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Proposed Roads to Freedom

By: Bertrand Russell

...tician, political activist and Nobel laureate. He led the British revolt against idealism in the early 1900s and is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege and his protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein. In this book, written in 1918, he offers his assessment of three competing streams in the thought of the political left: Marxia...

Philosophy, Politics

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An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...he self or, at times, those marginally desperate eyes of one who, having a philosophy of needing no one, did not think that he had a reason to be desp... ...traints as he was. It was like a blood-sucking mosquito but quaffing away analytic and synthetic processes of idea making, aggravating placid delusio... ...hey belonged to extreme cases, and under the "good deeds beget good deeds" philosophy of the Buddhists a wretch like him must have done something mons...

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I and Thou

By: Martin Bube

...s hitherto been eomparatively Unknown among English-speaking students of philosophy and theology. 1 and TIum' is to be understood in the context of... ...t is, indeed, philosophical; but it is not an academic work of discursive philosophy. It is mystical, but it belongs to what' Pringle-Pattison has t... ...as thus called in doubt the massive monistic system within which !dealist philosophy has worked. The direct influence of Buber on philosophical tho... ...eteenth century Soren Kierkegaard, in his attack on the reigning Hegelian philosophy, had shown the limits of thought along the old .lines. And in 1... ...stinct to set up things in a synthetic, or, if that is impossible, in an analytic way-through pulling to pieces or tearing up), is also determined ... ... know the vital factor. And indeed, if fu. all the much disCussed erotic philosophy of the age we were to leave out of a.ccount everything that inv...

...and Thou will rank &8 one of the epoch-making books 9f our generation. It has hitherto been eomparatively Unknown among English-speaking students of philosophy and theology....

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The Early Short Fiction

By: Edith Wharton

...t’s it?” the President curtly took her up. “Why—it’s a—a Thought: I mean a philosophy.” This seemed to bring a certain relief to Mrs. Ballinger and La... ...ion – Part 2 not as comprehensible to her husband. She was haunted, in her analytic moments, by the look of perplexity, too inarticulate for words, wi...

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Abuse, Trauma, And Torture, And Their Consequences and Effects

By: Sam Vaknin

...H. The Chicago Institute Lectures 1972-1976. Marian and Paul Tolpin (Eds.). Analytic Press, 1998 18. Kohut M. The Analysis of the Self. New York, I... ...semesters in the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western University, ... ...hology ("Malignant Self Love") - An Open Directory Cool Site for 8 years. – Philosophy ("Philosophical Musings"), – Economics and Geopolitics ("World... ... in many countries. Many appearances in the electronic media on subjects in philosophy and the sciences, and concerning economic matters. Write to ... ...tp://ceeandbalkan.tripod.com/ Psychology: http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/ Philosophy: http://philosophos.tripod.com/ Poetry: http://samvak.tripod.c...

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Posterior Analytics

By: Aristotle

...Posterior Analytics is the fourth of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon (Instrument). Posterior Analytics deals with demonstration, definition, and scientific knowledge. Demonstration is distingu...

Classics (antiquity), Philosophy

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...ssive, coercive, or bureaucratic." (Honderich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) A... ...ed: Natural Selection IS the vital power itself. Modern Physics is converging with Philosophy (possibly with the philosophical side of Religion as ... ...ors and, lately, by (neuronal) network metaphors. Metaphors are not confined to the philosophy of neurology. Architects and mathematicians, for inst... ...ck to the future", communism was surely "forward to the past". Competition A. THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPETITION The aims of competition (anti-trust) l... ...ehead concluded that mathematics was a branch of the logic of sets and that it is analytical. In other words: the language with which we analyse t... ...ure of things because they are, at bottom, self referential (equivalent to Kant's "analytic propositions"). IIC. Kant According to Kant, our sens... ...society of lack of self- awareness. But choice of words does not a coherence make. Analytic Summary of Kimball Lasch was a member, by conviction, o... ...sly critical sensibility exemplified by psychoanalysis and the degeneration of the 'analytic attitude' into an all out assault on ideals of every ki... ...ather than as a basis for enlightenment. The solution was to blend Marxism and the analytic method of Psychoanalysis (very much as Herbert Marcuse ...

