The overcoming of man in the beyond is glimpsed Dostoevsky and Nietzsche, from Memoirs Underground its philosophical translation Genealogia da Moral, to Idiot considerations Antichrist. child reverberates a trait resentment, incorporating, philosophically literarily, deal with life intensified lightness vigor, completely ready, without pretensions world or professions faith. beatitude Jesus tak...

One of the most profound and philosophically captivating foci modern astronomy is studies Earth-like exoplanets in search life Universe. The paradigm-shifting investigation described here calls for a new type space telescope that redefines available light-collecting area space, far beyond what currently possible with 6.5 m diameter James Webb Space Telescope. Nautilus Observatory, which enabled...

It is an honor to be part of this book symposium on YU Jiyuan’s splendid book. The best way of repaying the honor, I believe, is to engage actively and critically with the issues Yu has raised. However, in this essay I will only be able to discuss selected aspects of this extremely rich, ambitious, erudite, and inspiring book. I shall focus on three of its most impressive achievements. The book...

two meanings regarding the principality of existence (isālat al-wujūd) can be inferred from the works and words of mulla sadra. one meaning is the objectivity of existence and essence on which many issues of transcendental philosophy are based. this meaning has deep philosophical consequences and implications. it seems that this meaning causes certain problems which make its acceptance tricky. ...

drawing largely on aidoo’s (1970) play, anowa, as well as lived experiences, i argue on the philosophical flaws of ashcroft’s (2009) claim that there is no inherent link between language and culture. this essay subsequently explores the implication of my argument on some transformational domains of english in particular though it has obvious applicability to the role of colonial languages in ge...

It has been said that modal logic consists of three main disciplines: duality theory, completeness theory and correspondence theory; and that they are the pillars on which this edifice called modal logic rests. This seems to be true if one looks at the history of modal logic, for all three disciplines have been explicitly defined around the same time, namely in the mid-seventies. While it is ce...

Since the 20th century, increasing focus on environment has drawn people's attention to concept of ecology, bringing about Ecolinguistics, Ecoliterature, Ecosemiotics, etc. However, ecological rhetoric as a subdiscipline needs be clarified. This essay aims explore its origin, major strands, and future trend. We find that can traced Kenneth Burke's thoughts in 1930s, there are four strands -- co...

Wittgenstein, continuing through selected logical positivists, emotivists, and the antiemotivist David Ross, and concluding with pre-Word-and-Object works of Quine. The volumes are outgrowths of upper-division undergraduate courses at Princeton University that were often attended by first and second-year graduate students as well. The intended audience consists of comparable students at univers...

What role does ordinary language play in philosophical theorizing today? One might think: little. After all, analytic philosophy has moved past its “ordinary language” phase; metaphysics, for example, few would think that attending to “time” and related words anything teach us about the nature of, how we persist through, time. The aim of this paper, however, is argue contemporary pays more atte...

drawing largely on aidoo’s (1970) play, anowa, as well as lived experiences, i argue on the philosophical flaws of ashcroft’s (2009) claim that there is no inherent link between language and culture. this essay subsequently explores the implication of my argument on some transformational domains of english in particular though it has obvious applicability to the role of colonial languages in ge...