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Pope's Essay on Man and Moral Epistles were designed to be the parts of a system of ethics which he wanted to express in poetry. Moral Epistles has been known under various other names including Ethic Epistles and Moral Essays. On its publication, An Essay on Man received great admiration throughout Europe.
The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man" (German: "Anteil der Arbeit an der Menschwerdung des Affen") is an unfinished essay written by Friedrich Engels in the spring of 1876. The essay forms the ninth chapter of Dialectics of Nature , which proposes a unitary materialist paradigm of natural and human history.
In Sartre's account, man is a creature haunted by a vision of "completion" (what Sartre calls the ens causa sui, meaning literally "a being that causes itself"), which many religions and philosophers identify as God. Born into the material reality of one's body, in a material universe, one finds oneself inserted into being.
In English essay first meant "a trial" or "an attempt", and this is still an alternative meaning. The Frenchman Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) was the first author to describe his work as essays; he used the term to characterize these as "attempts" to put his thoughts into writing. Subsequently, essay has been
The Phenomenon of Man (French: Le phénomène humain) is an essay by the French geologist, paleontologist, philosopher, and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. In this work, Teilhard describes evolution as a process that leads to increasing complexity, culminating in the unification of consciousness. The text was written in the 1930s, but ...
Thomas Mann – like many of his fellow German writers – had a positive attitude towards the German war effort during World War I.In three essays written after the outbreak of the war in 1914 – Gedanken im Kriege [] ("Thoughts in Wartime" [August/September 1914]), Gute Feldpost ("Good News from the Front" [October 1914]) and Friedrich und die große Koalition ("Frederick and the Great ...
Ernst Alfred Cassirer (/ k ɑː ˈ s ɪər ər, k ə ˈ-/ kah-SEER-ər, kə-; [1] German: [ˈɛʁnst kaˈsiːʁɐ]; [2] [3] July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German philosopher. . Trained within the Neo-Kantian Marburg School, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic philosophy of s
Such people begin with God and not man. Bolingbroke was a Platonist as were the 19th c Whigs with all their coercive measures, and they remain so today. They make it seem man is perfectible, but make the attempt impossible and authoritarian. Whatever is, must be right, because we are in no position to know otherwise no matter what such people ...