Public marks with tag philosophy Public marks with tag philosophy http://blogmarks.net/marks/tag/philosophy The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith http://www.squidoo.com/WealthofNations Two events made 1776 a remarkable year. The first is the well-known Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress. The other, which ultimately has had a far greater influence on the world in which we live, was the quiet publication of The Wealth of Nations by Scottish philosopher Adam Smith. Calling Smith an economist belies the fact that prior to The Wealth of Nations "economics" did not exist. His book is the foundation of the academic discipline. 2009-09-11T08:29:14Z access2 economics, classical economics, free market capitalism, capitalism, Adam Smith, wealth of nations, philosophy

The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

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Two events made 1776 a remarkable year. The first is the well-known Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress. The other, which ultimately has had a far greater influence on the world in which we live, was the quiet publication of The Wealth of Nations by Scottish philosopher Adam Smith. Calling Smith an economist belies the fact that prior to The Wealth of Nations "economics" did not exist. His book is the foundation of the academic discipline.

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]]> Ubuntu (philosophy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(philosophy) Ubuntu (philosophy) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For other uses, see Ubuntu (disambiguation). Experience ubuntu.ogg Play video Nelson Mandela explains the concept of Ubuntu Ubuntu is an ethic or humanist philosophy focusing on people's allegiances and relations with each other. The word has its origin in the Bantu languages of Southern Africa. Ubuntu is seen as a classical African concept. (Dion Forster 2006a:252)[1] PULANDO UM TRECHO ..TEMOS : Meaning An attempt at a longer definition has been made by Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1999): “ A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed. ” Archbishop Desmond Tutu further explained Ubuntu as follows (2008): “ One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can't be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality - Ubuntu - you are known for your generosity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity. ” 2009-06-08T21:10:33Z tadeufilippini mandela, wikipedia, nelson, mandela nelson, ubuntu, ubuntu philosophy, philosophy, philosophy ubuntu, Desmond Tutu, tutu, desmond, tutu desmond, nelson mandela, en.wikipedia.org

Ubuntu (philosophy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Ubuntu (philosophy) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For other uses, see Ubuntu (disambiguation). Experience ubuntu.ogg Play video Nelson Mandela explains the concept of Ubuntu Ubuntu is an ethic or humanist philosophy focusing on people's allegiances and relations with each other. The word has its origin in the Bantu languages of Southern Africa. Ubuntu is seen as a classical African concept. (Dion Forster 2006a:252)[1] PULANDO UM TRECHO ..TEMOS : Meaning An attempt at a longer definition has been made by Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1999): “ A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed. ” Archbishop Desmond Tutu further explained Ubuntu as follows (2008): “ One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can't be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality - Ubuntu - you are known for your generosity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity. ”

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]]> Marcel Conche - Wikipédia http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Conche 2009-05-17T14:58:41Z paulantoinem philosophy, philosophie

Marcel Conche - Wikipédia

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]]> Are you a capitalist or a creativist? - Rory Sutherland's Blog - Blogs - Brand Republic http://community.brandrepublic.com/blogs/rory_sutherlands_blog/archive/2009/04/10/are-you-a-capitalist-or-a-creativist.aspx 2009-05-10T19:36:46Z paulantoinem creativist, internet, business, philosophy, capitalism

Are you a capitalist or a creativist? - Rory Sutherland's Blog - Blogs - Brand Republic

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]]> Pierre Boutang de Antoine-Joseph Assaf - Google Book http://books.google.com/books?id=tg5moclQcV0C&pg=PA130&lpg=PA130&dq=%22Pierre+Boutang%22&source=bl&ots=N10Gk1Jp7-&sig=RROxjIikKKFl8VfYVoOxt6on3Ys&hl=en#PPP1,M1 2009-05-04T13:33:23Z paulantoinem philosophie, philosophy, ebooks

Pierre Boutang de Antoine-Joseph Assaf - Google Book

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]]> Edge: PRESSING QUESTIONS FOR OUR CENTURY: A Talk with AC Grayling http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/grayling09/grayling09_index.html 2009-04-20T15:23:19Z paulantoinem humanities, acgrayling, religion, history, education, philosophy, science, bookmarks

Edge: PRESSING QUESTIONS FOR OUR CENTURY: A Talk with AC Grayling

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]]> An Author's Favorite Wittgenstein - ChronicleReview.com http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i33/33b00401.htm 2009-04-18T16:17:19Z paulantoinem philosophy, bookmarks

An Author's Favorite Wittgenstein - ChronicleReview.com

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]]> Forgiveness and Irony by Roger Scruton, City Journal Winter 2009 http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_1_the-west.html 2009-04-17T18:13:43Z paulantoinem terrorism, history, Islam, religion, politics, culture, philosophy, bookmarks

Forgiveness and Irony by Roger Scruton, City Journal Winter 2009

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Black Is Brilliant

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]]> Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs http://www.cceia.org/index.html [thinktank] 2009-03-05T23:14:16Z jeanruaud international, thinktank, politics, philosophy

Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs

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]]> Neuroscience and the soul http://www.scribd.com/doc/12859587/Neuroscience-and-the-soul [fundamentalists attacking neuroscience] 2009-03-01T23:08:35Z jeanruaud neuroscience, philosophy

