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Confucius (Chinese: 孔子 Kǒng Zǐ) is a 2010 Chinese biographical drama film written and directed by Hu Mei, starring Chow Yun-fat as the titular Chinese philosopher.The film was produced by P.H. Yu, Han Sanping, Rachel Liu and John Shum.
Book III: Building on the ideas laid out in the previous book, Philosophy explains how wisdom has a divine source; she also demonstrates how many earthly goods (e.g., wealth, beauty) are fleeting at best. Book IV: Philosophy and Boethius discuss the nature of good and evil, with Philosophy offering several explanations concerned with evil ...
[3]: 3 This sets up the fundamental tension of the work between, on the one hand, the desire to leave behind the stifling private home so as to help prevent war, an aim that Woolf certainly shares with her interlocutor, and, on the other, an unwillingness to simply ally with the public world of men. "Behind us lies the patriarchal system; the ...
[3]: 475 His 2010 memoir With Love and Rage: A Friendship with Iris Murdoch, describes their lifelong friendship. [38] [39] John Bayley wrote two memoirs of his life with Iris Murdoch. Iris: A Memoir was published in the United Kingdom in 1998, shortly before her death. The American edition, which was published in 1999, was called Elegy for Iris.
Carruthers notes that it is the independence that the Wife's wealth provides for her that allows her to love freely. [21] This implies that autonomy is an important component in genuine love, and since autonomy can only be achieved through wealth, wealth, then, becomes the greatest component for true love.
Agora (Spanish: Ágora) is a 2009 English-language Spanish historical drama film directed by Alejandro Amenábar and written by Amenábar and Mateo Gil.The biopic stars Rachel Weisz as Hypatia, a mathematician, philosopher and astronomer in late 4th-century Roman Egypt, who investigates the flaws of the geocentric Ptolemaic system and the heliocentric model that challenges it.
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (née Lucas; 1623 – 16 December 1673) was an English philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction writer, and playwright.She was a prolific writer, publishing over 12 original texts under her name at a time when women were largely removed from publishing.
"Lady Anne Conway". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Works by Anne Conway at Open Library; Contains "The principles of the most ancient and modern philosophy", slightly modified for easier reading; The principles of the most ancient and modern philosophy by Anne Conway (London: n. publ., 1692) at A Celebration of ...