Pathways of Philosophy

Description

A study of the descent of Western idealism in the Platonic and Neoplatonic traditions as continued by outstanding creative thinkers from St Thomas Aquinas to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Includes as well the following representatives of the Platonic descent: Paracelsus, Francis Bacon, Jakob Boehme and Immanuel Kant. These philosophers and mystics have influenced profoundly the world in many ways.