Philosophy
epub |eng | 2014-02-24 | Author:Blanton, Ward

VICISSITUDES OF BEATIFICATION To articulate the full irony of this situation, it is worth reflecting for a moment on the carefully organized and ploddingly elaborated Christian historiographical conservatism of Theodore ...
( Category: New Testament July 23,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-11-08 | Author:Charles Taylor [Taylor, Charles]

440 a s e c u l a r ag e uals didn’t stand apart from, but rather built on their “Christian” meaning, e.g., giving thanks to God for the ...
( Category: Religious May 8,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bruce Sheiman

The Method of Moral Progress I believe that in the moral realm there is a parallel process to the scientific method; that moral progress proceeds in a manner similar to ...
( Category: Religious May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-27 | Author:Greg Graffin & Steve Olson

From my earliest childhood, my parents encouraged and highly valued creativity. My dad’s favorite gifts around holidays and birthdays were oil paints, sable brushes, and plastic models of aircraft or ...
( Category: Science & Religion May 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Midgley, Mary

This again is melodrama. A casino is a human institution, devised to serve specific human motives. ‘Chance’ in a casino context means the deliberate randomizing of a small section of ...
( Category: Modern April 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-03 | Author:Antonio Negri

NOTES 1. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Philosophical Notebooks, trans. C. Dutt, ed. S. Smith, in Collected Works, vol. 38 (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976); Lenin, Notebooks on Imperialism, in Collected Works, vol. ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism April 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-17 | Author:Agamben, Giorgio [Agamben, Giorgio]

§ 3 The Rule as a Liturgical Text 3.1. Lectio has been an essential part of the Christian liturgy since its origins. Today it is generally acknowledged that it derives ...
( Category: History & Theory April 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 1956-03-28 | Author:Søren Kierkegaard [Kierkegaard, Søren]

9. The Price of Willing One Thing: The Exposure of Evasions But the one who in truth wills the Good, puts cleverness to an inward use: in order to prevent ...
( Category: Good & Evil March 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2006-10-18 | Author:richard dawkins

You will survive your own death. If you die a martyr, you will go to an especially wonderful part of paradise where you will enjoy seventy-two virgins (spare a thought ...
( Category: Philosophy March 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 1996-12-31 | Author:Charles Capps [Capps, Charles]

Their purpose will be to totally annihilate Israel before Christ comes to establish His kingdom. At the time of Christ's return, angels will have been flying above the earth, preaching ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:Alain de Botton [Botton, Alain de]

2. Although we have located this scene in Europe, it could unfold almost anywhere in the world. Comparable moments of despair are to be witnessed every day in the Chapel ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-04-30 | Author:Christopher Hitchens [HITCHENS, CHRISTOPHER]

T HE “ARGUMENT FROM AUTHORITY” is the weakest of all arguments. It is weak when it is asserted at second or third hand (“the Good Book says”), and it is ...
( Category: Sociology March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf | | 2006-04-15 | Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]

You will survive your own death. If you die a martyr, you will go to an especially wonderful part of paradise where you will enjoy seventy-two virgins (spare a thought ...
( Category: Sociology March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-23 | Author:Josef Pieper

HEIDEGGER’S CONCEPTION OF TRUTH “The essence of truth is freedom”1—this sentence of Martin Heidegger’s, an extraordinary and astonishing sentence—is to be subjected in what follows to a critical examination. This ...
( Category: Philosophy March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:Arthur W. Pink

When Jehovah proclaimed His name unto Moses, He revealed Himself as "the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious" (Exo 34:5-7). When Aaron pronounced the benediction on the congregation, he ...
( Category: Philosophy March 25,2014 )