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The beginnings of Czechoslovak Buddhism
The 2500-year-old teachings of the Buddha Dharma penetrated Europe during the nineteenth century. These teachings came to the Lands of the Czech...
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Review of Julie Chajes, Recycled Lives: A History of Reincarnation in Blavatsky’s Theosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, xii + 215 p., Hardcover, ISBN 978-0-19-090913-0, £64
This is a review of Julie Chajes, Recycled Lives: A History of Reincarnation in Blavatsky’s Theosophy , Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2019. The...
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Einleitung
Es geht nicht darum „spirituell“ zu sein im Sinne von menschlich-freundlich oder ohne materielle Interessen. Es geht um Spiritualität als Tiefe des...
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Plotin und die moderne Literatur
This chapter gives an overview of the reception of Plotinus in modern and contemporary literature from the 18th to the 21st century. It discusses the...
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Ethics between East and West: Beatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki and Albert Schweitzer
Beatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki (1878–1939) is mainly known for being the wife of D.T. Suzuki鈴木大拙 (1870–1966), the Japanese religious studies scholar...
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Yvanka B. Raynova: Eine biographisch-bibliographische Skizze
Der Beitrag beleuchtet die Beweggründe, die Yvanka Raynova zum religiösen Denken und zur Philosophie geführt haben und stellt ihren...
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Metaphor, Meaning, and Mind: Knowledge and Imagination in Owen Barfield
The intellectual contributions of Owen Barfield are often overshadowed by the mammoth reputations of other prominent members of the Inklings, namely...
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Nietzsche, David Friedrich Strauß, and the Post-Straussian Tradition
Via the figure of the German poet Eduard Mörike, this chapter opens by reviewing the significance of the liberal Protestant theologian David...
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Perennial Philosophy and the History of Mysticism
The purpose of this article is to expose a basic flaw at the root of perennialism as a method for studying mysticism—its distinction between...
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Czech Women in Philosophy and Science Since 1918
After the 1918 foundation of Czechoslovakia, more opportunities to study at universities opened up for women. Women were gradually admitted to all...
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Scientific Failure: Etheric Force
In 1885, Thomas Edison added to his already substantial tally of 141 patents in telegraphy, a patent for sending telegraph messages without wires....
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Ernst Mach: Science and Buddhism. A Misunderstanding Under Globalization’s Signature
Ernst Mach was one of the most influential intellectuals in Vienna’s cultural life during the fin de siècle. His assumption of the self as a complex...
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Towards a Modern Reading of Schelling
The conclusion traces a path through the responses to Schelling in British fin de siècle literature into modernist and twentieth century readings of...
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Asiatische Philosophien und Religionen
Für die Bestimmung asiatischer Einflüsse auf Schopenhauer ist es unerlässlich, die von Schopenhauer selbst benützten Quellen zu untersuchen. Der...
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Myth
This chapter provides a discussion of myth as poetic literary style, based on the distinction between mythos and logos introduced through an analysis...