Philosophers category: 1861 books

Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) wordt alom beschouwd als een van de grootste Duitse literaire personen: dichter, roman- en toneelschrijver, criticus, jurist, wetenschapper en politicus. Misschien wel de laatste homo universalis, even klassiek als Shakespeare en Dante. Goethe. Kunstwerk van het...

Anselmo D'Aosta è tra i pensatori medievali più significativi. Fu il difensore della priorità del potere spirituale della Chiesa su quello secolare del sovrano; divenne inoltre particolarmente noto per aver formulato la famosissima "prova ontologica a priori dell’esistenza di Dio". I...

Extrait : La suggestion ou plutôt l’autosuggestion est un sujet tout à fait nouveau, en même temps qu’il est aussi vieux que le monde. Il est nouveau en ce sens que, jusqu’à présent, il a été mal étudié et, par conséquent, mal...

Lettre sur la tolérance - John Locke   John Locke (1632 - 1704) est un philosophe anglais, l'un des principaux précurseurs des Lumières. Sa théorie de la connaissance était qualifiée d'empiriste car il considérait que l'expérience est l'origine...

  Avez-vous dit Senghorisme?   Que me soit permis cet audacieux postulat, qui avec le temps s’imposera peut-être comme un constat. Le «senghorisme» est à la Francophonie ce que le marxisme est à l’économie, c’est-à-dire une logique de pensée holistique alternative...

H.G. WELLS LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENS LIFE OF GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE FREDERICK DOUGLASS ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON HONORE DE BALZAC ABRAHAM LINCOLN ALFRED TENNYSON HOMER AND HIS AGE SAINT AUGUSTIN THE STORY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA ABELARD AND HELOISE QUEEN ELIZABETH AND THE EARL OF LEICESTER...

Russian novelist Dostoyevsky gave up an engineering career early in order to write. In 1849 he was arrested for belonging to a radical discussion group; sentenced to be shot, he was reprieved at the last moment and spent four years at hard labour in Siberia, where he developed epilepsy and experienced...

A great soul, he left home in boyhood seeking Knowledge and Peace. Ramana Maharshi was full of compassion for all living beings. He became a kindly light to all who came to him seeking peace of mind. The sacred land of India (Bharat) has given birth to many great men and women. From the time...

Giordano Bruno is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland's pathbreaking life of Bruno establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo, a thinker whose vision of the world prefigures ours. By the time...

In this enormously engaging, vibrant, and richly researched biography of Albert Camus, the French writer and journalist Olivier Todd has drawn on personal correspondence, notebooks, and public records never before tapped, as well as interviews with Camus's family, friends, fellow workers, writers,...

“When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep. And when I am walking alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts are sometimes preoccupied elsewhere, the rest of the time I bring them back to the walk, to the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, and to me.” —Montaigne   In the year...

Robert Sullivan, the New York Times bestselling author of Rats and Cross Country, delivers a revolutionary reconsideration of Henry David Thoreau for modern readers of the seminal transcendentalist. Dispelling common notions of Thoreau as a lonely eccentric cloistered at Walden Pond, Sullivan (whom...

It may be useful that there should be some record of an education which was unusual and remarkable John Stuart Mill (1806-73), philosopher, economist, and political thinker, was the most prominent figure of nineteenth century English intellectual life and his work has continuing significance for contemporary...

Sri Ramana Maharshi, born Venkataraman Iyer, was a Hindu spiritual master. He was born to a Tamil-speaking Brahmin family in Tiruchuzhi, Tamil Nadu. The book describes his journey. He was one of the greatest teachers of Philosophy in the 19th century.