Download or read book Fashionable Philosophy and Other Sketches Classic Reprint written by Laurence Oliphant and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fashionable Philosophy and Other Sketches I have to express my thanks to the Editor of the 'nineteenth Century Review' for thekind permission he has granted me to repro duce The Sisters of Thibet; and I avail myself of the opportunity thus afforded of removing the impression which, to my sur prise, was conveyed to me by letters from numerous correspondents, that the article contained any record of my own personal experiences. The satire was suggested by the work of an author whose sincerity I do not doubt, and for whose motives I have the highest respect, in order to point out what appears to me the defective morality, from an altruistic and practical point of view, of a system of which he is the principal exponent in this country, and which, under the name of Esoteric Buddhism, still seems to possess some fascination for a certain class of minds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book A Sketch of a Philosophy Classic Reprint written by John Gibson MacVicar and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Sketch of a Philosophy And here the possibility of much saving and success may perhaps be made to appear probable even in a few words, by stating in immediate contrast the general features of the science of the day, so manifold and often so conflicting, with the few principles which are insisted on in this and in the three preceding Parts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Philosophy of the Beautiful Classic Reprint written by William Angus Knight and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Philosophy of the Beautiful It may be presented, in the first instance, through a series Of questions, thus - Why do we call any single Object in Nature beautiful? When we go beneath the surface of commonplace admiration, and affirm that any particular thing possesses Beauty, what do we really mean by the assertion? How comes it that one object partakes of Beauty while another does not Is there any fixed relation between the many different Objects which, taken individually, are called beautiful? If so, what is that relation Does the Beauty they partake of separate them from one another? Or does it unite them together? Leaving individual Objects, what is Beauty in itself? Is its essence knowable approximately, or in fragment? Can it be apprehended by us indirectly, if not directly, and be understood through analogy, if not by intuition? In thus stating the problem from various points of view, questions of Science have been mixed up with those Of Philosophy; but, as we proceed, these will be disengaged, and separately handled. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Philosophy of the Beautiful Classic Reprint written by John Gibson Macvicar and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Philosophy of the Beautiful Very sweet also is the kind of enjoyment which the contemplation of the Beautiful awakens in the breast. It is an emotion indeed, and therefore implies excitement; but, compared with many others that are ardently pursued, the emotion of the Beautiful is very calm. It is, as it were, sunshine in the soul. But let us not discourse upon the generalities of our theme; for iteration is hateful; and the generalities of taste have Often been set forth perfectly well in the English language already, and in all the languages of Europe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Apple Tree Table and Other Sketches Serapis Classics written by Herman Melville and published by Serapis Classics. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, writer of short stories, and poet from the American Renaissance period. The bulk of his writings was published between 1846 and 1857. Best known for his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851), he is also legendary for having been forgotten during the last thirty years of his life. Melville's writing is characteristic for its allusivity. "In Melville's manipulation of his reading," scholar Stanley T. Williams wrote, "was a transforming power comparable to Shakespeare's."
Download or read book The Philosophy of Benedetto Croce written by Herbert Wildon Carr and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Philosophy of Benedetto Croce: The Problem of Art and History AT the end of the volume I have given a list of Croce's principal works on Philosophy and of the English translations. I have not made use of the English translations in the present study. My references are to the original Italian, and where I have made quotations I am entirely responsible for the rendering. In no case are the passages in quotation marks literal translations; they are freely paraphrased. What I have endeavoured to do is to understand the philosophical meaning and express it in my own manner so much so that in many cases the quotation marks are put for reference purposes only. English readers are deeply indebted to my friend, Mr. Douglas Ainslie, the translator of Croce's works, for his indefatigable zeal in spreading the fame of his author and obtaining recognition for the originality of his philosophy. On one important point of terminology I find that I differ not only from Mr. Ainslie but from others who have written on Croce's philosophy, and this is not mere caprice. They use the term spirit for what I call mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Sophie s World written by Jostein Gaarder and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Download or read book The Apple Tree Table and Other Sketches by Herman Melville Delphi Classics Illustrated written by Herman Melville and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches by Herman Melville - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Herman Melville’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Melville includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches by Herman Melville - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Melville’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles
