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Skepticism in the modern age building on the work of Richard Popkin /

Table of Contents: “…Absolutism and despotism in Samuel Sorbière : notes on skepticism and politics / Lorenzo Bianchi -- Montaigne's and Bayle's variations : the philosophical form of skepticism in politics / Renato Lessa -- Part four: Sources of Cartesian doubt. …”
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The metaphysical vision Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy of art and life and Samuel Beckett's own way to make use of it / by Pothast, Ulrich

Table of Contents: “…Metaphysical vision -- Schopenhauer out of fashion : Beckett his student -- Intentions and limits -- Metaphysics of art and life -- On Schopenhauer's aesthetics and world view -- Premises from Schopenhauer's theory of knowledge and metaphysics -- Dissolution of self and creation of art -- The truly metaphysical activity of this life -- Idea and sensory perception -- Symbols trivial -- Realism vulgar -- Every thing beautiful -- Genius objective -- Bliss, not just pleasure -- Will-less, not just disinterested -- Music -- Tragedy and the vanity of life -- Denial of the will-to-live -- Affirmation of the will-to-live -- Happiness negative -- Suffering productive -- The metaphysical drama -- Timeless present, no ending - Life pensum, suicide no escape -- The primacy of nothingness -- Beckett's philosophical view of art and life in Proust -- True reality and caricature of reality -- Idea versus concept -- Causality, time, will -- Habit -- Two kinds of memory -- Vulgarity -- Death of habit: waking madness -- Purity, impurity -- The necessity of art -- Schopenhauer made use of -- Schopenhauer altered -- The proustian equation, the proustian solution -- Affirmation of the will, voluntarily tantalus -- Desert of loneliness, no morality -- Existence of the artist -- On some details in Beckett's literary work -- Murphy -- I am not of the big world, I am of the little world -- Vision -- Will-lessness, yearning for nothing -- Moran -- Remnants of a pensum -- A work which will subsist -- Finality without end -- Images of that kind the will cannot revive -- Dispossessed of self -- The unnamable -- What if we were one and the same after all -- There is no pronoun for me -- I have a pensum to discharge -- I'm all these words -- I am doing my best and failing : new thoughts about art and the artist -- Gogo and Didi, Hamm and Clov -- In a cage out of time and space -- In a single night -- You pollute the air -- Is it not time for my pain-killer? …”
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The Enduring Legacy : Structured Inequality in America's Public Schools / by Ryan, Mark, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…A struggle between forces -- An ambiguous philosophical root -- Growing democratic values -- The evolution from common school to public school -- American exceptionalism -- What is the profession of a woman? …”
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Congress volume Leiden, 2004 /

Table of Contents: “…Severino Croatto -- Lire la Bible dans le contexte africain : approche et perspectives / André Kabasele Mukenge -- The cross-textual method and the J stories in Genesis in light of a Chinese philosophical text / Craig Y.S. Ho -- Responses to Kabasele Mukenge and Craig Y.S. …”
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The Enduring Legacy : Structured Inequality in America's Public Schools / by Ryan, Mark, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…A struggle between forces -- An ambiguous philosophical root -- Growing democratic values -- The evolution from common school to public school -- American exceptionalism -- What is the profession of a woman? …”
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Progress in the humanities? comparing the objects of culture and science / by Gay, Volney P. (Volney Patrick), 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Rhine -- Cargo cults and the ethics of science -- Thomas MacAulay and English destiny: history as grand narrative -- Searching for essences: Freud and Wittgenstein -- Seeing into the psyche: Freud's diagrams -- Wittgenstein and sharp focusing -- Magnifying truths in philosophical investigations -- The magnification fantasy and ideological leanings -- Cultural artifacts and reductionism -- Learning about the self: new horizons -- Seeing with the brain -- Learning from the market: reason as an interpersonal process -- High art and the power to guess the unseen from the seen -- Does high art convey knowledge? …”
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Progress in the humanities? comparing the objects of culture and science / by Gay, Volney P. (Volney Patrick), 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Rhine -- Cargo cults and the ethics of science -- Thomas MacAulay and English destiny: history as grand narrative -- Searching for essences: Freud and Wittgenstein -- Seeing into the psyche: Freud's diagrams -- Wittgenstein and sharp focusing -- Magnifying truths in philosophical investigations -- The magnification fantasy and ideological leanings -- Cultural artifacts and reductionism -- Learning about the self: new horizons -- Seeing with the brain -- Learning from the market: reason as an interpersonal process -- High art and the power to guess the unseen from the seen -- Does high art convey knowledge? …”
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The moral dimension of asymmetrical warfare counter-terrorism, democratic values and military ethics /

