Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
The Nation
Author: Twilight of the Idols
Author: Friedrich NietzschePublisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1603848800
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Twilight of the Idols presents a vivid, compressed overview of many of Nietzsche’s mature ideas, including his attack on Plato’s Socrates and on the Platonic legacy in Western philosophy and culture. Polt provides a trustworthy rendering of Nietzsche’s text in contemporary American English, complete with notes prepared by the translator and Tracy Strong. An authoritative Introduction by Strong makes this an outstanding edition. Select Bibliography and Index.
The Varieties of Religious Experience
Author: William JamesPublisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1877527467
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature explores the nature of religion and, in James' observation, its divorce from science when studied academically. After publication in 1902 it quickly became a canonical text of philosophy and psychology, remaining in print through the entire century. "Scientific theories are organically conditioned just as much as religious emotions are; and if we only knew the facts intimately enough, we should doubtless see 'the liver' determining the dicta of the sturdy atheist as decisively as it does those of the Methodist under conviction anxious about his soul. When it alters in one way the blood that percolates it, we get the Methodist, when in another way, we get the atheist form of mind."
Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations
Author: Isaac AsimovPublisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9781555841119
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Gathers quotations about agriculture, anthropology, astronomy, the atom, energy, engineering, genetics, medicine, physics, science and society, and research
On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History
Author: Thomas CarlylePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hero worship
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Religio Medici
Author: Sir Thomas BrownePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Leaves of Grass
Author: Walt WhitmanFormation of Character
Author: Charlotte MasonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1627931155
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Formation of Character is the fifth volume of Charlotte Mason's Homeschooling series. The chapters stand alone and are valuable to parents of children of all ages. Part I includes case studies of children (and adults) who cured themselves of bad habits. Part II is a series of reflections on subjects including both schooling and vacations (or "stay-cations" as we now call them). Part III covers various aspects of home schooling, with a special section detailing the things that Charlotte Mason thought were important to teach to girls in particular. Part IV consists of examples of how education affected outcome of character in famous writers of her day. Charlotte Mason was a late nineteenth-century British educator whose ideas were far ahead of her time. She believed that children are born persons worthy of respect, rather than blank slates, and that it was better to feed their growing minds with living literature and vital ideas and knowledge, rather than dry facts and knowledge filtered and pre-digested by the teacher. Her method of education, still used by some private schools and many homeschooling families, is gentle and flexible, especially with younger children, and includes first-hand exposure to great and noble ideas through books in each school subject, conveying wonder and arousing curiosity, and through reflection upon great art, music, and poetry; nature observation as the primary means of early science teaching; use of manipulatives and real-life application to understand mathematical concepts and learning to reason, rather than rote memorization and working endless sums; and an emphasis on character and on cultivating and maintaining good personal habits. Schooling is teacher-directed, not child-led, but school time should be short enough to allow students free time to play and to pursue their own worthy interests such as handicrafts. Traditional Charlotte Mason schooling is firmly based on Christianity, although the method is also used successfully by s
Introduction to the Science of Sociology
Author: Robert Ezra ParkPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1534
Book Description
"Introduction to the Science of Sociology" by Robert Ezra Park, E. W. Burgess. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Arrowsmith
Author: Sinclair LewisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Midwestern physician is forced to give up his profession due to the ignorance, corruption, and greed of society.