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...ung adult whose overriding desire is to belong to a higher - or at least, richer - social class. While he waits upon the subjects of his not so hid... ...cterized by the DSM IV (Diagnostic and Statistics Manual): "Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviour, deceitfulness as ... ...ir meticulously crafted facade. They more often than not go on to great success and social acceptance while their detractors are relegated to the f... ...he Utopia that he leaves behind. Return The Matrix It is easy to confuse the concepts of "virtual reality" and a "computerized model of reali... ...useless without a stock exchange or if its mathematically erroneous. Yet, the two concepts are often confused because they are both mediated by an... ..., self- esteem, sense of self-worth, and sense of existence (spatial, temporal, and social). But one can easily imagine a brain in vitro as having t... ...raits and cognitive style, which may well be stable, are often influenced by Dan's social setting and by his social interactions. It would seem t... ...by the World Economic Forum (WEF), no one knows how to define and quantify elusive concepts such as "sustainable development". Even the costs of re... ...999% vacuum with minute granules of matter floating about). To reconcile these two concepts, we must let go of the old belief (probably vital to ou...

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...a single defining term - is an emergent belief structure based around the concepts of Multiverse theory[more specifically, it leans more toward inte... ...n, and all other living, sentient persons, and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, Whereas thi... ... orientation, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, origin, ’body makeup’(human or otherwise), birth ... ... procedures. Article 22 Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort an... ...dance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free deve... ...orthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. 4. Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unio...

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...ion how one person's integrity can inspire others and lead to fundamental social changes. Riding home from work on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama... ...n and limitation, a deception and an excuse. Eliminating these words and concepts from your vocabulary will enable you to communicate more directly...

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...ry style having its main roots in the two realities analyzed before: politico-social and literary. The same idea met, at Adrian Marino and C. M. Popa... ... of “the absolute lyricism”. The frequent contradictions and paradoxes of the social life would have determined Florentin Smarandache to try (and to... ...t emancipation and freedom, provoked him a normal reaction of adversity in his social attitude and of negation (“no”) in his literary creation plan. ... ...ents of... absolute) in-adaptation we easily guess not a handicap of a psycho-social nature, but a displayed nonconformism of an avowed verticality, ... ...s and serve the purpose to teach about the unity of the moral universe of the concepts. In this way they stop to be a laborious barbarousness but, pa... ...olume before 1990. Seeming that he didn’t want to forget the actual politico- social conditions that generated the movement, the author begins the v...

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...une façon de vivre nos vies, c'est-à-dire un principe directeur. Que ce soit pour nous aider à acquérir la sagesse et la connaissance, comprendre des concepts importants de la vie – abstractions ou non, ou suggérer ou proposer quelques principes directeurs, la philosophie utilise trois domaines distincts: la métaphysique, l'éthique et la logique. Maintenant, comment tout c...

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...christianisme est mythologique et narratif ……………………..………214 viii. Le christianisme est éthique …………………………………………........215 ix. Le christianisme est social et institutionnel ……………………………......216 c. Consolation de philosophie ………………………………………………………218 7. Comparaisons...………………………...………………………………………………...222 a. Ackermann et Platon..………………………………………......………………...222 b. Acke...

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...onstitutes "just killing" is a matter for an ethical calculus in the framework of a social contract. But does A's right not to be killed include the... ...ght to euthanasia, to have one's life terminated at will, is restricted by numerous social, ethical, and legal rules, principles, and considerations... ...but this right is not automatic, nor is it all-encompassing. III. Abortion and the Social Contract The issue of abortion is emotionally loaded and ... ...he negative. The contract between a mother and her fetus is derived from the larger Social Contract. Society – through its apparatuses – stands for ... ...hese rights and leaves others unmentioned because of the presumed existence of the Social Contract. The typical contract assumes that there is a so... ... the philosophical side of Religion as well) and the convergence is precisely where concepts of order and disorder emerge. String theories, for inst... ...s do not eliminate vagueness - they only assign continuous values ("fuzzy sets") to concepts ("prototypes"). Open texture is when there may be "bor... ...lid, meanings. Borderline cases (and vagueness) arise at the "edge of chaos" - in concepts and predicates with co-evolving static and chaotic elem... ...lity, a model which is asymptotic to the Universe "as it is". It gives rise to the concepts of quality, emergence, function, derivation, influence ...

