Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was one of the greatest writers and German philosophers of the nineteenth century. His work influenced figures as diverse as Wagner, Freud and Nietzsche. Best known as a pessimist, he was one of the few philosophers read and admired by Wittgenstein. In this comp...
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Drug dealers don’t tend to be thoughtful 17-year-old philosophers, but that’s the fate – ahem – dealt to White Mike. A boy who detests mind-altering substances – he even abstains from booze – he inhabits the vacuous upper class world of partying adolescents in Manhattan. Never see...
humanity's first encounter with the Engineers and their weapons underscores something more important. While philosophers have spent millennia theorizing about humans originating from some divine and benevolent entity,Prometheus' Engineers proposes a more jarring truth: humanity's creators are just as flawed...
What’s ironic is that Mankiw’s second favorite book isMilton Friedman’sCapitalism and Freedom, defender of laissez faire in the 20th century. Why ironic? Because Heilbroner deliberately leaves out Friedman in his list of worldly philosophers, even in his latest editions. In fact, he ignores ...
Fermi). Hart's list also includes Pasteur, Lavoisier, Faraday, Dalton, Plato, Rutherford, Roentgen, Francis Bacon and seventy-nine people who did no work in math or pure physical science (44 political, military or religious leaders; 2 explorers; 16 inventors; 9 social philosophers; 5 artists...
Drug dealers don’t tend to be thoughtful 17-year-old philosophers, but that’s the fate – ahem – dealt to White Mike. A boy who detests mind-altering substances – he even abstains from booze – he inhabits the vacuous upper class world of partying adolescents in Manhattan. Never see...
A staple of the standard operatic repertoire, Don Giovanni is currently tenth on the Operabase list of the most-performed operas worldwide. It has also proved a fruitful subject for writers and philosophers. Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Librettist: Lorenzo Da Ponte Language: Italian Language ...