Download or read book Elegant Anecdotes and Bons mots written by John Adams and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anecdotes Bons mots and Characteristic Traits of the Greatest Princes Politicians Philosophers Orators and Wits of Modern Times written by John Adams and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Responses to Hume s Life and Reputation Part 2 written by James Fieser and published by James Fieser. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the last in the 10-volume series "Early Responses to Hume", which is an edited and annotated collection of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century critical reactions to Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) . Both a philosopher and historian, he was infamous in his day for his skeptical views on human nature, knowledge, metaphysics, and religion.
Download or read book A Bibliography of Hume s Writings and Early Responses written by James Fieser and published by James Fieser. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a supplement to the 10-volume series "Early Responses to Hume", which is an edited and annotated collection of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century critical reactions to Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) . Both a philosopher and historian, he was infamous in his day for his skeptical views on human nature, knowledge, metaphysics, and religion.
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Download or read book Closing of the American Mind written by Allan Bloom and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom’s argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today.
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