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... and logics. He had generalized the fuzzy logic, and introduced two new concepts: a) “neutrosophy” – study of neutralities as an extension of dia... ...side-down situation' that existed in the country. I started from politic, social, and immediately got to literature, art, and philosophy, even scien... ...nterprets the uninterpretable; - regards, from many different angles, old concepts, systems: showing that an idea, which is true in a given referent... ...ill be classified as neutrality. K) Delimitation from Other Philosophical Concepts and Theories: 1. Neutrosophy is based not only on analysis of opp... ...terpretations of Known Theories, Modes, Views, Processes of Reason, Acts, Concepts in Philosophy. This section, which is a neutrosophic epistemology... ...fying to me an American friend kept by his wife henpecked! A cyclic social development. The woman becomes the center of the society's cel... ...women have more rights than men in western societies (in divorce trials). Social Paradox: In a democracy should the nondemocratic ideas be allowed? ... ... neutrality of everything. Spencer's "organicism", which states that social evolution is from simple to complex and from homogeneous to heterog... ...with what clarity I should have brought out all the contradictions of our social system" (J. J. Rousseau). A paradoxical argument: "Man is by natur...

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... us in the same time. The Coming is an inner process of our soul and not a social revolution... And indeed, in the “outside” around us, the only “ride... ...n inner Revelation for each soul. In its due time. And this means, that no social or religious revolutions and major ideological changes could succeed... ...ner interdependent control, compromise and concord systems) that almost no social or political conflict could possibly appear. The financial structure... ...of the Global Human Union’s Constitution. And thus, becomes the essence of social relations, individual selfrealization, education, economics, trade, ... ...epends on my concept of the I. And this means that the limits of I are but concepts. According to our concept of the real I we give the I its size, it... ...ted conditions, limited capabilities, limited duration, limited relations, concepts, knowledge, etc. 32 And as a consequence, every personal form he... ...mited I becomes what it is limited abilities, limited knowledge, limited concepts of our real I. And these limitations, in turn, create new limited ... ...a specific personal background historical, ethnical, cultural, economic, social, genetic, physical, intellectual, religious, our fates are different... ... real I is. We know now that God is our One and Only real I. And all other concepts of the I are but illusions. We know now that God is all that is. S...

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...s I've developed a positive attitude in my life. Practice applying these concepts to your own situations. Again, if they work for me, they will als... ...s drug abuse and teen pregnancy while increasing academic achievement and social responsibility. Can you see how self-esteem, or the lack of it, ca... ...nd time, they do things that remove themselves from the realm of positive social activity. They drink or take drugs in an attempt to block out the ... ... from being an alcoholic at the point of suicide. Imagine that! How many social programs that strive to combat alcoholism, depression or any other ... .... I am absolutely overwhelmed at the depth of her giving. She has taken a social statistic that is virtually incomprehensible in human terms and ha... ...elieve me when I say they work when applied to everyday situations. These concepts are based on universal life principles and they'll work if you pr... ...n the mind? The use of imagination is nothing more than examining facts, concepts and ideas and then creat, ing new combinations and plans. To brin... ...ecause he had to weave a lot of old ideas together to create the many new concepts it took for him to move all that gum. He did, and so can you, be... ...oughts will simply disappear. I would like to share with you some words, concepts, and types of thoughts that have helped me create a meaningful an...

