A lovable Aspergers like eccentric and philosopher of music who guarded his privacy fiercely in a hermit-like existence at times he believed music matters more than anything else because of the wonder and serenity that comes from the internal combustion it ignites in the heart. He also advocated...
IN THE "real" world, Peter Singer is the most influential living philosopher. More than any other single work, his book Animal Liberation (1975) led to the movement of the same name. More recently, he has been vilified for his willingness to contemplate euthanasia for the terminally ill ...
Princeton philosopher Peter Singer argues that we should ___ our moral intutions (本能) and ask whether that logic deserves respect in the first place. Why obey moral impulses that evolved to serve the “___”— such as sympathy that moves toward relatives and friends? Why...
The pessimist philosopher Peter Wessel Zapffe [Citation1933] Citation2022 recounts how nature has produced humans but gives no answers as to why or what for: because there is no special meaning ‘out there’ for humans, humans are free to invent their own systems of meaning. Pessimism, in ...
She is increasingly being recognized as a member of the American pragmatist school of philosophy, and is known by many as the first woman "public philosopher in the history of the United States".In the Progressive Era, when presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson identified ...
Celine Dion, singer. (1968) Who was Born on March 31? René Descartes, philosopher, mathematician. (1596) Franz Joseph Haydn, composer. (1732) German chemistRobert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, invented the Bunsen Burner. (1811) Jack Johnson, is the first Afro-American boxer to win the heavy...
Published on September 5, 1999, in The New York Times Magazine, the article “The Singer Solution to World Poverty”, was written by philosopher Peter Singer. This article states that the solution to world poverty is for Americans to donate income, not vital for necessities, to aid overseas ...
Bush was asked to name his favorite philosopher during a townhall meeting in 2000, he said without hesitation, “Christ, because he changed my heart.” He was mocked for this answer by the godless media, but it resonated with countless men and women in the heartland who had never heard ...
How about Christian philosopher Thomas Aquinas, who died of brain trauma after hitting his head on a tree branch while riding a donkey. I’m glad you know exactly how I felt reading your works as an undergraduate. Or someone I actually did enjoy reading,Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxyaut...
Papanek was a philosopher of design and as such he was an untiring, eloquent promoter of design aims and approaches that would be sensitive to social and ecological considerations. He wrote that "design has become the most powerful tool with which man shapes his tools and environments (and, ...