This paper discusses Augustine’s dealings with the death of a friend and that his mother Monica, as told in Confessions. Neoplatonists are uncertain about afterlife; ends it all for secularists; Augustine has hope, is not end. One grieves over loved one, but without given promise everlasting life. places this life next God’s grace. The sorrow passing one evidences transience existence; Christia...

Starting from the four educational philosophies of essentialism, eternity, progressivism and social reconstruction, taking classroom management Shanghai primary school as research object, this paper makes an in-depth detailed analysis Exploration on choice educators' philosophy. Based results, author puts forward some suggestions application philosophy in practice, points out limitations curren...

Creation and enjoyment of art are human activities universal across time place. It was fitting, then, for the text 1948 Universal Declaration Human Rights to affirm right arts. However, this right, as stated in article 27, is barely mentioned subsequent United Nations covenants declarations. This Article seeks bring enjoy arts, particular visual back into limelight.
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The object of the study is Sonata for Viola and Piano Op. 147 by Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich — a work that rightfully considered autobiographical farewell. subject was specificity timbral embodiment figurative-emotional sphere composition. In proposed reading, first part sonata an image world to which composer sends farewell glance, second sarcastic sketch bright collective images vices hum...

W. Matthews Grant's "Dual Sources Account" aims at explaining how God causes all creaturely actions while leaving them free in a robust libertarian sense. It includes an account of predestination that is supposed to allow for the possibility some created persons ultimately spend eternity hell. I argue here resources Grant provides understanding why might permit end up hell are, two different re...

Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647) is perhaps best known for being the most gifted of Galileo’s pupils, and for his works based on indivisibles, especially his stunning cubature of an infinite hyperboloid. Scattered among Torricelli’s writings, we find numerous traces of the philosophy of mathematics underlying his mathematical practice. Though virtually neglected by historians and philosophers...