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Traité sur la tolérance . E-book. Formato Mobipocket Voltaire   -  Simone Vannini, 2016  - 

LOrsqu'à la renaissance des Lettres, les esprits commencerent à s'éclairer, on se plaignit généralement des abus; tout le monde avoue que cette plainte était légitime.Le Pape Alexandre VI avait acheté publiquement la Tiare, & ses cinq bâtards en partageaient les avantages. Son fils, le Cardinal Duc de Borgia, fit périr, de concert avec le Pape son pere, les Vitelli, les Urbino, les Gravina, les Oliveretto, & cent autres Seigneurs, pour ravir leurs domaines. Jules II, animé du même esprit, excommunia Louis XII, donna son Royaume au premier occupant, & lui-même le casque en tête, & la cuirasse sur le dos, mit à feu & à sang une partie de l'Italie. Léon X, pour payer ses plaisirs, trafiqua des Indulgences, comme on vend des denrées dans un marché public. Ceux qui s'éleverent contre tant de brigandages, n'avaient du moins aucun tort dans la morale; voyons s'ils en avaient contre nous dans la politique.

The logic of vegetarianism. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Henry S. Salt   -  Simone Vannini, 2015  - 

It is the special purpose of this book to set forth in a clear and rational manner the logic of vegetarianism. To the ethical, the scientific, and the economic aspects of the system much attention has already been given by well-accredited writers, but there has not as yet been any organised effort to present the logical view—that is, the dialectical scope of the arguments, offensive and defensive, on which the case for vegetarianism is founded. I am aware that mere logic is not in itself a matter of first rate importance, and that a great humane principal, based on true natural instinct, will in the long run have fulfilment, whatever wordy battles may rage around it for a time; nevertheless, there is no better method of hastening that result than to set the issues before the public in a plain and unmistakable light. I wish, therefore, in this work, to show what vegetarianism is, and (a scarcely less essential point) what vegetarianism is not.

Beyond Good and Evil . E-book. Formato Mobipocket Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche   -  Simone Vannini, 2015  - 

SUPPOSING that Truth is a woman—what then? Is there not ground for suspecting that all philosophers, in so far as they have been dogmatists, have failed to understand women—that the terrible seriousness and clumsy importunity with which they have usually paid their addresses to Truth, have been unskilled and unseemly methods for winning a woman? Certainly she has never allowed herself to be won; and at present every kind of dogma stands with sad and discouraged mien—IF, indeed, it stands at all! For there are scoffers who maintain that it has fallen, that all dogma lies on the ground—nay more, that it is at its last gasp. But to speak seriously, there are good grounds for hoping that all dogmatizing in philosophy, whatever solemn, whatever conclusive and decided airs it has assumed, may have been only a noble puerilism and tyronism; and probably the time is at hand when it will be once and again understood WHAT has actually sufficed for the basis of such imposing and absolute philosophical edifices as the dogmatists have hitherto reared: perhaps some popular superstition of immemorial time (such as the soul-superstition, which, in the form of subject- and ego-superstition, has not yet ceased doing mischief): perhaps some play upon words, a deception on the part of grammar, or an audacious generalization of very restricted, very personal, very human—all-too-human facts.