...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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Speculations and Physics

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...d: Natural Selection IS the vital power itself. Modern Physics is converging with Philosophy (possibly with the philosophical side of Religion as ... ...ent view of the scientific endeavor competes with a more modest, semantic school of philosophy of science. Many theories - especially ones with bre... ...dvantage, to tackle questions that once were the exclusive preserve of religion or philosophy. The scientific method is ill-built to cope with such... ...ts it applies to, the term's universe of applicability). As the Oxford Companion to Philosophy puts it (p. 411): " A context of a form of words is ... ...t equivalent and do not share the same truth value). As the Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy summarily puts it (p. 194): " Inscrutability (Quine ... ...eses and the antitheses of the antinomies. The opposition in the antinomies is not analytic (no contradiction is involved) - it is dialectic. A met... ... An effect can be caused by many causes or many causes can lead to the same effect. Analytic tools - rather than experiential ones - are called for ... ..., post facto and ad hoc constructions. None of this has methodological, systematic, analytic and predictive merits. Still, the theories in psycholo...

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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

...e of philosopher is not merely the possession of a superb intellect in its analytic functions (in which part of the pretensions, however, En- gland ca... ... when I am oppressed by anxieties that 39 Thomas de Quincey demand all my philosophy and the comfort of thy presence to support, and yet remember tha... ... the gentlemen in the cotton trade 15 at Manchester in affecting the Stoic philosophy, but not in this. Here I take the liberty of an Eclectic philoso... ...asionally. But my proper vocation, as I well know, was the exercise of the analytic understanding. Now, for the most part analytic studies are continu... ...nd starts, or fragmentary efforts. Mathematics, for instance, intellectual philosophy, &c,, were all become in- supportable to me; I shrunk from them ...

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The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix

By: Honoré de Balzac

...e position between the melodramatic romance of his nonage and the strictly analytic romance-novel of his later time; and, though dealing with war and ... ... please the poet, the philosopher, and the masses who want both poetry and philosophy under strik- ing imagery? Though I could conceive of the importa... ...humanity stirs within their frame, which often covers a complete system of philosophy. Thus Walter Scott raised to the dignity of the philosophy of Hi... ... the very element of all passion. Besides these, there will be a series of Analytical Studies, of which I will say nothing, for one only is published ...

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The Point of View

By: Henry James

...oduced to a young woman of twenty-three, who occu- pies the chair of Moral Philosophy and Belles-Lettres in a Western college, and who told me with th... ...of little cut- and-dried judgments, is an immense refreshment. We are more analytic, more discriminating, more familiar with realities. As for manners...

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The Poems of Emily Dickinson

By: Martha Dickinson Bianchi

...rave— T o that new marriage, justified Through Calvaries of Love!” Her own philosophy had early taught her that All was in All: there were no degrees ... ...n navies nevermore. CXVI I MEASURE every grief I meet With analytic eyes; I wonder if it weighs like mine, Or has an easier size. I...

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The Prelude Or, Growth of a Poets Mind

By: William Wordsworth

... unrecorded, that I still had loved The exercise and produce of a toil, Than analytic industry to me 385 More pleasing, and whose character I deem Is ... ...ing tales! we bless you then, 525 Impostors, drivellers, dotards, as the ape Philosophy will call you: ‘then’ we feel With what, and how great might y... ...g, And o’er the brawling beds of unbridged streams. 132 The Prelude of 1850 Philosophy, methinks, at Fancy’s call, Might deign to follow him through ... ...hat neither these nor aught Of wild belief engrafted on their names By false philosophy had caused the woe, 480 But a terrific reservoir of guilt And i...

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The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton

...able in the Beaufort past. Mrs. Archer, who was fond of coining her social philosophy into axioms, had once said: “We all have our pet common people—”... ...0 The Age of Innocence this did not long trouble him, for he was not in an analytic mood. After breakfast he smoked a cigarette and glanced over the C...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

... com- panionship; always equal to himself. Surely this was a touch of fine philosophy; though no doubt he had never heard there was such a thing as th... ... As for Peleg himself, he took it more like a philosopher; but for all his philosophy, there was a tear twinkling in his eye, when the lantern came to... ...rew to be subjected to. For all these reasons then, and others perhaps too analytic to be verbally developed here, Ahab plainly saw that he must still... ...he perils of whaling to breed this free and easy sort of genial, desperado philosophy; and with it I now regarded this whole voyage of the Pequod, and...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...n companionship; always equal to him self. Surely this was a touch of fine philosophy; though no doubt he had never heard there was such a thing as th... ...rew to be subjected to. For all these reasons then, and others perhaps too analytic to be verbally de veloped here, Ahab plainly saw that he must sti... ...he perils of whaling to breed this free and easy sort of genial, desperado philosophy; and with it I now regarded this whole voyage of the Pequod, and... ...so outlandish a thing that one must needs go a little into the history and philosophy of it. It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

