Author : Will Durant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCAL:B3622956
The Mansions of Philosophy
Will Durant
The Mansions Of Philosophy
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The Story of Philosophy
Will Durant
Author : Will Durant
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486850801
The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant Pdf
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Will Durant chronicles the lives and ideas of several key philosophical thinkers throughout history in this informative yet eminently readable text. An essential read for anyone fascinated by the development of Western philosophy.
A Dual Autobiography
Will Durant,Ariel Durant
Author : Will Durant,Ariel Durant
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015000552011
A Dual Autobiography by Will Durant,Ariel Durant Pdf
"In this magnificently readable autobiography by the authors of The Story of Civilization, Will and Ariel Durant celebrate and examine a lifetime of ideas, friendships, triumphs and love. The story of their life together, rich in brilliant anecdotes and with the names of the countless famous people they knew, is a passionate record of their shared experience as lovers, as husband and wife, as world travelers, and as the authors of one of the most famous and successful works of scholarship in American literary history. Ariel and Will Durant met and fell in love in 1912. He was a teacher at the anarchist Ferrer Center in New York, a young man already in love with the world of ideas, who had quit the seminary (to his family's chagrin) in search of freedom. She was fourteen years old, so young that she roller-skated on her way to City Hall for her marriage, the daughter of penniless immigrants struggling to survive in the New World, inheritor of all the rebellious traditions and the determination to survive of the Russian ghetto from which her family came. Together they shared not only a burning love for each other but a passionate hunger for ideas. Their book takes us with them on their incredible and fascinating intellectual journey, beginning with their interest in anarchism (which brought them close to Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman) and going on through a long, shared lifetime that brought them honors, fame and the acquaintanceship of almost every major literary and intellectual personality in Europe and the United States. Their book is remarkably frank and deeply moving, at once a star-studded history of the decades through which they lived and worked and a passionate, intimate and powerful tribute to a great and enduring love."--Dust jacket.
Philosophy and the Social Problem
Will Durant
Author : Will Durant
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : EAN:8596547087939
Philosophy and the Social Problem by Will Durant Pdf
In Durant's debut book, the social problem he identifies is that Philosophy as science has failed to gain the interest of Joe Public. He believes that for too long, philosophy has concerned itself only with academia and has not shown its relevance to everyday living.
The Lessons of History
Will Durant,Ariel Durant
Author : Will Durant,Ariel Durant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439170199
The Lessons of History by Will Durant,Ariel Durant Pdf
A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize–winning historians Will and Ariel Durant. With their accessible compendium of philosophy and social progress, the Durants take us on a journey through history, exploring the possibilities and limitations of humanity over time. Juxtaposing the great lives, ideas, and accomplishments with cycles of war and conquest, the Durants reveal the towering themes of history and give meaning to our own.
Fallen Leaves
Will Durant
Author : Will Durant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781476771564
Fallen Leaves by Will Durant Pdf
Praised as a “revelatory” book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prize–winning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his death. The culmination of Will Durant’s sixty-plus years spent researching the philosophies, religions, arts, sciences, and civilizations from across the world, Fallen Leaves is the distilled wisdom of one of the world’s greatest minds, a man with a renowned talent for rendering the insights of the past accessible. Over the course of Durant’s career he received numerous letters from “curious readers who have challenged me to speak my mind on the timeless questions of human life and fate.” With Fallen Leaves, his final book, he at last accepted their challenge. In twenty-two short chapters, Durant addresses everything from youth and old age to religion, morals, sex, war, politics, and art. Fallen Leaves is “a thought-provoking array of opinions” (Publishers Weekly), offering elegant prose, deep insights, and Durant’s revealing conclusions about the perennial problems and greatest joys we face as a species. In Durant’s singular voice, here is a message of insight for everyone who has ever sought meaning in life or the counsel of a learned friend while navigating life’s journey.
Mansions of the Moon
Shyam Selvadurai
Author : Shyam Selvadurai
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735280649
Mansions of the Moon by Shyam Selvadurai Pdf
A breathtaking reimagining of ancient India through the extraordinary life of Yasodhara, the woman who married the Buddha—from the bestselling, award-winning author of Funny Boy and The Hungry Ghosts. In this sweeping tale, at once epic and intimate, Shyam Selvadurai introduces us to Siddhartha Gautama—who will later become “the enlightened one,” or the Buddha—an unusually bright and politically astute young man settling into his upper-caste life as a newlywed to Yasodhara, a woman of great intelligence and spirit. Mansions of the Moon traces the couple’s early love and life together, and then the anguished turmoil that descends upon them both as Siddhartha’s spiritual calling takes over and the marriage partnership slowly, inexorably crumbles. Eventually, Yasodhara is forced to ask what kind of life a woman can lead in ancient India if her husband abandons her—even a well-born woman such as herself. And is there a path she, too, might take towards enlightenment? Award-winning writer Shyam Selvadurai examines these questions with empathy and insight, creating a vivid portrait of a fascinating time and place, the intricate web of power, family and relationships that surround a singular marriage, and the remarkable woman who, until now, has remained a little-understood shadow in the historical record. Mansions of the Moon is an immersive, lively and thrilling feat of literary imagination.
Transition
Will Durant
Author : Will Durant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1978-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780671242039
Transition by Will Durant Pdf
WILL DURANT (1885-1981) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize (1968) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977). He spent over fifty years writing his critically acclaimed eleven-volume series, The Story of Civilization (the later volumes written in conjunction with his wife, Ariel). A champion of human rights issues such as the brotherhood of man and social reform long before such issues were popular, Durant, through his writings, continues to educate and entertain readers the world over.