Download or read book The Philosophy Classic Reprint written by George Stuart Fullerton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Philosophy This second edition is so different from the first that it may almost be regarded as a new book. The general plan is retained, but the translation has been freely altered throughout, and in Part III. Proposi tions 1 to 11 have been added. Some of the intro ductory matter is new, and the critical and explana tory notes have been greatly multiplied. I have discussed at length in a prefatory note the nature of Spinoza's reasoning and the foundations upon which it rests; and I beg the reader to examine this care fully before proceeding to a study Of the text. It has been my experience that, even to intelligent students, the argument of the Ethics presents serious diffi culties. In my notes I have taken great pains to make the author's meaning plain, and have not hesitated, with this end in view, to repeat the same thought in different places, when, in the interests of clearness, it has seemed Wise to do so. I have, Of course, been somewhat hampered by the necessity Of keeping the size Of the volume within reasonable limits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The New Philosophy Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The New Philosophy, Vol. 1 IN these times, when knowledge of all sorts is making such general progress, and science continually open ing further discoveries in nature, and also the means of practically applying them, it doubly imports that the moral progress - the progress of the mind - sh ould be equally attended to. I say, doubly; for first, the mind, as mind, is of most consequence, and that that therefore should be set in a state to take right views and form just conclusions, is the primary concern; for did not the mind first conceive, no action at all would follow, and where it conceives erroneously, ill effects result: secondly, therefore, when knowledge begins to enlighten mankind, and science, as now, to put power into their hands, by enabling them to lay hold, as it were, on the elements, -to use, and in some de gree, command them, - it is of vital importance that the directing mind should be enlarged with that increase of power. It would be dreadful, indeed, if the power were increased, but the mind not at the B. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Thomas Hardy an Illustration of the Philosophy of Schopenhauer Classic Reprint written by Helen Garwood and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Thomas Hardy, an Illustration of the Philosophy of Schopenhauer After all, what could be more natural? Literature must reflect the interests of its time or lose its vitality. There are certainly eternal laws of beauty which cannot be evaded, there are just as certainly eternal laws of life which cannot be neglected, and the ever-insistent problem of art is to keep these two harnessed together, a task as difficult as that of driving the famous chariot Of Plato. Some politics, some economics, some religious unrest, some philosophy must be reflected in the literature of to-day. If the abstruse and difficult philosophical systems of a Kant, a Fichte, and a Hegel could profoundly affect a Coleridge and an Emerson, how much more will the works of a Schopenhauer, a Nietzsche, a Von Hartmann affect the writing, and even the reading public! For the one person who can enjoy Kant's subtleties, there are twenty who can grasp Nietzsche's vagaries. Perhaps we have grown wiser, perhaps the philosophers speak more clearly, perhaps the great spirits are no longer with us. 'at any rate, we have learned to regard Mill and Huxley and Spencer and the three Germans and others of the hour as part of our necessary stock-in-trade for culture and for conversa tion. A few years ago one chatted over a cup of tea about William James' Varieties of Religious Experience, and Will to Believe with the same people with whom one had e'xchanged pleasantries about Hugh Wynne, or Mrs. Humphry Ward's latest intricate piece of womankind. Now we give one breath to The Stooping Lady, another to wireless telegraphy, and turn to meet Pragmatism at the corner; yes, even in popular University Extension lectures. Macaulay's history lay on my fine lady's dressing-table, Pope's Essay on Man was the talk of the fashionable world, William James is charged with writing novels and dubbing them Philosophies. When philos ophy grows as interesting as a novel, how can the novel, which is true to life, help reflecting philosophy? An utterly un philosophical literature to-day would be as much of an anomaly as an untheological Milton. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Sketch of a Philosophy Vol 1 written by John G. Macvicar and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Sketch of a Philosophy, Vol. 1: Mind, Its Powers and Capacities, and Its Relation to Matter The tendency of Modern Science is to assume a merely mechanical dynamism as the sum total of existence, The doctrine of the Conservation of Energy when applied to this extent is quite overstretched. That doctrine was established by Leibnitz, and is an integral part of his philosophy, which is eminently theistical, The Sensational Method of research, now so popular, instead of a Rational Method, is leading only to a spelling out of Spinozism backwards. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Philosopher s New Clothes written by Nickolas Pappas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a new approach to the question, "Is the philosopher to be seen as universal human being or as eccentric?". Through a reading of the Theaetetus, Pappas first considers how we identify philosophers – how do they appear, in particular how do they dress? The book moves to modern philosophical treatments of fashion, and of "anti-fashion". He argues that aspects of the fashion/anti-fashion debate apply to antiquity, indeed that nudity at the gymnasia was an anti-fashion. Thus anti-fashion provides a way of viewing ancient philosophy’s orientation toward a social world in which, for all its true existence elsewhere, philosophy also has to live.
Download or read book The New Philosophy Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The New Philosophy, Vol. 2 I shall now proceed to offer my system - the founda tion from which I take my views, and on which my theories will be built, and which I have a hope will be found to be based on truth. It is in the strict sense of the word Philosophy that my book presumes to assume that name; for philosopher means only a lover of truth. It was, indeed, to find the truth that first put me on examination, and seeking one, another and another opened to my thought. I quickly framed out of them a system; to draw my inferences I used only reason, and applying them to Nature they seemed to agree with her. This looked like evi dence. I had not sought my views by science, but after having found, I endeavoured as much as I could to bring science to try them, and again it appeared to me that in every instance in which science was made their test, it also became their proof, often even to demonstration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Philosophy of the Marquise Classic Reprint written by Mrs. Belloc-Lowndes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Philosophy of the Marquise About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
