Metaphysics category: 2011 books

Part 1, The Ego, is one of Paul Brunton's greatest and most unique gifts to the literature of realization--a truly earth-shaking piece of work for serious spiritual seekers. With no holds barred, it exposes, at an existential level, the most fundamental problems that obstruct achieving a life of unfailing...

During the seventies, there was a revival of systematic philosophy in general and of ontology in particular. At the same time, especially in Anglo-Saxon thinking, systematic philosophy interacted very creatively with the history of medieval philosophy. It seems to us that the work of John Duns Scotus...

The Summa Contra Gentiles is in the unique position of a classic of which the author's manuscript is still in great part extant. It currently resides in the Vatican Library. There are two ways of behaving towards Thomas' writings, analogous to two several treatments of a church still standing,...

By the time of his death in 2006, Sir Peter Strawson was regarded as one of the world's most distinguished philosophers. Unavailable for many years, Scepticism and Naturalism is a profound reflection on two classic philosophical problems by a philosopher at the pinnacle of his career. Based...

JOHN WISDOM AND THE BREADTH OF PHILOSOPHY hham Dhman 1. THE ESSAYS IN THIS VOLUME The essays following the two pieces by John Wisdom have all been written by philosophers who are former students or friends of Wisdom or who have a high regard for his work. Their contributions were all written with...

Le Confessioni di Agostino iniziano un'epoca nuova del pensiero filosofico. Non c'è, per imparare la sapienza, altro curriculum che l'ordine dei giorni, altra «via» che un percorso esistenziale. Quello dell'esistenza ansante e inappagata, che non si è sottratta alle comuni speranze e disperazioni,...

The reader will perceive, perhaps, that if the function of philosophy is really, as the saying goes, to give us assurance of God, freedom, and immortality, Mr. Russell's philosophy is a dire failure. In fact, its author sometimes gives vent to a rather emphatic pessimism about this world; he has a...

This book represents one particular valid approach to being alive in the twenty first century. Written by a relatively typical human type brain of that time frame, it is informed by the work of many giants over many centuries - a distillation of whatever knowledge I've absorbed through my psychic...

Diese eBook Sammlung ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Inhalt: Philosophische & Philologische Werke Also sprach Zarathustra Der Antichrist Die Geburt der Tragödie Unzeitgemäße Betrachtungen Morgenröthe Die fröhliche...

The question of the a priori—can an adequate epistemology be developed without appeal to a non-empirical source of justification?—is a core issue running throughout the history of philosophy, and recent decades have seen some provocative and potentially epochal work on the issue. Arthur Sullivan...

Life is not complicated, our defective split brains make this world full of riddles and we must rise above the confusion of our defective split brains. Greedy people make things complicated to deliberately hide the truth. There is easy money to make for the few, if only a few know the truth. Knowledge...

Color illustrated. Into the realm of supernatural figmentations I drifted off, within my newest imagination, To interview all the living Gods there, Some who’ve left and some yet ruling everywhere. An epic.

This bilingual edition of Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy is aimed both specifically at serious students and professors of philosophy, and generally at anyone motivated by a strong philosophical interest.

Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button.  All of our collections include a linked table of contents. René Descartes was a French philosopher in the early 17th...