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Devenez incollable sur Diderot et sa pensée philosophique avec lePetitPhilosophe.fr !
Cette fiche propose une analyse approfondie de la philosophie de Denis Diderot, avec sa biographie, le contexte philosophique dans lequel il s'inscrit, l'analyse détaillée de sa pensée et une synthèse de ce qu'il faut en retenir. La fiche est complétée par une liste de citations clés du philosophe.
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Paul Rabinow is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author, most recently, of A Machine to Make a Future: Biotech Chronicles (Princeton).
In Marking Time, Paul Rabinow presents his most recent reflections on the anthropology of the contemporary. Drawing richly on the work of Michel Foucault, John Dewey, Niklas Luhmann, and, most interestingly, German painter Gerhard Richter, Rabinow offers a set of conceptual...
7123) Death
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Life always coexists with death, no one will escape death. death is not the end of life, on the contrary death is an eternal beginning. find the way out here
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"Modern man fears not the unknown, but the known that he fails to honor, the known against which he fears he cannot measure."
The world is on fire. Everything you know, or thought you knew is being, destroyed before your eyes. Culture is perverted, nations are subverted, and reality, itself is being, warped through nonstop gaslighting. In a world, where you can't trust governments, the police, or even your own countrymen to take your side, you are...
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This volume contains Edgar Allen Poe's non-fiction work, "Eureka: A Prose Poem". Often published with the subtitle "An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe", it is a monograph on Poe's personal ideas about the universe and God, whom he frequently describes as an author. His last major work and largest non-fiction piece, "Eureka: A Prose Poem" comprises nearly 40,000 words. This volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in the...
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Isaiah Berlin was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was renowned as an essayist and as the author of many books, among them Karl Marx, Four Essays on Liberty, Russian Thinkers, The Sense of Reality, The Proper Study of Mankind, and, from Princeton, Concepts and Categories, Personal Impressions, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, The Hedgehog and the Fox, The Roots of Romanticism, The Power of Ideas, and Three Critics of the Enlightenment. Henry...
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Devenez incollable sur la notion de vérité avec lePetitPhilosophe.fr !
Cette fiche propose une analyse approfondie de la notion de vérité, avec une introduction générale, l'analyse des diverses approches philosophiques du concept et une synthèse de ce qu'il faut en retenir. La fiche est complétée par une liste de citations clés et une sélection des principaux sujets tombés au bac de philo ces dernières années en lien avec la notion.
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“The Thinker's Guide to Clinical Reasoning” introduces healthcare students and professionals to the foundations of critical thinking and offers examples of applications within clinical fields. It is not enough for healthcare workers to have access to data and research; they must also know how to analyze and process information to guide patients in making the best decisions about their health. This process requires critical thinking skills often...
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In this little volume, Anthony Thiselton makes an impassioned appeal for closer attention to the philosophy of hermeneutics. Emilio Betti provocatively observes that hermeneutics ought to constitute an obligatory course for most degrees in the humanities. Hermeneutics, he insists, teaches patience, tolerance, respect for other views, understanding, and humility, while holding one's own views with firmness and generosity. Yet many teaching institutions...
7130) De l'esprit des lois
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Extrait: "le moyen qu'il n'y ait bien des gens qui manquent d’aliments? 1. Si dix hommes mangent ce revenu des terres comme fonctionnaires ou rentiers, sans doute le laboureur sera écrasé par l’impt; mais si ces dix hommes travaillent de leur cté et produisent des valeurs de commerce et d'échange, le prix du bled montera, et au besoin on en fera venir du dehors."
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Devenez incollable sur la notion d'interprétation avec lePetitPhilosophe.fr!
Cette fiche propose une analyse approfondie de la notion d'interprétation, avec une introduction générale, l'analyse des diverses approches philosophiques du concept et une synthèse de ce qu'il faut en retenir. La fiche est complétée par une liste de citations clés et une sélection des principaux sujets tombés au bac de philo ces dernières années en lien avec...
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Selten gestaltete sich ein Thema derart vielfältig, was die thematische Zugehörigkeit angeht, wie das der ›Seele‹. Die Frage, wie etwas erläutert werden kann, über dessen Existenz derart viele unterschiedliche Ansichten herrschen, schien mir anfangs zu heikel und ich war gewillt, mich anderen Projekten zu widmen … es kam anders.
Die Begründung des Vorhandenseins einer Seele, verfügt sowohl über religiöse als auch über volkstümliche,...
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Partez à la découverte de la philosophie islamique avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
Vers la fin du IIe siècle de l'hégire, le champ théorique est entièrement occupé par, notamment, une théologie o l'on débat de l'unité de Dieu, de ses attributs, du sens qu'il faut donner aux noms et aux descriptions qui en sont attestés par le Coran, de la liberté humaine ...
Un ouvrage spécialement conçu pour le numérique afin d'en savoir plus...
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Devenez incollable sur Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz avec lePetitPhilosophe.fr!
Cette fiche propose une analyse approfondie de la philosophie de Leibniz, avec sa biographie, le contexte philosophique dans lequel il s'inscrit, l'analyse détaillée de sa pensée et une synthèse de ce qu'il faut en retenir. La fiche est complétée par une liste de citations clés du philosophe.
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7135) Los chakras
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Este libro se propone, ante todo, proporcionar un apoyo práctico, una guía para conectar con nuestra propia longitud de onda y utilizar de la forma más correcta la corriente energética en la que la naturaleza nos ha sumergido, en perfecta sintonía con nosotros mismos, los demás seres y el cosmos.
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What does it mean to be a Muslim philosopher, or to philosophize in Islam? In Open to Reason, Souleymane Bachir Diagne traces Muslims' long intellectual and spiritual history of examining and questioning beliefs and arguments to show how Islamic philosophy has always engaged critically with texts and ideas both inside and outside its tradition. Through a rich reading of classical and modern Muslim philosophers, Diagne explains the long history of...
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"1920 - Dips Into The Near Future" is a 1917 work by English economist John Atkinson Hobson. It contains a number of satirical writings that predict what life and the world will be life in 1920, just three years after the first publication of this book. In these short satirical pieces, Hobson attempts to point out some of the hypocrisies of the 'Never-Endian' attitude which betrayed "every cause of liberty at home in a war of liberty" and claimed...
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Though close reading and substantive writing are essential skills for the educated person, they are frequently ignored in education. How to Write a Paragraph applies critical thinking tools to the process of writing to guide students towards developing clear, effective, and meaningful written communication.
As a companion to “How to Read a Paragraph”, this volume in the Thinker's Guide Library includes activities to sharpen writing skills and...
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The Bottom: a theopoetic of the streets explores homelessness; fusing theology, jazz-verse and intimate storytelling into a challenging, raw and beautiful tale. As he journeys 'downward' to build real relationships with sisters and brothers living on the streets, the author invites the reader on that mysterious journey to meet those pushed to the margins, where we discover harsh truths about social injustice and dehumanization. This novel in verse...
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The editors of WRITING IN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES provide a thoughtful, carefully constructed collection that addresses the vital roles rhetoric and writing play as knowledge-making practices in diverse knowledge-intensive settings. The essays in this book examine the multiple, subtle, yet consequential ways in which writing is epistemic, articulating the central role of writing in creating, shaping, sharing, and contesting knowledge in a range of human...
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