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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 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
Man as on his way towards finding God, Gabriel Marcel, 1945 [citation needed] Homo pictor "depicting man", "man the artist" Human sense of aesthetics, Hans Jonas, 1961 Homo poetica "man the poet", "man the meaning maker" Ernest Becker, in The Structure of Evil: An Essay on the Unification of the Science of Man (1968). Homo religiosus "religious ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
Culture and Value (English translation of Zettel). 1982. Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology, Vols. 1–2, 1992. Von Wright also edited extracts from the diary of David Pinsent, also published by Wiley-Blackwell: 1990. A Portrait of Wittgenstein as a Young Man: From the Diary of David Hume Pinsent 1912–1914. ISBN 0-631-17511-3.