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  • The White House
    Patrick Phillips-Schrock
    Formerly known as the President’s House, then the Executive Mansion, and now for a long time the White House, this famous structure has a fascinating architectural history of ongoing change. The white painted facade of James Hoban’s original structure has been added to and strengthened for more than 200 years, and its interior is a repository of some of America’s greatest treas...
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  • Gagging on Profundity
    Patrick J.J. Phillips. / Patrick J.JPhillipsPh.D.
    'Humour of the philosophical pedigree can ’bring us up short’, break us out of our commonplace acceptance, our slumber dogmatic, and require us to reassess what we thought we knew, or ask questions about that which had previously lain fallow in our thinking. Humour may awaken the ’sleeping metaphors’ that all of us live by....' 'The philosopher Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845) ident...
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    17,63 €

  • The Challenge of Relativism
    Patrick J. J. Phillips
    Relativism, the view that knowledge is relative to time, culture, group and/or individual, remains a pervasive and influential intellectual position in philosophy and throughout the humanities. Since ancient times, relativists have been viewed as villains of truth and knowledge. They have undermined optimistic explanations of how we know things and, instead, have grounded knowl...
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    67,14 €

  • Life Is Meant to Be a Challenge
    Patrick Phillips
    After a life of missionary work in far-flung places - Nigeria, Burma and Canada, to mention a few - as well as carrying out his priestly duties more recently in Cumbria, the Reverend Patrick Phillips looks back upon his travels and reflects upon his vocation.His thoughts touch upon many things, from the formation of the planet and the movements of early man across it to Christi...
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