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...7% that same as a chimpanzee and about 60% the same as a chicken, we would have to assume that we have some instincts. ―Psychologists, philos... ...d our reliance on faith and hope. Theologians have given us many ideas of what we are and what approaches to life we need to take to be happy. Philos... ...ove as it is now defined. The idea of love can be based primarily on the knowledge of science, but is tempered by insights and speculations of philos... ...s meaning in life, or searches for meaning, it is a sign of being psychologically healthy and happy. One might look at the artists and poets, philos... ...ave trained to attack minorities, primarily blacks. Their rationalizations are that they are protecting the purity of the race or protecting Russia... ...t. Aristotle said we should live by the ‗golden mean‘ not wanting too much or too little. ―Economists, sociologists, psychologists, philos...

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...ur thinking. They are absolutely basic to our thinking and our behavior. Philosophers generally realize that they have such assumptions. They call t... ... They call them metaphysics--meaning beyond the physical world. ―Philosophers usually see the world as basically ‗matter‘ or as basically ‗i... ...Matter then comes from God, the ultimate idea. ―Certainly not all philosophers agree. Plato saw the basis, the primary starting point, as ‗i... ..., God or matter. Is there a God. ―Naturally some theologians and philosophers have attempted to prove that a Supernatural exists by using e... ...f murder, stealing and lying. ―Atheists make up a high percent of the Russian and Czech populations, probably because atheistic Marxism was a fa... ...argely a question of education. Of course tradition is also a factor. The Russians and Chinese are quite atheistic, probably because of their more r... ...because they cannot fit into the ethical norms of their society? Were the Russian pogroms, the Nazi gassings and the cleansings of Pol Pot merely fi... ...re live births, about three million abortions per year. It seems that the Russian women think that the ‗pill‘ may give them cancer so they opt for t... ...t a Frenchman from Georgia. The Frenchman and three friends had boarded a Russian freighter in 1946 to vacation in Tahiti and forget the war. They w...

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...buktu and to the Muslim scholars to its east. There was a history of great philosophers of Greece—Democritus, Aristotle, Plato, Socrates. There were ... ...l power of educated, wise and socially conscious citizens. Wise political philosophers expected that the electorate‘s decisions would evolve heaven... ...tments to negative consequences. When the people‘s revolution replaced the Russian czar, economics went backward. Through wars and pogroms, men disa... ...ducation. The overthrow of Communism brought some positive changes. But the Russian mafia emerged. The world moves by fits and starts. Some moves are... ...oung Pioneer Palaces of the Soviet Union. This was the best thing that the Russian Communists did. Their huge buildings housed innumerable activitie...

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...ic philosophies and religions that are usually strongly influenced by the philosophers of the Enlightenment period. It is particularly true when tho... ...u trying to teach? “Our major films show the lives of composers, philosophers, artists and others who show courage and intellect. There is ... ...ussia, where they need more workers, there is a huge prejudice against non-Russians. So it is different from the West where the illegals may be takin...

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...ire Universe. He came to this conclusion centuries before the pre-Socratic philosophers did. On reading the Odyssey, I formulated the following hypo... ... worth, anyway? Here he is an inconspicuous forerunner to the pre-Socratic philosophers, which soon after would dismantle the belief in the existenc... ...e living organism. This higher power has nothing to do with the god of the philosophers or the god of the theologians. Homer calls this higher powe... ...eptics has been revisited during modern times by positivist and relativist philosophers. For them relative truths exist and these truths are so rela... ..., who strongly adheres to Socratic thinking and invites all thinkers, both philosophers and scientists, to become humble in their thinking and their... ...nna and Moscow. I also thank them for having created training seminars for Russian therapists and for those from the Baltic countries in their Insti... ...of the PPL in Moscow, who published my book on Existential Anthropology in Russian and who has created a website on Sophia-Analysis in Russian and E...

