He might have added a third, David Malouf's book "An Imaginary Life" (1978), which is narrated by Ovid after his exile to Tomis and which, according to its Australian author's afterword, was written in order "to make this glad fabulist of 'the changes' live out in reality what had been, in his previous existence, merely the occasion for dazzling literary display".
Today corporate social responsibility, if it is nothing else, is the tribute that capitalism everywhere pays to virtue.It would be a challenge to find a recent annual report of any big international company that justifies the firm's existence merely in terms of profit, rather than "service to the community".
The Geluk school's unique presentation of the Consequence School (prāsaṅgika) of the Middle Way a tradition that does not build foundational epistemological systems, but affirms existence merely in terms of transactional usage – is a hallmark of its philosophy.
French post-structuralist philosopher and cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard's theory from his 1981 text Simulacra and Simulation – that meaning in modern life has been replaced by symbols, and that all human existence merely simulates reality – has become, well, reality (TV).
Is his entire existence merely a concept?
In his detailed discussion of the third Postulate Kant makes it clear that he is referring, more specifically, to causal necessity, and to particular (empirical) causal laws (A226 8/B279 80): "Finally, as far as the third Postulate is concerned, it pertains to material necessity in existence, and not the merely formal and logical necessity in the connection of concepts.
However, those who think that possible worlds are abstract entities typically do not take the existence in a merely possible world of a concrete actual individual to involve that entity's being literally a part of such an abstract thing.
And only ten in existence.
One of just 20 in existence.
He merely called it "the greatest Stradivarius in existence".
