------------------------------------------------- Humour From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia "Hilarity" and "Hilarious" redirect here. For the U.S. Navy ship‚ see USS Hilarity (AM-241). For the stand-up special by Louis C.K.‚ see Hilarious (album). For other uses‚ seeHumour (disambiguation). Smiling can imply a sense of humour and a state of amusement‚ as in this painting ofFalstaff by Eduard von Grützner. Humour or humor (see spelling differences) is the tendency of particular cognitive
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© Roger Cardinal‚ 2004 Giorgio de Chirico and surrealist mythology Roger Cardinal What is most modern in our time frequently turns out to be the most archaic. Guy Davenport It has long been a sore point in the history of surrealism that the poets of the early Paris group should have heaped praise on Giorgio de Chirico as the inventor of a revolutionary approach to painting‚ only to revile him as a traitor to their cause just a few years later. The deep disappointment caused by the artist’s
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Happiness This page intentionally left blank Happiness the science behind your smile Daniel Nettle 1 3 Great Clarendon Street‚ Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research‚ scholarship‚ and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto
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Love’s ladder’s God It was their final conversation. She would soon die‚ although neither of them knew it at the time. St. Augustine and his mother waited for a ship that would take her across the sea‚ to Africa‚ where she had raised him. She had always prayed he would become a Catholic; now‚ after many years‚ he was one. “There we talked together‚” he writes in his Confessions‚ “she and I alone in deep joy.” This common joy stemmed from their shared company‚ but also their shared belief in God:
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Among all man-caused violent conflicts‚ atrocities and catastrophes‚ the two World Wars were the most disastrous and painful events human history had to suffer. In terms of casualties‚ World War II was more harmful‚ as it is estimated to have caused 50 to 80 million deaths. However‚ the Second World War is also more well-known because of one prominent and charismatic leader – Adolf Hitler – and the Holocaust‚ the biggest genocide in human history‚ which was the systematic extermination of many Jews
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The Mind Locke The notion of personhood was introduced by Locke. For him the stream/continuity of consciousness defines a person. In other words the memory‚ since being conscious of something implies remembering it. When someone is drunk and is not co Locke diverted from the traditional understanding of the self. In dualism it is the soul‚ which is conscious of what he is doing‚ then he will not remember the event. Thus whilst being unconscious of something‚ one is not a person. constant and
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Beyond Good and Evil By Friedrich Nietzsche Download free eBooks of classic literature‚ books and novels at Planet eBook. Subscribe to our free eBooks blog and email newsletter. PREFACE UPPOSING that Truth is a woman—what then? Is there not ground for suspecting that all philosophers‚ in so far as they have been dogmatists‚ have failed to understand women—that the terrible seriousness and clumsy importunity with which they have usually paid their addresses to Truth‚ have been unskilled and
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Philosophy is a study that includes various diverse subfields such as aesthetics‚ epistemology‚ ethics‚ logic‚ and metaphysics. Various philosophical traditions use different methods and include different topics in their study. Some‚ for example‚ include politics‚ physics‚ or religion. The fundamental method of philosophy involves the systematic use of critical reasoning to evaluate arguments in defence of assertions of belief or opinion. The term philosophy comes from the Greek word "Φιλοσοφία"
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cultural and critical theory library Open source archive of ebooks‚ texts‚ videos‚ documentary films and podcasts Pages * Home * List of major critical theorists * What is Critical theory ? * What is Frankfurt School ? * Support Critical Theory Library * Contact This Blog This Blog | | ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Bottom of Form Home » texts » History & Class Consciousness: Preface by Georg Lukács (1923) Thursday‚ February 3‚ 2011
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‘The Thought Fox’ and the poetry of Ted Hughes RICHARD WEBSTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Critical Quarterly‚ 1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE THOUGHT-FOX I imagine this midnight moment’s forest: Something else is alive Beside the clock’s loneliness And this blank page where my fingers move. Through the
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