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Letter "M" » modern philosophy
«The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| Keywords:
conservative, engaged, exercises, justification, modern philosophy, moral philosophy, oldest, selfishness, The Search
«We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.»
Author: Joseph Marie de Maistre
(Diplomat, Philosopher, Politician, Writer)
| Keywords:
modern philosophy, polluted, taint, Taints
«The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.»
Author: Renata Adler
| Keywords:
accounts, bourgeois, cocktail party, considerable, dash, distress, documents, global, grudge, local, modern philosophy, obscenity, overall, overalls, overpopulation, satirical, square, The Cocktail Party, unmitigated, unrealized, unsatisfying, variously
«It (modern philosophy) certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Christianity,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
associated, dogma, exacts, historically, modern philosophy, rigid, supernaturalism
«ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult. The ancient philosophies were of two kinds, --_exoteric_, those that the philosophers themselves could partly understand, and _esoteric_, those that nobody could understand. It is the latter that have most profoundly affected modern thought and found greatest acceptance in our time.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abstruse, esoteric, exoteric, modern philosophy, occult, profoundly
«PYRRHONISM, n. An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.»
«Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Football
| Keywords:
academe, academies, academy, Academy A, An Ancient, modern philosophy, Modern School, n a, The academy
«In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
bathe, Bhagavad Gita, comparison, Gita, modern philosophy, modern world, Philosophy of, puny
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