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Mr. Aristotle The Poetics

Lyrik und Poesie
Englisch
19014 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
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In the tenth book of the Republic, when Plato has completed his final burning denunciation of Poetry, the false Siren, the imitator of things which themselves are shadows, the ally of all that is low and weak in the soul against that which is high and strong, who makes us feed the things we ought to starve and serve the things we ought to rule, he ends with a touch of compunction: 'We will give her champions, not poets themselves but poet-lovers, an opportunity to make her defence in plain prose and show that she is not only sweet--as we well know--but also helpful to society and the life of man, and we will listen in a kindly spirit. For we shall be gainers, I take it, if this can be proved.' Aristotle certainly knew the passage, and it looks as if his treatise on poetry was an answer to Plato's challenge. [mehr]

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CHAPMAN COHEN THEISM OR ATHEISM

THE GREAT ALTERNATIVE

Bildung
Englisch
59030 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
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Chapman Cohen (1 September 1868 – 4 February 1954) was a leading English atheist and secularist writer and lecturer. Chapman Cohen was the elder son of Enoch Cohen, a Jewish confectioner, and his wife, Deborah (née Barnett). He attended a local elementary school but was otherwise self-educated.[1] He had read Spinoza, Locke, Hume, Berkeley, and Plato by the time he was eighteen.[2] Cohen recalled that he had "little religion at home and none at school",[3] as he was withdrawn from Religious Instruction classes. Cohen and his wife had two children; a son (who entered the medical profession) and a daughter, who died at the age of 29.[4] On his death, The Times printed a short obituary of Cohen, which said: He was the author of many books setting forth the freethought philosophy of life, which had a large sale, and he was outstanding as a forthright, witty and courteous debater and lecturer.[5] [mehr]

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Aristotle . The Categories

Belletristik
Englisch
14465 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
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Aristotle (/ˈærɪˌstɒtəl/;[1] Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης [aristotélɛːs], Aristotélēs; 384 – 322 BC)[2] was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the Macedonian city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, whereafter Proxenus of Atarneus became his guardian.[3] At eighteen, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty-seven (c. 347 BC). His writings cover many subjects – including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government – and constitute the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy. Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip of Macedon, tutored Alexander the Great starting from 343 BC.[4] According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, "Aristotle was the first genuine scientist in history ... [and] every scientist is in his debt." [mehr]

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IGNATIUS DONNELLY ATLANTIS

THE ANTEDILUVIAN WORLD

Historisches
Englisch
147951 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
1

This is the book that started it all, written a century ago by a man as strange and dynamic as his story. Every fantastical image of a sunken paradise, or heated dispute about it's existence and location, all started with these pages. The origin of all Atlantis-hype, this book similarly starts with the origin of the concept itself. Donnely includes a translation of Plato's story that all Atlantean research goes back too. This was the most interesting part of the book, just hearing the first account all discussion and contemplation aside. It is also the most integral part of the book, since out of it comes all of Donnely's extrapolation. The basic point of the rest of the book is to try to show that 1) Atlantis could have existed and disappeared geologically ages ago, and then furthermore 2) to explain Atlantis's affect on the rest of human history. Here, his attempts are the most interesting, and, often, the most ridiculous. Generally speaking though, he does state his case scientifically, and in most cases, rather believably. The only glaring faults are his mistranslation of the original Plato, placing Atlantis most likely in the wrong area, and how sometimes he takes some rather huge leaps to justify his points. But hey, he wrote it 100 years ago and still manages to produce an intriguing study into the Atlantean question, without the aids of more advanced technologies. [mehr]

