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Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals by John Gray
epub, pdf |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:John Gray [Gray, John]

1 SAVIOURS The Buddha promised release from something we all understand – suffering. By contrast, no one can say what was humankind’s original sin, and no one understands how the ...
( Category: Humanism April 3,2016 )
Pessimism by Dienstag Joshua Foa
epub |eng | 2006-03-17 | Author:Dienstag, Joshua Foa [Dienstag, Joshua Foa]

The Pessimistic Rebel Camus in his later writing also changed the direction, if not the foundations, of his pessimism. But from an initial position that was similar to Cioran’s, Camus ...
( Category: History & Theory March 19,2016 )
The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog by James W. Sire
mobi |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:James W. Sire

Siddhartha tried to listen better. The picture of his father, his own picture, and the picture of his son all flowed into each other. Kamala's picture also appeared and flowed ...
( Category: Religious March 16,2016 )
God, Value, and Nature by Fiona Ellis
epub |eng | 2016-02-29 | Author:Fiona Ellis

5.6 Conclusion We are returned to Rahner’s conception of God as the ultimate measure which cannot be measured and a conception of His otherness which promises to transcend the dualistic ...
( Category: History & Surveys March 6,2016 )
Chomsky by James McGilvray
epub |eng | 2013-07-02 | Author:James McGilvray

In effect, X-bar theory requires that each lexical item project three bar levels: X (which in effect says what category of lexical item it is), X′ (which is less intuitively ...
( Category: Linguistics February 22,2016 )
Kant and the Platypus by Umberto Eco
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-02-19 | Author:Umberto Eco [Eco, Umberto]

4.2 Files and Directories Let us try therefore to compare our cognitive processes, from the first perceptions to the constitution of any knowledge, not necessarily scientific, to the organization of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical February 22,2016 )
Eclipse of Reason (Bloomsbury Revelations) by Horkheimer Max
epub |eng | 2013-05-08 | Author:Horkheimer, Max [Horkheimer, Max]

*F. H. Bradley, Appearance and Reality, Oxford, 1930, p. 103. *John Dewey and others, Creative Intelligence, New York, 1917, p. 59. †The Philosophy of John Dewy, edited by Paul Arthur ...
( Category: Holocaust February 14,2016 )
The Stone Reader by Peter Catapano & Simon Critchley
epub |eng | 2015-12-06 | Author:Peter Catapano & Simon Critchley

THE UNITED STATES IS A RELIGION-OBSESSED COUNTRY. SINCE its founding by English Puritans in the early seventeenth century seeking a safe haven from persecution, the country has been the destination ...
( Category: History & Surveys February 13,2016 )
Metaphysics by Theodor W. Adorno
epub |eng | 2014-11-11 | Author:Theodor W. Adorno

LECTURE FIFTEEN 20 July 1965 I do not wish to recapitulate or sum up what I said in the last lecture, but would remind you that we arrived at the ...
( Category: Modern February 13,2016 )
The Jargon of Authenticity by Theodor Adorno
epub |eng | | Author:Theodor Adorno

Now, everything is assembled here: the innermost concern, the true dialogue, things in their authenticity, with a vague reminiscence of Heidegger, the encounter on an intrahuman level, the question for ...
( Category: Existentialism February 13,2016 )
History and Freedom by Theodor W. Adorno
epub |eng | 2014-08-26 | Author:Theodor W. Adorno

Notes 1 The proposition that the middle and later Schelling ‘made extensive reference to the concept of allegory’ is scarcely sustainable. In all probability, Adorno believed that Schelling's ‘interpretative’ or, ...
( Category: History & Theory February 13,2016 )
Alexius Meinong, The Shepherd of Non-Being by Dale Jacquette
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Dale Jacquette

It should be obvious that the property N of being, having, exemplifying or instantiating nothing(ness) in a Meinongian environment is equivalent to, and actually an abbreviation in linguistic expression for ...
( Category: History & Surveys January 30,2016 )
Nietzsche's Task by Laurence Lampert
epub |eng | 2001-01-12 | Author:Laurence Lampert

Lying and Dreaming SECTIONS 192–93 The two sections on the role of Socrates and Plato in the natural history of our morality lead to two sections on more general lessons ...
( Category: Modern January 13,2016 )
Kierkegaard: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Patrick Gardiner
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-02-20 | Author:Patrick Gardiner [Gardiner, Patrick]

Things are quite otherwise with Abraham, the ‘knight of faith’. The tragic hero, we are told, still treats the ethical as his ‘telos’ or goal, even if this entails subordinating ...
( Category: Modern January 10,2016 )
Genius: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Robinson Andrew
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-23 | Author:Robinson, Andrew [Robinson, Andrew]

Before the accidental discovery of lithium salts in 1948 for treating mania, and the discovery of other drugs such as reserpine and chlorpromazine in the 1950s for controlling schizophrenia, sufferers ...
( Category: History & Surveys January 7,2016 )

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