Table of Contents: “…Ethics in the core of officer education : some philosophical aspects for curriculum transformation / Jarmo Toiskallio -- Why people make the wrong choices : the psychology of ethical failure / J. …”
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The moral dimension of asymmetrical warfare counter-terrorism, democratic values and military ethics /

Table of Contents: “…Ethics in the core of officer education : some philosophical aspects for curriculum transformation / Jarmo Toiskallio -- Why people make the wrong choices : the psychology of ethical failure / J. …”
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The management of insects in recreation and tourism

Table of Contents: “…Minding insects: scale, value, world / Adam Dodd; 3. The philosophical and psychological dimensions of insects: tourism, horror and the negative sublime / Jeff Lockwood; 4. …”
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The management of insects in recreation and tourism

Table of Contents: “…Minding insects: scale, value, world / Adam Dodd; 3. The philosophical and psychological dimensions of insects: tourism, horror and the negative sublime / Jeff Lockwood; 4. …”
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Science as autobiography the troubled life of Niels Jerne / by Söderqvist, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…"Immunology Is for Me Becoming a Mostly Philosophical Subject" 278 --Epilogue: "What Struggle to Escape" 292 --Abbreviations Used in Notes 297 --Notes 299 --Unpublished Sources 329 --Bibliography 331 --Index 351.…”
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Christian humanism essays in honour of Arjo Vanderjagt /

Table of Contents: “…Colish -- Montaigne and Christian humanism / Peter Mack -- Humanism and religion in the works of Spinoza / Fokke Akkerman -- Erasmus of Rotterdam and late medieval theologians on the doctrine of grace / Christoph Burger -- The philosophia Christi, its echoes and its repercussions on virtue and nobility / Han van Ruler -- Modern humanism as philosophical autobiography : pretending and understanding selfhood in Descartes and Fichte / Detlev Pätzold --…”
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Christian humanism essays in honour of Arjo Vanderjagt /

Table of Contents: “…Colish -- Montaigne and Christian humanism / Peter Mack -- Humanism and religion in the works of Spinoza / Fokke Akkerman -- Erasmus of Rotterdam and late medieval theologians on the doctrine of grace / Christoph Burger -- The philosophia Christi, its echoes and its repercussions on virtue and nobility / Han van Ruler -- Modern humanism as philosophical autobiography : pretending and understanding selfhood in Descartes and Fichte / Detlev Pätzold --…”
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Science as autobiography the troubled life of Niels Jerne / by Söderqvist, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…"Immunology Is for Me Becoming a Mostly Philosophical Subject" 278 --Epilogue: "What Struggle to Escape" 292 --Abbreviations Used in Notes 297 --Notes 299 --Unpublished Sources 329 --Bibliography 331 --Index 351.…”
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The Bront�es in context

Table of Contents: “…Religion / David Jasper; 27. The philosophical-intellectual context / Stephen Prickett; 28. …”
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The Bront�es in context

Table of Contents: “…Religion / David Jasper; 27. The philosophical-intellectual context / Stephen Prickett; 28. …”
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The art of preaching / by Allen, Arthur

The art of preaching / by Allen, Arthur

Hindu philosophy/ by Bernard, Theos