By W. E. H. Lecky.
This is the first volume of Lecky’s huge works on the history of morals in Western Civilization. It’s a bit of a surprise that it took two volumes to do it. Looking back from the 21st century, one doubts that the West had enough morals to fill even one volume. This volume contains: ChapterI.The Natural History Of Morals. Chapter II. The Pagan Empire. Chapter III.The Conversion Of Rome.
Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. London, Longmans. 1890. 480p.
By Friedrich Nietzsche.
Vilified and adored, the works of Nietzsche wreaked havoc with 20th century philosophers, his then far out ideas used by politicians, tyrants, worshippers of the free, and the like to justify their lofty aims, and for some, their unmitigated adoration of violence. Some how, God was lost, perhaps forever. Or perhaps was transformed into the antichrist.
Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. 1885.
The bastion of “Middle Eastern” thought, the staunch competitor to the Holy Bible, though in many ways, as is common with arch-rivals, reflecting much of its content (or vice-versa).
Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint.
St. James version. Needs no introduction or description. Probably the foundation of what is left of western thought.
Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint.
S. Giora Shoham.
S. Giora Shoham reveals the social, cultural and political mechanics of how anti-Semitism became the motivating ideology of the Third Reich and the Nazi movement. This ideology impelled an evil empire to murder some six million Jews and millions of other undesirables, viz., Slavs, Gypsies, Communist commissars, etc.
The book provides the most detailed and cogent answer yet to the often asked question: how is it possible for the “most civilized nation” possessing the highest technological and scientific skills to embark on a campaign of murder, rape, and robbery on a scale unprecedented in world history? Even more pertinent for the Jews has been the question: why were the Jews singled out for immediate massacre and then systematic destruction? No single compelling answer has been proffered in the past fifty years. Shoham explains, why the German social character and the Jewish social character were dramatically opposed, why the clash between them was inevitable given the right circumstances, and why the Holocaust was inevitable in Germany due to an incestuous relationship between Germans and Jews.
NY. Harrow and Heston Publishers. 2012.
By S. Giora Shoham.
This tantalizing book is based on the pioneering work of Claude Levi-Strauss, who postulated that myths are links between nature and culture. Shoham enlarges this concept and claims that myth in the form of a mythogene, the structural longings and experiences of the individual as projected onto mythology, links history and transcendence, the individual and society, and consciousness and energy-matter. The mythogenes are related to Shoham's personality theory, which, in essence, postulates that personality types can be taxonomized along a continuum with one pole having the Tantalic type, which aims to melt into the object, and the other pole having the Sisyphean type, which aims to overpower and control the object. This incredible tour-de-force that spans the great works of science, literature, philosophy, sociology and religion will shake you to the roots of your being. It is hard to come away from this book without asking, who am I, and have I really came that far? And what future is there?
NY. Harrow and Heston Publishers. 2012.
By Jeremy Bentham.
In this typically exhaustive treatise, Jeremy Bentham outlines an innovative theory of what morals should be the subject of legislation. How to do it will require an entirely new psychology of law and human behavior, accompanied by a thoroughly new sociology of law and legislation. Bentham was way ahead of his time, indeed, way ahead of the psychology that underlies moral legislation even in the 21st century.
NY. Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. 1823. 248p.
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By Emile Durkheim.
A Tour-de-Force of religious life, thoughtful and incisive, by the father of modern sociology. A must read for all students of sociology, not to mention theology, though many of his insights are a relevant today as they were in the early 20th century. The inventor of the phrase “the sacred and the profane” (1915) 563 pages.
George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1915, 533 pages
