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Thought (essay) " Thought: A Logical Inquiry " is an essay by Gottlob Frege. [1] It was published as "Der Gedanke. Eine logische Untersuchung" in the philosophy journal Beiträge zur Philosophie des deutschen Idealismus (English: Contributions to the philosophy of German idealism) in 1918. It was republished in Mind in English in 1956.
The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent and Other Essays (1914), by John Erskine, is an essay first presented to the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Amherst College, where Erskine taught before working as a professor of English at Columbia University. [1][2] [3] Originally, "The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent" was published in the quarterly ...
1000-Word Philosophy is an online philosophy anthology that publishes introductory 1000-word (or less) essays on philosophical topics. [1] The project was created in 2014 by Andrew D. Chapman, a philosophy lecturer at the University of Colorado, Boulder. [2][3][4] Since 2018, the anthology's editor-in-chief is Nathan Nobis, a professor of ...
Pyrrhus and Cineas. Pyrrhus and Cineas (original title: Pyrrhus et Cinéas) is Simone de Beauvoir 's first philosophical essay. [1] It was published in 1944, and in it, she makes a philosophical inquiry into the human situation by way of analogy from the story of when Pyrrhus was asked by his friend Cineas what his plans were after conquering ...
Philosophical Inquiries into the Essence of Human Freedom (German: Philosophische Untersuchungen über das Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit und die damit zusammenhängenden Gegenstände) is an 1809 work by Friedrich Schelling. It was the last book he finished in his lifetime, running to some 90 pages of a single long essay.
The will is free, but only in itself and other than as its appearance in an observer's mind. When it appears in an observer's mind, as the experienced world, the will does not appear free. But because of this transcendental freedom, as opposed to empirical necessity, every act and deed is a person's own responsibility.
My Belief: Essays on Life and Art. My Belief: Essays on Life and Art is a collection of essays by Hermann Hesse. The essays, written between 1904 and 1961, were originally published in German, either individually or in various collections between 1951 and 1973. This collection in English was first published in 1974, edited by Theodore Ziolkowski.
On Grace and Dignity (Über [1] Anmut und Würde) is an influential philosophical essay published by Friedrich Schiller in the journal Neue Thalia in mid June 1793. It is his first major support for the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, critically assessing the treatments of ethics and aesthetics in Kant's Critique of Judgment.