Beginning with a long and extensively rewritten introduction surveying the predecessors of the Presocratics, this book traces the intellectual revolution initiated by Thales in the sixth century BC to its culmination in the metaphysics of Parmenides and the complex physical theories of Anaxagoras and the Atomists in the fifth century it is based on a selection of some six hundred texts, in Greek and a close English translation which in this edition is given more prominence. These provide t...

An original fairy tale, written in the style of Dr. Seuss, tells the storyof the Smidgeons and the Glugs. Set in a mythical land, these fictionalcharacters are quite different in many ways. The Smidgeons are smallcaring creatures while the Glugs are huge greedy beings with little regardfor anything other than their own needs. Smidgeons reside in a lush valleynot far from the mountains where the Glugs have existed over the decades.Conflict ari...

He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him. Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.ContentsThe Yellow Fairy Book (1894)The Lilac Fairy Book (1910)The Brown Fairy Book (1904)The Green Fairy Book (1906)The Orange Fairy Book (1906)The Arabian Nights (1898)The Violet Fairy Book (1901)The Crimson Fairy Book (1903)The ...

This carefully crafted ebook: “The Great Learning (Unabridged)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.The philosophy of Confucius emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. His followers competed successfully with many other schools during the Hundred Schools of Thought era only to be suppressed in favor of the Legalists during the Qin Dynasty. Following the victory of Han over C...

"THE GREAT GOD PAN - Top Classic Novels" This edition included NEW illustrations + Free AudioBook Links + Clickable Table of Contents for both the list of included books and their respective chapters. Navigation couldn't be easier.The text and chapters are perfectly set up to match the layout and feel of a physical copy, rather than being haphazardly thrown together for a quick release."The Great God Pan" is a novella writt...

"The Six Enneads" is a collection of writings by Plotinus, a philosopher who lived in the Roman Empire from 205 to 270 AD. The collection is considered to be one of the foundational texts of Neoplatonism, a philosophical movement that sought to reconcile the teachings of Plato with the ideas of Aristotle and other ancient thinkers.The Enneads are divided into six books, or "Enneads," each containing nine treatises, or "tractates." The works cover a wide range of topics, including metaphysi...

The Unquenchable Lamp of the Covenant continues the popular series by Rev. Abraham Park, offering Christian seekers an engaging, yet precisely Bible-based exploration of God's redemption plan for humanity. In this book, we learn what the Bible's carefully listed genealogy of Jesus Christ shows us about that more significant purpose. The biblical timeline outlined in this Bible study of New Testament genealogies reveals how God was at work in redemptive history to guide it towards ...

Once upon a time, fairy tales were grim.Cinderella’s stepsisters got their eyes pecked out by birds.Rumpelstiltskin ripped himself in half.And in a tale called “The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage,” a mouse, a bird, and a sausage all talk to each other. Yes, the sausage talks. (Okay, I guess that one’s not that grim…)Those are the real fairy tales.But they have nothing on the story I’m about to tell.This is the darkest fairy...

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is one of the most elegant and important metaphors in Western philosophy. It is a dialogue between Plato's brother Glaucon and his mentor Socrates, narrated by the latter, in which Plato elucidates his Theory of Forms.This new digital edition of The Allegory of the Cave includes an image gallery.

This book is the culmination of thousands of years worth of ancient astrological knowledge handed down throughout the ages. Before Christianity there was Paganism, and the significance of the celestial arrangements of the heavens were thought to have great influence on our day to day lives. Through looking into this book you can peer into the wisdom of the ages, and notice the similarities and nuances that has so influenced the Christian religion as we know it. In our modern age we often l...

How a Greek philosopher's encounters with Buddhism in Central Asia influenced Western philosophyPyrrho of Elis went with Alexander the Great to Central Asia and India during the Greek invasion and conquest of the Persian Empire in 334–324 BC. There he met with early Buddhist masters. Greek Buddha shows how their Early Buddhism shaped the philosophy of Pyrrho, the famous founder of Pyrrhonian scepticism in ancient Greece.Christopher I. Beckwith trac...

An examination of Khaldun's Islamic history of the premodern world, its philosophical underpinnings, and the author himself.In his masterwork Muqaddimah, the Arab Muslim Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), a Tunisian descendant of Andalusian scholars and officials in Seville, developed a method of evaluating historical evidence that allowed him to identify the underlying causes of events. His methodology was derived from Aristotelian notions of nature and causation, a...