Philosophy

From New Age Village

The philosophical material gathered here all contributed to various branches of new age thinking.

Introduction

People

• Plato; or, the Philosopher
• Gothe; or, the Writer
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
• Henry David Thoreau (18 - 18)
  • Thoreau FAQ - Frequently asked questions about Thoreau.

Classic Texts

Explore our library of philosophical texts that pertain to the evolution of consciousness.

Spiritual Works - Plato's dialogues about the soul: Phaedrus, Phaedo, and Meno

Plotinus: The Six Enneads - Plotinus' Neo-Platonism classic in the realms of Mysticism.

Emerson Essays - First Series - (By Ralph Waldo Emerson) - One of America's pre-eminent philosophers, the 12 essays in this collection outline the great transcendentalist's moral idealism as well as hinting at the later skepticism that colored his thought.

• Self-Reliance
• History
• Compensation
• Spiritual Laws
• Love (Emerson)
• Friendship
• Prudence
• Heroism
• The Over-Soul
• Circles
• Intellect
• Art

Emerson Essays - Second Series - By Ralph Waldo Emerson - Emerson's second collection of essays appeared in 1844, when he was forty-one. The Second Series has a lightness of tone and an irony absent from the earlier writings, but it is no less memorable: "a sermon to me," Carlyle wrote, "a real word."

• The Poet
• Experience
• Character
• Manners
• Gifts
• Nature
• Politics
• Nominalist and Realist
• New England Reformers

• Walden - By Henry David Thoreau - Thoreau was just a few days short of his twenty-eighth birthday when he built a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond and began one of the most famous experiments in living in American history. An American masterpiece, Walden is interwoven with musings on self-reliance, individual freedom, society, and other topics of profound insight and beauty.

• Life Without Principle - By Henry David Thoreau -

---