Philosophy Books
The History of Philosophy in Islam
T. J. de BoerThe 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 MaeterlinckThe 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. HirnThe 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 TyermanJean 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 MorganEvery 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 BurnetWe 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 HippolytusApsethus 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..
Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 2
Hugo MünsterbergThe Harvard Psychological Laboratory was founded in 1891 by Professor William James, who had introduced some experimental features into his psychological lecture courses for some time before the forma..