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RANDOLPH CALDECOTT AESOP'S FABLES WITH MODERN INSTANCES

Abenteuer
Englisch
2572 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
3
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Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with Aesop's name have descended to modern times through a number of sources. They continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic mediums.The Greek historian Herodotus mentioned in passing that "Aesop the fable writer" was a slave who lived in Ancient Greece during the 5th century BCE.[1] Among references in other writers, Aristophanes, in his comedy The Wasps, represented the protagonist Philocleon as having learnt the "absurdities" of Aesop from conversation at banquets; Plato wrote in Phaedo that Socrates whiled away his jail time turning some of Aesop's fables "which he knew" into verses. Nonetheless, for two main reasons[2] – because numerous morals within Aesop's attributed fables contradict each other, and because ancient accounts of Aesop's life contradict each other – the modern view is that Aesop did not solely compose all those fables attributed to him, if he even existed at all.[2] Instead, any fable tended to be ascribed to the name of Aesop if there was no known alternative literary source. [mehr]

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Fritz H. Lotterfuchs Heidegger

Die Erotik der Erkenntnis

Philosophie
Deutsch
7444 Wörter
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"Der größte Denker des 20. Jahrhunderts" noch einmal in ganz neuer Lesart? Dieser Kurzreader versucht zu beweisen, daß die Lektüre der schon veröffentlichten Werke Martin Heideggers ein ausgesprochen sinnliches Vergnügen bereiten kann. Man darf ihn nämlich durchaus ähnlich lesen, wie Arno Schmidt in „Sitara oder der Weg dorthin" seinen Karl May gelesen hat. Möglicherweise war kein Denker seit Plato vom philosophischen Eros stärker beseelt als dieser „Ek-sistenzialist", der die Sexualia nie zu den menschlichen "Existenzialien" zählte. Ist die sonderbare Kunstsprache, die Heidegger für seine Seinslehre eigens erfunden hat, vielleicht auch eine einzige philosophische Chiffrierung geheimer erotischer Phantasien, eine metaphysische Verkleidung höchst physischer Phantasmagorien, ein ächzender Kompromiß zwischen logischen und skatologischen Bedürfnissen des Autors und seiner Kunden, deren beider Unbewußtes hinter ihrem Rücken miteinander kommuniziert? Ein Teil von Heideggers Faszination könnte auf dem Genuß höherer Pornographie im unverdächtigen Gewande von Philosophie als Feigenblatt beruhen. Heidegger: der dirty old man der Berufsdenkerei, geheimer Liebhaber einer Dame namens Sophie? Oder hier nur ein Opfer abwegiger Projektionen, die mehr vom Satiriker verraten als von seinem seriösen Gegenstand? [mehr]

Stichwörter: Martin Heidegger, Philosophie, Sein, Sprache, Liebe, Eros, Sinn, Sinnlichkeit, Pornographie

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Dibyendu Chakraborty Origin of Bangla Twelfth Part Dhaka Sonar Bangla

Belletristik
Englisch
24932 Wörter
Keine Altersempfehlung
22
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The capital city of Bangladesh, situated in the eastern part of the geographical entity known as the Bengal Basin, is Dhaka. The word Dhaka, when used as a place name, is a noun, and it is a unique application of that word. That word has not been used anywhere else to name a place. Apart from having its use as a proper noun, the word ‘Dhaka’ finds its place in Bengali language dictionaries as an adjective, and that is the predominant use of that word. Many experts have put forward a number of explanations regarding the evolution of that place name. All those explanations are derived ones, i.e., none of those explanations can relate that name to that place in a directly meaningful manner. With the intervention of his ‘Wisp’ in his cerebral journey, Naru, the main character of this series of books, stumbled upon the idea that, deep in the past, there could have existed an island-mountain at the centre of the place that is currently known as ‘Bengal Basin’. The most famous island-mountain in history is known as 'Atlantis', as described by Greek philosopher Plato. The geological and geographical settings of the Bengal Basin can almost seamlessly fit into the description of Atlantis. The place-name ‘Dhaka’, may be explained satisfactorily and without the application of the idea of being derived, when the concept of a drowned island-mountain is introduced in that geography. In that situation, ‘sonar Bangla’, ‘the golden Bengal’, the other iconic phrase of Bengal, becomes a reflection of reality rather than a metaphor. Naru undertook a cerebral journey to find the validity of this idea in the available facts from various lines of study. [mehr]

Stichwörter: origin, of, bangla, dhaka, sonar, bengal, bengali

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