The Harvard classics. Edited by Charles W. Eliot

The Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909. The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume "5-foot shelf of books" and the the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century.n 1910, Dr. Charles W. Eliot, then President of Harvard University, put together an extraordinary library of "all the books needed for a real education."


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Frédéric Gros: "La marche est un authentique exercice spirituel"

LE MONDE | Par Nicolas Truong (Entretien)


Professeur de philosophie politique à l'université Paris-XII et à l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris, spécialiste de l'oeuvre de Michel Foucault, Frédéric Gros a écrit un livre intitulé "Marcher, une philosophie" (Carnet Nord, 2009).

Suffit-il de mettre des chaussures de randonnée et de se mettre en marche pour aussitôt se transformer en philosophe ?
Malheureusement ou heureusement, ce n'est ni aussi facile ni aussi automatique. Pour devenir philosophe, philosophe "professionnel" - pour peu que cette expression ait un sens -, on doit sans doute préférer les lectures patientes, les discussions contradictoires, la composition de dissertations ou la construction de démonstrations. Mais en marchant, surtout s'il s'agit de randonnées qui s'étalent sur plusieurs jours, il est impossible de ne pas éprouver un certain nombre d'émotions, de ne pas faire l'expérience de certaines dimensions, qui précisément sont d'une très grande richesse et constituent des objets de pensée précieux pour la philosophie.

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Thoreau: Life without Principle (1854/1863)

http://i586.photobucket.com/albums/ss306/myopicpoet/Poets%20II/HenryDavidThoreau.jpg"Life without Principle" originated as "What Shall it Profit," a lecture delivered at Railroad Hall in Providence, Rhode Island, December 6, 1854, four more times in Massachusetts in 1855, and once in New Jersey in 1856. This version was edited by Thoreau for publication before he died, and published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1863, where it received its modern title.


 Serial: The Atlantic Monthly Volume 0012 Issue 71 (September 1863)
Title: Life without Principle  [pp. 484-495]
Author: Thoreau, H. D.
 
"Let us consider the way in which we spend our lives..."

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Mercado é coisa da sua cabeça

Diego Viana, Valor Economico, 9/12/2011

O vocabulário dos economistas começa a ganhar novos termos, na tentativa de explicar as flutuações dos mercados e o comportamento dos investidores. Oxitocina e testosterona, mesencéfalo e córtex frontal orbital, palavras recorrentes na linguagem dos neurocientistas, começam a circular entre um grupo de pesquisadores ainda pequeno, mas em expansão: os neuroeconomistas.

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