Volume 1 of 2. Being an attempt to introduce the experimental method of reasoning into moral subjects, and dialogues concerning natural religion. Contents: Book I Of the Understanding: of ideas, their origin, composition, abstraction, connexion, etc.; of the ideas of space and time; of knowledge and probability; of the skeptical and other systems of philosophy. ...

This is Francis Bacon's most mysterious and prophetical works. It is maintained that the New Atlantis was the blueprint for the founding of America. References to the philosophy of the Rosicrucians and Freemasons are abundant. From the preface: "This fable my lord devised, to the end that he might exhibit therein a model or description of a college, instituted for the interpreting of nature, and the producing of great and marvelous works for the ...

Many other matters respecting the attributes of God and my own nature or mind remain for consideration; but I shall possibly on another occasion resume the investigation of these. Now (after first noting what must be done or avoided, in order to arrive at a knowledge of the truth) my principal task is to endeavour to emerge from the state of doubt into which I have these last days fallen, and to see whether nothing certain can be known regarding ...

1876. Swedenborg, a noted Swedish scientist, philosopher and theologian, is best known for his later writings in which he presents ideas both Christian and ecumenical for a new spiritual era or new church to be known as the New Jerusalem. Theophilus Parsons, a lawyer and a professor of law at Harvard, wrote many law manuals. He also was converted to Swedenborgianism and wrote several religious works including this volume. Contents: God; Creation; ...

Considers current events through an examination of this seventeenth-century philosopher.<P>In recent years there has been a revival of interest in the writings of Baltasar Gracian, a seventeenth-century Spanish Jesuit who explored the political uses of rhetoric. Gracian is best known in the United States for his bestselling collection of aphorisms entitled The Art of Worldly Wisdom.<P>The essays in this volume focus on the relevance ...

A fully annotated edition of Hume's most important political essays. ...

This book explores the reception of David Hume's political thought in eighteenth-century America. It presents a challenge to standard interpretations that assume Hume's thought had little influence in early America. Eighteenth-century Americans are often supposed to have ignored Hume's philosophical writings and to have rejected entirely Hume's "Tory" History of England. James Madison, if he used Hume's ideas in Federalist No. 10, it is commonly ...

Conqueror of Western Europe, emperor of Rome, JULIUS CAESAR (44 B.C.-100 B.C.) is considered one of the keenest political and military minds of all time, and his commentaries on his own campaigns rank with Sun-Tzu's The Art of War as required reading for anyone who wishes to grasp the soldierly skills of tactics and strategy. In this 1915 edition-MacDevitt's translation is considered masterful-we are privileged with Caesar's firsthand accounts ...

Contents: Hume's Early Life: Literary and Political Writings. Later Years: The History Of England. Hume's Philosophy: The Object of The Mind; The Contents of The Mind; Origin of the Impressions; The Classification and the Nomenclature of Mental Operations; Mental Phenomena of Animals; Language; Propositions Concerning Necessary Truths. Order of Nature: Miracles. Theism: Evolution Of Theology. The Soul: The Doctrine of Immortality. Volition: ...

David Hume (April 26, 1711 - August 25, 1776)Ý1š was a Scottish philosopher and historian. He is often considered one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy. Although in recent years interest in Hume's works has centered on his philosophical writing, it was as a historian that he gained his initial fame.
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