Philosophy – Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers

There’s No More Dying Then

SheaFowb429Aslf — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 09:03:28 +0000

In this book Stephanie Wilson shares her discoveries about the mystery that is death. This is a book for the living and the younger the better. In spite of her profession as a pathologist, the author had given little thought to the mystery that is death until challenged by a lecture. In this book she shares her discoveries, which she describes as “a personal revelation”. The challenge raised a…

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Shakespeare and the Fire of Love

SheaFowb429Aslf — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 08:35:45 +0000

‘From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive: They are the ground, the books, the academes, From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire’ These lines, spoken by Berowne in Love’s Labour’s Lost, embody all the passions of the early stages of love but, as so often with Shakespeare, he seems to be hinting at something more. What is the doctrine he derives from women’s eyes? What is it women’s…

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What’s Sex Got to Do with It?

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:11 +0000

How better than to mark the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s book on human evolution than by challenging his theory with an updated version which instead places the female species at the centre of the theory. Sexual selection may have created us, but by refusing to take a good hard look at ourselves and our impact on the planet, we may be granting natural selection the power to eliminate us.

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The Letters of Marsilio Ficino Volume 11 (Book XII)

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:09 +0000

Volume 11 in the Shepheard-Walwyn edition corresponds with Book XII of the original Latin edition. Volumes 1-10 are available here as a complete set at a reduced price. This volume and its companions contain the first English translation of the letters written by the philosopher-priest who helped to shape the changes that we associate with the Renaissance. The letters in this eleventh volume…

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In Search of Truth

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:07 +0000

The School was founded during the Depression years of the 1930s by Leon MacLaren, son of Labour MP Andrew MacLaren. The School had its roots in the economic theories of Henry George, which the Liberal Party sought to implement before the First World War, and the Labour Party in 1931. From there the School developed and took a new turn in the 1950s, following the discovery of the teaching of…

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Ultimate Reality

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:07 +0000

Tapping the table at which they were sitting, the author asked his companions whether they had any idea of the ceaseless activity going on below the apparently solid surface. To his sceptical audience he explained that it was mainly empty space, the hardness being an illusion created by the rapid motion of the subatomic particles. This led to a lively discussion about the nature of reality and…

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The Letters of Marsilio Ficino Volume 2 (Book III)

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:07 +0000

Volume 2 in the Shepheard-Walwyn edition corresponds with Book III of the original Latin edition. Volumes 1-10 are available here as a complete set at a reduced price. “I have often noticed that a person who depends on external things always lives a disturbed and anxious life and suffers many a disappointment, while the only person to live in peace and certainty is the one who leads a life…

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The Letters of Marsilio Ficino Volume 5 (Book VI)

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:06 +0000

Volume 5 in the Shepheard-Walwyn edition corresponds with Book VI of the original Latin edition. Volumes 1-10 are available here as a complete set at a reduced price. Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) made a vital contribution to the change in European Society that took place in the Renaissance. Men of influence throughout Europe drew intellectual and spiritual inspiration from him and his Academy.

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The Letters of Marsilio Ficino Volume 9 (Book X)

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:06 +0000

Volume 9 in the Shepheard-Walwyn edition corresponds with Book X of the original Latin edition. Volumes 1-10 are available here as a complete set at a reduced price. This volume brings together correspondence from the last decade of Marsilio Ficino’s life, spanning the period late 1489 to spring 1491. Written during the preparation of his translation and commentaries on the Enneads of Plotinus…

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The Letters of Marsilio Ficino Volume 8 (Book IX)

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:06 +0000

Volume 8 in the Shepheard-Walwyn edition corresponds with Book IX of the original Latin edition. Volumes 1-10 are available here as a complete set at a reduced price. MARSILIO FICINO of Florence (1433-99) was one of the most influential thinkers of the Renaissance. He put before society a new ideal of human nature, emphasising its divine potential. As teacher and guide to a remarkable circle…

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