Metaphysics category: 2011 books

Some dialogues of Plato are of so various a character that their relation to the other dialogues cannot be determined with any degree of certainty. The Theaetetus, like the Parmenides, has points of similarity both with his earlier and his later writings. The perfection of style, the humour, the dramatic...

This new 2018 edition of Five Dialogues from Logos Publishing presents Plato’s Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno and Phaedo, as translated by Benjamin Jowett, revised with modern spelling and punctuation. One of Plato's most enduring works, Five Dialogues punctuates the key moments in Socrates'...

Ancients and moderns alike have constructed arguments and assessed theories on the basis of common sense and intuitive judgments. Yet, despite the important role intuitions play in philosophy, there has been little reflection on fundamental questions concerning the sort of data intuitions provide,...

Ethics and Time attempts to locate ethical thinking within the response to the questions raised by temporal orientation. Time is the matrix and Moloch of social life and, for the purpose of this book, the starting point for ethical reflection. Nimi Wariboko boldly attempts to reconceptualize temporal...

A tireless worker for the Light, Franz Bardon left behind him four legendary books which have become acknowledged classics of occult literature. The Practice of Magical Evocation is the second work in Bardon’s opus, and thoroughly unique. In magical terms, the book is a practical guide to the proper...

Personal account interwoven with most readable material available on arcane Reshel matrix of ley lines (as discovered by Bill Buehler). Clear technical information on complex European earth grids is balanced with highly entertaining and fascinating personal experience. Author is a specialist in spiritual aspects of sites such as Rosslyn Chapel, about which she wrote two main esoteric guides.

Two Edgar Cayce experts with decades of experience studying and teaching the philosophies of his psychic readings bring his timeless wisdom into the 21st century. With comparisons and writings based on living in today's world, the Cayce concepts come alive for a whole new generation of spiritual and...

From the time of Locke, discussions of personal identity have often ignored the question of our basic metaphysical nature: whether we human people are biological organisms, spatial or temporal parts of organisms, bundles of perceptions, or what have you. The result of this neglect has been centuries...

According to Russellian monism, an alternative to the familiar theories in the philosophy of mind that combines attractive components of physicalism and dualism, matter has intrinsic properties that both constitute consciousness and serve as categorical bases for the dispositional properties described...

Ton van den Beld This book is one of the results of the international conference on Moral Responsibility and Ontology, which was held at Utrecht University in 1 June 1998. It contains a selection of the revised versions of the papers discussed at the conference. The theme is in need of some clarification....

Lucretius' dazzling poetic work, On the Nature of Things, composed during the late Roman Republic, has captivated imaginations for twenty-one centuries. This epic promises to lift the reader above common fears, ambitions, and misery; as well as the terror of living in a universe controlled by little-understood...

This fifth volume in The Notebooks of Paul Brunton is an in-depth presentation of the sixth and seventh major topics in the personal notebooks of Dr. Paul Brunton reserved for posthumous publication.

This inaugural-and all new-Tarcher Cornerstone Edition presents a stunningly relevant and reliable translation of the thoughts and aphorisms of the Stoic philosopher and Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, properly placing the philosopher-king's writings within the vein of the world's great religious and...

“For a long time now, religion in the West has been polarized between a democratic kind of faith meant for simple believers, and divine mysteries so high that hardly anyone can claim to know much about them. The vital connecting link between them, that of metaphysical religion, is all but lost...”...