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Eccentrics and eccentricities --- Inefficiency, Intellectual --- Quotations, French
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Conduct of life. --- Mental efficiency. --- Efficience (Psychologie) --- Morale pratique. --- Efficiency, Mental --- Inefficiency, Intellectual --- Intellectual inefficiency --- Intellect --- Ethics, Practical --- Morals --- Personal conduct --- Ethics --- Philosophical counseling
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Stupidity. --- Stupidity --- Idiocy --- Inefficiency, Intellectual --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Intellect
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On a beaucoup écrit sur la bêtise, mais le bilan reste assez modeste. En dépit de quelques tentatives, qu'il faut d'ailleurs porter au crédit d'écrivains (Jean Paul, Flaubert, Bloy, Musil, Barthes), la bêtise n'a pas bénéficié d'une investigation systématique et sa définition reste confuse. La philosophie, dont la fonction selon Nietzsche serait de "nuire à la bêtise" , a oublié sa mission, et c'est à réparer cet oubli que s'emploie Alain Roger.On s'est fourvoyé quand on a voulu voir dans la bêtise une chute dans l'animalité ou l'irrationalité. L'auteur montre au contraire qu'elle s'autorise des lois de la raison, et même s'en réclame avec fatuité : "La bêtise n'est pas une carence ni une déficience : si elle pêche, c'est par excès". Ce qu'il nomme la raison suffisante, dont la forme la plus spectaculaire est la bêtise identitaire, qui s'exprime par prédilection dans la tautologie : "Un sou est un sou".Face aux carences de la philosophie, l'abondance des références littéraires donne à penser que la bêtise est en son propre l'affaire des écrivains : "On pourrait même se demander s'ils ne l'ont pas inventée". Ce Bréviaire se fait dès lors "bestiaire" et expose les principales figures de la bêtise à travers la comédie, chez Molière, Labiche, Feydeau, et le roman, de Balzac à Proust en passant par Flaubert, dont l'oeuvre peut être considérée comme une anthropologie de la bêtise.Ecce Homais.
Bêtise --- Littérature --- Dans la littérature. --- Philosophie --- Stupidity --- Stupidity in literature --- Idiocy --- Inefficiency, Intellectual --- Intellect --- Philosophie.
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This book presents a provocatively, outrageously assertive exposure of fools in their not infrequently bizarre manifestations, the object being to leave no halfwits behind. Abundantly documented, endlessly subtle, hopelessly eccentric, deadly funny.
Stupidity --- American wit and humor. --- American literature --- Idiocy --- Inefficiency, Intellectual --- Intellect
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Do you think as well as you can? Does the quality of your thinking even matter? In this practical guide, Cathy Lasher presents an exciting new way to get better results through focused thinking. Discover EDGE-it, a new approach that helps you sharpen your thinking in virtually any situation, leading to getting more of what you want, more easily.
Thought and thinking --- Mental efficiency --- Efficiency, Mental --- Inefficiency, Intellectual --- Intellectual inefficiency --- Intellect --- Mind --- Thinking --- Thoughts --- Educational psychology --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Logic --- Perception --- Psycholinguistics --- Self --- E-books --- Thought and thinking. --- Mental efficiency.
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Cognition in old age. --- Thought and thinking. --- Mental efficiency. --- Efficiency, Mental --- Inefficiency, Intellectual --- Intellectual inefficiency --- Intellect --- Mind --- Thinking --- Thoughts --- Educational psychology --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Logic --- Perception --- Psycholinguistics --- Self --- Cognition in the aged --- Thought and thinking in old age --- Older people
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Giordano Bruno's Cabala del cavallo pegaseo (The Cabala of Pegasus) grew out of the great Italian philosopher's experiences lecturing and debating at Oxford in early 1584. Having received a cold reception there because of his viewpoints, Bruno went on in the Cabala to attack the narrow-mindedness of the university--and by extension, all universities that resisted his advocacy of intellectual freethinking.The Cabala of Pegasus consists of vernacular dialogues that turn on the identification of the noble Pegasus (the spirit of poetry) and the humble ass (the vehicle of divine revelation). In the interplay of these ideas, Bruno explores the nature of poetry, divine authority, secular learning, and Pythagorean metempsychosis, which had great influence on James Joyce and many other writers and artists from the Renaissance to the modern period.This book, the first English translation of The Cabala of Pegasus, contains both the English and Italian versions as well as helpful annotations. It will have particular appeal to all Renaissance scholars and those interested in the Renaissance cabalistic underpinnings of modern literature.
Donkeys --- Mental efficiency --- Efficiency, Mental --- Inefficiency, Intellectual --- Intellectual inefficiency --- Intellect --- Ass, Small --- Burros --- Domestic ass --- Equus africanus asinus --- Equus asinus asinus --- African wild ass --- Equus --- Livestock --- Hinnies --- Mules --- History
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