the consolations of philosophy alain de botton

... lynched by the people of Athens. Plutarch tells us that the Athenians developed such hatred for the accusers that they refused to bathe with them and ostracized them socially until, in despair, they ... Stoa or the Stoa of Zeus Eleutherios, and talk to strangers in the late afternoon, the privileged hours between the practicalities of high noon and the anxieties of nig...

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 15:56

... of these principles have even greater evidence than the principle of induction, and the knowledge of them has the same degree of cer- tainty as the knowledge of the existence of sense-data. They ... idea is before the mind. There is on the one hand the thing of which we are aware—say the colour of my table—and on the other hand the actual awareness itself...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 12:20

... we do, the idea of the infinite perfections of a God: for it is in the highest degree The Principles of Philosophy OF THE PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE. 13 the senses, and God can neither be ... or ideas, the one of created substance, which thinks, the other of corporeal substance, provided we carefully distinguish all the attributes of thought from The...

Ngày tải lên: 18/04/2014, 15:18

... like Philosophy of Science,” Philosophy of Religion,” Philosophy of Mathe- matics,” Philosophy of Art,” Philosophy of Technology,” Philosophy of Life,” and on and on. It seems as if there is a philosophy ... hole in it. The hook of one might get caught in the hole of the other, and so the two atoms adhere to one another. This combination of particles might t...

Ngày tải lên: 29/05/2014, 21:56

... and crudely, desire de dicto is desire for the desideratum under the desirer’s description or conception. De dicto means ‘‘concerning the thing as spoken of. ’’ But there is an interpretation of the ... with views of the brothers and Hippias as wise and then undermine these. Indeed, many of the dialogues introduce authoritative figures only to undermine their authority...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 22:35

... only Europeans but practically the whole world conceived of itself, of nature, of religion, of human history, of the nature of knowledge, of politics, and of the structure of the human mind in general. ... effects on the economy of the region were even worse; already battered by the shift in trade to the North Atlantic, the German economy had simply withe...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:54