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...le interpretation, it is a journey. If you want to grasp all the wealth of concepts it contains I suggest that besides reading it individually you di... ...y produce every type of handicraft and they create every type of familial, social and cultural works, especially those we call works of art, that a... ... written out, but first I would like to talk “off the cuff” about the main concepts I would like to share with you, and then I will read my paper. ... ...guments, not to destroy what we affirmed before but to make a synthesis of concepts and realities that are opposite to each other. This will also s... ...firms that the line is an absolute. Now, so we can assimilate well these concepts, let’s say that the principle of a single cause is equal to a st... ... this does not happen the artist cannot exist, either on a public level or socially or historically. The artist can exist on his or her own, but no ... ...secute them. This is true of all human relationships, be they personal or social. How can we break this spiral of perfectionism and hatred? I kn... ...ics have one and the same soul: in every sphere of life, be it personal or social, we want to blend together TRUTH and BEAUTY, like artists know how... ...d of daily life, in the field of human relations, be they interpersonal or social. I hope that every Existential Anthropologist can say, at the e...

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... the philosophical side of Religion as well) and the convergence is precisely where concepts of order and disorder emerge. String theories, for inst... ...Biological systems obey the same order- increasing (natural) laws as do physical and social ones. We are part of the Universe in the sense that we ar... ...s do not eliminate vagueness - they only assign continuous values ("fuzzy sets") to concepts ("prototypes"). Open texture is when there may be "bor... ...id, meanings. Borderline cases (and vagueness) arise at the "edge of chaos" - in concepts and predicates with co-evolving static and chaotic elem... ...: "Bestowed Entities". These are entities whose existence is bestowed upon them by social agreement between conscious agents. But this definition i... ...ss. Religion and money are two examples of entities which owe their existence to a social agreement between conscious entities - yet they don't str... ...s pertinent and our definition should be refined accordingly. We must distinguish "Social Entities" (like money or religion) from "Bestowed Entitie... ...nt for a wealth of experiences and encapsulate numerous observations. Mathematical concepts and symbols do not correspond to material objects or ca... ...creates a change in the Language Field. Such a change can lead to a conflict with a social norm, for instance, or with a norm, a personal value, or ...

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... sometimes overwhelming part played by some speculative models of various concepts. The geocentric and then the heliocentric model for the planetary... ...culative models that could and still can explain the ″working″ of various concepts, deepening the general process of knowledge. A speculative model ... ...iffuse and associative creativity, which can be characterized by the term social creativity. Considering that one of the branches of the rational en... ...est a possible reason of the evolution towards diversity, of the religous concepts – a diversity which would consist in a different aporoach and emp... ...ynergism) of the material and spiritual world? The ancient philosophical concepts related to the world, especially the Ionian ones, emerged as resp... ...nd which, by means of communication (in the case of humanoids) acquires a social character. Thus: - The spirit is not an entelechy, but it displays... ... festum″; it can only be performed prophylactically, by eliminating from social life the crimes, death penalties, wars and any other form of violent... ...t works by the average man (and allows accumulation of new knowledge at a social level.> Without opposing the subjective-idealistic explanatio... ...f rationality in different human communities, of a certain historical and social level. The philosopher Marian Stefanescu, in his work called “Chris...

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...of the devouring mother, and the Freudian analyst Fairbairn introduced the concepts of the seductive mother and the castrating mother. In the Odysse... ...hey are recognized by the other and vice-versa. The same thing is true for social interactions and relationships in general. When the narcissistic w... ...produce every sort of handicraft and create every type of works, familial, social, cultural, and in particular those works that we call works of art...

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...matics, NonMathematics, or even Anti-Mathematics: not in a nihilistic way, but in positive one. The truly innovative researchers will banish the old concepts in oder of check, by heuristic processes, some new ones: their opposites. Don't simply follow the crowd, and don't accept to be manipulated by any (political, economical, social, even scientific, or artistic, cultur...

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...rmulas and movements; it reveals that the world is full of indeterminacy; it interprets the uninterpretable; regards, from many different angles, old concepts, systems and proves that an idea which is true in a given referential system, may be false in another, and vice versa; attempts to make peace in the war of ideas, and to make war in the peaceful ideas! The main princ...

