Author: Francis PeckPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Desiderata Curiosa; Or a Collection of Divers Scarce and Curious Pieces Relating Chiefly to Matters of English History ... Adorned with Cuts ... Life and Writings of Mr. Peck
Author: Francis PeckDesiderata Curiosa Or a Collection of Divers Scarce and Curious Pieces Relating Chiefly to Matters of English History
Author: Francis PeckFreedom
Author: Henri BergsonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350029181
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
For 15 years, Henri Bergson, the most important French philosopher of the early 20th-century, taught at the Collège de France. Speaking without notes, most of his classes are now lost to history, but records of a handful of courses fortuitously survived thanks to stenographic transcripts. Conveying Bergson's very voice, these extraordinary documents are finally presented here in English. The 1904–1905 lectures are dedicated to the topic of freedom, or as Bergson put it, “the evolution of the problem of freedom.” Building on the philosophy of freedom from his first book, Time and Free Will, he proposes that freedom is not only a fundamental human experience but characteristic of all life as such. By retracing how ancient and modern philosophers have dealt with the delicate question of freedom, Bergson demonstrates the necessity, and also the radically new character, of his own theory of freedom. Bergson's lectures are a feast for many audiences. For philosophers, they give a fuller picture of his thought and contain deep reflections on many core topics in philosophy today, from the nature of time to the difference between brain and mind, the relation between memory and perception, and the vindication of freedom over determinism. For intellectual historians, the lectures are a treasure trove: as a slice of the living thought of a great thinker; as an extended analysis of the natural and human sciences of his day; and as a rich commentary on the history of ancient and modern philosophy. Finally, for cultural historians and literary scholars, the lectures were the cultural capital of Belle Époque France, consumed by elites and a vast educated public. They are also part of an exceedingly rare genre in modern philosophy: spoken, not written, lectures and expressed as a veritable stream of philosophical consciousness that is remarkably structured and analytically lucid.
How can the Church educate the People? The question considered with reference to the incorporation and endowment of Colleges for the middle and lower classes. In a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury
Author: William HOWLEY (successively Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Sessional Papers
Author: Québec (Province). LegislaturePublisher:
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Category : Québec (Province)
Languages : fr
Pages : 1512
Book Description
The Practice of Everyday Life
Author: Michel de CerteauPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520236998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Repackage of a classic sociology text in which the author developes the idea of resistance to social and economic pressures.
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738180795
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
The Atheist's Bible: Diderot's 'Éléments de physiologie'
Author: Caroline WarmanPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1783748990
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
‘Love is harder to explain than hunger, for a piece of fruit does not feel the desire to be eaten’: Denis Diderot’s Éléments de physiologie presents a world in flux, turning on the relationship between man, matter and mind. In this late work, Diderot delves playfully into the relationship between bodily sensation, emotion and perception, and asks his readers what it means to be human in the absence of a soul. The Atheist’s Bible challenges prevailing scholarly views on Diderot’s Éléments, asserting its contemporary philosophical importance, and prompting its readers to inspect more closely this little-known and little-studied work. In this timely volume, Warman establishes the place of Diderot’s Éléments in the trajectory of materialist theories of nature and the mind stretching back to Epicurus and Lucretius, and explores the fascinating reasons behind scholarly neglect of this seminal work. In turn, Warman outlines the hitherto unacknowledged dissemination and reception of Diderot’s Éléments, demonstrating how Diderot’s Éléments was circulated in manuscript-form as early as the 1790s, thus showing how the text came to influence the next generations of materialist thinkers. This book is accompanied by a digital edition of Jacques-André Naigeon’s Mémoires historiques et philosophiques sur la vie et les ouvrages de Denis Diderot (1823), a work which, Warman argues, represents the first publication of Diderot’s Éléments, long before its official publication date of 1875. The Atheist’s Bible constitutes a major contribution to the field of Diderot studies, and will be of further interest to scholars and students of materialist natural philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment and beyond.
Journals
Author: Canada. Legislature. Legislative AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Author: John Willis Clark