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Warum macht Philosophie machen Leuten Kopfschmerzen, warum treibt sie andere geradezu in die Verzweiflung? Warum halten Sie die einen für gefährlich und subversiv, die anderen dagegen für total irrelevant?< Antwort gibt Richard Osbornes kleine Philisophiegeschichte in Bildern. Sie beginnt mit den Grundfragen der alten Griechen - Woraus ist die Welt gemacht? Was ist der Mensch? Was ist gut und was Böse? - und endet mit den Fragen der Poststuktu...

What do you do if your only child, an estranged, abusive, alcohol-besotted son from a failed marriage, demands blessings and your attendance at his wedding? What if his fiancé is so obnoxious, grasping, and terminally stupid she will only make matters worse? Kill the bride-to-be. At least, that's Frank's solution. Ralph Osborne's darkly comic re-appraisal of familial dysfunction begins post-mortem. Frank, who has just discovered that he is ter...

Dickenson County was formed in 1880 from parts of Wise, Russell, and Buchanan Counties. The county was named for William J. Dickenson, a legislator from Russell County who sponsored the bill in the House of Delegates that established it as the 100th county in Virginia. Dickenson has since been referred to as Virginias baby county. Daniel Boone may have been the first white man to see the area. In 1767, he and two others traveled northward from...

Why does philosophy give some people a headache, others a real buzz, and yet others a feeling that it is subversive and dangerous? Why do a lot of people think philosophy is totally irrelevant? What is philosophy anyway? The ABCs of philosophy --easy to understand but never simplistic. Beginning with basic questions posed by the ancient Greeks - What is knowledge? What is good and evil?"Philosophy For Beginners" traces the answers given by wes...

The decade between 1961 and 1971 was a time of tumult, of innocence lost, gained, and lost again. During those years, Ralph Osborne moved from the confusions of being 17 to, briefly, believing that at 27, he knew everything. It is, he says, "my version of the "Divine Comedy" -- more comedic than divine."From Someplace Else" is an often hilarious, occasionally tragic account of the exploration of boundaries, inner and outer, through a time of f...