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...ENTION OF SPREAD OF AIDS EPIDEMIC MEDICAL TREATMENT OF AIDS PATIENTS SOCIAL STIGMA GENDER BALANCE COST EFFECTIVE SUCCESSFUL LARGE SCALE ... ...GMA GENDER BALANCE COST EFFECTIVE SUCCESSFUL LARGE SCALE OPERATION SOCIAL SERVICE 1 Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Neutrosophic Cognitive Ma... ...h of the Neutrosophic Relational Map exhibiting the relations between the concepts of Women Empowerment and Community Mobilization and the HIV/AIDS ... ...erica 3 CONTENTS Dedication 4 Preface 5 Chapter One BASIC CONCEPTS ABOUT FUZZY COGNITIVE MAPS AND FUZZY RELATIONAL MAPS 1.1 Defi... ... interprets the uninterpretable; regards, from many different angles, old concepts, systems and proves that an idea which is true in a given referen... ...generalization of the theory of Fuzzy Logic. In this book we study the concepts of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) and their Neutrosophic analogue, t... ...e locals FCMS showed a large capacity to adapt to changing ecological and social conditions. They actively changed and challenged these conditions t... ...chnological artifact, adapted to the office ecology, which fills the same social and emotional niche as an office plant. OP#1 monitors the ambient s... ... Announcement, Response, Request, Chat, Thank You, Complaint, Literature, Social Event, Apology, Humor, Meeting, FYI FIGURE: 1.4.2 66 Figure 1...

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...ot matter. Men will always fight among themselves, sexually, politically, socially. I have realized this for years. Can it be that this realization ... ...er father’s ideas; I think she was trying to see how much I respected his concepts as cartographer. She could be rude, blunt. She tried to sail to t... ...d Schepp Foundation, the Edward MacDowell Association, the New School for Social Research, the Huntington Hartford Foundation, the Montalvo Foundati...

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...tion of the petunia farmer. Pause for a moment and think of what a brilliant social innovation this is— at least potentially. Focus not on the incenti... ...ates a cybernetic and responsive innova- tion marketplace. The allocation of social resources to particular types of in- novation is driven by guesses... ...But we do not condemn the scientist who notes that they are both “mammals”—a socially constructed category—so long as he has a reason for focusing on ... ...s to write? The answer to all of these questions is “not exactly.” Like most social institutions, intellectual property has an altogether messier and ... ...son argues that “stable own- ership” of even tangible property is “a gift of social law.” Intellectual property, then, has still less of a claim to so... ...r my purposes, those ideas—which began as inaccessible scientific or economic concepts, far from popular discourse—were brought into the mainstream of ... ...y as Six Impossible Patents before Breakfast: Prop- erty Rights for Business Concepts and Patent System Reform,” Berkeley T echnology Law Journal 14 (...

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...nsense elements and poems, similar to Carroll's most famous children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the story set in Victorian Britain is a social novel, with its characters discussing various concepts and aspects of religion, society, philosophy and morality. (Summary from Wikipedia}....

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...leisure class resemble one another also in certain other features of their social structure and manner of life. They are small groups and of a simple ... ... follow that these are the smallest of existing communities, or that their social structure is in all respects the least differentiated; nor does the ... ...ised as the salient and decisive features of a class of activities or of a social class at 9 Veblen one stage of culture will not retain the same rel... ...g habituation, it becomes the able-bodied man’s accred- ited office in the social economy to kill, to destroy such com- petitors in the struggle for e... ...out in an emulative demonstration of force. During that primitive phase of social development, when the community is still habitually peaceable, perha... ...ble to the discussion. The general conclusions reached by the use of these concepts of selective adaptation would re- main substantially true if the e... ...ain substantially true if the earlier, Darwinian and Spencerian, terms and concepts were substituted. Under the circumstances, some latitude may be ad... ... on the personal relation of domi- nance, and on the derivative, invidious concepts of honor, worth, merit, character, and the like. The casual sequen...

