mobi |eng | 2013-08-21 | Author:Warburton, Nigel [Warburton, Nigel]

Positive Freedom Some philosophers have attacked the idea that negative freedom is the sort of freedom we should strive to increase. They argue that positive freedom is a far more ...

mobi, azw3 |eng | 1991-09-18 | Author:Mill, John Stuart [Mill, John Stuart]

VII OF TRUE AND FALSE DEMOCRACY; REPRESENTATION OF ALL, AND REPRESENTATION OF THE MAJORITY ONLY IT has been seen, that the dangers incident to a representative democracy are of two ...

mobi |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Dupré, Ben [Dupré, Ben]

The false face of Islam Given the staggering success of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it was perhaps inevitable, and certainly unhelpful, that al-Qaeda – however nebulous an entity it is ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-24 | Author:Warburton, Nigel [Warburton, Nigel]

CHAPTER 22 The Owl of Minerva GEORG W.F. HEGEL ‘The owl of Minerva flies only at dusk.’ This was the view of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831). But what does ...

mobi |eng | 2012-05-16 | Author:James Garvey & Jeremy Stangroom

René Descartes, in a portrait attributed to Frans Hals (c.1649 or later). The painting now hangs in the Louvre. Descartes prepared for life as a lawyer but quickly saw that ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-11-28 | Author:Russell, Bertrand [Russell, Bertrand]

* * * 13 ST THOMAS AQUINAS Thomas Aquinas (b. 1225 or 1226, d. 1274) is regarded as the greatest of scholastic philosophers. In all Catholic educational institutions that teach ...

epub |eng | 1835-09-04 | Author:Johann Peter Eckermann

Mon., Sep. 24. I went with Goethe to Berka. We drove off soon after eight o'clock; the morning was very beautiful. The road is up-hill at first, and, as there ...

mobi |eng | 2012-01-04 | Author:Blackburn, Simon [Blackburn, Simon]

* * * Agreeing to differ is often a way of denying that something is a moral issue after all, but perhaps a matter of taste or lifestyle. * * ...

epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau [Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]

EMILE heart without experience will be able to picture the condition of his own heart. Tears of rage flowed from his eyes; indignation choked him. He implored heaven and men; ...

azw3 |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Paul Hazard

PART THREE The Task of Reconstruction I LOCKE’S EMPIRICISM So the great quest had to be started all over again; the human caravan must needs set forth once more, this ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-06 | Author:Daniel C. Dennett [Dennett, Daniel C.]

The tree of life published by Darwin in the Origin (1859, p. 117). The tree depicts a gradualistic pattern of evolution. Each fanlike pattern represents the slow evolutionary divergence of ...

epub |eng | | Author:Witold Gombrowicz

Existentialism Existentialism is subjectivity. Personally, I am quite subjective and it seems to me that this attitude corresponds to reality. Subjectiveman Concreteman. Not a concept of man, but Pierre or ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-12-28 | Author:Kim, Jaegwon [Jaegwon, Kim,]

Functional Properties, Disjunctive Properties, and Causal Powers The functionalist claim is often expressed by assertions like “Mental states are causal roles” and “Mental properties (kinds) are functional properties (kinds).” We ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-14 | Author:Geuss, Raymond

7 A Note on Lying It has often seemed odd to me that lying, meaning the intentional telling of what one knows to be false as the truth, has had ...

epub |eng | 2000-03-02 | Author:Mortimer J. Adler [Adler, Mortimer J.]

FINE ART AS SPECTACLE I’d like to deal in the closing minutes of today with one final question. And that final question I could almost say in these words, “What ...