Ce qui est, est deux fois : une fois comme être générique, une fois comme être singularisé par ses manières. Mais tant que les manières d'être continuent de renvoyer à un être qui les possèdent, tant qu'elles ne sont pas...
Philosophy
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Author:Dommange, ThomasSummary: - Author:Hage, Stephen J.Summary:
To more clearly understand how the universe works, author Stephen Hage offers this template that outlines why, even though matter appears to truly exist, its existence cannot be scientifically proven. He explores enigmas in physics...
- Author:Merz, Kenneth M.Summary:
Presenting his view of life as optimism triumphant, Dr. Ken Merz, Sr., reflects on the limits of life, the limits of the physical universe and the role of humans in that universe. He explains various laws of science in a clear and...
- Author:Vanier, JeanSummary:
National Bestseller In Made for Happiness, Jean Vanier examines the basis for modern moral philosophy and its role in our lives today. Having discovered through his work with the intellectually disabled the degree to which our society...
- Author:Wulf, AndreaSummary:
From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of young rebels—poets, novelists, philosophers—who, through their epic quarrels, passionate love stories, heartbreaking grief,...
- Author:Carver, TerrellSummary:
Karl Marx was the first theorist of global capitalism and remains perhaps its most trenchant critic. This clear and innovative book, from one of the leading contemporary experts on Marx's thought, gives us a fresh overview of his...
- Author:Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.Summary:
Thoughts and ideas from the versatile and brilliant German writer and statesman. The German author of Faust takes a detour from his usual literary endeavors and offers snippets of his musings on life, literature, science, nature,...
- Author:Kingwell, MarkSummary:
Mark Kingwell is as at home discussing 'Battlestar Galactica' as he is civility, can find the Plato in popular culture, and sees in idleness a deeply revolutionary gesture. In 'Measure Yourself Against the Earth', he brings his heady...
- Author:Deneault, Alain, Browne, CatherineSummary:
There was no Reichstag fire. No storming of the Bastille. No mutiny on the Aurora. Instead, the mediocre have seized power without firing a single shot. They rose to power on the tide of an economy where workers produce assembly-line...
- Author:Descartes, ReneSummary:
A landmark in the history of thought, Rene Descartes' Meditations helped bring critical thinking and skepticism to the Western world. Modern philosophers are still captivated by Descartes' radical and controversial departure from his...
- Author:Sweeney, Jon M.Summary:
Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) was a priest, a mystic, and nearly a heretic (he died before the Church court's verdict). In the 20th century, the Roman Catholic Church rehabilitated him and the late Pope John Paul II spoke of his work with...
- Author:Herzog, BernardSummary:
La vie se poursuit-elle après la mort ? Sous quelle forme et dans quel but ? Telles sont les interrogations d’un professeur d’université de médecine d’aujourd’hui. Le grand apport de ce livre réside dans la qualité de l’échange entre le...
- Author:Crane, TimSummary:
This anthology provides an extensive and varied collection of the best classical and contemporary readings in metaphysics, as well as substantial editorial material, setting the extracts in context and guiding the reader through them....
- Author:Macdonald, William A.Summary:
Mutual accommodation is about co-operation, compromise, and inclusion. It's a big idea, equal to freedom, science, and compassion. The postwar global economic order led by the United States is one of the greatest historic...
- Author:Sweet, WilliamSummary:
There can be little dispute that culture influences philosophy: we see this in the way that classical Greek culture influenced Greek philosophy, that Christianity influenced mediaeval western philosophy, that French culture influenced a...
- Author:Bateson, GregorySummary:
An exploration of the mental patterns in nature that connect all living beings.
- Author:Grim, PatrickSummary:
How is it that our brain creates all the subjective experiences of our lives every single day-the experiences we call reality' That is the mind-body problem. In Mind-Body Philosophy, Professor Patrick Grim of the State University...
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Alongside the major narratives of ethics in the tradition of Western philosophy, a reader with an eye to the vague and the peripheral, to the turbulent and shifting, will spy minor lines of thinking - and with them, new histories and...
- Author:Dunn, Alexander, Ott, WalterSummary:
This is a textbook (or better, a workbook) in modern philosophy. It combines readings from primary sources with two pedagogical tools. Paragraphs in italics introduce figures and texts. Numbered study questions (also in italics) ask...
- Author:Lucht, Bernie, Ward, Barbara, Underhill, Frank H., Levi-Strauss, Claude, Brandt, Willy, Grant, GeorgeSummary:
The CBC Massey Lectures, Canada's preeminent public lecture series, are for many of us a highly anticipated annual feast of ideas. However, some of the finest lectures, by some of the greatest minds of modern times, have been lost for...
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