Modern
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1981-08-30 | Author:Alasdair MacIntyre

Aristotle's Account of the Virtues Any attempt to treat Aristotle's account of the virtues from the standpoint which I have adopted presents me with an initial problem. On the one ...
( Category: Modern March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1967-01-15 | Author:Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

2. Voluptuousness: unto all hair–shirted despisers of the body, a sting and stake; and, cursed as "the world," by all backworldsmen: for it mocketh and befooleth all erring, misinferring teachers. ...
( Category: Modern March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1975-01-15 | Author:Ayn Rand

(May-July 1969) 7. The Esthetic Vacuum of Our Age PRIOR to the nineteenth century, literature presented man as a helpless being whose life and actions were determined by forces beyond ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2004-09-10 | Author:David Baggett; Shawn Klein

There is one last point we must note about Aristotle’s account of the virtues. Aristotle recognized that all of our important choices in life take place in emotional contexts. What ...
( Category: Modern March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Ayn Rand; Gary Hull; Leonard Peikoff

EDITOR’S NOTE: By the novel’s midpoint, the economy is in a state of collapse. Dagny Taggart has quit as operating vice president of Taggart Transcontinental, and has been replaced by ...
( Category: Women Writers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1984-08-15 | Author:Ayn Rand

12 Egalitarianism and Inflation 1974 The classic example of vicious irresponsibility is the story of Emperor Nero who fiddled, or sang poetry, while Rome burned. An example of similar behavior ...
( Category: Modern March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1994-05-01 | Author:Leonard Peikoff

9 The Nazi Synthesis The German right characteristically denounced socialism, while supporting the welfare state, demanding government supervision of the economy, and preaching the duty of property-owners to serve their ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2005-04-01 | Author:Kevin Decker; Jason T. Eberl; William Irwin

This description of the Force also closely resembles Heidegger’s conception of being. Like the Force, being is everywhere, all around us. It binds all the elements of the universe together: ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-11 | Author:Bernard-Henri Levy

*Competitive civil service examinations, which those aspiring to teach at the second or third level must pass. *Joseph Haïm Sitruk, former chief rabbi of France. *Marcellin Cazes, owner of Brasserie ...
( Category: European March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Josef Pieper

46 The “Intellectual” and the Church47 Recently I was invited to participate in a public debate on the subject of “intellectuals and the Church”. At the time I wondered whether ...
( Category: Logic & Language March 25,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:pierre teilhard de chardin

Diagrammatic representation of the two faiths Oy = Christianity's ascensional force towards a Transcendent. Faith in God Ox = Human propulsive force towards an Immanent lying ahead. Faith in man ...
( Category: Religious March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-30 | Author:Andy McNab

53 April 1985 Oman We landed at Seeb International, just outside the capital, Muscat. I was excited about the three months that lay ahead. The whole squadron was going to ...
( Category: Modern March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-01-29 | Author:Ayn Rand

THE FORGOTTEN MAN OF SOCIALIZED MEDICINE This is the explanation given by a distinguished brain surgeon of why he joined Galt’s strike. “I quit when medicine was placed under State ...
( Category: Modern March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1982-01-02 | Author:Ayn Rand & Leonard Peikoff [Rand, Ayn & Peikoff, Leonard]

12 Egalitarianism and Inflation 1974 The classic example of vicious irresponsibility is the story of Emperor Nero who fiddled, or sang poetry, while Rome burned. An example of similar behavior ...
( Category: Modern March 25,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 1999-07-15 | Author:Ayn Rand & Peter Schwartz [Rand, Ayn & Schwartz, Peter]

(July-August 1971) THE POLITICS The Left: Old and New If you happened to see Sign of the Pagan, a very bad movie recently shown on television, dealing with Attila’s invasion ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )