Unpopular Essays
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780415119634 (0415119634)
Publish date: October 11th 1996
Publisher: Routledge
Pages no: 194
Edition language: English
IntroductionPreface--Philosophy and Politics--Philosophy for Laymen--The Future of Mankind--Philosophy's Ulterior Motives--The Superior Virtue of the Oppressed--On Being Modern-minded--An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish--The Functions of a Teacher--Ideas that Have Helped Mankind--Ideas that Have Har...
"I think that the evils that men inflict on each other, and by reflection upon themselves, have their main source in evil passions rather than in ideas or beliefs. But ideas and principles that do harm are, as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions. In Lisbon when heretics were publicly...