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Cover of the 1991 edition of Little Essays Toward Truth by Aleister Crowley. Little Essays Toward Truth is a 1938 book written by the mystic Aleister Crowley (1875–1947). It consists of sixteen philosophical essays on various topics within the framework of the Qabalah and Crowley's religion of Thelema. On the concept of truth, Crowley writes:
The collection was also published in the U.K. in 2019 by Chatto & Windus under the title Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations. [2] As summarized in R. O. Kwon's review for The Guardian, "there are 40 years of her essays, speeches and meditations, including her thoughts and arguments about politics, art and writing. The book ...
An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth enjoyed great success. It became a bestseller, made Beattie famous, and received the approbation of the writers Edmund Burke and Samuel Johnson . Beattie received numerous honors, including an audience with George III of the United Kingdom , who rewarded him with an annual pension, while the ...
Antinomy (Ancient Greek: antí 'against' + nómos 'law') refers to a real or apparent mutual incompatibility of two notions. [1] It is a term used in logic and epistemology, particularly in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant.
Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays is the title of a collection of reprinted reviews and other magazine pieces by the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle. Along with Sartor Resartus and The French Revolution it was one of the books that made his name. Its subject matter ranges from literary criticism (especially of German ...
Essays on Truth and Reality is a 1914 book by the English philosopher Francis Herbert Bradley, in which the author expounds his philosophy of absolute idealism and gives the classic statement of a coherence theory of truth and knowledge.
In this essay, arguing against the position of Benjamin Constant, Des réactions politiques, Kant states that: [2]. Hence a lie defined merely as an intentionally untruthful declaration to another man does not require the additional condition that it must do harm to another, as jurists require in their definition (mendacium est falsiloquium in praeiudicium alterius).