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Lysis
Lysis is a philosophy work by Πλάτων. Its subjects include Friendship, Early works to 1800, Plato.
Symbolic Logic
Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll explores symbolic and mathematical logic.
Menexenus
Menexenus is a philosophy work by Πλάτων.
Lesser Hippias
Lesser Hippias by Plato explores literatura, formas y gn eros literarios, literature.
Advice to young men and boys A series of addresses delivered by B. B. Comegys to the pupils of Girard College
Advice to young men and boys A series of addresses delivered by B. B. Comegys to the pupils of Girard College by Comegys, Benjamin Bartis explores girard college, philadelphia. [from old catalog], conduct of life.
The Problems of Philosophy
The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell explores knowledge, theory of, metaphysics, philosophy — introductions.
Acres of Diamonds: Our Every-day Opportunities
Acres of Diamonds: Our Every-day Opportunities by Russell H. Conwell explores success, temple university, conwell, russell h., 1843-1925.
Aristotle in Africa: Ethics and the African Philosophical Tradition
How best to bring the genius of African traditional philosophy into dialogue with the European and global traditions of thought? The philosophy of Aristotle – ‘baptised’ by medieval Christian philosopher Thomas Aquinas – has been formative in premodern European thought. Now this frame of thinking,…
How Universities Mirror Society: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Academic Research, Education and our Conception of the Human Being
What will happen to the university when knowledge is no longer scarce, but ubiquitously available and even produced by machines? In The University as a Mirror of Society, Paul van Geest, Emile Aarts, and Ronald de Jong show how artificial intelligence reaches into the very heart of academia, thus…
The Advancement of Learning
Francis Bacon surveys the divisions of human knowledge and the obstacles to its growth. He considers learning, inquiry and the methods through which people might extend their understanding.
Reckoning with Everything
Essays examine calculation and computing as activities embedded in material environments. Case studies follow the collection, storage and movement of data and consider how computational systems shape the conditions in which they operate.
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
Arnold Bennett examines how people use the hours around a working day. Short chapters consider attention, habits, reading, deliberate study and the practical difficulties involved in making time for interests beyond ordinary duties.
Self-Awareness in Tibetan Buddhism: The Philosophical Relevance of Rang rig and Its Contribution to the Contemporary Debates on the Nature of Consciousness
A study of self-awareness in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. The book examines interpretations of the mind’s capacity to know itself and connects those debates with contemporary questions in the philosophy of mind.
The Ethics of the Dust
John Ruskin presents conversations with a group of schoolgirls about minerals, crystals and the qualities he associates with their formation. The dialogues connect observation of natural structures with questions about learning, conduct and the work of everyday life.
The Space of Technicity: Theorising Social, Technical and Environmental Entanglements
Essays on relations between society, technology and the environment. The contributors use problems crossing disciplinary boundaries to investigate how technical practices and social arrangements develop together.
A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
John Stuart Mill examines the processes through which arguments are formed and conclusions reached. The work develops accounts of deduction, induction, causation and experimental inquiry, connecting general principles with examples from the sciences and ordinary reasoning.
A Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume investigates understanding, the passions and morals across three connected books. His discussions consider ideas, belief, causation, emotion, action and judgment as parts of an extended account of human nature.
The Memorabilia
Xenophon presents recollections of Socrates through conversations and accounts of his conduct. The work considers friendship, education, practical judgment and the responsibilities of daily life, in H. G. Dakyns’s English translation.