The Modern Library seeks to preserve these books and bring them to a new generation of readers. The imprint was originally founded in 1917 by the publisher Boni and Liveright, and it was intended to provide affordable reprints of European modernist books, plus the work of a few contemporary Am...
Tim Crane is best known for his writing on metaphysics and the philosophy of mind. In this book, he’s using his philosophical skills in an area that he’s not written on before. It partly came out of a talk he gave a few years ago in which he was unsympathetic to New Atheism. In...
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We’re now on book three from your list of best philosophy books of 2019, which has quite an interesting title,A Theory of Jerks and other Philosophical Misadventures. Tell me about this book. This is a completely different sort of book. It’s by Eric Schwitzgebel, an American philosopher...
(But Anaïs, whose mind was truly philosophical, had spent almost her entire life in meditation, and her thoughts had evolved to a much higher level than would normally be expected of a woman left to her own devices. The rigid isolation that her husband had imposed upon her had given ...
By considering religion in absence of a belief in divine beings, we find many valuable social initiatives and philosophical lessons from which even the most cynical among us might benefit. Who should read Religion for Atheists? Believers interested in seeing their religion from a different ...
A. nature B. quality C. core D. essence itself 相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 D。解析:“essence”就是“本质”,选项 D“essence itself”直接表达了这个意思。选项 A“nature”是“自然”;选项 B“quality”是“质量”;选项 C“core”是“核心”。反馈 收藏 ...
that which I also had well-nigh thought and said. But for the evidence thence afforded to the philosophical doctrine of the identity of all minds, we should suppose some pre-established harmony, some foresight of souls that were to be, and some preparation of stores for their future wants,...
Philosophical books can have a truly transformative power. There are many other books that are insightful, helpful, entertaining and well-researched. But none of these books come close to my favorite philosophical books. If I had to select 10 books to take on a deserted island, I would – ...
The philosophical concept of “materialism” is best expressed in English as ___. A. realism B. practicality C. objectivity D. material E. xistence 相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 D。解析:“materialism”是“唯物主义”,强调物质存在,选项 D“material existence”符合。选项 A“realism”是“现实主义...