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The work was written in 1848, published in part in 1851 (as On my Work as an Author), and published in full posthumously in 1859. This work explains his pseudonymous writings and his personal attachment to those writings.
"The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life" was an essay by the philosopher William James, which he first delivered as a lecture to the Yale Philosophical Club, in 1891. It was later included in the collection, The Will to Believe and other Essays in Popular Philosophy.
It was the last book he finished in his lifetime, running to some 90 pages of a single long essay. It is commonly referred to as his " Freiheitsschrift " (freedom text) or "freedom essay". Described by Hans Urs von Balthasar as "the most titanic work of German idealism ", [ 1 ] it is also seen as anticipating much of the collection of basic ...
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Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-critical Philosophy, 1958; Ernest Nagel, The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation, 1961; Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 1962/1996; Carl Gustav Hempel, Aspects of Scientific Explanation and Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science, 1965
Forster argues that one should invest in personal relationships: "one must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life". In order to do so, one must be reliable in one's relationships. Reliability, in turn, is impossible without natural warmth. Forster contrasts personal relationships with causes, which he hates.
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.
In 1992 "Humanists of Houston", a chapter of the American Humanist Association, decided at the initiative of Marian Hillar and Robert Finch to publish lectures and seminars that were presented by notable speakers at the meetings of the group, doing so under the general title Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism. With time the scope of the ...