An Essay on Human Nature. [By John Studholme?] PDF Download

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Author: John Studholme
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Category : Philosophy, British
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Author: A. C. Grayling
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Category : Philosophy, British
Languages : en
Pages : 980

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Author: Katherine Wakely-Mulroney
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317045548
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 421

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This collection gives sustained attention to the literary dimensions of children’s poetry from the eighteenth century to the present. While reasserting the importance of well-known voices, such as those of Isaac Watts, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, A. A. Milne, and Carol Ann Duffy, the contributors also reflect on the aesthetic significance of landmark works by less frequently celebrated figures such as Richard Johnson, Ann and Jane Taylor, Cecil Frances Alexander and Michael Rosen. Scholarly treatment of children’s poetry has tended to focus on its publication history rather than to explore what comprises – and why we delight in – its idiosyncratic pleasures. And yet arguments about how and why poetic language might appeal to the child are embroiled in the history of children’s poetry, whether in Isaac Watts emphasising the didactic efficacy of “like sounds,” William Blake and the Taylor sisters revelling in the beauty of semantic ambiguity, or the authors of nonsense verse jettisoning sense to thrill their readers with the sheer music of poetry. Alive to the ways in which recent debates both echo and repudiate those conducted in earlier periods, The Aesthetics of Children’s Poetry investigates the stylistic and formal means through which children’s poetry, in theory and in practice, negotiates the complicated demands we have made of it through the ages.

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Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 574

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This major new publication is the most comprehensive reference source ever on eighteenth-century authors writing in the English language about philosophical ideas and issues. Featuring authors taken from 1689 through to the middle of the nineteenth century, the period beginning with John Locke and ending with Dugald Stewart, the word 'philosophical' is used in a wide, eighteenth-century sense. Thus the Dictionary includes epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, education, politics, rhetoric, science, medicine, biology, geology, chemistry and theology, and many of the authors may more usually be called divines, scientists, doctors, mathematicians, or even poets. In addition to short biographies of the writers, there are detailed expositions and analyses of their doctrines and ideas, bibliographies of their writings and suggestions for further reading. There are also mini-entries on extremely obscure figures and appendices listing anonymous tracts. All the major eighteenth-century philosophers are featured, but the most valuable feature of the Dictionary is its representation of a huge range of less well-known writers. In many cases the Dictionary offers the first scholarly treatment of the life and work of certain writers. This book will be an indispensable reference work for scholars working on almost any aspect of eighteenth-century studies.

Author: William Lyon Phelps
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 147336213X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 22

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This early work by William Lyon Phelps was originally published in 1931 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Human Nature' is an essay about the curiosities of human nature referenced to well-known authors. William Lyon Phelps was born on 2nd January 1865, in New Haven, Conneticut, United States. Phelps earned a B.A. in 1887, writing his thesis on the Idealism of George Berkeley. He then gained an M.A. in 1891 from Yale and his PhD from Harvard in the same year. During his time a Yale, he offered a course in modern novels which brought the university considerable attention both nationally and internationally. Phelps published many essays on modern and European literature, including titles such as 'Essays on Modern Novelists' (1910), 'Some Makers of American Literature' (1923), and 'As I Like it' (1923).

Author: William Maberry Strickler
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Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Category : Philosophy, British
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Author: William Maberry Strickler
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ISBN: 9781330804902
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Excerpt from Essays on Human Nature If, instead of starting out to bring sunshine primarily into the lives of others, each one endeavored to bring it into his own life, as the whole of humanity embraces the lives of each, then all would be included. In approaching the subject, I will say I have none but common-sense methods to recommend. Those who have only metaphysical and supernatural ones generally prove themselves failures. I will start out with the assumption that sunshine arises from the pursuit of the highest good. But what is the highest good? According to Bentham and the Mill's, it is the promotion of general happiness, while according to Herbert Spencer, it is the promotion, primarily, of self-happiness; while according to Carlyle, it is a calumny to say that men are moved to heroic actions by ease or hope of pleasure of any kind in. this world or the next. "In the meanest mortal there lies something better. It is not to taste sweets, but to do something nobler, that the poorest dimly longs. They wrong man greatly who say he is seduced by ease." John Fiske speaks of the desire for pleasure as a low motive. I have no doubt that there are higher ones, but notwithstanding the dictum of these men, the desire for pleasure is universal, showing that it is original in the human constitution, and that it cuts a prodigous figure in the actions of men as is evident to all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: William Maberry 1838- Strickler
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781362442240
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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