Author: Samuel Griswold Goodrich
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Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 930

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Author: Samuel G 1793-1860 Goodrich
Publisher: Arkose Press
ISBN: 9781343654440
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 924

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ISBN: 9780371690833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 934

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Author: University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Woman's College. Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18

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Author: North Carolina College for Women. Library
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 542

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Author: Charles P. Everitt
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Category : Americana
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Author: James Hammond Trumbull
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Category : Hartford County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 726

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Author: Wilimena Hannah Eliot Emerson
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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Author: Novalis
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791480704
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Novalis is best known in history as the poet of early German Romanticism. However, this translation of Das Allgemeine Brouillon, or "Universal Notebook," finally introduces him to the English-speaking world as an extraordinarily gifted philosopher in his own right and shatters the myth of him as a mere daydreaming and irrational poet. Composed of more than 1,100 notebook entries, this is easily Novalis's largest theoretical work and certainly one of the most remarkable and audacious undertakings of the "Golden Age" of German philosophy. In it, Novalis reflects on numerous aspects of human culture, including philosophy, poetry, the natural sciences, the fine arts, mathematics, mineralogy, history, and religion, and brings them all together into what he calls a "Romantic Encyclopaedia" or "Scientific Bible." Novalis's Romantic Encyclopaedia fully embodies the author's own personal brand of philosophy, "Magical Idealism." With meditations on mankind and nature, the possible future development of our faculties of reason, imagination, and the senses, and the unification of the different sciences, these notes contain a veritable treasure trove of richly poetic and philosophic thoughts.

Author: James Miller
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429957166
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 We all want to know how to live. But before the good life was reduced to ten easy steps or a prescription from the doctor, philosophers offered arresting answers to the most fundamental questions about who we are and what makes for a life worth living. In Examined Lives, James Miller returns to this vibrant tradition with short, lively biographies of twelve famous philosophers. Socrates spent his life examining himself and the assumptions of others. His most famous student, Plato, risked his reputation to tutor a tyrant. Diogenes carried a bright lamp in broad daylight and announced he was "looking for a man." Aristotle's alliance with Alexander the Great presaged Seneca's complex role in the court of the Roman Emperor Nero. Augustine discovered God within himself. Montaigne and Descartes struggled to explore their deepest convictions in eras of murderous religious warfare. Rousseau aspired to a life of perfect virtue. Kant elaborated a new ideal of autonomy. Emerson successfully preached a gospel of self-reliance for the new American nation. And Nietzsche tried "to compose into one and bring together what is fragment and riddle and dreadful chance in man," before he lapsed into catatonic madness. With a flair for paradox and rich anecdote, Examined Lives is a book that confirms the continuing relevance of philosophy today—and explores the most urgent questions about what it means to live a good life.