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...ic is Rimsky's but they were playing music from that composer earlier. He is Russian, one of the best, I think." Sang Huin smiled at the acquaintance... ...uced and memorizing names that she would forget once out of there (one young Russian who exercised with Michael at a fitness center and had the most ... ...reeding. He was a busy little entrepreneur opening a fitness center with his Russian friend one month, an Internet cafe the next, and some minor inves... ...nﾁO about. One time you were spacing out and talkinﾁO ﾁObout your son and a Russian boy, packing and coming here." She remembered: shortly before sh... ...It isnﾁOt called St. Michaels." "Whatever. Answer my question." "There is a Russian kid who pesters me." "Well, donﾁOt look at it as pestering. IﾁOd... ...other non-Parmenidetian activity that was paradise to the masses and vile to philosophers and contemplatives would have caused her to grab the nearest... ...a more internal brooding in the Hokkaido cold. She had feasted on poets and philosophers. She had learnt of Japanese history, art, and traditional m... ...y that had tossed the chemicals of inchoate matter, then cloistered artists, philosophers, and other contemplatives would be the dominant force on the...

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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown out of it, like the limbs of a single tree....

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...1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, “the Russian novel,” not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece ... ...finished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil’evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown out of it, like the li... ...thing which, for want of a better term, might be called the quality of the Russian soul. The English reader familiar with the works of Dostoieffsky, T... ...is that makes of Dead Souls a unique work, peculiarly Gogolian, peculiarly Russian, and distinct from its author’s Spanish and English masters. Still ... ...e plot of the earlier work The Revisor, which is almost the only comedy in Russian. The impor- tance of both is their introduction of the social eleme... ...n had become mixed up in a very absurd affair. That is to say, a couple of philosophers belonging to a regiment of hussars had, together with an aesth...

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...king figures created by the manners and customs of our present epoch. May he not, in some conceivable order of things, be destined to mark for coming philosophers the great transition which welds a period of material enterprise to the period of intellectual strength? Our century will bind the realm of isolated power, abounding as it does in creative genius, to the realm of...

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...not, in some con- ceivable order of things, be destined to mark for coming philosophers the great transition which welds a period of material enterpri... ... with com- parisons and her real India shawls imported by the suite of the Russian ambassador, and her silver plate and her Russian prince,—who to my ...

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...te for the reader the personality of the man who called himself, after the Russian custom, Cyril son of Isidor— Kirylo Sidorovitch-Razumov, If I have ... ...It is based on a document; all I have brought to it is my knowledge of the Russian language, which is sufficient for what is attempted here. The docum... ...or a long time in Geneva. A whole quarter of that town, on account of many Russians re- siding there, is called La Petite Russie —Little Russia. I had... ...le Russia at that time. Y et I confess that I have no comprehension of the Russian charac- ter. The illogicality of their attitude, the arbitrariness ... ...e pro- fessors. What must remain striking to a teacher of languages is the Russians’ extraordinary love of words. They gather them up; they cherish th... ...n this way the door of immortality, innumerable people, criminals, saints, philosophers, young girls, statesmen, and simple imbeciles, have kept self-...

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...RUDIN a novel By IVAN TURGENEV T ranslated from the Russian By Constance Garnett Introduction by S. Stepniak A Penn State Elect... ...university. 3 Turgenev RUDIN a novel BY IVAN TURGENEV Translated from the Russian By Constance Garnett Introduction by S. Stepniak LONDON: WILLIAM HE... ... because ‘a whole world lived in him and spoke through his mouth.’ Not the Russian world only, we may add, but the whole Slavonic world, to which it w... ..., Polikushka. He was certainly able to paint all classes and conditions of Russian people. But in his greater works Turgenev lays the action exclusive... ...n his greater works Turgenev lays the action exclusively with one class of Russian people. There is nothing of the enormous canvas of Count T olstoi, ... ...houlders. ‘Well, where’s the harm if I do? I ask: where is truth? Even the philosophers don’t know what it is. Kant says it is one thing; but Hegel—no...

