Every year a slew of new philosophy books are published, works by or about everyone from Aristotle to Žižek, and covering subjects from aesthetics to Zen. But which ones are actually worth reading? Below we keep track of new philosophy books coming out, and try to pick out ones that ...
2. Don’t be a Christian. Nietzsche had some extreme things to say about Christianity. ‘In the entire New Testament, there is only person worth respecting: Pilate, the Roman governor.’ It was knockabout stuff, but his true target was more subtle and more interesting: he resented Christiani...
many of the bones in the human skull are light and thin, improving it overall but by the same token leaving it vulnerable to blows. Evil presents us, as it did the hero Hercules, with opportunities to test and hone ourselves
His books De Cive and Leviathan read like grammars of obedience. >> He assumed that from a thoroughly materialistic view of human nature, in which human behavior could be explained simply in terms of bodies in motion, he could formulate an accurate political philosophy. He hoped that if ...
This school emphasized the study of the Confucian classics, especially the Four Books (Analects, Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean, and Mencius). The Orthodox School placed a strong emphasis on moral self-cultivation and the cultivation of virtue. Evidential School: The Evidential School, also...
Why do apparently 'good' people sometimes behave deplorably?Christian B Miller, professor of philosophy at Wake Forest University, selects five books that explore the subject of moral character and warns us to be cautious of making inferences about the underlying motives of others – and ourselves...
between good and evil 善恶之分 *| Is religion always a force for good? 宗教一向是诲人从善的 力量吗? 2 [U] that which gives benefit, profit, advantage, etc 好处、 利益、 益处等: work for the good of one's country 为国家利益工作 *| I'm giving you this advice for your own good....
But I regret that, in these three books of mine [viz., De Academicis libri tres], I mention fortune so often, although I did not intend that any goddess be understood by this term, but a fortuitous outcome of events in good and evil circumstances, either in our bodies or extraneous to...
Menu Skip to content Home Novels About Books Personal Blog Category Archives: Philosophy The Fake Fight Hype Tyson versus Paul Posted on November 15, 2024 I don’t know about anyone else but I’ve got scam fatigue and the fake fight of Tyson versus Paul is just another yawn for me. ...
butin the abstractit's hard to quarrel with more money for faculty lines to teach ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and the history of modern philosophy. Republican legislators are sufficiently ignorant that they do not realize how politically radical many of the so-called "Great Books" are, ...