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An Apology for Raymond Sebond

Author : Michel Montaigne
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141959401
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book An Apology for Raymond Sebond written by Michel Montaigne and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Apology for Raymond Sebond is widely regarded as the greatest of Montaigne's essays: a supremely eloquent expression of Christian scepticism. An empassioned defence of Sebond's fifteenth-century treatise on natural theology, it was inspired by the deep crisis of personal melancholy that followed the death of Montaigne's own father in 1568, and explores contemporary Christianity in prose that is witty and frequently damning. As he searches for the true meaning of faith, Montaigne is heavily critical of the arrogant tendency of mankind to create God in its own image, and offers his personal reflections on the true role of man, the need to eschew personal arrogance, and the vital importance of faith if we are to understand our place in the universe. Wise, perceptive and remarkably informed, this is one of the true masterpieces of the essay form.

In Defense of Raymond Sebond

Author : Michel de Montaigne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9787000005341
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book In Defense of Raymond Sebond written by Michel de Montaigne and published by . This book was released on with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Montaigne's Essays and Selected Writings

Author : Michel de Montaigne
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312546359
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Montaigne's Essays and Selected Writings written by Michel de Montaigne and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1969-10-15 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These classic translations of Montaigne are presented with the authoritative French text on facing pages and provide an introduction and extensive notes helping students appreciate the depth and clarity of Montaigne’s thinking. The text includes Books 1, 2, and 3 of the essays; Montaigne’s translation of the natural theology of Raymond Sebond; a travel journal; and selected letters.

How to Live

Author : Sarah Bakewell
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590514262
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book How to Live written by Sarah Bakewell and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: how do you live? How do you do the good or honorable thing, while flourishing and feeling happy? This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Monatigne, perhaps the first truly modern individual. A nobleman, public official and wine-grower, he wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. He called them “essays,” meaning “attempts” or “tries.” Into them, he put whatever was in his head: his tastes in wine and food, his childhood memories, the way his dog’s ears twitched when it was dreaming, as well as the appalling events of the religious civil wars raging around him. The Essays was an instant bestseller and, over four hundred years later, Montaigne’s honesty and charm still draw people to him. Readers come in search of companionship, wisdom and entertainment—and in search of themselves. This book, a spirited and singular biography, relates the story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored. It traces his bizarre upbringing, youthful career and sexual adventures, his travels, and his friendships with the scholar and poet Étienne de La Boétie and with his adopted “daughter,” Marie de Gournay. And we also meet his readers—who for centuries have found in Montaigne an inexhaustible source of answers to the haunting question, “how to live?”

The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early Modern England and France

Author : Sandrine Parageau
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503635325
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early Modern England and France written by Sandrine Parageau and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early modern period, ignorance was commonly perceived as a sin, a flaw, a defect, and even a threat to religion and the social order. Yet praises of ignorance were also expressed in the same context. Reclaiming the long-lasting legacy of medieval doctrines of ignorance and taking a comparative perspective, Sandrine Parageau tells the history of the apparently counter-intuitive moral, cognitive and epistemological virtues attributed to ignorance in the long seventeenth century (1580s-1700) in England and in France. With close textual analysis of hitherto neglected sources and a reassessment of canonical philosophical works by Montaigne, Bacon, Descartes, Locke, and others, Parageau specifically examines the role of ignorance in the production of knowledge, identifying three common virtues of ignorance as a mode of wisdom, a principle of knowledge, and an epistemological instrument, in philosophical and theological works. How could an essentially negative notion be turned into something profitable and even desirable? Taken in the context of Renaissance humanism, the Reformation and the "Scientific Revolution"—which all called for a redefinition and reaffirmation of knowledge—ignorance, Parageau finds, was not dismissed in the early modern quest for renewed ways of thinking and knowing. On the contrary, it was assimilated into the philosophical and scientific discourses of the time. The rehabilitation of ignorance emerged as a paradoxical cornerstone of the nascent modern science.

Modern Philosophy

Author : Roger Ariew
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603843221
Total Pages : 847 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Modern Philosophy written by Roger Ariew and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 847 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The leading anthology of writings of the modern period, Modern Philosophy provides the key works of seven major philosophers, along with a rich selection of associated texts by other leading thinkers of the period, chosen to deepen the reader's understanding of modern philosophy and its relationship to the natural sciences. Building on the strengths of the first edition, the second edition of Modern Philosophy is enhanced by the addition of the following selections: Montaigne, Apology for Raymond Sebond, "The Senses Are Inadequate”; Newton, Principia, "General Scholium," and Optics, "Query 31”; Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Parts 1-5 and 9-12; Reid, Inquiry Into Human Mind, Conclusion, andEssays on the Intellectual Powers of Man,"Of Judgment,"chap. 2, Of Common Sense

The Challenge of Rousseau

Author : Eve Grace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107018285
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Challenge of Rousseau written by Eve Grace and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume focus on Rousseau's genuine yet undervalued stature as a philosopher.

Michel de Montaigne

Author : Ann Hartle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113944204X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Michel de Montaigne written by Ann Hartle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel de Montaigne, the inventor of the essay, has always been acknowledged as a great literary figure but has never been thought of as a philosophical original. This book treats Montaigne as a serious thinker in his own right, taking as its point of departure Montaigne's description of himself as 'an unpremeditated and accidental philosopher'. Whereas previous commentators have treated Montaigne's Essays as embodying a scepticism harking back to classical sources, Ann Hartle offers an account that reveals Montaigne's thought to be dialectical, transforming sceptical doubt into wonder at the most familiar aspects of life. This major reassessment of a much admired but also much underestimated thinker will interest a wide range of historians of philosophy as well as scholars in comparative literature, French studies and the history of ideas.

