General Sketch of the History of Pantheism
General Sketch of the History of Pantheism
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inc GSTA perceptive thinker and author of five scholarly tomes as well as numerous essays, the philosopher and historian of religion Constance E. Plumptre is now unfamiliar to many readers. Yet for a period of just over twenty years between 1878 and 1902 she championed some of the most fascinating philosophical and religious theories of the Victorian age. Although she won greatest acclaim for Studies in Little-Known Subjects (1898), her first work, General Sketch of the History of Pantheism, published anonymously in 1878, remains one of the most significant histories of philosophy ever written. Taking in Brahminism, the Ionian School, Pythagoras and the Neo-Platonists, as well as the work of Bruno and Vanini, the first volume provides an erudite but accessible introduction to Oriental, Greek and modern Pantheism. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=plumce
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June 2011Paperback
9781108028011
408 pages
216 × 140 × 23 mm
0.52kg
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Table of Contents
- Introductory chapter
- Book I. Oriental Pantheism:
- 1. The Vedas
- 2. Brahminism
- 3. Digression on various Hindu philosophies with especial reference to the schism of Buddha
- 4. The Vedanta philosophy
- 5. The Bhagavad-Gita
- Book II. Greek Pantheism:
- 1. The Ionian school
- 2. Pythagoras
- 3. The Eleatics
- 4. The Neo-Platonists
- Book III. Modern Pantheism:
- 1. Digression on the paganisation of Christianity, and consequent decay of pantheism
- 2. Digression continued. Rise of scholasticism
- 3. Servetus
- 4. Giordano Bruno
- 5. Lucilio Vanini.
