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...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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...n-commercial edition. © 2004-7 Copyright Lidija Rangelovska. All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used ... ... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ...I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right impl... ...tory behaviours and proscribes certain acts or omissions. This Janus-like nature of rights and duties as two sides of the same ethical coin - create... ...of the same ethical coin - creates great confusion. People often and easily confuse rights and their attendant duties or obligations with the morall... ... another's right - should never be confused with one SHOULD or OUGHT to do morally (in the absence of a right). The right to life has eight distinc... ...forcefully. II. Issues in the Calculus of Rights IIA. The Hierarchy of Rights All human cultures have hierarchies of rights. These hierarchies ref... ...e a calculus of hierarchically weighted rights. (See "Abortion and the Sanctity of Human Life" by Baruch A. Brody). One form of calculus is the uti...

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...It was known to me his setting up in 1980’s of a new literary and artistic avant-garde movement that he called “paradoxism”, because I received some books and papers dealing with it in order to review them for the German journal “Zentralblatt fár Mathematik”....

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...Paradoxism is an avant-garde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive used of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, parables, odds, paradoxes in creations....

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...FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE A UNIFYING FIELD IN LOGICS: NEUTROSOPHIC LOGIC. NEUTROSOPHY, NEUTROSOPHIC SET, NEUTROSOPHIC... ...ress Rehoboth 1999, 2000, 2003 FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE A UNIFYING FIELD IN LOGICS: NEUTROSOPHIC LOGIC. NEUTROSOPHY, NEUTROSOPHIC SET, NEUTROSOPHIC... ... a new branch of philosophy: 13 2. Neutrosophic Logic - a unifying field in logics: 87 3. Neutrosophic Set - a unifying field in sets: 112 4. Neut... ...bility, neutrosophic statistics. This representation is closer to the human mind reasoning. It characterizes/catches the imprecision of knowled... ...t's why crossing the species of plants (and sometimes races of animals and humans as well) we get hybrids with better qualities and/or quantities. B... ...s less scientific than psychology, but more scientific than poetry. Human is dependent and independent in the same time. I understand spi... ...tain faster results than their male proponents. The women have more rights than men in western societies (in divorce trials). Social Paradox: ... ...cratic ideas overthrow the democracy as, for example, it happened in Nazi Germany, in totalitarian countries, etc.). The Sets' Paradox: The notion ... ... of neutrosophic states of ethical consciousness. Normally the human rights are promulgated by those who do not respect them - according to the...

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... SHELLEY VOLUME 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Volume Thr... ...0 Not swifter a swift thought of woe or weal Darts through the tumult of a human breast Which thronging cares annoy—not swifter wheel The flashes of i... ... leaped And the divine child saw delightedly.— Mercury first found out for human weal _140 Tinder-box, matches, fire-iro... ... various lot _725 T o the unnumbered tribes of human-kind. Let good to these, and ill to those be wrought As I dispense—bu... ...STER: MINISTER: MINISTER: MINISTER: MINISTER: Nowadays People assert their rights: they go too far; _280 But as for me, the go... ...n to worms beneath that burning sun, Where kings first leagued against the rights of men, _185 And priests first traded with the name of God. ‘Even... ...l flesh and fermented liquors directly militates with this equality of the rights of man. The peasant cannot gratify these fashionable cravings withou...

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...f modern rationalism – issued the thesis of ?the right of rationality to re-examine all knowledge and to accept as truth only what appears as obvious in itself, through the angle of reason?. The Cartesian thesis has a testimonial deed in the Socratic assertion on ?the identity between the moral and the rational?....

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... Research Press Rehoboth 2002 3 This book can be ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Microf... ... ISBN: 1-931233-48-9 Standard Address Number 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 4 Dedication to a nation with... ...ation to a nation with so much religious consistency as could be comprised in an endless column, with so much love and spirit of tolerance as to cove... ...als*. It is not moral, for example, that genetic engineering go as far as human cloning or that artificial intelligence become self-reproductive*. T... ... of turning of matter into anti-matter* should also be monitored. If the human race had the capability to accept the complementarity between science... ...y - a necessity legitimating philosophical anthropology as the science of humankind. This necessity was suggestively illustrated by Blaise Pascal in ... ...sis), both in the Former Soviet Union and in other countries, among which Germany and Romania, for sweeping out the clouds or for bringing about the... ... 66 standards of natural morals. By invoking the pretext of minorities′ rights, lately collective ones, the satanic sects promote with virulence t...

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...Introduction: In 1775, when Goethe was twenty-six, and before he went to Weimar, he began to write ?Egmont? After working on it at intervals for twelve years, he finished it at Rome in 1787. The scene of the drama is laid in the Low Countr...

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...ick A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Egmont: A Tragedy in Five Acts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. Anna Swanwick is a publi... ...e of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pur- pose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Egmont: A Tragedy in Five Acts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, t... ..., the Emperor Charles V . This powerful ruler abolished the constitutional rights of the provinces, and introduced the Inquisition in order to stamp o... ...ild, by which to stem the evil. Oh, what are we great ones on the waves of humanity? We think to control them, and are our- selves driven to and fro, ... ... her safety better than her mustachioed gentry . If she only maintains our rights and privileges, we will stand faithfully by her. [Enter a Soapboiler... ...landers had princes of our own, who governed according to hereditary laws, rights, and us- ages; how our ancestors paid due honour to their sovereign ... ...monsters; looks around for fire and sword, and imagines that by such means human beings are subdued. Machiavel. You appear to me too vehement; you tak... ...ants, we spring aloft, invigorated by our Mother’s touch; where our entire humanity and our human desires throb in every vein; where the desire to pre...

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...Excerpt: ?Dearest Meg, ?It isn?t going to be what we expected. It is old and little, and altogether delightful--red brick. We can scarcely pack in as it is, and the dear knows what will happen when Paul (younger son) arrives tomorrow. From hall you go right or left into diningroom or drawing-room. Hall itself is practically a room. You open another door in it, and th...

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Excerpt: Treaty On European Union. A new stage in the process of European integration undertaken with the establishment of the European Communities.

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... inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A man of wonderful, nay, unexampled reputation and intellectual influence among forty mill...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Johann ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...wayward mood, which, in Werter, pours itself forth in bitter wailings over human life; and, in Berlichingen, appears as a fond and sad looking back in... ... darkness and regions of dreams, but rests in light, on the firm ground of human inter- est and business, as in its true scene, on its true basis. It ... ... by an armed escort. Now, the burghers of the imperial city would yield no rights pertaining to themselves or their district: they went out to meet th... ... many temporary arrangements concluded, though always with reservations of rights on both sides. The hope had not been relinquished of composing once ... ...le cultivated world by a marvellous combination of the important events of human life. But as I did not venture to trust such an affair to any one, or... ...ggles have all the provinces again established themselves in their ancient rights. What a lively young man had to endure from this continual tutoring,...

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...Excerpt: This little play is really a religious tract in dramatic form. If our silly censorship would permit its performance, it might possibly help to set right-side-up the perverted conscience and re-invigorate the starved self-respect of our considerable class of loose-lived ...

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...Introduction: In an age of materialism like our own the phenomenon of spiritual power is as significant and inspiring as it is rare. No longer associated with the ?divine right? of kings, it has survived the downfall of feudal and theocrat...

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