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• Maxims (Old English poems) — Maxims I and Maxims II Author(s) unknown Language Old English Date unknown Manuscript(s) Exeter Book (M …   Wikipedia

• The Cantos — by Ezra Pound is a long, incomplete poem in 120 sections, each of which is a canto . Most of it was written between 1915 and 1962, although much of the early work was abandoned and the early cantos, as finally published, date from 1922 onwards.… …   Wikipedia

• The Durham Proverbs — is a collection of 46 Mediæval proverbs from various sources. They were written down as a collection, in the eleventh century, on some pages (pages 43 verso to 45 verso, between a hymnal and a collection of canticles) of a manuscript that were… …   Wikipedia

• The Nature of Rationality — is an exploration of practical rationality written by Robert Nozick and published in 1993. It views human rationality as an evolutionary adaptation. Its delimited purpose and function may be responsible for biases and blind spots, possibly… …   Wikipedia

• Maxims of equity — The maxims of equity evolved, in Latin and eventually translated into English, as the principles applied by courts of equity in deciding cases before them.[1] Among the traditional maxims are: Contents 1 Equity regards done what ought to be done… …   Wikipedia

• maxims — n.    a collection of legal truisms which are used as rules of thumb by both judges and lawyers. They are listed in the codified statutes of most states, and include: When the reason of a rule ceases, so should the rule itself. He who consents to …   Law dictionary

• The Paradoxical Commandments — is both a poem and a book by Kent M. Keith. He wrote the poem as an undergraduate, and it has spread around the world often in slightly altered form. Two decades after writing the original poem, Dr. Keith wrote a book of the same title expanding… …   Wikipedia

• Polis and its culture (The) — The polis and its culture Robin Osborne INTRODUCTION ‘We love wisdom without becoming soft’, Thucydides has the Athenian politician Pericles claim, using the verb philosophein.1 Claims to, and respect for, wisdom in archaic Greece were by no… …   History of philosophy

• Spinoza: the moral and political philosophy — The moral and political philosophy of Spinoza Hans W.Blom Spinoza as a moral and political philosopher was the proponent of a radical and extremely consistent version of seventeenth century Dutch naturalism. As a consequence of the burgeoning… …   History of philosophy

• Gricean maxims — The philosopher Paul Grice proposed four conversational maxims that arise from the pragmatics of natural language. Grice s MaximsMaxim of QualityTruth *Do not say what you believe to be false. *Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence …   Wikipedia

• Twelfth century (The) — The twelfth century John Marenbon INTRODUCTION The twelfth century began and ended with events which mark it off, at least symbolically, as a discrete period in the history of Western philosophy. It was in about 1100 that Abelard the most wide… …   History of philosophy