"Here is a brilliant new translation of Descartes's Meditations, one of the most influential books in the history of Western philosophy, including the full texts of the Third and Fourth Objections and Replies, and a selection from the other exchanges. Discovering his own existence as a thinking entity in the very exercise of doubt--in the famous formulation cogito, ergo sum--Descartes goes on to develop new conceptions of body and mind, ..."
Earthrise Conscious Creation of UBUNTU/Contributionism Communities by MichaelMoriarty Paperback, 48 Pages, Published 2017 by Lulu.Com ISBN-13: 978-1-387-23778-4, ISBN: 1-387-23778-0
"This book picks up where my last book, The Awakening of Humanity: What You Need to Know, left off--with a possible future timeline that leads to a New Earth. The political and economic foundation of that New Earth civilization lies in UBUNTU/Contributionism Communities. In this book, I explain what it will take to create/attract such Communities, and why it is of some urgency that those who wish to live in them begin to create/attract t ..."
"French thinkers have revolutionized European thought about knowledge, religion, politics, and society. Delivering a comprehensive history of thought in France from the Middle Ages to the present, this book follows themes and developments of thought across the centuries. It provides readers with studies of both systematic thinkers and those who operate less systematically, through essays or fragments, and places them all in their many co ..."
"This book analyses the use of the crucial concept of 'taste' in the works of five major seventeenth-century French authors, Méré, Saint Evremond, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère and Boileau. It combines close readings of important texts with a thoroughgoing political analysis of seventeenth-century French society in terms of class and gender. Dr Moriarty shows that far from being timeless and universal, the term 'taste' is culture-specific ..."
Pascal Reasoning and Belief (Hardback) by MichaelMoriarty Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2020 by Oxford University Press, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-0-19-884911-7, ISBN: 0-19-884911-7
"Pascal's response to this is to invoke what he calls “la régle des partis'. S'il ne
fallait rien faire que pour le certain ... pas que nous voyions le jour de demain.
Car il n'est pas certain que nous voyions demain, mais illest certainement
possible ..."
"Armies tend to attract brutal men for whom authority is an aphrodisiac. They get their rewards from their own certitudes, they are right and all others are weak, wrong or disloyal. They love rank, pomp, uniforms, power and ceremony. The armed forces of any country in the world will tend to be magnets for these undesirables. They should be spotted at an early stage and weeded out before they can do damage. Since the foundation of the sta ..."
"This book analyses the use of the crucial concept of 'taste' in the works of five major seventeenth-century French authors, Méré, Saint Evremond, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère and Boileau. It combines close readings of important texts with a thoroughgoing political analysis of seventeenth-century French society in terms of class and gender. Dr Moriarty shows that far from being timeless and universal, the term 'taste' is culture-specific ..."
Fallen Nature, Fallen Selves(1st Edition) Early Modern French Thought II (v. 2) by MichaelMoriarty Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2006 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-929103-8, ISBN: 0-19-929103-9
"From the late sixteenth to the late seventeenth centuries, French writing is especially concerned with analyzing human nature. The ancient ethical vision of man's nature and goal (we achieve fulfillment by living our lives according to reason, the highest and noblest element of our nature) survives, even, to some extent, in Descartes. But it is put into question especially by the revival of St. Augustine's thought, which focuses on the ..."
"'Those most capable of being moved by passion are those capable of tasting the most sweetness in this life.' Descartes is most often thought of as introducing a total separation of mind and body. But he also acknowledged the intimate union between them, and in his later writings he concentrated on understanding this aspect of human nature. The Passions of the Soul is his greatest contribution to this debate. It contains a profound discu ..."
Disguised Vices(1st Edition) Theories of Virtue in Early Modern French Thought by MichaelMoriarty Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 2011 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-958937-1, ISBN: 0-19-958937-2
"The notions of virtue and vice are essential components of the Western ethical tradition. But in early modern France they were called into question, as writers, most famously La Rochefoucauld, argued that what appears as virtue is in fact disguised vice: people carry out praiseworthy deeds because they stand to gain in some way; they deserve no credit for their behaviour because they have no control over it; they are governed by feeling ..."
The VOYEUR(1st Edition) A J.C. Kaminer Mystery by MichaelMoriarty Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 1997 by Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-0-684-80425-5, ISBN: 0-684-80425-5
"So much for Marion's voyeur theory of Charles since, as an expert in the field, I
find voyeurism not even diagnosable until the mid-twenties. Up until then, it is
education. Their marriage, according to Charles, was prompted by a pregnancy ..."
Roland Barthes(1st Edition) (Studies of the Harriman Institute) by MichaelMoriarty Hardcover, 255 Pages, Published 1991 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-1932-2, ISBN: 0-8047-1932-2
Early Modern French Thought(1st Edition) The Age of Suspicion by MichaelMoriarty Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2003 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926146-8, ISBN: 0-19-926146-6
"The Age of Suspicion Michael Moriarty. Aristotelian ism in Corneille's works (the
relevance to Nicomede, say, of the conception of the magnanimous man in the
Ethics). :v This is not to say that Aristotle functioned as a kind of anti-ideological
disinfectant, but one would need to show how the educational apparatus that
sustained Aristotelianism fitted into the interplay between classes or social strata.
Benichou provides a brillian ..."
Pascal Reasoning and Belief by MichaelMoriarty 316 Pages, Published 2020 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-188336-1, ISBN: 0-19-188336-0
"Michael Moriarty presents the deepest and broadest study for many years of Blaise Pascal's philosophy and theology, as represented in his Pensées, a seminal work in the development of modern thought."
Pascal Reasoning and Belief by MichaelMoriarty 448 Pages, Published 2020 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-258899-9, ISBN: 0-19-258899-0
"... and Hélène Ostrowiecki-Bah (eds), Libertins du XVIIe siècle, 2 vols,
Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (Paris: Gallimard, 1998–2004), II, 1–215. Lancel,
Serge, Saint Augustin (Paris: Fayard, 1999). Laporte, Jean, 'Le coeur et la raison
selon Pascal', ..."
"Delivering a comprehensive history of thought in France from the Middle Ages to the present, this book follows themes and developments of thought across the centuries."
The Awakening of Humanity What You Need to Know by MichaelMoriarty Paperback, 52 Pages, Published 2017 by Lulu.Com ISBN-13: 978-1-387-19629-6, ISBN: 1-387-19629-4
"The book will seek to orient the newly-awakened to the situation that they find themselves in on this planet: to how they seem to be powerless but, in truth, are in possession of all power. It will show them how they can liberate themselves from their seeming slavery. Finally, it will show them that, by applying the Law of Attraction in order to create their own version of "Paradise on Earth", they can help heal Humanity, heal the Earth ..."
"On another, miming such labels as 'late Beethoven', 'late Monet', it elevates him
to the status of an artist, and credits him with the qualities and kinds of
achievement deemed characteristic of artists in their later years: impatience with
technique, apparent indifference to audience, a new kind of depth and vision.
And this image, for all its stereotypical potential, is not perhaps inapt. What is
indeed new in the Barthes of the ..."