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Films It’s A Wonderful Life Becky Lee Meadows considers questions of guilt, innocence, and despair in this classic Christmas movie. Frank Capra’s 1946 masterpiece It’s A Wonderful Life is regularly included in lists of the best-ever Christmas films. Though its ending is heart-warming and life-affirming, it nonetheless deals with weighty issues of injustice, dishonesty and self-sacrifice ...

2025年1月21日 · VA to AI I believe "7. Shift to a Regulative Ideal" is the most effective resolution of the Determinism vs FreeWill dichotomy. [CPR B397] "Even the wisest of men cannot free himself from them {the illusions}. After long effort he perhaps succeeds in guarding himself against actual error; but he will never be able to free himself from the Illusion, which …

Articles Kant On Suicide Paul Edwards disagrees with Kant in this recently-discovered paper. All Enlightenment thinkers who wrote on the subject – Hume, Voltaire and Rousseau among others – agreed that the religious condemnation of suicide was not only preposterous but also entirely lacking in charity. Kant, on the other hand, denounced suicide in the most unqualified and …

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2025年1月18日 · A rock is not free. An erupting volcano is not free. A gust of wind is not free. A torrent of rain is not free. A bolt of lightning is not free. Why? Because Natural entities and events, non-living things, are...not living. They are not biological. Thus these phenomena are "Ruled By Natural Laws and Physical Forces": Gravity, Pressure, Electricity, Chemical Reactions, Etc. A …

2019年2月28日 · This is a very interesting book that gives a lot of insights as to how we perceive ourselves. Most people are constantly thinking about the future, or the past, which are mere illusions. The only thing that's real is the "now". He also talks about the concept of ego, and how problems with the way we perceive ourselves and the world have caused so much hatred and …

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Philippa Foot Philippa Foot has for decades been one of Oxford’s best-known and most original ethicists. Her groundbreaking papers won her worldwide recognition but at the dawn of the new century she has finally published her first full-length book. Editor Rick Lewis asked her about goodness, vice, plants and Nietzsche.A selection of free articles from the magazine.

Nietzsche undermines any self-deceiving idealism about love through the exposure of its less attractive motivations. In section 14 of The Gay Science, entitled ‘The things people call love’, Nietzsche challenges romantic conceptions of erotic love with the claim that love “may be the most ingenuous expression of egoism.” He proposes that love is close to greed and the lust for ...