writings in philosophy that have given him special pleasure he has chosen some of the most readable. He offers them here, to- gether with his comments and explanations. The reader thus has a chance to plunge directly into some of the liveliest and most provoca... (展开全部) 我来说两句 短...
by will durant the story of philosophy transition the pleasures of philosophy adventures in genius by will and ariel du,人人文库,
pleasures, such as stealing, murder, rape, and blasphemy. Secondary sources on Sade, such as Hobbes, Erasmusm, and Brillat-Savarin are analyzed, and modern studies are evaluated. The Philosophy of the Marquis de Sade greatly enhances our understanding of Sade and his philosophy of pain and ...
“His language has a sweet majestic rhythm, which satisfies the sense, no less than the almost superhuman wisdom of his philosophy satisfies the intellect.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley The Essays《培根随笔集》是英国文艺复兴时期重要的散文作家、哲学家弗兰西斯·培根的随笔集,包含58篇散文,内容涉及政治...
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“I know the many disguises of that monster, Fortune, and the extent to which she seduces with friendship the very people she is striving to cheat, until she overwhelms them with unbearable grief at the suddenness of her desertion.” ― Boethius,The Consolation of Philosophy ...
quality and quantity of pleasures in order to fend off the then common charge that utilitarianism is 'a philosophy for swine' and to accommodate the (still) widespread intuition that the life of a human is better, in the sense of being intrinsically more valuable, than the life of an ...
And what does it tell us about the philosophy of modernity? The Hypothetical Mandarin is, in some sense, a history of the Western imagination. It is also a history of the interactions between Enlightenment philosophy, of globalization, of human rights, and of the idea of the modern. ...
This is the final lecture in the series. Perhaps the oldest and most enduring of all myths is the Nekyia: the descent to and return from the underworld. There are innumerable iterations of the myth from nearly all cultures, manifesting in literature, art, music, psychology, philosophy, film,...
ancient culture, and religion and philosophy. Cumulative chapter exercises on tear-out pages reinforce both vocabulary already learned and analytical skills developed in previous lessons. This text will help students begin to learn not only vocabulary, but also the pleasures (and pitfalls) of language...