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On Success
While indeed it is not true that success justifies even the evil deed and the reprehensible means...
Civil Courage
What really lies behind the lament about the lack of civil courage? In these years we have encoun...
Who Stands Firm?
The huge masquerade of evil has thrown all ethical concepts into con-fusion. That evil should app...
Without Ground under One’s Feet
Have there ever been people in history who in their time, like us, had so little ground under the...
Ten Years
Ten years is a long time in the life of every human being. Because time is the most precious gift...
Honorable Rachel Corrie
Rachel Aliene Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003) was an American nonviolence activist and d...
Structure
Expression opens with three chapters (1–3) entitled "General Principles of Expression", where Dar...
Darwin's sources on emotional expression
Darwin attended debates about psychology at the Plinian Society in December 1826 and March 1827 a...
Background
In the weeks before Queen Victoria's coronation in 1838, Charles Darwin sought medical advice f...
Introduction
History of Western Philosophy is a 1945 book by British philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970)....
Editorial: How and Why?
The select excerpts from this rather large book are selected to focus on a particular topic of ...
IQ, g, statistical correlation, and heritability
As an evolutionary biologist and historian of science, Gould accepted biological variability (the...
Bias and falsification
The Mismeasure of Man presents a historical evaluation of the concepts of the intelligence quotie...
Craniometry
The Mismeasure of Man is a critical analysis of the early works of scientific racism which promot...
Author
Stephen Jay Gould (/ɡuːld/; 1941 – 2002) was a professor at Harvard, teaching paleontology, evolu...
Introduction
The Mismeasure of Man is a 1981 book by paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The book is both a hist...
The Lady Philosophy
On the Consolation of Philosophy was written in AD 523 during a one-year imprisonment Boethius se...
Influence
From the Carolingian epoch[12] to the end of the Middle Ages and beyond, The Consolation of Philo...
Outline
On the Consolation of Philosophy is laid out as follows: Book I: Boethius laments his imprison...
Interpretation
In the Consolation, Boethius answered religious questions without reference to Christianity, rely...