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Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format. One of the most important philosophical works of the nineteenth century, the basic statement of one important stream of post-Kantian thought.

It is without question Schopenhauer's greatest work. Conceived and published before the philosopher was 30 and expanded 25 years later, it is the summation of a lifetime of thought. This book will be of interest to general readers, undergraduates, graduates, and scholars in the field. Book Summary: The "man who invented the future," Verne created the prototype for modern science fiction.

His prophetic adventure novel, featuring a bizarre underwater craft commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, predated the submarine. The crowning achievement of Verne's literary career, the book influenced H. Wells and later generations of writers. In it Kant searches for the supreme principle of morality and argues for a conception of the moral life that has made this work a continuing source of controversy and an object of reinterpretation for over two centuries. Wood advocate contrasting interpretations of Kantian ethics and its practical implications.

Book Summary: "Fat and Blood" by S. Weir Mitchell. Book Summary: "Trailin'! Skip to content. READ MORE Book Summary: So if you have to live amongst men, you must allow everyone the right to exist in accordance with the character he has, whatever it turns out to be: and all you should strive to do is to make use of this character in such a way as its kind and nature permit, rather than to hope for any alteration in it, or to condemn it off-hand for what it is.

READ MORE Book Summary: When Schopenhauer was asked where he wished to be buried, he answered, "Anywhere; they will find me;" and the stone that marks his grave at Frankfort bears merely the inscription "Arthur Schopenhauer," without even the date of his birth or death. The direct refutation shows that the thesis is not true; the indirect, that it cannot be true.

The direct course admits of a twofold procedure. Either we may show that the reasons for the statement are false nego majorem, minorem ; or we may admit the reasons or premisses, but show that the statement does not follow from them nego consequentiam ; that is, we attack the conclusion or form of the syllogism. The direct re. What are your favorite books? Your information is secure and only used for our communication with you. Read our clear Privacy Policy. To secure and promote this feeling of cheerfulness should be the supreme aim of all our endeavors after happiness.

Now it is certain that nothing contributes so little to cheerfulness as riches, or so much, as health. Is it not in the lower classes, the so-called working classes, more especially those of them who live in the country, that we see cheerful and contented faces? Consequently we should try as much as possible to maintain a high degree of health; for cheerfulness is the very flower of it.

I need hardly say what one must do to be healthy — avoid every kind of excess, all violent and unpleasant emotion, all mental overstrain, take daily exercise in the open air, cold baths and such like hygienic measures. For without a proper amount of daily exercise no one can remain healthy; all the processes of life demand exercise for the due performance of their functions, exercise not only of the parts more immediately concerned, but also of the whole body. For, as Aristotle rightly says, Life is movement ; it is its very essence.

Ceaseless and rapid motion goes on in every part of the organism. The heart, with its complicated double systole and diastole, beats strongly and untiringly; with twenty-eight beats it has to drive the whole of the blood through arteries, veins and capillaries; the lungs pump like a steam-engine, without intermission; the intestines are always in peristaltic action; the glands are all constantly absorbing and secreting; even the brain has a double motion of its own, with every beat of the pulse and every breath we draw.

When people can get no exercise at all, as is the case with the countless numbers who are condemned to a sedentary life, there is a glaring and fatal disproportion between outward inactivity and inner tumult. For this ceaseless internal motion requires some external counterpart, and the want of it produces effects like those of emotion which we are obliged to suppress. Even trees must be shaken by the wind, if they are to thrive. The rule which finds its application here may be most briefly expressed in Latin: omnis motus, quo celerior, eo magis motus.

A Modern Theory of Ethics W. Olaf Stapledon. Religion Arthur Schopenhauer.