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...Corniani, Call me the only virtuous wife in Spain? Were there not also Russians, English, many? The Count Strongstroganoff I put in pain, ... ... luck holds, They all were heroes, conquerors, and cuckolds. Thou mak’st philosophers; there ‘s Epicurus And Aristippus, a material crew! Wh... ...und, Were landed in the market, one and all, And there with Georgians, Russians, and Circassians, Bought up for different purposes and passion... ...g of course. ‘My boy!’ said he, ‘amidst this motley crew Of Georgians, Russians, Nubians, and what not, All ragamuffins differing but in hue, ... ...air, Is that which I would learn.’— ‘I served for some Months with the Russian army here and there, And taking lately, by Suwarrow’s bidding, ... ...drank six cups of coffee at the least, And then withdrew to hear about the Russians, Whose victories had recently increased In Catherine’s rei... ... On which the passion’s self seems to depend: And hence some heathenish philosophers Make love the main spring of the universe. Besides Plato...

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...ing up to the steamer’s side to convey us travellers to shore. There were Russian schooners and Greek brigs lying in this little bay; dumpy little wi... ...e teeth and afraid to fight, are bred out of the same land which begot the philosophers and heroes. But the “Half-way House” is passed by this time, a... ...he deuce knows why, for what good can the En- glish, or the French, or the Russian party get out of such a bankrupt alliance as this?) perpetually pul... ...and smoked cool pipes on his house-top, as we looked over the hill and the Russian palace to the water, and the Seraglio gardens shining 58 Notes on ... ...e covered with Christian, Jew, and Heathen. In the cabin we were Poles and Russians, Frenchmen, Germans, Spaniards, and Greeks; on the deck were squat... ...arched court, and up a stone staircase, which turned out to be that of the Russian consul’s house. His people welcomed us most cordially to his abode,...

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...is in store for us, with a carriage, diamonds, an opera-box, and so forth. Russians, Austrians, Britons, have millions on which we have an eye. Beside... ...quier’s meditation. He plumed himself on belonging to the class of cynical philosophers who could never be “taken in” by women,—putting them, one and ... ...ncle announced in this sudden missive that Monsieur de T roisville, of the Russian army during the Emigration, grand- son of one of his best friends, ... ...h her money. But among the Bour- geoisie, the Vicomte de T roisville was a Russian general who had fought against France, and was now returning with a... ...ame Amphoux, which were offered to a bachelor, and not to the husband of a Russian woman. All these details were noticed and laughed at. The Abbe de S...

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..., and who sat there unbent. XVI ‘“We stood in line, and like hedgehogs the Russians rolled under us thick. They frightened me there.”—He’s no coward; ... ...and at last I was vexed, And swore I would never surrender a foot when the Russians charged next. XIX ‘“I know that life’s worth keeping.”—Ay, so it i... ...But my life belongs to a woman.”—Does that mean Her Majesty, Miss?— “These Russians came lumping and grinning: they’re fierce at it, though they are ... ...y musket, prepared.” Why, that’s a fine pick-a-back for ye, to make twenty Russians look scared! “They came—never mind how many: we couldn’t have run... ...no more than angel, or devil, except in the wind. I know that I swore at a Russian for showing his teeth, and he grinned The harder: quick, as from h... ...ke a wreath Of our most blushful flower shine trembling through, T o teach philosophers the thirst of thieves: Is one for me? is one for you? II —Fair... ...irt. And dog, bull, cook, was he, fanged, horned, plumed; Original man, as philosophers vouch; Carnivorous, cannibal; length-long exhumed, Frightfully... ...pressive scene, beyond arrest, A darkness not with stars of heaven dressed Philosophers behold; desponding view Your Many nourished, starved my brilli...

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...the father interviewed in 1814, declared that he had seen him taken by the Russians. Mme. de l’Estorade died of grief whilst a vain search was being m... ...des dividuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind, i... ...ing man and woman! I have no wish to controvert what has been laid down by philosophers or legislators—they are quite capable of do- ing this for them... ...land!” We both laughed; but I must explain the joke. The evening before, a Russian princess had told us an anecdote of this gentle- man. He had suffer... ...s, and only shows how well we deserve the epithet of children, bestowed by philosophers on our sex.” She continued talking thus in the gentle voice yo...

