AN ESSAY ON METAPHYSICS
R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943) was a philosopher, archaeologist and historian, who was Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Oxford. His father was a painter and…… Read More »
Category: Philosophy
The Philosophers
An unusual history of philosophy in six types: the curiosa, the sage, the gadfly, the ascetic, the mandarin and the courtier – shows how many…… Read More »
Meditations on Self-Discipline and Failure
Here is another book from a neo-Stoic perspective, partly as an antidote to self-help books and written in the spirit of Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus…… Read More »
How to Die
Seneca (4 BC to 65 AD) speaks down the ages with his perennial reflections on the human condition and the inevitability of death. This is…… Read More »
A New Stoicism
There has been quite a revival of Stoicism in the last few years as a form of ethical naturalism. The author asks the interesting question…… Read More »
RECLAIMING CIVILIZATION
In this stimulating and wide-ranging study, Brendan Myers invites readers to consider the nature of civilisation, what is wrong with it and what can be…… Read More »
Lost Knowledge of the Imagination
When Goethe was a student in Strasbourg, he became fascinated by the cathedral which, for two centuries from its 'completion', had been the tallest building…… Read More »
Art, Morality and Human Nature – Writings by Richard W. Beardsmore
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Philosophical Imagination and the Evolution of Modern Philosophy
A wide-ranging and accessible exposition of different philosophical schools as ways of making sense of our experience. Access to this page is restricted to Members… Read More »
The Logic of Self-Destruction
With a background in philosophy, mathematics, logic and investment banking, the author adopts an interdisciplinary approach to his quest understand the logic of self-destruction as…… Read More »