Download or read book Della ragione de gli stati libri 12 di Gabriele Zinano signor di Bellai doue si tratta di tutte le spetie e forze de gli artificij intorno a tutti gli affari de gli stati Con due trattati vno del segretario l altro del consigliere E tre tauole argomenti capitoli e cose pi notabili written by Gabriele Zinani and published by . This book was released on 1626 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Veil of Isis written by Pierre Hadot and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words "Phusis kruptesthai philei." How the aphorism, usually translated as "Nature loves to hide," has haunted Western culture ever since is the subject of this engaging study by Pierre Hadot. Taking the allegorical figure of the veiled goddess Isis as a guide, and drawing on the work of both the ancients and later thinkers such as Goethe, Rilke, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger, Hadot traces successive interpretations of Heraclitus' words. Over time, Hadot finds, "Nature loves to hide" has meant that all that lives tends to die; that Nature wraps herself in myths; and (for Heidegger) that Being unveils as it veils itself. Meanwhile the pronouncement has been used to explain everything from the opacity of the natural world to our modern angst. From these kaleidoscopic exegeses and usages emerge two contradictory approaches to nature: the Promethean, or experimental-questing, approach, which embraces technology as a means of tearing the veil from Nature and revealing her secrets; and the Orphic, or contemplative-poetic, approach, according to which such a denuding of Nature is a grave trespass. In place of these two attitudes Hadot proposes one suggested by the Romantic vision of Rousseau, Goethe, and Schelling, who saw in the veiled Isis an allegorical expression of the sublime. "Nature is art and art is nature," Hadot writes, inviting us to embrace Isis and all she represents: art makes us intensely aware of how completely we ourselves are not merely surrounded by nature but also part of nature.
Download or read book The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon Including All His Occasional Works written by Francis Bacon and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Whole Works written by Jeremy Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Edge of Truth and Honesty Principles and Strategies of Fraud and Deceit in the Early Modern Period written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early modern period, deceit and fraud were common issues. Acutely aware of the ubiquity and multiplicity of simulation and dissimulation, people from this period made serious efforts to gain a better understanding of the phenomenon, trying to distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable, pleasant and unpleasant, wicked and virtuous forms of deceit, and seeking to unravel its principles, strategies, and functions. The twelve case-studies in this volume focus on the use of deceit by several groups of people in different spheres of life, as well as on its representation in literary and artistic genres, and its conceptualization in philosophical and rhetorical discourses. The studies testify to the rich variety of deceitful strategies applied by people from the early modern period, as well as to the subtlety and diversity of the conceptual frameworks they construed in order to grasp the many aspects of the elusive yet all-pervasive phenomenon of deceit. Contributors include: Daniel Acke, Jacques Bos, Wiep van Bunge, Evelien Chayes, Paul J.C.M. Franssen, Paul van Heck, Toon van Houdt, Alfons K.L. Thijs, Bert Timmermans, Johannes Trapman, Mark van Vaeck, Natascha Veldhorst, and Johan Verberckmoes.
Download or read book The Torment of Secrecy written by Edward Shils and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 1996-02-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Shils's The Torment of Secrecy is one of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of anticommunism and McCarthyism in the United States. Mr. Shils's "torment" is not only that of the individual caught up in loyalty and security procedures; it is also the torment of the accuser and judge. This essay in sociological analysis and political philosophy considers the cold war preoccupation with espionage, sabotage, and subversion at home, assessing the magnitude of such threats and contrasting it to the agitation—by lawmakers, investigators, and administrators—so wildly directed against the "enemy." Mr. Shils's examination of a recurring American characteristic is as timely as ever. "Brief...lucid... brilliant."—American Political Science Review. "A fine, sophisticated analysis of American social metabolism."—New Republic. "An excitingly lucid and intelligent work on a subject of staggering importance...the social preconditions of political democracy."—Social Forces.
Download or read book Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in Early Modern German Culture written by Randolph Conrad Head and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interdisciplinary essays on early modern Germany that address orthodoxy and its challenges in religion, politics, and the arts. Confronting the transformation of normative canons after the Reformation, the essays investigate authority and knowledge in an era of shifting cultural foundations.
Download or read book Expositions and Notes on Sundry Portions of the Holy Scriptures written by William Tyndale and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nazarenus written by John Toland and published by . This book was released on 1718 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essay on Political Tactics written by Jeremy Bentham and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Auricular Confession and Indulgences in the Latin Church written by Henry Charles Lea and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Seal of Confession written by Bertrand Kurtscheid and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lying and Deception in Everyday Life written by Michael Lewis and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1993-02-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare...."-- Montaigne "All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.'" -- Tennessee Williams Truth and deception--like good and evil--have long been viewed as diametrically opposed and unreconcilable. Yet, few people can honestly claim they never lie. In fact, deception is practiced habitually in day-to-day life--from the polite compliment that doesn't accurately relay one's true feelings, to self-deception about one's own motivations. What fuels the need for people to intricately construct lies and illusions about their own lives? If deceptions are unconscious, does it mean that we are not responsible for their consequences? Why does self-deception or the need for illusion make us feel uncomfortable? Taking into account the sheer ubiquity and ordinariness of deception, this interdisciplinary work moves away from the cut-and-dried notion of duplicity as evil and illuminates the ways in which deception can also be understood as a adaptive response to the demands of living with others. The book articulates the boundaries between unethical and adaptive deception demonstrating how some lies serve socially approved goals, while others provoke distrust and condemnation. Throughout, the volume focuses on the range of emotions--from feelings of shame, fear, or envy, to those of concern and compassion--that motivate our desire to deceive ourselves and others. Providing an interdisciplinary exploration of the widespread phenomenon of lying and deception, this volume promotes a more fully integrated understanding of how people function in their everyday lives. Case illustrations, humor and wit, concrete examples, and even a mock television sitcom script bring the ideas to life for clinical practitioners, behavioral scientists, and philosophers, and for students in these realms.
Download or read book The English Works written by Tucidides and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zodiacus Vitae written by Marcello Palingènio Stellato and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publié en 1531 à Venise, ce livre latin est un poème allégorique associant chaque signe du zodiaque à une étape de la vie humaine. L'auteur, un humaniste italien du XVIe siècle, explore le thème de la destinée et de la providence, ainsi que les valeurs et les vertus qui conduisent à une vie équilibrée et harmonieuse. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Cross readings written by Louis Marin and published by Humanities Press International. This book was released on 1998 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cross-Readings is a wide-ranging series of readings of texts, from classical works (Herodotus, Cicero, Ovid) to early Christian texts (Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint Augustine), to children's literature (Perrault, Robinson Crusoe, Jules Verne, La Fontaine), to the classics of French literature and thought (Descartes, Corneille, Pascal, Rousseau, Balzac, Stendhal). It enters into dialogue with such diverse works as Sir Thomas More's Utopia, Louis II of Bavaria's personal journals, and theoretical writings by Roman Jakobson, Emile Benveniste, and Ernst Bloch. A challenging text designed for serious students and scholars of theory, Cross-Readings also shines with the rich imagery of literature and the minute detail of everyday life.
