This book provides a historical account showing how the League ideal developed from the Amphictyonic League in ancient Greece, through the conceptions of William Penn
, the Abbé St Pierre
, Immanuel Kant
, and Tsar Nicholas II
.
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Hannah Arendt
Here she sets out to examine the theory of labor, philosophically considered, as distinguished from work.
Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth. Hannah Arendt. For Love of the World. Second Edition, Yale University Press, 2004.
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She defines the human sphere of activity as thevita activa or actively engaged life, a sphere that presupposes...
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Evelyn Underhill
Indeed, the book can be seen as an attempt to draw the outline for mysticism as a discipline, with its own history, goals, and methods. It is presented as being related to yet distinct from...