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Exemplarity and Chosenness by Hollander Dana
epub |eng | 2011-08-17 | Author:Hollander, Dana

These propositions are paired by Derrida in order to express a primary or constitutive self-difference at the heart of any purported unity of language, idiom, or identity. Similarly to the ...
( Category: Modern March 22,2020 )
Very Little . . . Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy, Literature by Simon Critchley
epub |eng | 2011-09-09 | Author:Simon Critchley

Romantic poetry is progressive, universal poetry. Its aim isn’t merely to reunite all the separate species of poetry and put poetry in touch with philosophy and rhetoric. It tries to ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic March 22,2020 )
The Method, Meditations and Philosophy of Descartes by René Descartes
epub |eng | 2019-05-27 | Author:René Descartes [Descartes, René]

PART V. I would here willingly have proceeded to exhibit the whole chain of truths which I deduced from these primary; but as with a view to this it would ...
( Category: Modern March 21,2020 )
Emerson's Metaphysics by Urbas Joseph;
epub |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Urbas, Joseph;

Emerson’s public critique of historical Christianity and the Church thus had a metaphysical basis clearly formulated in his mind. Nor was he alone in this. Theodore Parker’s distinction between the ...
( Category: Modern March 21,2020 )
The Warburg Years (1919-1933) by Ernst Cassirer
epub |eng | 2013-03-18 | Author:Ernst Cassirer

6 The preceding considerations have made us understand, above all, the close interweaving of mythical and linguistic thought; they have shown how the construction of the mythical and linguistic worlds ...
( Category: Modern March 19,2020 )
Liquid Times by Zygmunt Bauman
epub |eng | | Author:Zygmunt Bauman

4 * * * Out of Touch Together Inhabited areas are described as ‘urban’ and called ‘cities’ if they are marked by a relatively high density of population, interaction and ...
( Category: History & Theory March 17,2020 )
The Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche
epub |eng | | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

A criticism of the Christian concept of God inevitably leads to the same conclusion.—A nation that still believes in itself, also has its own God. In him it honours the ...
( Category: German March 17,2020 )
A Companion to Donald Davidson by Lepore Ernest; Ludwig Kirk; & Kirk Ludwig
epub |eng | 2013-06-06 | Author:Lepore, Ernest; Ludwig, Kirk; & Kirk Ludwig

If most of one's beliefs about any subject matter must be true and rational, as Davidson insists, then there really cannot be significant difference across conceptual schemes. To recur to ...
( Category: Modern March 15,2020 )
Some Main Problems of Philosophy by Moore George Edward
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Moore, George Edward,.

Chapter XI IS TIME REAL? ___________________________ I have been trying to distinguish two different views, which I think some philosophers have held about Time.. The first was a view which ...
( Category: Modern March 14,2020 )
Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit': A Reader's Guide by Stephen Houlgate
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Stephen Houlgate [Houlgate, Stephen]

Study questions 1 Why does the life and death struggle arise? 2 What role does the fear of death play in the self-consciousness of the slave? Stoicism, scepticism and the ...
( Category: Modern March 14,2020 )
Heidegger's Shadow by Engelland Chad;
epub |eng | 2017-02-12 | Author:Engelland, Chad;

Since synthetic judgments involve a fresh encounter with the object, they do not merely elucidate the content of our knowledge but in fact enlarge it. For example, the judgment, “The ...
( Category: Modern March 14,2020 )
Godel, Escher, Bach-An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
epub |eng | 2011-09-17 | Author:Douglas R. Hofstadter [Hofstadter, Douglas R.]

Aria with Diverse Variations 404 FIGURE 71. Order and Chaos, by M. C. Escher (lithograph, 1950). Achilles: Chaos, part of perfection? Order and chaos make a pleasing unity? Heresy! Tortoise: ...
( Category: Machine Theory March 14,2020 )
The Joyful Wisdom by Friedrich Nietzsche
epub |eng | | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

192. The Good-natured. —What is it that distinguishes the good-natured, whose countenances beam kindness, from other people? They feel quite at ease in presence of a new person, and are ...
( Category: Themes & Styles March 12,2020 )
Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man by Johann von Herder
epub |eng | 2016-02-10 | Author:Johann von Herder [Herder, Johann von]

For these reasons, there was not a single nation on which the empire of Persia had a happy influence: it destroyed, and did not build up, it compelled the provinces ...
( Category: Modern March 12,2020 )
Measuring the Distance Between Locke and Toland by Marko Jonathan S
epub |eng | 2017-02-21 | Author:Marko, Jonathan S. [Marko, Jonathan S.]

126. One might, through analogy and observation, assent to propositions regarding the supernatural realm through divinely unassisted reasoning. For instance, it is possible some have reasoned that it is likely ...
( Category: Modern March 12,2020 )

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