Nature
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Page : 786 pages
File Size : 23,84 MB
Release : 1875
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Page : 786 pages
File Size : 23,84 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : Sir Norman Lockyer
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Page : 724 pages
File Size : 35,34 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Science
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Page : 52 pages
File Size : 16,69 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Christianity
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Author : Sunday Lecture Society, London
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Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,25 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Science
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Author : Florence Fenwick Miller
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Page : 40 pages
File Size : 35,2 MB
Release : 1877
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Author : Gustavus George Zerffi
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 15,50 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Devil
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Author : Vilém Flusser
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 21,54 MB
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1937561429
In 1939, a young Vilém Flusser faced the Nazi invasion of his hometown of Prague. He escaped with his wife to Brazil, taking with him only two books: a small Jewish prayer book and Goethe’s Faust. Twenty-six years later, in 1965, Flusser would publish The History of the Devil, and it is the essence of those two books that haunts his own. From that time his life as a philosopher was born. While Flusser would later garner attention in Europe and elsewhere as a thinker of media culture, The History of the Devil is considered by many to be his first significant work, containing nascent forms of the main themes that would come to preoccupy him over the following decades. In The History of the Devil, Flusser frames the human situation from a pseudo-religious point of view. The phenomenal world, or “reality” in a general sense, is identified as the “Devil,” and that which transcends phenomena, or the philosophers’ and theologians’ “reality,” is identified as “God.” Referencing Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus in its structure, Flusser provocatively leads the reader through an existential exploration of nothingness as the bedrock of reality, where “phenomenon” and “transcendence,” “Devil” and “God” become fused and confused. So radically confused, in fact, that Flusser suggests we abandon the quotation marks from the terms “Devil” and “God.” At this moment of abysmal confusion, we must make the existential decisions that give direction to our lives.
Author : Paul Carus
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 18,21 MB
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1513223828
The History of the Devil (1900) is a philosophical study by Paul Carus. A lifelong Monist, Carus sought to apply a scientific analysis to the principles of humanity’s religions. Credited with bridging the gap between Eastern and Western beliefs, Carus believed that the dualism rampant in the West could be replaced in order to establish a more equitable world where difference and diversity would be accepted and nurtured, rather than suppressed. “This world of ours is a world of opposites. There is light and shade, there is heat and cold, there is good and evil, there is God and the Devil. The dualistic conception of nature has been a necessary phase in the evolution in human thought.” Recognizing the need for dualism in the history of humanity, Carus sought to promote the principles of Monism in the West, believing it could lead to a universal worldview capable of uniting East and West. A positivist and pantheist, Carus believed that by pursuing “in religion the same path that science travels, [...] the narrowness of sectarianism [would] develop into a broad cosmical religion which shall be as wide and truly catholic as is science itself.” To lay the groundwork for this “cosmical religion,” he investigates the figure of the Devil and the historical evolution of the concept of evil, which he saw as predating belief in goodness and God. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Paul Carus’ The History of the Devil is a classic of philosophy reimagined for modern readers.
Author : Gustavus George ZERFFI
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 16,33 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : Arthur Pink
Publisher : Darolt Books
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 6586145902
Is the Devil a living reality, or is he nothing more than a figment of the imagination? Is the word "Satan" merely a synonym for wickedness, or does it stand for a concrete entity? In cultured circles it has become the custom to return a negative answer to these questions, and to flatly deny the existence of the Tempter. Among such people it is regarded as a mark of intellectual superiority to repudiate the personality of the Devil. By many, Satan is now looked upon as a product of priestcraft, a relic of superstition, the myth of a bygone age. With others, Satan is simply an abstraction, a mere negation, the opposite of good. "All the Devil there is, is the devil within you," is the last word of "modern thought." The words which Goethe puts into the mouth of Mephistopholes"I am the Spirit of Negation"is accepted as a good workable definition of the Devil. He is regarded as a mere abstract principle of evil. As someone has quaintly put it, "They spell Devil without a 'd', as they spell God with two 'o's'. Good and evil is their scheme." Totally based on the scriptures. This book presents biblical answers to that subject.