While Swift ’ s proposal is obviously not a serious economic proposal, George Wittkowsky, author of " Swift ’ s Modest Proposal: The Biography of an Early Georgian Pamphlet ", argues that to understand the piece fully, it is important to understand the economics of Swift ’ s time.

Michel Foucault argues in his essay " What is an author?

In The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, popular author and text critic Bart D. Ehrman argues that the Adoptionist Theology may date back almost to the time of Jesus and his view is shared by many other scholars.

Chapter 17 of William Bates ' 1920 book Perfect Sight Without Glasses, in which the author argues that observation of the sun is beneficial to those with poor vision, includes a figure of somebody " Focussing the Rays of the Sun Upon the Eye of a Patient by Means of a Burning Glass.

He argues that the author of Daniel uses elements from the description of the wild man Enkidu, who roams the steppe with the animals.

William Arens, author of The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthropophagy, questions the credibility of reports of cannibalism and argues that the description by one group of people of another people as cannibals is a consistent and demonstrable ideological and rhetorical device to establish perceived cultural superiority.

The author Leveritt argues that Echols ' information may have come from police leaks, such as Detective Gitchell's comments to Mark Byers, that then circulated amongst the local public.

Among economists more generally, it argues that a particular definition presented may reflect the direction toward which the author believes economics is evolving, or should evolve.

Critical scholarship generally holds to the two-source hypothesis as most probable, which argues that the author used the Gospel of Mark and the hypothetical Q document in addition to unique material, as sources for the gospel.

" Sanders points out that the author would regard the gospel as theologically true as revealed spiritually even if its content is not historically accurate and argues that even historically plausible elements in John can hardly be taken as historical evidence, as they may well represent the author's intuition rather than historical recollection.

Edward Trimnell, author of Why You Need a Foreign Language & How to Learn One ( 2005 ) argues that the international version of English is only adequate for communicating basic ideas.

Holly George-Warren, editor and author of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: The First 25 Years, argues: " With the death of Keith Moon in 1978, rock arguably lost its single greatest drummer.

Quoting Pope Paul VI's statement that the shroud is " the wonderful document of His Passion, Death and Resurrection, written for us in letters of blood " author Antonio Cassanelli argues that the shroud is a deliberate divine record of the five stages of the Passion of Christ, created at the moment of resurrection.

Author and editor Damon Knight summed up the difficulty by stating that " science fiction is what we point to when we say it ", a definition echoed by author Mark C. Glassy, who argues that the definition of science fiction is like the definition of pornography: you don't know what it is, but you know it when you see it.

The author, often called in English the " Old Oligarch ", detests the democracy of Athens and the poorer classes, but he argues that the Periclean institutions are well designed for their deplorable purposes.

In her Pulitzer Prize-nominated book The Nurture Assumption, author Judith Harris argues that " nurture ," as traditionally defined in terms of family upbringing does not effectively explain the variance for most traits ( such as adult IQ and the Big Five personality traits ) in the general population of the United States.

The academic and author Jody W. Pennington argues that Lester's journey is the story's center.

The feminist academic and author Sally R. Munt argues that American Beauty uses its " art house " trappings to direct its message of non-conformity primarily to the middle classes, and that this approach is a " cliché of bourgeois preoccupation ... the underlying premise being that the luxury of finding an individual ' self ' through denial and renunciation is always open to those wealthy enough to choose, and sly enough to present themselves sympathetically as a rebel.

In his work on the divine proportion, H. E. Huntley relates the feeling of reading and understanding someone else's proof of a theorem of mathematics to that of a viewer of a masterpiece of art — the reader of a proof has a similar sense of exhilaration at understanding as the original author of the proof, much as, he argues, the viewer of a masterpiece has a sense of exhilaration similar to the original painter or sculptor.

The author Helen Stuart argues that some coats of arms were a form of corporate logo.

In the work by anthropologist Raphael Patai entitled The Hebrew Goddess, the author argues that the term Shekhinah refers to a goddess by comparing and contrasting scriptural and medieval Jewish Kabbalistic source materials.

Lawrence Liang, founder of the Alternative Law Forum, argues that current copyright is based on a too narrow definition of " author ", which is assumed to be clear and undisputed.

Instead, Liang argues that the notion of the author as a unique and transcendent being, possessing originality of spirit, was constructed in Europe after the industrial revolution, to distinguish the personality of the author from the expanding realm of mass produced goods.

Somewhat curiously, but very naturally, Enoch the son of Cain is confused with the Enoch who was translated to heaven – an error which the author of the Old English Genesis avoids, though ( according to the existing text ) he confounds the names of Enoch and Enos.

