The Great Learning is the first of the Four books which were selected by Zhu Xi during the Song Dynasty as a foundational introduction to Confucianism. It was originally one chapter in Classic of Rites. The book consists of a short main text, attributed to Confucius, and nine commentaries chapters by Zeng Zi, one of Confucius' disciples. Its importance is illustrated by Zeng Zi's foreword that this is the gateway of learning. Some of the terms within...

"On the Nature of Things" is Lucretius's only known work. The goal of the text is to explain Epicurean philosophy to the Roman people. It is addressed to Gaius Memmius, a praetor and patron of Lucretius. Presented in this work is an argument for atomism, the assertion that it is not the Gods that are responsible for the happenings of the world, but rather atoms and voids. Lucretius also argues that death is simply the dissipation of the human mind,...

The James M. H. Gregg Selected Works includes four books. Each book was written to inspire future generations to think and act in ways to improve themselves and society.Mr. Gregg's most recent work, Social Justice (A Blueprint), explores a new set of ideas and strategies for moving humans to a higher cultural plane on which all can live to their full potential.In Ideas of a Twentieth Century Grandfather the author reveals to his grandchildren his...

Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis bblicos: el hambre, la guerra, la enfermedad y la muerte, junto con la injusticia y otros muchos males que aquejan a la humanidad, son el producto y la consecuencia de Los Cuatro Jinetes Causa. Estos Cuatro jinetes han sido creados por el hombre, y han evolucionado a travs de civilizaciones y culturas, provocando sufrimiento y dolor por todo el mundo.

The shower scene in Psycho; Cary Grant running for his life through a cornfield; 'innocent' birds lined up on a fence waiting, watching - these seminal cinematic moments are as real to moviegoers as their own lives. But what makes them so? What deeper forces are at work in Hitchcock's films that so captivate his fans? This collection of articles in the series that's explored such pop-culture phenomena as Seinfeld and The Simpsons examines those forces...

Nietzche and the Study of Language in Historical Sources. "There is no more dangerous assumption in modern esthetics than that of popular poetry and individual poetry, or, as it is usually called, artistic poetry." Nietzsche's inaugural lecture at the university is a great piece of work in which he talks about Homer and how he has been regarded in classic philology.

The Lord of the Rings is intended to be applicable to the real world of relationships, religion, pleasure, pain, and politics. Tolkien himself said that his grand tale of wizards, orcs, hobbits, and elves was aimed at truth and good morals in the actual world.Analysis of the popular appeal of The Lord of the Rings (on websites and elsewhere) shows that Tolkien fans are hungry for discussion of the urgent moral and cosmological issues arising out of...

God Is Dead. "I am a forest, and a night of dark trees, but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses." Zarathustra in Thus Spake Zarathustra is not the Persian founder of Zoroastrianism, he is just a means to Friedrich Nietzsche's end. Through Zarathustra, Nietzsche tries to define his own philosophy attacking the Christian values of good and evil and predicting the rise of a new man, the superman, a self-mastered,...

This book consists of fifteen cartoons inspired by an 1866 Harpers Weekly article about the hypothetical length of the Thirty Years War at different periods in time and extending into the future when both sides had developed the ultimate weapons to end all wars. Of course, war is inspired by the devil.

"Let us not be led astray: they say 'judge not' and yet they condemn to hell whoever stands in their way." The Antichrist by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, was originally published in 1895. In it, Nietzsche expresses his dissatisfaction with modernity, listing his dislike of "lazy peace", "cowardly compromise", "tolerance" and "resignation". Mankind, according to Nietzsche, is corrupt and its highest values are depraved because nihilistic values...