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Spiritualism (Philosophy) --- Spiritualisme

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"Perhaps we cannot better introduce the reader to the treatise before him, than by giving a short statement of the circumstances which led us to adopt the views therein developed in regard to Spiritualism. Since the year 1850, our residence has been in one of the grand centres of this movement, and where, consequently, the mysterious phenomena were continuously pressed upon our attention. Believing it to be our duty as a religious teacher, and an instructor of youth, sufficiently to acquaint ourself with any influences which are abroad in community, and are operative there with great power to give form and direction to the intellectual, moral, and religious sentiments of the public, to be able to speak intelligently in respect to the same, as occasion may require, we accordingly turned our thoughts more or less upon the mysterious phenomena under consideration. One of the circumstances which first impressed our mind was the utter incompatibility of the fundamental characteristics of these facts, as reported even by spiritualists themselves, with the supposition that they are the intended results of intelligent minds who are communicating with us from the heavenly or infernal world. By no laws of mind known to us could we account for the facts, by a reference to such an origin. When they were referred to good spirits, our reply was: good spirits cannot falsify as these do; for these falsify, when spirits, if present, cannot but know the truth; profess knowledge, when they must know themselves ignorant, and make positive affirmations, when they must know that they are only guessing. Good spirits cannot thus act. When they were referred to bad spirits, our reply was: these spirits do not lie like men in the flesh, nor as any spirits would do whose conduct is governed by any laws known to us. There is a certain "method" even in lying, wherever it appears, and here is lying which has no such method, nor any method at all which can properly be ascribed to spirits aiming at some intelligent end good or bad. "When individuals told us, that they had had communications with their spirit friends, our reply was: the spirit here speaking says some things, that that of your mother, if present, might, and no doubt would say. Your mother, however, when alive and with you, never falsified as this spirit does, and would not thus falsify, if now present. We therefore rejected the extra spirit hypothesis, as wholly incompatible with the facts. We were first led to refer the facts to tricks of the mediums. We found, then, that we had to admit the facts, or take the ground that no strange events can be established by testimony. How then could we ask the world to believe in Christian miracles? We found equally valid evidence for the reality of the facts of Spiritualism, as far as the intelligent communications are concerned. We found ourselves necessitated, therefore, in moral honesty, to admit the facts, and then to seek an explanation of them on some mundane hypothesis, as their character precluded any other supposition than their exclusively mundane origin"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).

Spiritualism (Philosophy) --- Spiritualism --- Research. --- Davis, Andrew Jackson,

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On invoque sans cesse Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche et Schopenhauer, mais qui sait que la France a eu, au même moment, des philosophes de premier plan à l'origine d'une tradition philosophique originale ? C'est cette histoire du spiritualisme français, né d'une critique du sensualisme et en débat constant avec Descartes et son dualisme de l'âme et du corps, qui est de retracée ici depuis Chateaubriand jusqu'à Émile Boutroux, en convoquant aussi bien des poètes, écrivains, historiens que des philosophes, en montrant le rôle des circonstances d'abord dans sa naissance (1802-1848), ensuite dans son épanouissement (1848-1921). À travers les écrits de Maine de Biran, Victor Cousin, Théodore Jouffroy, Félix Ravaisson, Alphonse Gratry, Jules Lachelier, Edgar Quinet, Jules Michelet, et de bien d'autres, on découvre une pensée sociale et politique autant que religieuse dont la métaphysique, d'inspiration chrétienne, pose l'existence de Dieu, l'immortalité de l'âme et la liberté de l'homme en soi et vis-à-vis de toute autorité. Ainsi, loin des sentiers battus d'une histoire qui rend compte des derniers soubresauts de la métaphysique en régime postkantien, Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron propose ici une contre-histoire de la métaphysique. Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron, est l'auteur de nombreux ouvrages d'histoire de la philosophie. Lauréat de la fondation Humboldt, il est spécialiste du xixe siècle allemand et français

Spiritualisme. --- Spiritualism (Philosophy) --- Spiritualisme --- France --- Intellectual life --- Religion --- Vie intellectuelle

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Spiritualism (Philosophy) --- History --- 141.33 --- Filosofische mystiek --- 141.33 Filosofische mystiek --- Ontology --- Philosophy --- Forest, Aimé. --- Forest, Aimé. --- Spiritualism (Philosophy) - History - 20th century

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This is the first English translation of Schelling's novel, most likely written after the death of his first wife, Caroline, the former wife of August Wilhelm Schlegel. Although only a fragment, Clara remains unique. Part novella, part philosophical tome, its central theme is the connection between this world and the next. Schelling masterfully weaves together his knowledge of animal magnetism, literary techniques, and his doctrine of the potencies to make his philosophy accessible to all.Steinkamp addresses the main issues concerning the dating of the work—many commentators have deemed Clara to be a sketch for Schelling's The Ages of the World or an outline for the third, missing book of that work—and provides a short biography of Schelling with particular emphasis on events claimed to play a role in the conception of Clara, such as the deaths of both Caroline and her daughter, Auguste. She also shows how passages in Clara are strikingly similar to the content of Schelling's touching letters mourning Caroline, written to Pauline, the daughter of Caroline's best friend and the woman who would become his second wife. Clara, strongly influenced by the Romantic movement, is an early illustration of Schelling's attempt to unite his positive and negative philosophy.

Philosophy of nature. --- Spiritualism (Philosophy) --- Nature --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology --- Ontology --- Philosophy --- Philosophy of nature