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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 )
Beyond the Chains of Illusion by Erich Fromm
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-02-19 | Author:Erich Fromm [Fromm, Erich]

While Marx already used the term “repression (Verdraengung) of the ordinary natural desires” in the German Ideology,57 Rosa Luxemburg, one of the most brilliant Marxists in the pre-1914 period, expressed ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism 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 )
The Letters of Martin Buber by Martin Buber
epub |eng | 2013-09-03 | Author:Martin Buber [Buber, Martin]

357. Walter Benjamin to Martin Buber « Berlin, February 23, 1927 » My esteemed Herr Buber, My stay in Moscow turned out to be somewhat longer than I supposed.219 When ...
( Category: Jewish February 14,2015 )
The Point of View of the Universe: Sidgwick and Contemporary Ethics by Lazari-Radek Katarzyna de & Singer Peter
azw3 |eng | 2014-05-07 | Author:Lazari-Radek, Katarzyna de & Singer, Peter [Lazari-Radek, Katarzyna de]

8 Ultimate Good, Part I: Perfectionism and Desire-Based Theory 1. Sidgwick on Ultimate Good We saw that the rules of common sense morality, even if at first apparently self-evident, could ...
( Category: Modern February 13,2015 )
Theodor Adorno by Cook Deborah
epub |eng | | Author:Cook, Deborah [Deborah Cook]

How to live wrong life Adorno’s moral philosophy may seem to consist solely in critique, lacking any positive views or practical recommendations. And this is, indeed, a widely held view, ...
( Category: Modern February 13,2015 )
The Roots of Romanticism (Second Edition) by Berlin Isaiah Hardy Henry Gray John
epub |eng | 2013-02-12 | Author:Berlin, Isaiah, Hardy, Henry, Gray, John

1 ‘Fanatical gush’. 1 As to the fallacies of this doctrine, I shall not enter into them here, for it would take me too far afield; but this is the ...
( Category: History February 13,2015 )
The Monk and the Philosopher: A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life by Jean François Revel & Matthieu Ricard
azw3 |eng | 2000-02-15 | Author:Jean François Revel & Matthieu Ricard

1. Continuum, New York, 1980. SEVEN BUDDISM AND THE WEST JEAN-FRANÇOIS – All the problems we’ve discussed, everything you’ve explained about Buddhism’s metaphysics, its theory of consciousness, its cosmology, and ...
( Category: Religious January 22,2015 )
Freedom and Its Betrayal by Berlin Isaiah Hardy Henry Krause Enrique
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-01-17 | Author:Berlin, Isaiah, Hardy, Henry, Krause, Enrique

Félicien David in Saint-Simonian Attire by Raymond Bonheur It is quite clear in what way Saint-Simonism influences us whenever there is an attempt to construct a coherent society by applying ...
( Category: Modern January 18,2015 )
The Scientific Outlook by Bertrand Russell
epub, pdf |eng | 1959-01-01 | Author:Bertrand Russell [Russell, Bertrand]

Part II Scientific Technique 6 BEGINNINGS OF SCIENTIFIC TECHNIQUE No sharp line can be drawn between scientific technique and traditional arts and crafts. The essential characteristic of scientific technique is ...
( Category: Logic & Language January 18,2015 )
The Worldly Philosophers: The Great Economic Thinkers by Robert L Heilbroner
mobi, pdf |eng | 1969-01-02 | Author:Robert L Heilbroner

Another, rather different nod of approval came from those who agreed with Sir Charles Crossthwaite that the real question between Britain and Siam was “who was to get the trade ...
( Category: Theory January 17,2015 )
The Postmodern by Simon Malpas
mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-05-06 | Author:Simon Malpas

4 HISTORY The second key aspect of modernity that Habermas’s discussion in Chapter 2 focused on is the notion of historical development and progress towards more rational and just forms ...
( Category: Postmodernism 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 )
The Modern Mind by Peter Watson
epub |eng | 2001-12-26 | Author:Peter Watson [Watson, Peter]

Barely was the ink dry on the pages of these books, however, than they were challenged. Challenged is perhaps too weak a word, for the view they represented was in ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture December 27,2014 )

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