Mansions of the Soul
Harve Spencer Lewis
Author : Harve Spencer Lewis
Publisher : Rosicrucian Order AMORC
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780912057439
Mansions of the Soul by Harve Spencer Lewis Pdf
The Mansion
Henry Van Dyke
Author : Henry Van Dyke
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547425533
The Mansion by Henry Van Dyke Pdf
This is a Christmas story. The mansion of the title is Weightman Mansion. It is not in the most fashionable area of town but it is evident that whoever owns it has money. It is a short story with a strong moral and uses the two main characters, Harold Weightman the son of Mr. Weightman, and the patriarch himself. They are used to point up the difference between what would now be called 'virtue signaling' and doing good with genuine and sincere intent.
Mansions of the Moon for the Green Witch
Ann Moura
Author : Ann Moura
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738728261
Mansions of the Moon for the Green Witch by Ann Moura Pdf
Ann Moura, the author of the popular Green Witchcraft series, is back with a new, one-of-a-kind spellbook on lunar magic. This is the only guidebook available that uses Mansions of the Moon correspondences to empower Esbat rituals and spellwork. The moon goes through twenty-eight distinct "mansions," or sections of the sky, as it travels through the twelve signs of the zodiac. Each mansion is appropriate for certain types of magic, as described in ceremonial magic books, such as Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy or Barrett's The Magus. Now this esoteric information is available to Witches, complete with suggested workings for both the waxing and the waning lunar phase in each mansion. Moura provides the tools, the instruction, and examples of how to utilize the Mansions of the Moon to add depth and potency to your spells and rituals. More than one hundred workings are presented, including candle spells, charm bags, meditations, magical oils, talismans, amulets, incense, teas, and much more.
On the Meaning of Life
Will Durant,Owen C. Middleton
Author : Will Durant,Owen C. Middleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258006669
On the Meaning of Life by Will Durant,Owen C. Middleton Pdf
In the Fall of 1930 Will Durant found himself outside his home in Lake Hill, New York, raking leaves. He was approached by a well-dressed man who told him in a quiet tone that he was going to kill himself unless the philosopher could give him a valid reason not to. Not having the time to wax philosophic on the matter, Durant did his best to furnish the man with reasons to continue his existence. Haunted by the encounter with the despondent stranger, Durant contacted 100 luminaries in the arts, politics, religion and sciences, challenging them to respond not only to the fundamental question of life's meaning (in the abstract) but also to relate how they each (in the particular) found meaning, purpose and fulfillment in their own lives. Durant turned their answers and his own into a book entitled "On The Meaning Of Life," which was released to the general public in 1932. Unpromoted, the litte treasure found its way into few hands, and almost no copies of the book exist today. Now available for a new generation through Promethean Press, "On The Meaning Of Life" is a powerful book on a very powerful topic. In this book Will Durant has fashioned an unprecedented "dream team" of luminaries that is both profound and diverse: poets, philosophers, saints, inmates, athletes, Nobel Prize winners, college professors, psychologists, entertainers, musicians, authors and leaders. Within their varied insights, despite their uniqueness as individuals and the very different lives they led, the reader will note a consistent thread running through their viewpoints, revealing a commonality among human beings who not only seek meaning in life, but who actually achieve it.
Corduroy Mansions
Alexander McCall Smith
Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307379306
Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith Pdf
CORDUROY MANSIONS - Book 1 In the Corduroy Mansions series of novels, set in London’s hip Pimlico neighborhood, we meet a cast of charming eccentrics, including perhaps the world’s most clever terrier, who make their home in a handsome, though slightly dilapidated, apartment block. Corduroy Mansions is the affectionate nickname given to a genteel, crumbling mansion block in London’s vibrant Pimlico neighborhood and the home turf of a captivating collection of quirky and altogether McCall-Smithian characters. There’s the middle-aged wine merchant William, who’s trying to convince his reluctant twenty-four-year-old son, Eddie, to leave the nest; and Marcia, the boutique caterer who has her sights set on William. There’s also the (justifiably) much-loathed Member of Parliament Oedipus Snark; his mother, Berthea, who’s writing his biography and hating every minute of it; and his long-suffering girlfriend, Barbara, a literary agent who would like to be his wife (but, then, she’d like to be almost anyone’s wife). There’s the vitamin evangelist, the psychoanalyst, the art student with a puzzling boyfriend and Freddie de la Hay, the Pimlico terrier who insists on wearing a seat belt and is almost certainly the only avowed vegetarian canine in London. Filled with the ins and outs of neighborliness in all its unexpected variations, Corduroy Mansions showcases the life, laughter and humanity that have become the hallmarks of Alexander McCall Smith’s work.
Adventures in Genius
Will Durant
Author : Will Durant
Publisher : New York : Simon and Schuster
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : China
ISBN : UVA:X000592219
Adventures in Genius by Will Durant Pdf
The Mansion of Happiness
Jill Lepore
Author : Jill Lepore
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307476456
The Mansion of Happiness by Jill Lepore Pdf
Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has written a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? “All anyone can do is ask,” Lepore writes. “That’s why any history of ideas about life and death has to be, like this book, a history of curiosity.” Lepore starts that history with the story of a seventeenth-century Englishman who had the idea that all life begins with an egg, and ends it with an American who, in the 1970s, began freezing the dead. In between, life got longer, the stages of life multiplied, and matters of life and death moved from the library to the laboratory, from the humanities to the sciences. Lately, debates about life and death have determined the course of American politics. Each of these debates has a history. Investigating the surprising origins of the stuff of everyday life—from board games to breast pumps—Lepore argues that the age of discovery, Darwin, and the Space Age turned ideas about life on earth topsy-turvy. “New worlds were found,” she writes, and “old paradises were lost.” As much a meditation on the present as an excavation of the past, The Mansion of Happiness is delightful, learned, and altogether beguiling.