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I have spent these last two days in concentrated introspection," said Cutie, "and the results have b...

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I thought of the fate of Descartes’ famous formulation: man as ‘master and proprietor of nature.’ Ha...

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Gratitude is a species of love, excited in us by some action of the person for whom we have it, and ...

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In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and wi...

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Terry EagletonLiterary Theory: An Introduction

It is this kind of consciousness, exacerbated to an extreme, which has made inevitable the so called...

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Modern man, in so far as he is still Cartesian (he is of course going far beyond Descartes in many r...

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My laps-meter, the first caliper of the soul and the first hope of bridging the dread chasm that has...

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Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is...

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