Philosophers category: 1861 books

Jean-Paul Sartre  (* 21. Juni 1905  in Paris; † 15. April 1980  ebenda; vollständiger Name Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre) war ein französischer Romancier, Dramatiker, Philosoph  und Publizist. Er gilt als Vordenker und Hauptvertreter des Existentialismus und als der...

History of Anarchism -  I   "Common to all Anarchists is the desire to free society of all political and social coercive institutions which stand in the way of the development of a free humanity." The word "anarchy" is from the Greek, prefix...

Heinz Duthel about Martin Heidegger Philosophical series by Heinz Duthel   "Si nous voulons aller seulement contre la pensée d'un penseur, il faut que par cette volonté nous ayons déjà rapetissé ce qu'il y a de grand en elle." "Avec...

Methods to approximate the area of a given circle with a square were known already to Babylonian mathematicians. The Rhind papyrus in 1800BC gives the area of a circle as 64 / 81d2, where d is the diameter of the circle. Indian mathematicians also found an approximate method, though less accurate,...

Silly fools tell you that you are sinners, and you sit down in a corner and weep. It is foolishness, wickedness, downright rascality to say that you are sinners! You are all God. See you not God and call Him man? Therefore, if you dare, stand on that - mould your whole life on...

"Common to all Anarchists is the desire to free society of all political and social coercive institutions which stand in the way of the development of a free humanity." The word "anarchy" is from the Greek, prefix an (or a), meaning "not," "the want of,"...

Gershom Scholem (1897–1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today’s intellectual imagination, having influential contact with an extraordinary cast of thinkers, including Hans Jonas, Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Theodor Adorno....

G. K. Chesterton's biographical essays provide unique portraits of 12 of Europe's most defining figures. Written by one of the world's master essayists, this collection richly expresses Chesterton's thoughts on Charlotte Brontë, William Morris, Byron, Pope, St. Francis of Assisi, Rostand, Charles...

Ludwig Wittgenstein is generally considered as the greatest philosopher since Immanuel Kant, and his personal life, work, and his historical moment intertwined in a fascinating, complex web. Noted scholar Edward Kanterian explores these intersections in Ludwig Wittgenstein, the newest title in the...

Philosophes qui ont eu le privilège de donner deux adjectifs de notre langue française, les philosophes cyniques et sceptiques sont pourtant méconnus, et leur vision du monde souvent dénaturée. Philosophes de l’Antiquité grecque et romaine, ils cultivent l’art de la provocation et du doute...

Présentation de l'éditeur Pour votre plus grand plaisir vous trouverez dans cette ouvrage une biographie ainsi qu'une bibliographie detaille de l'auteur ceci est un recueil de trois nouvelles  Dans «Le Lapidaire», un vieil homme possède la plus merveilleuse...

Spinoza was a radical Enlightenment philosopher whose ideas still retain the ability to inform, shock and guide. His first biography was written by Jean Lucas shortly after his death. This updated version is written for twenty-first century readers and is published exclusively in e-book form.

“Remarkable, engaging.… Be Like the Fox can be read with pleasure by anyone interested in the craft of politics and the life of ideas.”—New York Times Book Review In the five hundred years since he wrote The Prince, Machiavelli’s name has been linked to tyranny and the doctrine that...

The key to intelligence is the willingness to question things. It is particularly important to be willing to question the things that most other people assume to be correct, even when they haven't made the slightest effort to think about the principles involved. Wosdom Teeth, like the other...