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...This book is perhaps the one that is most difficult to understand with just one reading, because it contains a concentration of all of A. Mercurio’s innovative thought. It is difficult to make a short synthesis of this book, so here we will simply mention some of the papers presented by the Author that the book contains. The book opens with an “Inv...

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...traveling from one universe to another Sophia University of Rome 2 Published by The SOLARIS INSTITUTE of The SOPHIA UNIV... ...me 2 Published by The SOLARIS INSTITUTE of The SOPHIA UNIVERSITY OF ROME. (S.U.R.) Creative Commons Licence - Attribution-NonCommercia... ...ese titles have been translated into English and placed in brackets { }. A list of all the authors books with a specification of those that already ... ...ble to say whether they are right or wrong but, as the title of my article states, I do have something new and impossible to propose, regarding matte... ...uture. - A work of art is not static, it is dynamic. It is in a continuous state of becoming something new and it contains the secret of an unstoppa... ...ability to create new transformative energy fields in whoever looks at it, listens to it, or lives it. Immortality is the impossible dream of every... ...ceiling. 18 How do we choose our subject? Often life itself will show us, with urgent necessity, which subject is most important, according to ... ...; sometimes there is a conflict with our parents or children that torments us; sometimes, instead, a neurosis or a psychosis or a psychosomatic illn... ...a new way of living art: art applied to life and not just to paintings and instruments. No longer are religion, art, philosophy and science separa...

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...Martin Luther goes through the seven sacraments of the medieval Catholic Church with his interpretation of the Bible. He teaches his opinions on the different pratices taken place within the Catholic Church and what they should or do represent. The book is seemingly set ...

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...“Rise up then, you popish flatterers, one and all! Get busy and defend yourselves against the charges of impiety, tyranny, and lèse-majesté against the gospel, and of the crime of slandering your brethren. You decry as heretics those who refuse to contravene such plain and powerful words of Scripture in order to acknowledge t...

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...ederick C. Ahrens and Abdel Ross Wentz INTRODUCTION The primary importance of this treatise for the present-day reader of Luther lies in its courage... ... for the present-day reader of Luther lies in its courageous interpretation of the sacraments. But it is important also for its place in Luther’s pro... ...ion in both kinds and other weighty subjects: here I must take pains lest I listen in vain to these “eminent teachers” 8 of mine. A certain Italian... ... friendly and an unfriendly spirit? A fine fellow, indeed, as you know! But listen to our distinguished distinguisher of “kinds,” 17 to whom the dec... ...rist is speaking of the Sacrament of the Altar, although he himself teaches us that he is speaking of faith in the incarnate Word, for he says: “This... ... passage itself and the sentences following plainly show, as I have already stated, 31 that Christ is speaking of faith in the incarnate Word. For h... ...tter: the Gospel narratives of the Lord’s Supper and Paul in I Cor. 11. Let us examine these. Matthew [26], Mark [14], and Luke [22] agree that Chri... ...ds, but about the contempt and envy between rich and poor. The text clearly states: “One is hungry and another is drunk, and you humiliate those who... ...may traffic in sins. Some have gone even farther and have constructed those instruments for driving souls to despair, their decrees that the peniten...

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...e ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...

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...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....

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... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ... his or her life, maintain, or prolong them at society's expense. Public hospitals, state pension schemes, and police forces may be required to ful... ...dance of pain, to property, etc.). Yet, this hierarchical arrangement does not help us to resolve cases in which there is a clash of EQUAL rights (... ...administration, the barely surviving radio station from the claws of the devouring state mechanism. It also has the right and obligation to interve... ...t persons" – in other words, persons who are holders of rights and can demand from us to respect these rights. Contracts explicitly elaborate some ... ...Reductio ad absurdum: if, in the far future, research will unequivocally prove that listening to a certain kind of music or entertaining certain tho... ...rnment. Politics corrupt and subvert Man's good and noble nature. Governments are instruments of self-enrichment and self-aggrandizement, and the ... ...s a serious study of the Jews and their role in history, past and present. Endless lists of prominent people of Jewish descent are produced in supp...

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...The following treatise on Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism has been prepared to supply a need much felt in the English language by students of Greek philosophy. For while other schools of Greek philosophy have been exhaustively and critically discussed by English scholars, there are few sources of information available to the student who wishes to make himself fa...

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...“Interest has revived in the works of Sextus Empiricus in recent times, especially, one may say, since the date of Herbart. There is much in the writings of Sextus that finds a parallel in the methods of modern philosophy. There is a common starting-point in t...

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...The Historical Relations Of Sextus Empiricus-Introductory paragraph.—The name of Sextus Empiricus. His profession.—The time when he lived.—The place of his birth.—The seat of the Sceptical School while Sextus was at its head.—The character of the wri...

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... SEXTUS EMPIRICUS AND GREEK SCEPTICISM A Thesis accepted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Bern Switzerland, November... ...ty of Bern Switzerland, November 1897 BY MARY MILLS PATRICK PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE, CONSTANTINOPLE TURKEY This Thesis is accomp... ... CHAPTER IV. AENESIDEMUS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF HERACLITUS 63 Statement of the problem.—The theory of Pappenheim.—The theory of Brocha... ...re fully the standpoint from which he regarded philosophical questions. Let us accordingly attempt to give some details of his life, including his pr... ...which they provide on the points mentioned is very slight. He does not give us biographical details in regard to himself, nor does he refer to his c... ...rks of Sextus, quotes from the Tabella de Sectis Medicorum of Lambecius the statement that Sextus was called Empiricus because of his position in med... ...ury B.C. [6] The Basilides referred to by Sextus may be one mentioned in a list of twenty Stoics, in a fragment of Diogenes Laertius, recently publ... ... direction of thought, is demonstrated by its formulated teachings, and the list given by Diogenes Laertius of its principal leaders, [1] and by ref... ...istributed in trees, and the breath in the flute and syrinx, and in similar instruments; for it is possible that the apple also has only one quality...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: ...

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...mplete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS... ...ienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Works of Aristotle, trans... ...Physiognomy A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Works of Aristotle, trans. Anon. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ... The Works of Aristotle, trans. Anon. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and withou... ...hild, yet, in manners, wit, and propension of the mind, experi- ence tells us, that children are commonly of the condition with their parents, and pos... ... plas- tic or formative principle, according to those rules and laws given us by the great Creator, who makes and fashions it, and therein determines ... ...e, it operates in every part, exercising every member which are the soul’s instruments, by which she discovers her power. But if it happen that any of... ...ty in all things; but a proud, imperi- ous harlot will do no more than she lists, in the sunshine of prosperity; and like a horse-leech, ever craving,... ...ibly, hinders the functions of the womb, and predisposes the whole body to listlessness. CAUSE One cause of this disease may be ascribed to want of ju...