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... Warren’s Profession to an audience of cleri- cal members of the Christian Social Union and of women well experienced in Rescue, Temperance, and Girls... ...hereas plays in which these humors and fascinations are discarded, and the social problems created by sex seriously faced and dealt with, inevitably i... ...nd existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current concepts, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently t... ...f instincts and temperaments in conflict with each other and with a flinty social problem that never yields an inch to mere sentiment. I go further th... ...om their family relationships and from his “conventionally unconventional” social code. The sarcasm is lost on the critics: they, saturated with the s... ...reputable daughter who cannot endure her. Her indifference to the ultimate social consequences of her means of making money, and her discovery of that...

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... then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and e... ...ent under which we live—a Government adequate to every purpose for which the social compact is formed; a Government elec tive in all its branches, un... ...le Union is knit together by the sentiments of mutual respect, the habits of social inter course, and the ties of personal friendship formed be twee... ...r have the most direct and permanent interest in preserving the landmarks of social order and maintain ing on all occasions the inviolability of thos... ...gn, that may molest other countries, regarding them in their actual state as social communities, and preserving a strict neutrality in all their contr... ...ce in our plans. What we envisage is a pro gram of development based on the concepts of demo cratic fair dealing. All countries, including our own, ... .... May cooperation be permitted and be the mutual aim of those who, under the concepts of our Constitution, hold to differing political faiths; so that...

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...nesses were glad of Pierre’s return because no one else drew them into the social life of the household as he did. He alone could play on the clavicho... ...terest the old lady and that she could understand. He told her of external social events and of the people who had formed the circle of her contempora... ...ith other influences was the cause of an event; but how a book, Le Contrat social, had the effect of making Frenchmen begin to drown one another canno... ... commit murder, and so on? With the present complex forms of political and social life in Europe can any event that is not prescribed, decreed, or or-... ...ting them do we get a clear conception of man’s life. Apart from these two concepts which in their union mutually define one another as form and conte...

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...er One: Education as a Necessity of Life .............................................................................. 5 Chapter Two: Education as a Social Function .............................................................................. 14 Chapter Three: Education as Direction ........................................................................................ ...

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............................................... 5 Chapter Two: Education as a Social Function .............................................................. ................................... 105 Chapter Nine: Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims.........................................116 Chapt... ........................................ 270 Chapter Twenty-one: Physical and Social Studies: Naturalism and Humanism .................... 285 Chapter Tw... ...find within its covers a treatise on physiology. We look for an account of social antecedents; a description of early surroundings, of the conditions ... ...and practices. The conti- nuity of any experience, through renewing of the social group, is a literal fact. Education, in its broadest sense, is the m... ... organized into topics according to the order of the specialist. Technical concepts, with their definitions, are introduced at the out- set. Laws are ... ...l ser- vice and all enjoy a worthy leisure. It is not a mere change in the concepts of culture—or a liberal mind—and social service which requires an ... ...t seemed almost axiomatic that for true knowledge we must have recourse to concepts com- ing from a reason above experience. But the introduction of t... ...with an appeal to experience, and an attack upon so-called purely rational concepts on the ground that they either needed to be ballasted by the resul...

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...he long line of “blue laws,” the laws affecting religious beliefs and many social customs, are well- known examples of legal and innocent acts which l... ...ficulties of the prob- lem by saying that a “criminal” is one who is “anti-social.” But does this bring us nearer to the light? An anti-social per- so... ...- tentment, prosperity or well-being of his neighbors, or the political or social organization in which his life is cast. In this sense many of the mo... ...ting things, and their lives are a constant battle for change. If the anti-social individual should be pun- ished, what of many of the profiteers and ... ...tific or a religious investigation of good and bad, of right and wrong, of social or anti-social life. Man lived before he wrote laws, and before he p... ...een made easier by those who have violated precepts and defied some of the concepts of the time. Both ways are right and both ways are wrong. The conf...

