Man and spirit : the speculative philosophers /
edited by Saxe Commins and Robert N. Linscott.
- New York : Random House, (c)1947.
- 557 pages ; 19 cm.
- World's great thinkers .
On the immortality of the soul / Treatise on divine government / From The upanishads: Dialogue with death ; Brahmana -- From The bhagavadgita: The way to purity -- From The surangama sutra: The essence of mind -- From The dhammapada: -- a) The twin verses -- b) On earnestness -- c) Thought -- d) Flowers -- e) The thousands -- f) The way -- g) The downward course -- h) The brahmana -- The foundations of the moral life / Pensees / A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge / An enquiry concerning human understanding / From Critique of pure reason / The world as idea / The religious mood / The natural history of morals / Philosophy, from The varieties of religious experience / Saint Augustine -- Saint Thomas Aquinas -- Baruch Spinoza -- Blaise Pascal -- George Berkeley -- David Hume -- Immanuel Kant -- Arthur Schopenhauer -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- William James.
Torn by the struggle between flesh and spirit, after an early life of incontinence, Saint Augustine became a convert to Christianity in his thirty-third year and was ordained a priest in 391. Consecrated Bishop of Hippo, his influence spread throughout the Christian world from his native Numidian Africa by means of sermons, letters, philosophical and theological essays, confessions, and his famous City of God, in all of which he reiterated the goodness and all-pervasiveness of God. Characteristic of the content and style of his thinking and writing is "On the Immortality of the Soul," given here in its entirety.