Found 9,773 results for "Philosophy & Social Aspects"
by John Dewey
The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
by Max Weber
A glance at the occupational statistics for any country in which several religions coexist is revealing.
by Okakura Kakuzō, Okakura Kakuzō
Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.
by Mitch Albom
The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could w...
by Viktor E. Frankl
THIS BOOK DOES NOT CLAIM TO BE an account of facts and events but of personal experiences, experiences which millions of...
by Thomas Aquinas, Kennedy, Daniel Joseph, 1862-1930
THE FIRST POINT: 1. Prophecy is apparently not a form of knowledge, for we read of Elisha, when he was dead his body pro...
by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman
ACCORDING TO AN OLD STORY, a lord of ancient China once asked his physician, a member of a family of healers, which of t...
by Thomas More
UPON a time when tidings came to the City of Corinth that King Philip, father to Alexander surnamed the Great, was comin...
by Bible
Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.
by Ibn Khaldūn, عبد الرحمن ابن خلدون Abdel Rahman Ibn Khaldun
It should be known that history, in matter of fact, is informan about human social organization, which itself is identic...
by Émile Durkheim, Steven Lukes
The word function is used in two somewhat different ways.
by Arnold Hauser, S. Godman
If the purpose of historical research is the understanding of the present-and what else could it be?
by Karl Popper
A scientist, whether theorist or experimenter, puts forward statements, or systems of statements, and tests them step by...
by Erich Fromm
Modern European and American history is centered around the effort to gain freedom from the political, economic, and spi...
by Honoré de Balzac
IN certain provincial towns there are houses whose appearance arouses a melancholy as great as that of the gloomiest clo...
by Susan Sontag
Humankind lingers unregenerately in Plato's cave, still reveling, its age-old habit, in mere images of the truth.