure to recognize the role of myth in the consolation and control of man? "He ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-22 | Author:Eric Kaplan

9 Pain Is Comedy Minus Time As luck would have it, the television show The Big Bang Theory has a scene that deals explicitly with one of the themes of ...
( Category: Love, Sex & Marriage October 27,2014 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Terry Eagleton

CHAPTER 5 THE DEATH OF GOD FOR SOME ENLIGHTENMENT savants, religion is an error, if an occasionally fruitful one; for Romanticism, there is some profound truth to be extracted from ...
( Category: General October 14,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-11-22 | Author:Edmonds, David & Warburton, Nigel [Edmonds, David]

15 A.W. MOORE ON Immanuel Kant’s Metaphysics David Edmonds: As the citizens of Königsberg in the late eighteenth century watched the professor of logic and metaphysics go for his regular ...
( Category: History & Surveys September 29,2014 )