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...re covered in a very brief and understated way, usually subsidiary to the political events of the day, in the spirit of a curiosity. Documenta... ... The whole spirit of this work can be summed up thus: As innumerable philosophers have hinted at through the ages, death is not to be feared ...

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...- OPM). This, together with the ulterior motives of members of the ruling political echelons (the infamous American Paranoia), a lack of variety and... ...usiness sector has to mollify the God of public opinion with offerings of political and social nature. The Internet is an affluent, educated, yuppie ... ...the registered book (often, a class of books) for a number of years - but politically restricted printable content, often by force. Freedom of the p... ...f inevitable natural disasters, accidents, bankruptcies of publishers, and politically motivated destruction of data - multiple copies and redundant ... ...integrates, and consumption slumps - countries tend to isolate themselves politically, react aggressively, and protect their national economies. Pro... ...hen, is a great change of even greater consequences. Let us remember that philosophers have been the legislators in later centuries (laws were found...

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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... ... creating a scandal, and so they can easily circulate without religious or political censure attacking them, as instead happens later on with Socrat... ...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...

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...oice 38 of 263 Interview With The Future The Freedom to Choose Philosophers have sought all throughout history for the answer to the ques... ...e, the freedom to choose the environment that would influence them. Many philosophers tried to analyze and measure the influence of the environment... ...n a day-to-day basis. Question: Does it also require the election of a political leadership? Answer: It has nothing to do with politics. I wou... ...piritual root. Therefore, it is our duty to understand that this is not a political issue, but this is how the world is built, it is the structure o...

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... improved for over 4 million years… the technique of separation, or to use the politically correct term; tool-use. THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Cha... ...e which will impregnate the female planetary-egg. The entire, international political race to get to the moon first: was merely a mechanical recrea... ... that word as an excuse for refusing to listen to any new idea; it is just the politically correct code-word for saying: ‘I am afraid of any kind of ... ... changing tool-environment forcing them to change For instance: by seeking political stability or in terms of real politick; retaining their advan... ...le fancy analysts tut-tut about the worsening state of affairs and give their politically correct double-speak opinions of how to stabilize things… ... ...t the corruptness of this rational was exposed thousands of years ago by many philosophers who were ignored in their day, and continue to be ignored ... ...d cottages. How to get rid of them had been a problem argued over by English philosophers like Locke and Hume for decades. The idea of the selecti... ...The intelligentsia of France. The elite of French letters. The most renowned philosophers and writers became puzzled at this. European culture was... ...as why the French Revolution happened in the first place. Not because French philosophers tried to recreate the filthy Empire values of ancient Rome...

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...octors' class, held at Dr. Lee's breakfast table, he brought up articles and political cartoons for discussions. Everything from the continuing menace... ...age him he would be a pussycat purring on my lap and you guys could make any political cartoon on him you pleased." The Africans once said that the m... ... decency to keep the Christian constituents, brethren of Israel, happy. Its political engagements were for its own economic and military hegemony ins... ...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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...that hardly anyone was listening. He walked on. Most of the speakers were political or religious and some of them were clear- ly a little mad. He pas... ... dust. ‘Do you know where you sit now? On this very spot, great kings and philosophers of centuries past lived their f nest hours. What were their n...

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...s of the sea -- Beliefs respecting the earth's shape -- Teachings of the great philosophers -- Fabulous islands of the Atlantic -- The Viking navigato... ...e dead. Pythagoras in the sixth century, and Plato, Aristotle, and other great philosophers and geographers taught the sphericity of the earth, yet a ... ...usively in the hands of the Portuguese and Spanish. Queen Elizabeth, while for political reasons refusing to give open recognition to the enterprise w... ...endish banqueted the Portuguese merchants, and related to them the most recent political intelligences that he had, and in turn they described to him ...

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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... ...ing occupies him. Jester and jolly fellow, he keeps on good terms with all political opinions, and is patriotic to the bottom of his soul. A capital m... ...ent piston of the steam-engine called Speculation. “Monsieur,” said a wise political economist, the director- cashier-manager and secretary-general of... ...nd, but only five francs if he got no more than five hundred. The cause of political journalism not interfering with the pre- accepted cause of life i... ... Press is neither a tool nor an article of barter: it is, viewed under its political aspects, an institution. We are bound, in virtue of our position ... ...re bound, in virtue of our position as legislators, to consider all things politically, and therefore” (here he stopped to get breath)—”and there- for...