... it mean? Where do we see it? Why is it good? This part of the book offers an analytic definition of generativity and describes its benefits and drawback... ...chnology and, to some degree, draws upon their mean- ings. The Free Software Philosophy The normative ideals of the free software movement and the des... ...criptive attri- butes of generativity have much in common. According to this philosophy, any software functionality enjoyed by one person should be un... ...person should be understandable and modifiable by everyone. The free software philosophy emphasizes the value of sharing not only a tool’s functionalit... ... S. 661 (1998). 9. GNU, The Free Software Definition, http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html (last visited May 16, 2007). This definition shoul... ...cs.harvard .edu/~goodell/blossom (last visited May 15, 2007) (describing the philosophy, design objectives, and implementation of the Blossom network,... ...t to the Internet for 21 days, it will shut down and lock.”). 11. See Caslon Analytics, http://www.caslon.com.au/volkscomputernote1.htm#morphy (last v...

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The Conundrums of Psychology

By: Sam Vaknin

...ors and, lately, by (neuronal) network metaphors. Metaphors are not confined to the philosophy of neurology. Architects and mathematicians, for inst... ... post facto and ad hoc constructions. None of this has methodological, systematic, analytic and predictive merits. Still, the theories in psycholog... ...ent view of the scientific endeavor competes with a more modest, semantic school of philosophy of science. Many theories - especially ones with bre... ..., post facto and ad hoc constructions. None of this has methodological, systematic, analytic and predictive merits. Still, the theories in psycholo... ... post facto and ad hoc constructions. None of this has methodological, systematic, analytic and predictive merits. Still, these theories are powerf... ... a few semesters in the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western Univ... ...eb sites in: – Psychology ("Malignant Self Love") – An Open Directory Cool Site, – Philosophy ("Philosophical Musings"), – Economics and Geopolitic... ...iodicals in many countries. Many appearances in the electronic media on subjects in philosophy and the sciences, and concerning economic matters. ...

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The Fundamental Assumptions Underlying the Modern Study of Psychopathology Examined.

By: Sam Vaknin

...(H. Kohut. The Chicago Institute Lectures 1972-1976. Marian and Paul Tolpin (Eds.). Analytic Press, 1998) Kohut's contention is nothing less than re... ...ive dimension of the experience. If a psychological process lacks the evaluative or analytic elements, this lack does not question its existence or ... ...A: The Pennsylvania State University Press, Quoted in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Parenting is possibly an irrational vocation, but h... ...er activists, says Meyerowitz, insist that gender and sexuality represent "distinct analytical categories". The New York Times wrote in its review o... ... a few semesters in the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western Univ... ...eb sites in: – Psychology ("Malignant Self Love") – An Open Directory Cool Site, – Philosophy ("Philosophical Musings"), – Economics and Geopolitic... ...iodicals in many countries. Many appearances in the electronic media on subjects in philosophy and the sciences, and concerning economic matters. ... ...tics: http://ceeandbalkan.tripod.com/ Psychology: http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/ Philosophy: http://philosophos.tripod.com/ Poetry: http://samvak....

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Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...E M E A N I N G O F L I F E 10 In his book, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1687), Isaac Newton (1642-1727) proposed a theory of mecha... ...of Truth. M I C H A E L L A I T M A N , P H D Rav Michael Laitman has a PhD in Philosophy from the Russian Academy of Science and an MSc in Bio-Cyber... ...h for a place where I could study the general systems of reality. I turned to philosophy, but before long realized that the answer was not to be fou... ...rely on practical experimenta- tion. Hence, this process is entirely reliable. Philosophy, however, engages in ideals abstracted from Mat- ter. It is ... ... the method of Kabbalah because it is founded on the study of Abstract Forms. Philosophy discuss- es qualities such as truth, falsehood, anger, and v... ...sations and impressions of the spiritual world that enrich the new memory and analytic abilities of the new mind. Consequently, the world-picture cr...

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