Metaphysics
mobi | | 2010-06-18 | Author:Aquinas, Thomas [Aquinas, Thomas]

I answer that, As stated above (I-II, Q. 55, AA. 2, 4), virtue is an operative habit, wherefore by its very nature it has an inclination to a certain act. ...
( Category: Religious February 5,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:John D. Barrow [Barrow, John D.]

Fig 8.3 Three possible futures for an oscillating universe: (a) An oscillating universe of many equal cycles. (b) The size of the expansion maximum should grow as the oscillations continue ...
( Category: Metaphysics January 23,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-04-01 | Author:Geshe Tashi Tsering & Lama Zopa Rinpoche & Gordon McDougall

For the Prasangika Madhyamaka masters such as Chandrakirti, the obscurations to enlightenment have been identified as the propensities of the innate mind to grasp at things and events as having ...
( Category: Philosophy January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-12-13 | Author:Luisi, Pier Luigi [Luisi, Pier Luigi]

Reflections As we started moving toward the exit at the end of the session, most of us were absorbed in thought. My own mind was still on Matthieu’s presentation about ...
( Category: History January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-10-01 | Author:Geshe Tashi Tsering & Lama Zopa Rinpoche & Gordon McDougall

When our mind becomes more subtle, the grosser minds are absorbed. When a meditator reaches a very advanced state of meditative absorption, the sensory consciousnesses totally cease. If that is ...
( Category: Philosophy January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-06-25 | Author:His Holiness the Dalai Lamai

Three Extra Verses The following three verses continue with the comparison of the Mahayana scriptures and the Hinayana scriptures. However, according to the Indian commentator Prajnakaramati, these three verses are ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-08 | Author:David Chalmers

Toward a Nonreductive Theory Even if consciousness cannot be reductively explained, there can still be a theory of consciousness. We simply need to move to a nonreductive theory instead. We ...
( Category: Neurology January 17,2015 )
azw, pdf |eng | 2004-04-30 | Author:Kant, Immanuel [Kant, Immanuel]

( Category: Rationalism January 17,2015 )
azw |eng | 2010-01-19 | Author:Descartes, Rene [Descartes, Rene]

Meanwhile, that it may be seen wherein I think I have already promoted the general good, I will here mention the fruits that may be gathered from my Principles. The ...
( Category: Religious January 17,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-06 | Author:William Seager

164 REPRESENTATIONAL THEORIES II about within the system. Yet they all play their part in servicing the ‘construction of representations ’. One demand of the generation problem is to explain ...
( Category: Humanism January 17,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2014-03-17 | Author:Gass, William H. [Gass, William H.]

but I have been dropping hints all along like heavy shoes that the ultimate and essential displacement is to the word, and that the true sexuality in literature—sex as a ...
( Category: Essays December 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-10-27 | Author:Robert C. Koons

Document Outline Metaphysics: The Fundamentals Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1 What Is Metaphysics? 1.1 The Subject of Metaphysics 1.2 The Methods of Metaphysics 1.3 The Waxing and Waning of Metaphysics ...
( Category: Metaphysics December 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2000-11-01 | Author:Tenzin Gyatso & Dalai Lama & Jeffrey Hopkins & Richard Gere [Gyatso, Tenzin & Lama, Dalai & Hopkins, Jeffrey & Gere, Richard]

Question: How is it possible for me to make an effort in my meditation practice when there is no me, no I? Answer: Most likely, this is the misunderstanding I ...
( Category: Ethics November 27,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:David Horowitz

VI When we moved to the Santa Maria Valley, I was already approaching my sixty-ninth year. In a synchronicity of fate, my dogs had reached a similar point along their ...
( Category: Religious November 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Asma, Stephen T. [Asma, Stephen T.]

The monsters from the sequel Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (Warner Bros.). Image courtesy of Jerry Ohlinger. Though from a very different perspective, some liberal monsterologists also see civilization hanging in ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology November 20,2014 )