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...fort for one who had no special training in government, or in the study of political economy, but he had the example of Lafayette in establishing the ... ...the general equality of conditions.” He referred, doubtless, to social and political conditions among the people of the white race, who are described ... ...ith the rights of citizenship, including the right of suffrage. This was a political party movement, intended to be radical and revolu- tionary, but i... ...it was not intended to include other colored races -creates a new phase of political conditions that M. De Tocqueville could not foresee. Yet, in his ... ...ounty governments, he applauds and sustains that elementary feature of our political organization which, in the end, will render harmless this wide de... ...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... ...d the empire of tradition, and overthrew the authority of the schools. The philosophers of the eighteenth century, generalizing at length the same pri...

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... left, of a character unknown to the tragic and the lyric poet, or even to philosophers. We have in this world men whom Rabelais would call agelasts; ... ...tic comedy. He certainly inspired that fine genius. 10 An Essay on Comedy Politically it is accounted a misfortune for France that her nobles thronge... ...te of dense cohesion, very desirable in the estimation of the statesman. A political Aristophanes, taking advantage of his lyrical Bacchic licence, wa... ...s, taking advantage of his lyrical Bacchic licence, was found too much for political Athens. I would not ask to have him revived, but that the sharp l... ...He had the Comic poet’s gift of common-sense—which does not always include political intelligence; yet his political tendency raised him above the Old... ...te, as he calls himself, was a Titanic pamphleteer, using laughter for his political weapon; a laughter without scruple, the laughter of Hercules. He ... ..., which is directly opposed to the Comic; and in his philosophy, judged by philosophers, he is a comic figure, by reason of this deficiency. ‘So bald ... ...Essay on Comedy You will find learned men undoubtedly, professors, reputed philosophers, and illustrious dilettanti. They have in them, perhaps, every...

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...mately known to every man engaged in the hard practical work of Ameri- can political life. It is difficult to overstate how much it means to a nation ... ...s an interesting distinction between the qualities needed for a successful political career in mod- ern society and those which lead to eminence in th... ...s,—satire the rustic wit of which was not always fit for ears polite. Also political thoughts he put upon paper, and some of his pieces were even deem... ...e State government from V andalia to Springfield; one of those triumphs of political management which are apt to be the pride of the small politician’... ...mpathetic kindness in his heart. His main ambition was confessedly that of political distinc- tion; but hardly any one would at that time have seen in... ..., it awards to him the merit of having accomplished what but few political philosophers would have recognized as pos- sible,—of leading the republic t... ...s fable of the bundle of sticks; and he whose wisdom surpasses that of all philosophers has declared that “a house divided against itself cannot stand...

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...whom they would surely , if they could have done so, have imparted their own political wisdom; but no one ever heard that these sons of theirs were re... ...r sons. Those who are possessed of it cannot be said to be men of science or philosophers, but they are inspired and divine. There may be some trace o... ... attainable in this world, is of all things the most divine. Yet, like other philosophers, he is willing to admit that ‘probability is the guide of li... ...f ideas is spoken of as a doctrine held not by Plato, but by another sect of philosophers, called ‘the Friends of Ideas,’ probably the Megarians, who ... ... is knowledge, has been set aside, and cannot be supposed to be our guide in political life. MENO: I think not. SOCRATES: And therefore not by any wis...

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...ublic affairs and are not over- whelmed by it. Was France less prolific of political capacities than Germany? The rather silly game of what are called... ...from the soil, which was in danger; but in times of peace it was a serious political fault to burden it beyond a certain limit; otherwise it could nev... ...ing his ideas. Rabourdin’s success depended on the tranquil condi- tion of political affairs, which up to this time were still un- settled. He had not... ...d those of the rue Duphot. Neverthe- less, she mistook the quietude of the political thinker and the preoccupation of the intrepid worker for the apat... ...n Monsieur Clement Chardin des Lupeaulx, one of those men whom the tide of political events sends to the surface for a few years, then en- gulfs on a ... ...mple; but above all—and 199 Balzac what I am going to say is intended for philosophers—I wish (if you’ll allow me to misquote a saying of Louis XVIII...

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...n this way the door of immortality, innumerable people, criminals, saints, philosophers, young girls, statesmen, and simple imbeciles, have kept self-... ...ispers. Razumov was one of those men who, living in a period of mental and political un- rest, keep an instinctive hold on normal, practical, everyday... ...im upon anybody in the world has in an hour of trial involving his deepest political convictions turned to an illustrious Russian—that’s all.” The Pri... .... No doubt you shall be looked upon as a martyr some day —a sort of hero—a political saint. But I beg to be excused. I am content in fitting myself to... ...udoir with his confession.” Razumov sat up in anguish. W as he to remain a political sus- pect all his days? W as he to go through life as a man not w... ...Secretariat. Hearing a great noise of footsteps in the hall and aware that political pris- oners were brought over sometimes at night from the fortres...