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... this activity does not guarantee popularity, a boyfriend, or an awe- some social life. The cheerleader’s time is taken up in studying, practicing, an... ...un. The warm, windy weather, the smell of sun- tan lotion, and the various social events that were taking place. A Mexican band singing and playing w... ... this activity does not guarantee popularity, a boyfriend, or an awe- some social life. The cheerleader’s time basi- cally consists of studying, hours... ...ividual. An entire section in books stores has been contributed toward the concepts of how to, self-help, put together, and cooking made easy. We have... ...od pet, a cat by far makes a much better house pet. A dog tends to be more social than a cat, but a cat seems to understand when and where it is appro... ... cat, but a cat seems to understand when and where it is appropriate to be social. Several times I have visited the house of a dog owner, and several ...

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...mbrace not only beliefs, but perceptions, doubts, and the understanding of concepts. “Desire,” also, is narrower than what is intended: for example, w... ...s opposed to desire for facts, is exceedingly potent both individually and socially. According to the form of belief desired, it is called vanity, opt... ...is not known, but a conventional origin is clearly just as mythical as the social contract by which Hobbes and Rousseau supposed civil government to h... ...e attention than we other- wise should do to the private as opposed to the social use of language. Language profoundly affects our thoughts, and it is... ...ons with other bodily movements. The use of words is, of course, primarily social, for the purpose of suggesting to others ideas which we entertain or... ...nstance, a white man or a negro. In my opinion, the first form of abstract concepts in general is based upon such abstract pictures. The physiological...

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... of view. LECTURE III THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN Per- cepts versus abstract concepts— Influence of the latter on belief— Kant’s theological Ideas— We h... ...ros and cons of the saintly char- acter— Saints versus “strong” men— Their social function must be considered— Abstractly the saint is the highest typ... ...re for my safety. I could give hundreds of in- stances, in school matters, social problems, financial difficulties, etc. That he is mine and I am his ... ... for a moment the habits of life into which we are born. There are certain social conventions or customs and alleged requirements, there is a theologi... ...ve up [139] Memoirs, p. 34. 247 William James my pet ambition, wealth and social position. My former habits of life hindered my growth somewhat, but ... ...ships, to re- nounce long-rooted privileges and possessions, to break with social ties. Rather do we take a stern joy in the astringency and desolatio...

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...ue alike, for what is the lion’s good is the antelope’s evil and vice versa. Concepts of good and evil are therefore, in their origin, merely a means ... ...f a world without a god. Chapter XXIX. The Tarantulas THE TARANTULAS ARE the Socialists and Democrats. This dis- course offers us an analysis of their... ...“There are those who preach my doctrine of life,” he says of the Nietzschean Socialists, “and are at the same time preach- ers of equality and tarantu... ... him represents the stul- 306 Thus Spake Zarathustra tifying and paralysing social values that threaten to shat- ter humanity, and the advice “Bite! ... ... 8 Nietzsche teaches that nothing is stable,—not even val- ues,—not even the concepts good and evil. He likens life unto a stream. But foot-bridges an... ..., lays strong emphasis upon the evils which arise from promiscuous and inter-social marriages. He alone would suffice to carry Nietzsche’s point again...

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...owed with animation and impulsiveness. T o be an enthusiast had become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not feel like it, she beca... ... to the prince and smiling amiably at him as if to show that political and social topics were ended and the time had come for intimate conversation—“I... ...mbled there: people differing widely in age and character but alike in the social circle to which they belonged. Prince V asili’s daughter, the beauti... ...you come to this other table?” repeated Anna Pavlovna. “Rousseau’s Contrat social,” said the vicomte with a tolerant smile. “I am not speaking of regi... ...stess. In the first moment of Pierre’s outburst Anna Pavlovna, despite her social experience, was horror- struck. But when she saw that Pierre’s sacri... ...et a clear conception of 690 War & Peace man’s life. Apart from these two concepts which in their union mutually define one another as form and conte...