The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action
10 best books like The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action (John Dewey): Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings, On Liberty, Les Fleurs du Mal, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The Varieties of Religious Experience, قرية ظالمة, تلك الأيام, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind, Min kamp 2, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
| Author | Jorge Luis Borges |
| ISBN | 0811200124 |
Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges of Argentina is recognized all over the world as one of the most original and significant figures in modern literature. In his preface, Andre Maurois writes: "Borges is a great writer who has composed only...
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Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty presented one of the most eloquent defenses of individual freedom in nineteenth-century social and political philosophy and is today perhaps the most widely-read liberal argument in support...
| Author | Charles Baudelaire |
| ISBN | 0879234628 |
After reading Baudelaire, I suddenly find myself wanting to smoke cigarettes and say very cynical things while donning a trendy haircut. Plus, if I didn't read Baudelaire, how could I possibly carry on conversations with pretentious art students?
In all seriousness, though, I wish my French...
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
| Author | James Hogg |
| ISBN | 0192835904 |
Set in early eighteenth-century Scotland, the novel recounts the corruption of a boy of strict Calvinist parentage by a mysterious stranger under whose influence he commits a series of murders. The stranger assures the boy that no sin can affect the salvation of an elect person. The reader, while recognizing...
The Varieties of Religious Experience
| Author | William James |
| ISBN | 1402199031 |
"I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist. Psychology is the only branch of learning in which I am particularly versed. To the psychologist the religious propensities of man must be at least as interesting as any other of the facts pertaining...
| Author | محمد كامل حسين |
| ISBN | 9770919195 |
تُعدّ «قرية ظالمة» من أجمل ما كتب د.محمد كامل حسين، بل يراها البعض أجمل ما كُتِب عن الأيام الأخيرة للسيد المسيح. تناول المؤلف فى هذه القصة بأسلوب راق وسرد...
| Author | فتحي غانم |
| ISBN | 9770163708 |
أعدت قرأتها بعد مشاهدتي للفيلم الذي أحترمته لرؤيه مخرجه التي غايرت تماما رؤيه المؤلف ...
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| Author | Wilfrid Sellars |
| ISBN | 0674251555 |
The most important work by one of America's greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind is both the epitome of Wilfrid Sellars' entire philosophical system and a key document in the history of philosophy. First published in essay form in 1956, it helped bring about...
Having left his first wife, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, Sweden, where he leads a solitary existence. He strikes up a deep friendship with another exiled Norwegian, a Nietzschean intellectual and boxing fanatic named Geir. He also tracks down Linda, whom he met at a writers' workshop a few...
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
| Author | William James |
| ISBN | 0486282708 |
A profoundly influential figure in American psychology, William James (1842–1910) was also a philosopher of note, who used Charles S. Peirce's theories of pragmatism as a basis for his own conception of that influential philosophy. For James, this meant an emphasis on "radical empiricism" and...
