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Extrait : Je naquis le 26 février 1786, dans la commune d’Estagel, ancienne province du Roussillon (département des Pyrénées-Orientales). Mon père, licencié en droit, avait de petites propriétés en ……続きを見る

Plutarch’s “Lives” remains today as one of the most important historical accounts of the classical period. “Lives” is a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans by the ancient Greek histori……続きを見る

Extrait : Exemples que j’ai reçus de mon grand-père Vérus : la bonté et la douceur, qui ne connaît point la colère. Du père qui m’a donné la vie : la modestie et la virilité, du moins si je m’en rap……続きを見る

Geometry defines the world around us, helping us make sense of everything from architecture to military science to fashion. And for over two thousand years, geometry has been equated with Euclid's E……続きを見る

A dazzling group biography of the early twentieth-century thinkers who transformed the way the world thought about math and science Inspired by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Bertrand Ru……続きを見る

Extrait : Blaise Pascal naquit à Clermont-Ferrand le 19 juin 1623. Il appartenait à une vieille famille d’Auvergne, dont un ancêtre, Étienne Pascal, maître des requêtes, avait été anobli par le roi ……続きを見る

Qui croire dans le brouillard quand personne ne possède la moindre lanterne?... Quoi qu’il fasse ou qu’il ne fasse pas, l’homme est et sera toujours à la merci de la nature. (extrait9 続きを見る

En chacun de nous sommeillent un idiot, un criminel et un génie. Chaque matin, en me rasant, je me dis: j’espère qu’aucun des trois ne s’est réveillé en même temps que moi. (extrait) 続きを見る

Enjoy a short story proposing an unusual solution to Road Rage is proposed in this delightful telling of a long-suffering family's wild trip to Grandma's house. Based loosely on a true event this st……続きを見る

Best-selling Marathi biographical novel on the life of Revered Pandurang Shastri Athavale, founder of Swadhyay Parivar, who introduced universal way of life, way of worship and way of thinking to ac……続きを見る

Si le travail rendait vraiment libre, il n’ y aurait plus personne au boulot. Ceux qui exaltent le travail, ce sont toujours ceux qui n’en foutent pas une. (extrait) 続きを見る

Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the Meditations in Koine Greek[1] as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement.It is possible that large portions of the work were written at Sirmium, ……続きを見る

The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period (roughly 5th century BC). The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategis……続きを見る

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future is a book by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche that expands the ideas of his previous work Thus Spoke Zarathustra with a more critical and p……続きを見る

Sigmund Freud founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology and was particularly well known for his focus on the unconscious mind. Freud believed that the interpretation of dreams were sources of ……続きを見る

Andrew Lang was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. He was educated at ……続きを見る

'I knew I Was Going to Write a Novel' In April 1978, I was watching a baseball game in the Jingu Stadium in Tokyo, the sun was shining, I was drinking a beer. And when Dave Hilton of the Yakult Swal……続きを見る

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, authored by Plato around 375 BC, concerning justice, the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man. It is Plato's best-known work, and has pro……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la peau d'un empereur faisant appel au stoïcisme pour gérer son Empire ! "On sent en soi-même un plaisir secret lorsqu'on parle de cet empereur ; on ne peut lire sa vie sans une espèc……続きを見る

Presentazione Un viaggio nell’arco di mezzo secolo, dai villaggi iraniani a Glarona (Svizzera), la culla della democrazia diretta, con un pensiero rivolto alla odierna situazione politica ed economi……続きを見る

After being widely rejected in the late 20th century the work of Karl Marx is now being reassessed by many theorists and activists. Karl Marx, Anthropologist explores how this most influential of mo……続きを見る

Running The Mile Distance running is already becoming a popular form of exercise. However, there are a few very important things that have to be considered before one decides to join in on all the f……続きを見る

Inside these pages can be found the teachings and lore of such notable figures as Buddha, Shankara, Confucius, Lao-Tsu, Mencius and many others. First published in 1928, "The Story of Oriental Philo……続きを見る

“This is the best introductory text on Nietzsche in English, German or French, and in three respects: it is genuinely introductory without being superficial; it reflects good philosophical judgment;……続きを見る

Practicing Buddhists voluntarily undertake a particular set of training rules appropriate to their life-situation: Lay men and women observe the Five Precepts (pañca-sila) Lay men and women doing in……続きを見る

A historical biography of the Italian philosopher/politician Antonio Gramsci (1891-1973), considered one of the most important Marxist philosophers of the twentieth-century. As part of the Communist……続きを見る

Alain Badiou y Jean-Luc Nancy son tal vez los últimos herederos de la gran tradición de la filosofía francesa del siglo XX y XXI. Sus obras ocupan un lugar decisivo en los debates filosóficos y cult……続きを見る

“Simply Descartes is the perfect one-stop-shop for all matters Cartesian. Smith presents Descartes’s entire system from the ground up, building from metaphysics and epistemology to physics and moral……続きを見る

There can be little doubt that Marcus Aurelius was one of the most exemplary leaders of all time. He held the most powerful and highest station in the ancient world for almost two decades. He had ac……続きを見る

Kant est le père de la philosophie allemande : il est l’auteur ou plutôt l’instrument de la plus grande révolution philosophique qui ait eu lieu dans l’Europe moderne depuis Descartes. Or, toute rév……続きを見る