Western Philosophy: An Anthology
10 best books like Western Philosophy: An Anthology (John Cottingham): The Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism, A History of Western Philosophy, The Conquest of Happiness, The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects, German Ideology, The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea, The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe, Wizardology, The Secret Book of Dzyan: Unveiling the Hidden Truth about the Oldest Manuscript in the World and Its Divine Authors
| Author | Daniel C. Matt |
| ISBN | 0062511637 |
I first read this book several years ago for a course I took while working on my master’s degree. As I decided to incorporate weekly meditations in my world religion course, I wanted to revisit some of the mystical writings of each tradition I cover. This is mostly selections of Kabbalistic writings,...
A History of Western Philosophy
| Author | Bertrand Russell |
| ISBN | 0671201581 |
Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject—unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit. In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy...
The Conquest of Happiness
| Author | Bertrand Russell |
| ISBN | 0415378478 |
The Conquest of Happiness is Bertrand Russell's recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the current obsession with self-help by decades. Leading the reader step by step through the causes of unhappiness and the personal choices, compromises and sacrifices that (may) lead to...
The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order
| Author | Israel Regardie |
| ISBN | 0875426638 |
The Golden Dawn by Israel Regardie is considered by many to be the book that started the modern occult movement. The original Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, which started in the late 1800s, borrowed from a wide variety of occult traditions ó Kabalah, Tarot, Geomancy, Enochian Magic, Theosophy,...
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
| Author | Bertrand Russell |
| ISBN | 0671203231 |
Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself -- questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions that involve life after death, morality, freedom,...
| Author | Karl Marx |
| ISBN | 0717803015 |
2011 Reprint of 1939 Edition. Parts I & III of "The German Ideology". Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published by the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow in 1939. "The German Ideology" was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels...
| Author | Arthur O. Lovejoy |
| ISBN | 0674361539 |
From later antiquity down to the close of the eighteenth century, most philosophers and men of science and, indeed, most educated men, accepted without question a traditional view of the plan and structure of the world. In this volume, which embodies the William James lectures for 1933, Arthur O. Lovejoy...
| Author | Arthur Koestler |
| ISBN | 0140192468 |
An extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the universe. In this masterly synthesis, Arthur Koestler cuts through the sterile distinction between 'sciences' and 'humanities' to bring to life the whole history of cosmology from the Babylonians to Newton. He shows how the tragic split...
| Author | Master Merlin |
| ISBN | 0763628956 |
Aspiring wizards can tune in to the age-old wisdom of Merlin with this dazzling compendium of all things magical — unveiling novelty elements throughout.
For any apprentice determined to learn the arcane arts of wizardry, could there be a better teacher than . . . Merlin himself? Originally...
The Secret Book of Dzyan: Unveiling the Hidden Truth about the Oldest Manuscript in the World and Its Divine Authors
Have you heard of the secret Book of Dzyan?
Generations of Truth-seekers have been searching for this mysterious book of untold antiquity that conceals the entire wisdom of the world, yet only a chosen few have ever gained access to it.
Thus, in 2015, Zinovia Dushkova, Ph.D., published...
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 1576467627 |
Plato (428/427 BC-348/347 BC), whose original name was Aristocles, was an ancient Greek philosopher, the second of the great trio of ancient Greeks - succeeding Socrates and preceding Aristotle - who between them laid the philosophical foundations of Western culture. Plato was also a mathematician,...
The Problems of Philosophy
| Author | Bertrand Russell |
| ISBN | 1421903679 |
Plato, in the Symposium, was perhaps the first person to consider the question of the "unliked review". If a review never receives any votes, can it truly be said to exist? This problem has tormented many of the world's greatest philosophers. Bishop Berkeley's famous answer is that God reads and likes...
