Philosophers category: 1861 books

Living legend Smiraglia has written the first book devoted exclusively to exploring the concept that is commonly referred to as a bibliographic "Work." In bringing together material from both inside and outside the discipline of information studies, he traces the continuing development of...

A provocative biography of Edmund Burke, the underappreciated founder of modern conservatism Edmund Burke is both the greatest and the most underrated political thinker of the past three hundred years. A brilliant 18th-century Irish philosopher and statesman, Burke was a fierce champion of...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's...

The Personal Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant is an autobiography by Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, focused mainly on his military career during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War, and completed as he was dying of cancer in 1885. The two-volume...

This is a memoir of Donna Kakonge's sometimes difficult life spent in Montreal and her move to the place she grew up in, Toronto.

Extrait : "Leibniz, dit-on, ne faisait cas de la science que parce qu'elle lui donnait le droit d'être écoutée quand il parlait de philosophie et de religion. L'idée certes est généreuse et digne de son grand esprit, mais si tous ceux qui abordent ces hautes questions devaient commencer par être...

At my old age, I adore fairy tales. Through all my life I’ve been fascinated with them. Good lessons of life with happy endings. Nearly all fairy tales have a moral in them. Build for the future (3 little pigs), appearance doesn’t matter (Beauty & the Beast), Lying will bring you lots of troubles...

A new biography of Karl Marx, tracing the life of this titanic figure and the legacy of his work Karl Marx remains the most influential and controversial political thinker in history. He died quietly in 1883 and a mere eleven mourners attended his funeral, but a year later he was being hailed...

The best age for me is 30 years. You are mature enough to understand both young and old people. Not too young to capture teens attention, and not too old, to be called a pervert. It's so unpleasant to receive advise from someone else, maybe if it's from self, it will be accepted. A The...

Extrait :  De la nature de la morale. Elle fait partie de la politique. — Il faut étudier la vertu surtout à un point de vue  pratique, afin de la connaître et de l’acquérir. — Travaux antérieurs : Pythagore, Socrate, Platon ; défauts de leurs...

Le complexe existence-engagement est incontournable dans le processus d’humanisation de toute société puisque « l’accès au sens de l’existence exige de l’individu en général et du philosophe en particulier un engagement »[1]. C’est avec l’engagement que l’on peut évoquer la...

Ram Singh was a religious leader and a good preceptor. He preached purity of body and purity of mind. He himself practiced both. He opposed lavish spending at marriages and taught people to help the poor. When the British began to strengthen their Empire by sowing the seeds of quarrel among the people...

This Plunkett Lake Press eBook is produced by arrangement with Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Hailed as a parable for modern times, Erasmus of Rotterdam is the biography of a great humanist who, when pressed for a confession of faith,...

A dual biography of the two most influential socio-political moralists of the twentieth century, whose lives were intertwined personally and intellectually for more than forty-six years. Madsen provides an engrossing view of the luminously transparent relationship that was unconventional yet faithful to its ideals.