The Lais of Marie De France

Author : Marie France
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141389346
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book The Lais of Marie De France written by Marie France and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie de France (fl. late twelfth century) is the earliest known French woman poet and her lais - stories in verse based on Breton tales of chivalry and romance - are among the finest of the genre. Recounting the trials and tribulations of lovers, the lais inhabit a powerfully realized world where very real human protagonists act out their lives against fairy-tale elements of magical beings, potions and beasts. De France takes a subtle and complex view of courtly love, whether telling the story of the knight who betrays his fairy mistress or describing the noblewoman who embroiders her sad tale on the shroud for a nightingale killed by a jealous and suspicious husband.

The Medusa and the Snail

Author : Lewis Thomas
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140243194
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Medusa and the Snail written by Lewis Thomas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize Finalist The medusa is a tiny jellyfish that lives on the ventral surface of a sea slug found in the Bay of Naples. Readers will find themselves caught up in the fate of the medusa and the snail as a metaphor for eternal issues of life and death as Lewis Thomas further extends the exploration of man and his world begun in The Lives of a Cell. Among the treasures in this magnificent book are essays on the human genius for making mistakes, on disease and natural death, on cloning, on warts, and on Montaigne, as well as an assessment of medical science and health care. In these essays and others, Thomas once again conveys his observations of the scientific world in prose marked by wonder and wit.

The Trouble with Reality

Author : Brooke Gladstone
Publisher : Workman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1523502622
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book The Trouble with Reality written by Brooke Gladstone and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every week on the public radio show On the Media, the award-winning journalist Brooke Gladstone analyzes the media and how it shapes our perceptions of the world. Now, from her front-row perch on the day’s events, Gladstone brings her genius for making insightful, unexpected connections to help us understand what she calls—and what so many of us can acknowledge having—“trouble with reality.” Reality, as she shows us, was never what we thought it was—there is always a bubble, people are always subjective and prey to stereotypes. And that makes reality actually more vulnerable than we ever thought. Enter Donald J. Trump and his team of advisors. For them, as she writes, lying is the point. The more blatant the lie, the easier it is to hijack reality and assert power over the truth. Drawing on writers as diverse as Hannah Arendt, Walter Lippmann, Philip K. Dick, and Jonathan Swift, she dissects this strategy, straight out of the authoritarian playbook, and shows how the Trump team mastered it, down to the five types of tweets that Trump uses to distort our notions of what’s real and what’s not. And she offers hope. There is meaningful action, a time-tested treatment for moral panic. And there is also the inevitable reckoning. History tells us we can count on it. Brief and bracing, The Trouble with Reality shows exactly why so many of us didn’t see it coming, and how we can recover both our belief in reality—and our sanity.

The Oxford Handbook of Montaigne

Author : Philippe Desan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019021533X
Total Pages : 841 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Montaigne written by Philippe Desan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montaigne's Essays resemble a patchwork of personal reflections, but they engage with questions that animate the human mind, and tend to a single goal: to live better in the present and to prepare for death. For this reason, Montaigne's thought and writings have been a subject of enduring interest across disciplines. This Handbook brings together essays by prominent scholars that examine Montaigne's literary, philosophical, and political contributions, and assess his legacy and relevance today in a global perspective. It presents Montaigne's Essays not only in their historical context but also as a starting point for discussing issues that concern us today.

Essays of montaigne

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays of montaigne written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Worldmakers

Author : Ayesha Ramachandran
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022628882X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book The Worldmakers written by Ayesha Ramachandran and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, exciting, and frightening concept, “the world” was transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But how could one envision something that no one had ever seen in its totality? The Worldmakers moves beyond histories of globalization to explore how “the world” itself—variously understood as an object of inquiry, a comprehensive category, and a system of order—was self-consciously shaped by human agents. Gathering an international cast of characters, from Dutch cartographers and French philosophers to Portuguese and English poets, Ramachandran describes a history of firsts: the first world atlas, the first global epic, the first modern attempt to develop a systematic natural philosophy—all part of an effort by early modern thinkers to capture “the world” on the page.

Setting Plato Straight

Author : Todd W. Reeser
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022630700X
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Setting Plato Straight written by Todd W. Reeser and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Setting Plato Straight', Todd W. Reeser undertakes the first sustained and comprehensive study of Renaissance textual responses to Platonic same-sex sexuality. Reeser mines an expansive collection of translations, commentaries, and literary sources to study how Renaissance translators transformed ancient eros into non-erotic, non-homosexual relations.

Shakespeare's Philosophy

Author : Colin McGinn
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061751650
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Philosophy written by Colin McGinn and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare’s plays are usually studied by literary scholars and historians and the books about him from those perspectives are legion. It is most unusual for a trained philosopher to give us his insight, as Colin McGinn does here, into six of Shakespeare’s greatest plays–A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, and The Tempest. In his brilliant commentary, McGinn explores Shakespeare’s philosophy of life and illustrates how he was influenced, for example, by the essays of Montaigne that were translated into English while Shakespeare was writing. In addition to chapters on the great plays, there are also essays on Shakespeare and gender and his plays from the aspects of psychology, ethics, and tragedy. As McGinn says about Shakespeare, “There is not a sentimental bone in his body. He has the curiosity of a scientist, the judgment of a philosopher, and the soul of a poet.” McGinn relates the ideas in the plays to the later philosophers such as David Hume and the modern commentaries of critics such as Harold Bloom. The book is an exhilarating reading experience, especially for students who are discovering the greatest writer in English.

Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition

Author : Jessica Berry
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195368428
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition written by Jessica Berry and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a portrait of Nietzsche as the skeptic par excellence in the modern period, by demonstrating how a careful and informed understanding of ancient Pyrrhonism illuminates his reflections on truth, knowledge and morality, as well as the very nature and value of philosophic inquiry.