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...te. No breastplate at all. Simple leather strap across the breast—like the Russians. Hi! Jack never thought of that! MRS. G. (Entering hastily, her ha... ...ext cold weather for a cer- tainty; ourselves the first on the roster; the Russian shindy ready to come to a head at five minutes’ notice, and you, th... ...e heterodox women—is it not?—who were amusing and not fools. All the Greek philosophers delighted in their company. Tell me, my friend, how it goes no... ...said Lalun, when the last had gone. ‘They brought me brick-tea such as the Russians sell, and a tea-urn from Peshawur. Show me, now, how the English M...

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...se words: “Jeremy T aylor, the most eloquent and the subtlest of Christian philosophers, was the son of a barber, and the son-in-law of a king,”— allu... ...u- miliations. Hence it was that Ledyard, the traveller, speak- ing of his Russian experiences, used to say that some of his miseries were such, that ... ...giment; and subsequently, during the campaign of 1813, as a captain on the Russian staff. Thus brilliantly accomplished for conferring lustre and ben-... ...d to be in some secret connection of fatal sympathy with the growth of the Russian cross. Perhaps the reader will thank us for rehears- ing the main s... ...f notice about thirty years ago. Meantime, besides this secret reliance on Russian countenance or aid, Greece had since that era received great encour... ...e secret influence of Count Capodistria, of Corfu, who, having entered the Russian service as mere private sec- retary to Admiral Tchitchagoff, in 181...

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...that that stand out in life. Nothing’s been quite so vivid since. It’s the philosophers, it’s the scholars,” he continued, “they’re the people who pas... ...t to leap and swing. Look! How they mince!” “Have you seen those wonderful Russian dancers?” be- gan Mrs. Elliot. But Helen saw her partner coming and... ...o—that’s dreadful. Of farm labourers; no—not of the English at all, but of Russians and Chi- nese.” This train of thought did not satisfy her, and was... ...d me than any one I’ve ever met.” 196 The Voyage Out “What about the five philosophers?” said Helen, with a laugh, stitching firmly and swiftly at he... ...ther. I’d give all I have in the world to help on a revolution against the Russian government, and it’s bound to come.” She looked from Rachel to Tere...

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...b- scure democracy, which had as yet brought forth neither gen- erals, nor philosophers, nor authors, a man might stand up in the face of a free peopl... ...by sacrificing their opinions, they prostitute themselves. Mor- alists and philosophers in America are not obliged to conceal their opinions under the... ... which prevent men, in certain countries, from arriving at this state. The philosophers of the eighteenth century explained the gradual decay of relig... ...ast. T o the northwest nothing is to be met with but a few insig- nificant Russian settlements; but to the southwest, Mexico presents a barrier to the... ...the same end, although they started from different points: I allude to the Russians and the Americans. Both of them have grown up unnoticed; and whils... ...les against the natural obstacles which oppose him; the adversaries of the Russian are men; the former combats the wilderness and savage life; the lat... ...free scope to the unguided exertions and common-sense of the citizens; the Russian cen- tres all the authority of society in a single arm: the princip... ...d the empire of tradition, and overthrew the authority of the schools. The philosophers of the eighteenth century, generalizing at length the same pri... ...he minutiae of military discipline to the same degree of perfection as the Russians have done; but this did not prevent Alexander from conquering Asia...

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...of decision of mind, we should not behold them turning contemptuously from philosophers in their agony, to find refuge in the arms of smirking orthodo... ...eap of papers and newly-opened foreign letters; to one of which, bearing a Russian stamp, he referred fretfully at times, as if to verify a monstrous ... ...s tapped his brow—”pluck,—you want pluck. It is your decadence. Greek, and Russian, and Yankee, all zey beat you. For, it is pluck. You make a pin’s h... ...k you, and not a countryman. A French- man?—oh, no! A German?—not a bit! A Russian?—never! A Yankee?—save me! I am a Greek—I take an Englishman.” “Wel... ... could buy up any ten princes in Europe —excepting one or two Austrians or Russians. He wears a coat just like mine.” “Does he?” said Emilia, involunt... ...iculty in the world to keep him back and let me pur- sue my course.) These philosophers are a bad-mannered body. Either in opposition, or in the suppo...