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Philosophical fiction is any fiction that devotes a significant portion of its content to the sort of questions addressed by philosophy.It might explore any facet of the human condition, including the function and role of society, the nature and motivation of human acts, the purpose of life, ethics or morals, the role of art in human lives, the role of experience or reason in the development ...
Pyrrhus and Cineas (original title: Pyrrhus et Cinéas) is Simone de Beauvoir's first philosophical essay. [1] It was published in 1944, and in it, she makes a philosophical inquiry into the human situation by way of analogy from the story of when Pyrrhus was asked by his friend Cineas what his plans were after conquering his next empire.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Well-known example of a modern philosophical novel. Santayana, George: 1863–1952 Unamuno, Miguel de: 1864–1936 Pirandello, Luigi: 1867–1936 Maxim Gorky: 1868-1936 The Life of Klim Samgin; Proust, Marcel: 1871-1922 In Search of Lost Time; Chesterton, G. K. 1874-1936 Mann, Thomas: 1875-1955 The Magic Mountain; Hesse ...
The first English use of the expression "meaning of life" appears in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), book II chapter IX, "The Everlasting Yea". [1]Our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom, than Voluntary Force: thus have we a warfare; in the beginning, especially, a hard-fought battle.
The story revolves around Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān, a little boy who grew up on an island in the Indies under the equator, isolated from the people, in the bosom of an antelope that raised him, feeding him with her milk. Ḥayy has just learned to walk and imitates the sounds of antelopes, birds, and other animals in his surroundings.
The movie and book share no common story elements, and the philosophical connection to the book is reduced to some pictorial format and a few seconds of on-screen dialogue. [12] Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam has cited the book as an influence on their album, Yield. [13] Quinn responds to the album's significance in relation to the book on his ...
Rights (The Philosophical Quarterly, 1965) The Right to Life (Mind, 1975) Moral Rights and Animals (Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, 1979) Books. Morality Without Religion (1961) The Problem of Liberalism (1965) Utilitarian and Retributive Punishment (1967) Meta-ethics and Normative Ethics (1969) The Political Philosophy of ...
Coleridge's theory of life is an attempt by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to understand not just inert or still nature, but also vital nature.He examines this topic most comprehensibly in his work Hints towards the Formation of a more Comprehensive Theory of Life (1818). [1]