Author: Swami Sivananda
Publisher: Divine Life Society
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 111
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8175021955
Description
This illuminating volume has been specially written for those who are soaked in Western philosophic thought and the scientific method of arriving at conclusions. These Essays in Philosophy are not based on mere belief or superstition, not on mere scriptural injunctions and declarations, but on good reason backed by the personal experiences of a living Sage of Self-relisation. As such, they are bound to appeal to, and transform, people of all shades of thought and opinion.
These essays were first serially published in the monthly Journal of the Durban Branch of the Divine Life Society, THE PATH TO GOD-REALISATION, and have had a very good reception in South Africa, especially in view of the fact that the use of Sanskrit technical terms, inevitable in most dissertations based on Oriental Scriptures, has been kept to the barest minimum.
We do hope that this presentation will appeal to the mind and the heart of modern English educated youth of all nations.
Contents
Chapter 1
Introduction to Philosophy
Chapter 2
Philosophy Science and Religion
Chapter 3
God
Chapter 4
World
Chapter 5
Man
Chapter 6
Intuition
Chapter 7
Realization
GARLAND OF PHILOSOPHY:
Gist of Western Philosophy
Western Philosophy Though
Critical appreciation of western Philosophy
Diverse Philosophic "Isms"
Determinism and Free will
The Law of Cause and effect
LIVES OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHERS:
Zeno of Elea
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Bruno Giordano
Francis Bacon
Descrates, Rene
Berkeley, George, D.P.
Hume, David
Immanual Kant
Hegel
Arthur Schopenhauer
James William
Bradley, Francis Herbert
Bergso, Henri Louis
Alexander, Samuel, O.M., LL.D.
Saint Bonaventure
Swedenberg Emmanuel
Monatigne Michel De
Sir Oliver Lodge
Adler Alfred
Sir Alexander Fleming
Pascal, Blaise
Lotze, Rudoph Herman