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...n@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samv... ... M XIII. N XIV. O XV. P-Q XVI. R XVII. S XVIII. T XIX. U-V-W XX. X-Y-Z XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundament... ...ty or obligation exist. IB. The Right to be Born The right to be born crystallizes at the moment of voluntary and intentional fertilization. If a w... ...'s Life Maintained Does one have the right to maintain one's life and prolong them at other people's expense? Does one have the right to use other ... ...anger. But so are threats to one's affiliates, nearest, dearest, nation, favourite football club, pet and so on. The territory of anger is enlarged... ...ople of Yucatan, the Purchas from Popayan, Colombia, the denizens of the Marquesas Islands of Polynesia, and the natives of the captaincy of Sergip... ...ners of war are devoured by their captors. This used to be a common exercise among island tribes (e.g., in Fiji, the Andaman and Cook islands) and ... ...ntity. The artifacts of popular culture - thrillers, action and sci-fi films, video games, computer viruses - assume that all organisms, organizatio... ... entrenched a taboo as cannibalism. Yet, it is better to eat the flesh of your dead football team mates than perish high up on the Andes (a harrowin...

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...(second edition) American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2 Titu Popescu THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) Translated from Romanian by... ...andache/ ISBN: 1-931233-53-5 Standard Address Number 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 4 Foreword In the history of thought and... ...rm - with the name of the personality who illustrates it most extensively at a given time, we state precisely the specific importance of it; we give ... ...n, the history of art can be superposed to the history of the authors or, at, least gets tangled very strongly with them. It is precisely the case ... ... The persistency of a demonstrative attempt explains also the symptomatic gamesome reflex. The difference is an aesthetics or an appearance of being... ...ntinuously to the reader what is live”. In relation with Eco’s novel “The island of the day before” (Milan, Bompierri 1994), he observes that pedantr... ... this comes a radically histrionic appetite of paradoxism for a totalling gamesome rhetoric. The writing gets consumed in its proper time, through a ... ...in expressions or in the conception of some sequences: the rendering of a football-match through the reactions in the stands; the pages are adorned ...

...In the history of thought and creation, the decisive events, the great and significant moments, the strongly affirmative stages - then the imposition of the optimizing novelties - have depended on the name and prestige of a pe...

...In aesthetics, the paradox means the apparent resolution of an enigmatic situation (the result of such a process is the satisfaction of a distention), the emotional moving force being the unforeseen, the unexpected (which generates and al...

...m Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...d do a great kindness.” “Well, Joe?” “If you would have the little teacher at the Miss Heath’s here for the holidays. After all the rest, she has had ... ...ed up in her face and innocently said— “Mrs. Acton read us about the Rocky Island, and she said father and granny had brought their boats to the beaut... ...mouth of the river did, at high tide, carry much drift to the base of this island, and she could understand how her two boys had been floated thither.... ...r 91 Yonge dress; to talk and laughter that she could not understand, and games that seemed to her stupid, though everybody else seemed to find them ... ...aid his mother. “For my part, I had rather see them playing at good honest games than messing about with that museum nonsense. The boys did not do hal... ...“but at a public school you’re fagged, and forced to go in for cricket and football.” “You would soon get above that.” “Yes, but even then you get no ...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Joe Brownlow?s Fancy. The lady said, ?An orphan?s fate Is sad and hard to bear.? --Scott ?MOTHER, you could do a great kindness.? ?Well, Joe?? ?If you would have the little teacher at the Miss Heath?s here for the holidays. After all the rest, she...