Free Will Determinism category: 515 books

Dans les Œuvres philosophiques de Cicéron, Lélius et Caton, sont des personnages qui évoluent à travers des textes où se dégagent des réflexions sur l'être humain et sa place dans la société. On peut noter que dans Lélius, sur l'amitié, Cicéron remet en question les relations entre l’être...

Observations on the unraveling of a young woman’s dreams. A too common decision to ameliorate loneliness results in a forced change of direction and precipitates a young woman abandoning her dreams. Adult decisions have consequences.

A story about restless teenager in the heights of New York who gives up his life due to struggling from depression. As the time goes by and he’s nothing but a soul, he’s given the option to be reborn, stay a soul or see how his life plays out in a parallel universe with full awareness. Enter and see what he chooses.

Pseudo-philosophical chatter concerning prison escapes.

Fusing street scenes (from Budapest to New York City) with family history (African American and Jewish), Sean Thomas Dougherty uses both traditional and experimental forms to explore issues of identity and family. Deeply rooted in music and performance, Dougherty’s poetry resists easy categorization,...

A dialogue of Plato in which Socrates discusses temperance and self-control.

The Enchiridion of Epictetus is a short manual of Stoic ethical advice compiled by Arrian, a 2nd-century disciple of the Greek philosopher Epictetus. Common English translations of the title are Manual or Handbook.

Guilt is an original, closely argued examination of the opposition between guilty man and tragic man. Starting from the scientific and speculative writings of Freud and the major pioneers of psychoanalysis to whom we owe the first studies of this complex question, Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca goes on...

Shakespeare's Villains is a close reading of Shakespeare's plays to investigate the nature of evil. Charney closely considers the way that dramatic characters are developed in terms of language, imagery, and nonverbal stage effects. With chapters on Iago, Tarquin, Aaron, Richard Duke of Glaucester,...

To explain a concept that is broad and to put it forth in minimal words is called a quote. The quote had two main qualities: clarity and concise. In ancient times, this type of writing was very popular. Chanakya also used this type of writing. The basis of these quotes is educating the people. In...

Arthur Schopenhauer may be distinctively described as the greatest philosophic writer of his century. So evident is this that he has sometimes been regarded as having more importance in literature than in philosophy; but this is an error. As a metaphysician he is second to no one since Kant. Others...

The nineteenth century was a time of extraordinary attunement to the unspoken, the elusively present, and the subtly haunting. Quiet Testimony finds in such attunement a valuable rethinking of what it means to encounter the truth. It argues that four key writers—Emerson, Douglass, Melville, and...

Baruch de Spinoza was born into the Jewish community of Amsterdam on November 24, 1632. His parents were Jews who had fled, along with many others, from the vicious intolerance of the Inquisition to the limited and hesitant freedom of Holland. At the time Spinoza was born, the Jewish refugees had...