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Author: T. Weir
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012-07-26
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781349295487
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first survey in the English language of the history of naturalistic monism in the works of Haeckel, Spinoza, and others. Contributors demonstrate that, to a greater extent than previously shown, monism provided an essential epistemological framework for numerous religious, political and cultural movements between the 1840s and 1940s.
Author: P. Goff
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011-12-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780230279483
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpinoza believed that there was only one substance in reality, which he called 'God or nature'. A number of leading contemporary philosophers have defended monism, this strange and beautiful idea that the cosmos is the source of all being. This book explores both the historical roots of the monism in Spinoza, and its flowering in the 21st century.
Author: T. Weir
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-08-06
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1137011742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first survey in the English language of the history of naturalistic monism in the works of Haeckel, Spinoza, and others. Contributors demonstrate that, to a greater extent than previously shown, monism provided an essential epistemological framework for numerous religious, political and cultural movements between the 1840s and 1940s.
Author: Paul Gragl
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0198796269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this first full-length study of legal monism, Paul Gragl advocates for the revival of legal monism as a solution to normative conflicts between different bodies of law. Using comprehensive and inter-disciplinary arguments, this book defends the theory against dualism and pluralism.
Author: Augustus Hopkins Strong
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 550
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Publisher: Philaletheians UK
Published: 2018-02-07
Total Pages: 11
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAgnosticism is the modern variation on the ancient theme of the Greek philosopher, “All I know is that I know nothing.” Agnosticism is lack of reason, nescience rather than ignorance. Having found gnosis we cannot turn our backs on it and become agnostics, says a Master of Wisdom. The strong Agnostic assumes the negative position of knowing nothing but phenomena and refuses to believe in anything else. The weak Agnostic may be ready to entertain new ideas, but the light of Truth will always blind the religious bigot. With the exception of psychism, every other –ism is a shade of materialism — a science without a soul. Ancient pagans held far deeper views on the First Cause and its emanations than modern philosophers, whether Agnostics, Materialists or Christians. Agnostics have to choose between the Secret Doctrine of the East, and the materialistic Darwinian and Biblical Doctrines of the West. Agnosticism, Positivism, and Materialism are the worst enemies of Theosophy and Mysticism. Much of current agnostic speculation on the existence of the First Cause is little better than veiled Materialism. Between Agnostics and Catholics, the age revels at a debauch of phenomena. Brutal but frank Materialism is more honest than Janus-faced agnosticism in our days. Monism is no better than a mask concealing the void of final annihilation, even of consciousness. The Occultist would be guilty of treason, were he to demolish the old gods before he could replace them with the eternal verities that they represent. Atheists and Agnostics are thinly attracted to “godless” Buddhism, or to our highly philosophical and logical agnosticism. The “moral standard of the Theosophists” is TRUTH and this covers all. No sincere seeker of Truth can ever be found among the blind believers in the “Divine Word.” Our doctrine knows no compromises. It either affirms or denies, for it never teaches but that which it knows to be Truth.
Author: W. L. Walker
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2021-06-03
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 1725299216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe chief object of the pages that follow is to show how the great Christian presuppositions – God, Freedom, Immortality – in their specifically Christian character (including the reality of the Divine Incarnation in Christ and of Grace) can be established on the basis of such a Monistic conception of the world as the facts of Science demand and as Philosophy is feeling after. The subject, however, is not approached from the standpoint of Philosophy, but, rather, objectively – from that of the teaching of Science concerning ourselves in the Universe. The book is written for “the plain man,” and seeks to follow an inductive method and to reach something that shall be, not vague merely, but distinctively Christian. - From the Preface
Author: G. Glen Wickens
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780802048646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing insights derived from the critical theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, Wickens counters the usual view of The Dynasts as failed epic or tragedy, and instead situates the work as a novel within the serio-comical genres.
Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Publisher: Philaletheians UK
Published: 2021-04-17
Total Pages: 10
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur age is as greedy to set up new idols, as it is to overthrow the old gods; as ready to give lavish hospitality to new ideas, as to kick out most unceremoniously theories that now seem to them effete. Facts are eagerly sought after by all, from the solemn conclaves of Science who seem to hang the destinies of the human race, down to a hack on the warpath after sensational news. The Theosophical Society is neither sectarian nor a religious body, but simply a nucleus of men and women devoted to the search after truth, whencesoever it may come. No member is obliged to be in full sympathy with all three objects of our Society; suffice that he should be in sympathy with one of the three, and be willing not to oppose the other two, to render him eligible to membership. Theosophy teaches a far stricter and more far-reaching Monism than does Secularism, and it is far more philosophical. We firmly believe that the elevating and strengthening influence of the doctrines of Reincarnation and Karma, i.e., of Hope and Responsibility, will solve many a social problem that seeks elsewhere in vain for a solution. Our Society is the only body absolutely free from intolerance, dogmatism, and prejudice, and the only one which opens its arms to all, imposing on none its own special beliefs — which are strictly limited to a small inner group within it, called the Esoteric Section.
Author: Mark J. Nyvlt
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 0739167758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book emphasizes that Aristotle was aware of the philosophical attempt to subordinate divine Intellect to a prior and absolute principle. Nyvlt argues that Aristotle transforms the Platonic doctrine of Ideal Numbers into an astronomical account of the unmoved movers, which function as the multiple intelligible content of divine Intellect. Thus, within Aristotle we have in germ the Plotinian doctrine that the intelligibles are within the Intellect. While the content of divine Intellect is multiple, it does not imply that divine Intellect possesses a degree of potentiality, given that potentiality entails otherness and contraries. Rather, the very content of divine Intellect is itself; it is Thought Thinking Itself. The pure activity of divine Intellect, moreover, allows for divine Intellect to know the world, and the acquisition of this knowledge does not infect divine Intellect with potentiality. The status of the intelligible object(s) within divine Intellect is pure activity that is identical with divine Intellect itself, as T. De Koninck and H. Seidl have argued. Therefore, the intelligible objects within divine Intellect are not separate entities that determine divine Intellect, as is the case in Plotinus.-- Book Description from Website.
