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...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ... the will is there it can be done. The alternative is too horrible to contemplate. Art (as Private Language) The psychophysical problem is long sta... ... himself against past artists). They could be few or many, but they must exist for art, in its fullest sense, to exist. Modern theories of art spea... ... and only he can decide how far is his representation from his original experience. Art criticism is impossible. Granted, his reference group (his a... ...roquois confederacies of Indians in North America, the Cree in Canada, the Witoto, natives of Colombia and Peru, the Carib in the Lesser Antilles (... ...rom Popayan, Colombia, the denizens of the Marquesas Islands of Polynesia, and the natives of the captaincy of Sergipe in Brazil. From Congo and Ce... ...ory kin (that belong to the same matriline or patriline). In certain societies (the Native American or the Chinese) it is sufficient to carry the sa...
...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....
...- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American continent -- Killing of Thorwald by natives -- His last instru... ...ite man that ever set foot on the American continent -- Killing of Thorwald by natives -- His last instructions while dying -- Finding of a skeleton i... ... Caught by a terrible storm and driven upon a strange shore -- Attacked by the natives -- A bold rover of the north -- A cruise among Atlantic islands... ...diles with serpents -- Descriptions which he gives of the creatures -- How the natives capture them -- The Tartar robbers -- Means they employ to prev... ...- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville in the war for American independence 415- 422 CHAPTER XL. A Brief Biography of Captain... ..................................................... 54 Thorfinn's voyage to the American shores................................. 55 Killing of the firs... ...complished navigator, was spared in order that the savages might be taught the art of fishing, in which he made himself so valuable to them that he, s... ...d that might ensue, to secure their expulsion from the country. With admirable art the Portuguese played their part, enquiring with apparent innocence... ...ship roared "Thinkest thou, wretch, I ever had companionship with such as thou art. The Henry Morgan thou knewest is dead. Sir Henry the judge, alone ...
... In a way, economics has an affinity with some private languages. It is a form of art and, as such, it is self- sufficient and self-contained. If c... ...uch as the recently established African Trade Insurance Agency or the more veteran American OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation), the Bri... ...d a refund of all war and terrorist liabilities above $100 million per airline. The Americans later extended the coverage until mid-May. The Europea... ...daries between insurance and capital is most evident in Alternative Risk Transfer (ART) financing. It is a hybrid between creative financial engine... ...nufacturers to insurance agents - are willing to retain more risk than ever before. ART constitutes less than one tenth the global insurance market ... ...nnovation generates the very tools that facilitate further innovation. The eminent American economist Robert Merton - quoted in Sigma 3/2001 - desc... ...d these, to do their job, frequently haul entire workforces across continents. The natives rarely benefit and when they do find employment it is sh... ...be an ingenious ploy to solve Western unemployment at the expense of down-trodden natives. This is a misperception driven by envy and avarice. But...
...daily life‖ before the printed book and fully deserved to be labeled the ―art preservative of all arts.‖ For millennia, memory presided over comm... ... lyric poet Simonides of Ceos, credited with having invented the mnemonic art in the sixth century BC. Simonides formalized his memory system and ... ...he studies of grammar, rhetoric, and logic. Then the quadrivium’s Real Art—―the four ways‖— moved on to the studies of: arithmetic—math applie... ... more likely stemmed from his encounters with sailors who had touched the American continent. In his revealing COD: A Biography of the Fish that ... ...fisherman kept secret their profitable catches of cod on regular trips to American waters. Mongols fostered exchange of ideas and inventions The ... ...they first raided southern Britain in 54 and 55 BC, but most of the island natives spoke the Celtic tongue. Crossing over from central Europe to Brit... ... fertile fields and park-like pastures—had begun to darken.‖ Barbarian natives from the north periodically ruptured such defenses as the seventy- ... ...its strength in a righteous fight. By Anonymous, from MacKellar’s “The American Printer” 1887 1... ...ton quickly mastered the trade. Fluent in French and Latin as well as his native English while still in his early twenties, he moved across the chan...