Philosophers category: 1861 books

An extraordinarily talented autodidactic physicist who has solved the quantum conjecture of telepathic phenomenon, Moriah Lee Davis, possibly the greatest unconventional scientist of our time, a riveting writer who awed the nation with her controversial début of Queen of America. Now in The Mind...

Biography of the poet, polemicist and English man of letters Joh Milton, written by Mark Pattison. Mark Pattison (1813 – 1884) was an English author and a Church of England priest. He served as Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.

The difficulty of dealing with St. Thomas Aquinas in this brief article is the difficulty of selecting that aspect of a many-sided mind which will best suggest its size or scale. Because of the massive body which carried his massive brain, he was called “The Ox”; but any attempt to boil down such...

A biography of Edmund Burke written by John Morley. Edmund Burke ( 1729 – 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman born in Dublin, as well as an author, orator, political theorist and philosopher, who after moving to London in 1750 served as a member of parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in...

Annie Wood Besant (1847-1933) was a prominent Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator. She was born in 1847 in London into a middle-class family of Irish origin. She fought for the causes she thought were right, starting with freedom of thought, women's rights, secularism, birth control, Fabian socialism and workers' rights.

A tribute from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Thoreau. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were two famous Transcendentalists in the mid-1800’s.

These Reminiscences were written and published by the Author in his fiftieth year, shortly before he started on a trip to Europe and America for his failing health in 1912. It was in the course of this trip that he wrote for the first time in the English language for publication. (from preface). Rabindranath...

Biography of Voltaire by John Morley. John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, (1838 – 1923), was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor. Morley was a Trustee of the British Museum from 1894 to 1921, Honorary Professor of Ancient Literature at the Royal Academy of...

Blaise Pascal naquit à Clermont-Ferrand le 19 juin 1623. Il appartenait à une vieille famille d’Auvergne,  dont un ancêtre, Étienne Pascal, maître des requêtes, avait été anobli par le roi Louis XI. Si ancienne  qu’elle fût,...

Entendimiento Primer Siglo Exortacion a los Creyentes Les exhorto a desmenuzar el tomo de "Gálatas, una Perspectiva del Primer Siglo" y "Ley Judía," les ayudará en gran suerte comprender todo lo que se ha expuesto. Es mi arenga que hayan incluido una de los...

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A unique edition: • beautifully formatted with optimized, easy-to-read fonts; • annotated, with an introduction by Dr. Oscar Levy; • includes a functional Table of Contents. From the Author: “Some deny his [Nietzsche's] right to the title "philosopher"; others declare him to...

"Why Conform when it's so much more interesting not to?" Happiness, Torture, Poker and Tits are just some of the topics tackled in this book, as philosopher Robert Jameson aims to illustrate how intelligent thinking has almost nothing to do with political-correctness. Warning: Contains strong language and challenging opinions that some people may find offensive.

Il periodo trascorso a Marsiglia tra il 1940 e il 1942, in attesa di imbarcarsi per gli Stati Uniti, rappresenta per Simone Weil una stagione di fioritura delle amicizie e un momento di straordinaria ricchezza e fecondità del pensiero e della scrittura. Il numero di lettere inviate a familiari e...