This ancient funerary text contains a collection of spells, prayers and incantations designed to guide the departed through the perils of the underworld.
The seven lectures presented here were delivered in New York for the purpose of presenting the testimony of science as to the relation of matter and of consciousness; to enable the hearers to observe the identical manifestation of these relations and of certain basic laws in successively higher states of being, and thus to bring to them a realization of the universality of the evolutionary process and its actuality; and to deal somewhat with the nature of the expanded states of consciousness and the enlarged life toward which all mankind is traveling.
In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche attacks past philosophers for their alleged lack of critical sense and their blind acceptance of the Christian premises in their consideration of morality.
It must be recognized that a knowledge of the spiritual world, not merely a knowledge gained by treading the path, but also a knowledge acquired through grasping the truths of spiritual science with the unprejudiced, healthy human intellect, leads also to a higher moral status in life, to a knowledge of sensory existence that is in accord with the truth, to certainty in life, and to inward health of the soul.
Collected here are nine short essays, On the Sufferings of the World, The Vanity of Existence, On Suicide, Immortality: A Dialogue, Psychological Observations, On Education, Of Women, On Noise, and, A Few Parables, by the world renowned philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer.
Collected here are five short essays, Human Nature, Government, Free-will and Fatalism, Character, Moral Instinct, and, Ethical Reflections, by the world renowned philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer.
'The sight of suffering does one good, the infliction of suffering does one more good - this is a hard maxim, but none the less a fundamental maxim, old, powerful, and "e;human, all-too-human"e;.
The Philosophy of Mystery by Walter Cooper Dendy is a philosophical exploration of the concept of mystery and humanity's enduring fascination with the unknown.
In this book you will find the following essays by anarchist Emma Goldman * Anarchism: What It Really Stands For * Minorities Versus Majorities * The Psychology of Political Violence * Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure * Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty * Francisco Ferrer and The Modern School * The Hypocrisy of Puritanism * The Traffic in Women * Woman Suffrage * The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation * Marriage and Love * The Drama: A Powerful Dissimenator of Radical Thought
Philosophy may be said to contain the principles of the rational cognition that concepts afford us of things (not merely, as with logic, the principles of the form of thought in general irrespective of the objects), and, thus interpreted, the course, usually adopted, of dividing it into theoretical and practical is perfectly sound.