It counted among its supporters Indian Leftist author Arundhati Roy and United Nations Assistant General Secretary Denis Halliday, though consciously avoids a hierarchical structure.

If a writer consistently avoids reporting, e. g., the weaknesses of the Twelve, even when there are earlier sources that provide lurid details of their follies, one could draw the conclusion that the later editor / author held the Twelve in higher esteem, either because of the editor's presuppositions, or because the editor was perhaps trying to reinforce the legitimacy of those chosen by Jesus to carry on his work.

Thompson's novel is notable in that she avoids the use of Baum's classic characters and relies on those of her own invention ( as is true of some of her other later books, like Captain Salt in Oz ); and also for the fact that author and artist portray the followers of Jinnicky as turbanned black Africans.

Also known as Lokāyata, it is a system of Hindu philosophy that assumes various forms of philosophical skepticism and religious indifference. It is named after its founder, Cārvāka, author of the Bārhaspatya-sūtras.

* Either / Or, an influential philosophical text by Søren Kierkegaard, purports to be a collection of texts discovered and edited by Kierkegaard's pseudonymous author Victor Eremita.

Through analysis of this and other of Hayek's works, Block purports, " in making the case against socialism, Hayek was led into making all sort of compromises with what otherwise appeared to be his own philosophical perspective – so much so, that if a system was erected on the basis of them, it would not differ too sharply from what this author explicitly opposed.

The philosophical work Narada Bhakti Sutras, written by an unknown author ( presumed to be Narada ), distinguishes eleven forms of love.

Robert Maynard Pirsig ( born September 6, 1928 ) is an American writer and philosopher, and author of the philosophical novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values ( 1974 ) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals ( 1991 ).

Smack's author replied that it would not be practical due to SELinux's complicated configuration syntax and the philosophical difference between Smack and SELinux designs.

Dziennik is not only the author ’ s record of life but also a philosophical essay, polemics, collection of auto-reflection on folk poetry, views on politics, national culture, religion, world of tradition, present time, and many other important issues.

Crates was also the author of some philosophical tragedies, and some smaller poems apparently called Games (, Paignia ).

The same author goes on by giving other philosophical writings which are totally compatible with the religion of Islam, as the al-Risālah fil-wujūd (, " Treatise on Being "), written in Arabic, which begin with Quranic verses and asserting that all things come from God, and there is an order in these things.

Simmel was known as an essayist as well as author of sociological and philosophical books.

He was also the author of rhetorical exercises on philosophical themes ; of a Quadrivium ( arithmetic, music, geometry, astronomy ), valuable for the history of music and astronomy in the Middle Ages ; a general sketch of Aristotelian philosophy ; a paraphrase of the speeches and letters of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite ; poems, including an autobiography ; and a description of the square of the Augustaeum, and the column erected by Justinian in the church of Hagia Sophia to commemorate his victories over the Persians.

" Some sources state that he was the author of Summa Philosophiae, a history and description of the schools of philosophical thought then current, but the writing style is not similar to his other works, and Knowles, for one, does not believe it was authored by Kilwardby.

He recently collaborated with author Eckhart Tolle to create Guardians of Being, a philosophical picture book.

* Buya Hamka or Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amirullah was a prominent Indonesian author, ulema politician, philosophical thinker, and author of Tafir Al Azhar.

Dāwūd ibn Marwān al-Muqammiṣ was author of the earliest known Jewish philosophical work of the Middle Ages, a commentary on Sefer Yetzirah ( Book of Creation ); he is regarded as the father of Jewish medieval philosophy.

The Telnarian Histories ( 1991 – 1993 ) are a series of three space opera novels which express philosophical messages consistent with those of author John Norman's other works of fiction.

The philosophical roots of environmentalism can be traced back to enlightenment thinkers such as Rousseau in France and, later, the author and naturalist Thoreau in America.

The trip is punctuated by numerous philosophical discussions, referred to as Chautauquas by the author, on topics including epistemology, ethical emotivism and the philosophy of science.

Narada is the author of the Pāñcarātra, a standard text for Vaisnava's priests which contains the technical and philosophical meanings of the temple Deity worship.

The fifth and last essay is devoted to a criticism of the various philosophical systems known at the time of the author.

Jun Etō attributes the focus on isolation in Soseki's work to a philosophical crisis which the author underwent while studying in London.

Ōsugi was married to Hori Yasuko in September 1906, but later pursued a relationship with Kamichika Ichiko and author Noe Itō as part of his philosophical and political beliefs in egoism and free love.

Theodore Dalrymple, a British author, physican, and political commentator, has written for City Journal that Brutalist structures represent an artifact of European philosophical totalitarianism, a " spiritual, intellectual, and moral deformity.