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...order to clear up the muddle in my own mind about in- numerable social and political questions, questions I could not keep out of my work, which it di... ...not already a little interested and open- minded with regard to social and political questions, and a little exercised in self-examination, you will f... ... has seen. It is now our terrestrial experience that whenever economic and political developments set a class free to travel, that class at once be- g... ...e managed electrically from common gen- erating stations. And the trend of political and social specu- lation points decidedly to the conclusion that ... ...red to be subordinate and subsequent to this general science of Sociology. Political economy and economics, in our world now, consist of a hope- less ... ...e irreducible mathematical expression will at times bring it to unity. Now philosophers after my Utopian pattern, who find the ultimate significance i... ...who profess what is called Science as against psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, and literary men, whom he regards as wild, foolish, immoral s...

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...aid beyond their own limits. For nine years, ever since the triumph of his political ideas, the colonel had lived almost entirely outside of social li... ...uture son-in-law, and my lady dreams now of the splendors and dignities of political life.” “Could you love Cecile?” said the colonel to his son. “Yes... ... 10 The Deputy of Arcis REVOLT OF A LIBERAL ROTTEN-BOROUGH THOUGH 1839 IS, politically speaking, very distant from 1847, we can still remember the ele... ... emony now about to take place. Ha! ha! young man; so we intend to enter a political career? Ha! ha! ha! This is our first step—mustn’t step back—it i... ...great work, “the devotion of those who fling themselves into the tumult of political life; he! he! he! It takes more nerve than I possess. Who could h... ...g Poland, the daring pamphleteers, the scrutinizers of the civil test, the philosophers who demand sincerity in the working of our institutions, if th...

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...a good thing for France if this idea could be popularised. The benefits of political harmony are obvious to the least intelli- gent classes. Harmony i... ...ne man among them with the steel-en- compassed brains that can forge a new political system and begin a new career of glory for a nation. The Faubourg... ...e itself under a leader. And now it is easy to give a summary of this semi-political survey. The wish to re-establish a large fortune was upper- most ... ...iews, and a mass 31 Balzac of small defects, a real need of religion as a political factor, combined with a thirst for pleasure which damaged the cau... ...-dying, and would not so much as raise itself or stretch out a hand to any political physician; so well aware of its feeble- ness, or so conscious tha... ...and passion are two different conditions which poets and men of the world, philosophers and fools, alike con- tinually confound. Love implies a give a... ...ded, holding out a hand, which he kissed. “We will be like two grey-headed philosophers who have learned how to enjoy life to the last moment. I will ...

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...l beliefs, explicit or implicit. The bulk of men are obliged to be amateur philosophers,—all men indeed who are not spe- cialized students of philosop... ... the fundamental laws of thought, a harking back to positions of the older philosophers and par- ticularly to Heraclitus, so far as the surviving frag... ...motives in unthinking men, there is a ten- dency on the part of unthinking philosophers to speak of them as though vanity , self-seeking, self-interes... .... In the world of ideas about me, I have found going on a great social and political movement that correlates itself with my conception of a great syn... ... Imperialists and Tariff Reformers, and I suppose that among the prominent political figures of to-day the nearest approach to my New Republi- cans is... ...p of the implica- tions of the propositions under discussion. The ordinary political Socialist desires, as I desire, and as I suppose every sane man d... ... not that our guns and ships are marvellously good, but that our press and political organizations are haphazard 105 H. G . Wells growths entirely in... ...ather like a sheep, emotional, hasty and shallow, the practical outcome of political democracy in all large commu- nities under modern conditions is t...

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...sing through the towns of Italy by night, as a serviceable scheme for some political purpose, either of avoid- ing too much to publish his motions, or... ...nder the shadow of the great Dictator’s displeasure; not person- ally, but politically, on account of her connections: and her it was, Cornelia, the d... ...t of his ambition, and contracted from first to last in the service of his political intrigues, for raising and maintaining a power- ful body of parti... ...ount, as from a stepping-stone, to the inheritance of the Julian power and political station; and the Roman people 41 Thomas de Quincey would have be... ...f, the finishing, or ceremonial acts, were yet wanting in this process—the political heirship was inchoate and imperfect. Tacitly understood, indeed, ... ...philosophic attainments, and perhaps upon philosophic glory. All the great philosophers of his own time, whether Stoic or Peripatetic, and amongst the...