Neuroscience and the soul

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[fundamentalists attacking neuroscience]

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]]> The Meaning of Anonymity in an Information Age http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/paper_anonimity.html 2009-03-01T22:59:42Z jeanruaud anonymity, internet, ethics, philosophy

The Meaning of Anonymity in an Information Age

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]]> Présentation de Sacher-Masoch : Le froid et le cruel / Deleuze http://www.amazon.fr/Pr%C3%A9sentation-Sacher-Masoch-froid-Gilles-Deleuze/dp/2707320102/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234545909&sr=1-1 2009-02-13T17:27:05Z ainos philosophy, book

Présentation de Sacher-Masoch : Le froid et le cruel / Deleuze

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]]> 'I am alive ... I am beautiful ... what else is there?' http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=v1xvs1p6k37s7jtw4qpfj7pqykln5z50 2008-12-16T22:18:14Z jeanruaud susansontag, diairies, philosophy

'I am alive ... I am beautiful ... what else is there?'

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]]> Tom Morris: 2007-10-13 http://tommorris.org/blog/2007/10/13#pid2484989 <blockquote><p>Since when do *camps have a keynote, title, lead & partner sponsors AND charge for admission?! Did I hear bullshit?</p></blockquote><p>uhu</p> 2008-09-22T07:02:07Z greut barcamp, philosophy

Tom Morris: 2007-10-13

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Since when do *camps have a keynote, title, lead & partner sponsors AND charge for admission?! Did I hear bullshit?

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]]> 天益网—天施地生 其益无方 http://www.tecn.cn/index.php 暴风雨 2008-08-10T06:52:07Z deltrintem china, 我的社区, education, research, social, culture, philosophy, learning, economy, chinese

天益网—天施地生 其益无方

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Philosophia Perennis : HomePage

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]]> TED | Talks | Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? (video) http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/66 2008-06-08T06:22:09Z ericpaul humor, philosophy

TED | Talks | Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? (video)

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]]> A brood comb http://broodsphilosophy.wordpress.com/ 2008-05-30T07:47:59Z jdrsantos philosophy, science, blog

A brood comb

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]]> Georges Bataille Electronic Library http://supervert.com/elibrary/georges_bataille Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was by profession a librarian at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. In his off hours, however, he was also a fringe Surrealist, vanguard intellectual, and writer of a wide-ranging body of work that includes philosophy, economics, poetry, and pornography. In all of these writings, Bataille was concerned to articulate a "science of the heterogeneous," a philosophy of everything repudiated by civil society: shit, blood, sacrifice, deviance, violence. The wellsprings of this philosophy apparently lay in personal experience — in particular his childhood with a suicidal mother and a blind, syphilitic father — and yet his ideas resonated deeply with other mid-century philosophy (for example, shit in Bataille's system was analogous to the "other" in Phenomenology and Existentialism) and helped to pave the way to contemporary "theory." 2008-04-30T10:44:23Z rike_ philosophy, library, work, archive, erotica

Georges Bataille Electronic Library

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Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was by profession a librarian at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. In his off hours, however, he was also a fringe Surrealist, vanguard intellectual, and writer of a wide-ranging body of work that includes philosophy, economics, poetry, and pornography. In all of these writings, Bataille was concerned to articulate a "science of the heterogeneous," a philosophy of everything repudiated by civil society: shit, blood, sacrifice, deviance, violence. The wellsprings of this philosophy apparently lay in personal experience — in particular his childhood with a suicidal mother and a blind, syphilitic father — and yet his ideas resonated deeply with other mid-century philosophy (for example, shit in Bataille's system was analogous to the "other" in Phenomenology and Existentialism) and helped to pave the way to contemporary "theory."

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]]> Aid-IT's Useful M&E Resources http://www.aid-it.com/Resources/tabid/109/Default.aspx 2008-04-24T10:29:48Z wrijneveld monitoring, evaluation, resources, philosophy

Aid-IT's Useful M&E Resources

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]]> Peter Wessel Zapffe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wessel_Zapffe 2008-04-07T14:31:06Z srt philosophy

Peter Wessel Zapffe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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]]> Записки о практических наблюдениях по достижению свободы от негативных эмоций и других омрачений http://eehoo.blogspot.com/ 2008-04-23T03:55:47Z altraffica психология, psychology, philosophy

Записки о практических наблюдениях по достижению свободы от негативных эмоций и других омрачений

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]]> Wikipedia en proie aux comparaisons | Guitef http://www.opossum.ca/guitef/archives/003981.html Deux autres comparaisons de la fiabilité de Wikipedia par rapport aux encyclopédies traditionnelles, dont l'une plus spécifique sur les philosophes. 2008-03-23T12:11:45Z FrancoisGuite research, philosophy, education, collaboration, recherche, éducation philosophie

Wikipedia en proie aux comparaisons | Guitef

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Deux autres comparaisons de la fiabilité de Wikipedia par rapport aux encyclopédies traditionnelles, dont l'une plus spécifique sur les philosophes.

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]]> The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com http://skepdic.com/ 2008-03-22T12:35:30Z jdrsantos skepticism, dictionary, science, philosophy, religion, knowledge, legends, mythology, weird

The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com

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