Primitive man as philosopher

Primitive Man As Philosopher

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In Search of the Primitive

Anthropology is a kind of debate between human possibilities-a dialectical movement between the anthropologist as a modern man and the primitive peopl

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher´s Stone, 1. vydání - Joanne Kathleen Rowling

<p></p><p> Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid burs...

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher´s Stone, 1. vydání - Joanne Kathleen Rowling

<p>'He'll be famous - a legend - I wouldn't be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter Day in future - there will be books written about Harry' Minerva McGonagall</p> <p>Strange things always seem to happen when Harry Potter is around. Things that unsettle his guardians, the Dursleys. They strongly disapprove of strangeness. It's only when a letter ...

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C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man (A Macat Analysis) - Brittany Pheiffer Noble

<p>C.S. Lewis’s 1943 The Abolition of Man is a set of three essays that encapsulate some of the most important elements of good critical thinking. Lewis considers a weighty topic, moral philosophy – and more precisely how we teach it, and where morality comes from. As critics and enthusiasts for Lewis’s work alike have noted, though, he was not a philosopher as such...

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Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like? - Daniel Chandler

<p>Imagine: you are designing a society, but you don't know who you'll be within it - rich or poor, man or woman, gay or straight. What would you want that society to look like?This is the revolutionary thought experiment proposed by the twentieth century's greatest political philosopher, John Rawls. As economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler argues in this hugely...

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In Search of Us: Twelve Adventures in Anthropology - Lucy Moore

<p>***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilisations that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What they discovered, however, would change the way we think about ourselves.In the late nineteenth century, when non-European societies were seen as 'living fossils' offering an ...

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Plato and Googleplex - Goldsteinová Rebecca

Anotace: Is philosophy obsolete? Are the ancient questions still relevant in the age of cosmology and neuroscience, not to mention crowd-sourcing and cable news? The acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden role in today s debates on religion, morality, politics...

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Meditations

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Our life is what our thoughts make it The extraordinary writings of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), the only Roman emperor to have also been a stoic philosopher, have for centuries been praised for their wisdom, insight and guidance by leaders and great thinkers alike. Never intended f...

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Meditations - Antoninus Marcus Aurelius

<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.</p> <p>Our life is what our thoughts make it</p> <p>The extraordinary writings of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), the only Roman emperor to have also been a stoic philosopher, have for centuries been praised for their wisdom, insight and guidance by lea...

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Vision of God

Known for his deeply mystical writings about Christianity, Nicholas of Cusa wrote this, his most popular work, against a backdrop of widespread Church corruption. God, he believed, is found in all things, and thus cannot be perceived by man's senses and intellect alone. The path to ultimate knowledge, then, begins in recognizing our own ignorance. Deeply influenced by Sai...

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Call of the Wild

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and ...he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire, and to plunge into the forest.' Half St. Bernard, half sheepdog, Buck is stolen away from his comfortable life as a pet in California and sold to dog traders. He soon finds himself aboard a shi...

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Death in the Long Grass

Few men can say they have known Africa as Peter Hathaway Capstick has know it-- leading safaris through lion country; tracking man-eating leopards along tangled jungle paths; running for cover as fear-maddened elephants stampede in all directions. And of the few who have known this dangerous way of life, fewer still can recount their adventures with the flair of this form...

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Seven Letters to Melin Essays on the So - Josef Šafařík

<p>Josef Šafařík's Seven Letters to Melin is a critique of a reductionist technological approach to life and of man's alienation from nature and from himself in the modern era. The book is conceived as a series of letters to a certain Melin, in fact Šafařík's alternative or former self as a working engineer who believed in the value of science and technical progress...

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Seven Letters to Melin Essays on the Soul, Science, Art and Mortality - Šafařík Josef

Anotace: Josef Šafařík's Seven Letters to Melin is a critique of a reductionist technological approach to life and of man's alienation from nature and from himself in the modern era. The book is conceived as a series of letters to a certain Melin, in fact Šafařík's alternative or former self as a working engineer who believed in the value of science and te...

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Principles : Life and Work - Dalio Ray

Anotace: "Significant...The book is both instructive and surprisingly moving." -The New York Times Ray Dalio, one of the world`s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he`s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business-and which any person or organization can adopt...

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Principles : Life and Work - Ray Dalio

<p>"Significant...The book is both instructive and surprisingly moving." -The New York Times Ray Dalio, one of the world's most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he's developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business-and which any person or organization ...

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The Alchemist of Ars Magna

◆ Story Synopsis Once upon a time, the founder of alchemy led people from a dying world to a new land.In this fertile and harmonious land where man-made "Gods of Creation" act as guardians, humans lead a peaceful existence. However, a long time has since passed, and the "Dust" of death began to engulf Arcaus. Gods gone mad become heinous "Gods of Misfortune" and begin to ...

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The Alchemist of Ars Magna (PC)

◆ Story SynopsisOnce upon a time, the founder of alchemy led people from a dying world to a new land.In this fertile and harmonious land where man-made "Gods of Creation" act as guardians, humans lead a peaceful existence.However, a long time has since passed, and the "Dust" of death began to engulf Arcaus.Gods gone mad become heinous "Gods of Mis...

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