Filosofia

The Greater Awareness. (A Sequel to An Outline of Modern Occultism).

SCOTT, CYRIL. · 1981 · Chilton Books

£110.00 (€131.55 | $145.64 | ¥23,274)

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. 0710009534. Originally published in 1936. "Arguing that 'any thing in the nature of self-torture or spectacular asceticism is a sign of unbalance and is not synonymous with true spirituality and real inner progress', Cyril Scott proposes a...

Philostratus. Biography and Belles Lettres in the Third Century A.D.

ANDERSON, GRAHAM. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.92 | $26.48 | ¥4,232)

London: Croom Helm, 1986. 0709905750. 1st edition. "Sophists and holy men are alike fascinating and characteristic celebrities in the social and intellectual life of the early Roman Empire, and Philostratus' treatment of both betrays his own distinctive personality, as a super...

An Autobiographical Study.

FREUD, SIGMUND. · 1948 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.94 | $19.86 | ¥3,174)

London: The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1948. 4th impression. The International Psycho-Analytical Library series No.26. Authorized translation by James Strachey. Of great interest "not only as the record of the personal life of the founder of psycho-ana...

A Short History of Chinese Philosophy. (edited by Derk Bodde).

YU-LAN, FUNG. · 1976 · Chilton Books

£12.50 (€14.95 | $16.55 | ¥2,645)

New York: The Free Press, 1976. 0684836343. A Systematic Account of Chinese Thought from its Origins to the Present Day. "Illuminates the most commonly known schools of Confucianism and Taoism, and it acquaints readers with Mohism, Yin-Yang, Legalism, Neo-Taoism, Neo-Confucian...

Philosophies of India. (edited by Joseph Campbell).

ZIMMER, HEINRICH. · 1951 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.49 | $37.07 | ¥5,924)

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1951. 1st British edition. Copyright page states 'First Published in England 1951', but slip pasted to foreword states 'Owing to production delays this book was not published until 1952'. Contents includes: Part I. The Highest Good. i. The M...

Lectures on the History of Philosophy. Volume 2. Plato and the Platonists.

HEGEL, G.W.F. · 1995 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.90 | $33.10 | ¥5,290)

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press / Bison Books, 1995. 0803272723. Translated by E.S.Haldane and Frances H.Simson. Volume 2 of 3 volumes. Bison Books edition. "Introduces the most renowned disciple of Socrates and the theory of Platonic forms before moving to Plato's disci...

Lectures on the History of Philosophy. Volume 1.Greek Philosophy to Plato.

HEGEL, G.W.F. · 1995 · Chilton Books

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Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press / Bison Books, 1995. 0803272715. Volume 1 of 3. Translated by E.S.Haldane, With an Introduction to the Bison Book Edition by Frederick C.Beiser. "Hegel traces the progression of Greek philosophy from Pythagoras through the Eleatic school, ...

Platonism.

BURNET, JOHN. · 1928 · Chilton Books

£45.00 (€53.82 | $59.58 | ¥9,521)

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1928. 1st edition. Contents: I. Introductory; II. Plato and Socrates; III. The Theory of Ideas; IV. The Academy and Aristotle; V. Plato and Dionysius; VI. The Laws; VII. Mathematics; VIII. Theology. Pp.130. Dark blue cloth, gilt title ...

On Society.

HARRISON, FREDERIC. · 1918 · Chilton Books

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London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1918. 1st edition. Contentas: Part One. Lectures: I. The Ethic of Humanism; II.Family Life; III.The Functions of the State; IV.A State Church; V.Economic Duties; VI.The Economic Problem; VII.The Future of the Working Classes; VIII.The Gospel ...

Pragmatism. The Classic Writings.

THAYER, H.S. (EDITOR). · 1987 · Chilton Books

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Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1987. 0915145375. 2nd printing. "Viewed against other intellectual currents of American life, pragmatism stands out as a movement that not only affected academic philosophy but had a profound impact upon the study of law, education, po...

