Philosophy Books

The Astral World—Higher Occult Powers

Joel Tiffany

n commencing the investigation of Spiritualism, it becomes necessary in the outset that we find some point from which to start, or to commence our examination; for, in the inquiry after truth, we must..

The History of Philosophy in Islam

T. J. de Boer

The following is the first attempt which has been made, since the appearance of Munk’s excellent sketch, to present in connected form a History of Philosophy in Islam. Conforming to the conditions whi..

Ruysbroeck and the Mystics

Maurice Maeterlinck

The life of Jean von Ruysbroeck, like that of most of the great thinkers of this world, is entirely an inner life. He said himself, “I have no concerns outside.” Nearly all his biographers, Surius amo..

The origins of art

Y. Hirn

The aim and scope of this book is sufficiently indicated by its title. I have endeavoured throughout to restrict my attention to questions connected with the origins of art. In purely scientific matte..

Wesley's Designated Successor

Luke Tyerman

Jean Guillaume de la Flechere, wrote Robert Southey, “was a man of rare talents, and rarer virtue. No age or country has ever produced a man of more fervent piety, or more perfect charity; no Church h..

First notions of logic

Augustus De Morgan

Every act of reasoning must mainly consist in comparing together different things, and either finding out, or recalling from previous knowledge, the points in which they resemble or differ from each o..

Early Greek philosophy

John Burnet

We have records of great activity in the production of cosmogonies during the whole of the sixth century B.C., and we know something of the systems of Epimenides, Pherekydes, and Akousilaos. As there ..

Philosophumena Volume II

Antipope Hippolytus

Apsethus the Libyan yearned to become a god. But since, after making himself very busy, he utterly failed (to accomplish) his desire, he wished at all events to appear to have become one, and seemed a..