The Birth of Modern Belief
This game-changing book will alter the way you understand the history and nature of belief in the West from the Middle Ages to our own…… Read More »
Category: Philosophy Spirituality
Selected Essays 1934-1943
I imagine that quite a number of readers will be familiar with the work of the great French philosopher Simone Weil (1909 – 1943) who…… Read More »
DANGEROUS MYSTIC
When the distinguished scholar of Christian Mysticism, Bernard McGinn, arrived at London's Heathrow airport in the 1980s, he was asked by the Immigration Officer why…… Read More »
THE LETTERS OF MARSILIO FICINO
Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) of Florence epitomised the definition of the Renaissance man as philosopher, scholar, doctor, musician and priest. He translated the whole of Plato…… Read More »
Four Quartets – TS Eliot and Spirituality
In June, we have a Cathar pilgrimage from Puivert to Foix, which we have themed around TS Eliot's Four Quartets as a spiritual journey through…… Read More »
How to Keep your Cool
This is a new edition of Seneca's classic essay on Anger at a time when the phrase 'anger management' had yet to be coined. There…… Read More »
On Freedom
Cass Sunstein is a behavioural economist at Harvard whose book on digital democracy I reviewed last year as well as his earlier work Nudge. Here…… Read More »
Introduction to Western Moral Philosophy
This is a lucid introduction to the subject based on lectures given to undergraduates and beginning with an introduction to the topic in terms of…… Read More »
The Lost Vision of Nature
Joseph Milne's work is essential reading in the history of ideas, and I would strongly recommend his Metaphysics and the Cosmic Order to readers unfamiliar…… Read More »
The Perennial Philosophy and the Recovery of a Theophanic View of Nature
This is a lucid account of the topic affirming the spiritual dimension of existence and explaining how the Reformation and scientific revolution removed a view…… Read More »