The Questing Mind

MICKLE, ALAN D. · 1925 · Chilton Books

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London: Andrew Melrose Ltd, (nd. C.1925). Essays, the majority written in the writer's homeland - Australia. Pp.160, inscribed to front free endpaper ("To Ernest H. Gough Esq from Alan D Mickle and Mrs Mickle as a very slight token of appreciation of many kindnesses. 24.11.30"...

Speculum Spinozanum 1677-1977.

HESSING, SIEGFRIED. (EDITOR). · 1978 · Chilton Books

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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. 0710087160. Collection of essays on Baruch de Spinoza, one of the greatest thinkers of all time, published for the three hundredth anniversary of his death. Pp.xxii/590, colour frontispiece + 13 further black & white plates, a few light sp...

Philosophy in Germany 1831-1933. (translated by Eric Matthews).

SCHNÄDELBACH, HERBERT. · 1974 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.80 | $66.20 | ¥10,579)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974. 0521227933. 1st edition. "Attempts to present a century in the history of German philosophy in such a way that it becomes clear what was of particular concern to the philosophers of that time in Germany and how much of these concern...

Analecta Husserliana. The Elemental Passions of the Soul. Poetics of the Elements in the Human Condition. Part 3.

TYMIENIECKA, ANNA-TERESA. (EDITOR). · 1990 · Chilton Books

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Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990. 0792301803. Analecta Husseliana. The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research Volume XXVIII. "The Elemental Passions of the Soul discussed in this work cover a wide range: in literary origin, from the Ancients to the Post-Modernists; i...

Theology & Philosophical Inquiry. An Introduction.

BRUMMER, VINCENT. · 1981 · Chilton Books

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London: Macmillan, 1981. 0333310306. 1st edition. "The reader is introduced to four major areas of philosophy: the theory of concepts, the theory of value, the theory of knowledge and the theory of existence." Pp.310. Tan cloth, dustwrapper has minor edge wear. VG/VG.

Images of Man. Selected Readings in Arts and Ideas in Western Civilization.

THOMAS, SIDNEY. · 1972 · Chilton Books

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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston Inc, 1972. 0030813933. Includes sections on The Classical Period; The Medieval Period; The Renaissance; The Baroque and Rococo Periods; The Revolutionary Period. Pp.xvi/426. Paperback, covers rubbed with corner creasing. G+.

Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough / Bemerkungen Uber Frazers Golden Bough.

WITTGENSTEIN, LUDWIG/ RHEES, RUSH (EDITOR). · 1990 · Chilton Books

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Doncaster: Brynmill, 1990. 0391029525. Wittgenstein's comments on Sir James Frazer's The Golden Bough, a Study in Mafic and Religion. German and English translation (by A.C. Miles) on facing pages (18 pages each). Paperback. has slight uneven sunning. Scarce. VG..

Immanuel Kant. His Life and Doctrine.

PAULSEN, FRIEDRICH. · 1902 · Chilton Books

£55.00 (€65.78 | $72.82 | ¥11,637)

London: John C.Nimmo, 1902. Translated from the revised German edition by J.E.Creighton and Albert Lefevre, Pp.xx/419, portrait frontispiece + folding facsimile of letter of Kant to his brother, 1792. Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine dulled. Good.

A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy.

DRONKE, PETER. · 1988 · Chilton Books

£75.00 (€89.70 | $99.30 | ¥15,869)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. 0521258960. 1st edition. "After a discussion of the cultural context of twelfth-century speculation, and some of the main streams of though - Platonic, Stoic and Arabic - that quickened it, comes a characterisation of the new proble...

The Philosophy of Avicenna and its Influence on Medieval Europe.

GOICHON, A.M./ KHAN, M.S.(TRANSLATOR). · 1969 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.41 | $63.55 | ¥10,156)

Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1969. "An English translation of A.M.Goichon's French book on Avicenna, the famous philosopher and physician, who has exercised a profound and lasting influence on the history of thought in the East and the West..The book is based entirely on the or...