In 1832, author, storyteller, and traveler Washington Irving provided the first recorded description of the area around Stillwater in his book A Tour on the Prairies.

The " ethical " fragments preserved in Stobaeus ' Florilegium may represent " some philosophical book.

In 1909 he published a scathing book of criticism entitled Materialism and Empiriocriticism ( 1909 ), assaulting Bogdanov's position and accusing him of philosophical idealism.

The philosophical message of the book fits well with the religious piety of the Middle Ages.

Following the examples of Vitruvius and the five books of the Regole generali d ' architettura by Sebastiano Serlio, published from 1537 onwards, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola produced an architecture rule book that was more practical than the previous two books, which were more philosophical in nature, his Cinque ordini di erchitettura ( The Five Orders of Architecture ) from 1562 ; the book is considered " one of the most successful architectural textbooks ever written ", despite having no text apart from the notes and the introduction.

The second book is largely devoted to the respective roles of faith and philosophical argument.

The second part of Cervantes ' Don Quixote, finished as a direct result of the Avellaneda book, has come to be regarded by some literary critics as superior to the first part, because of its greater depth of characterization, its discussions, mostly between Quixote and Sancho, on diverse subjects, and its philosophical insights.

Wojtyła had earlier defended the church's position from a philosophical standpoint in his 1960 book Love and Responsibility.

Ian Barbour in his book Issues in Science and Religion ( 1966 ), p. 133, cites Arthur Eddington's The Nature of the Physical World ( 1928 ) for a text that argues The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principles provides a scientific basis for " the defense of the idea of human freedom " and his Science and the Unseen World ( 1929 ) for support of philosophical idealism " the thesis that reality is basically mental ".

In 1999, his posthumously published Philosophical Investigations ( 1953 ) was ranked as the most important book of 20th-century philosophy by the Baruch Poll, standing out as "... the one crossover masterpiece in twentieth-century philosophy, appealing across diverse specializations and philosophical orientations ".

Presenting research on general philosophical principles Rescher's book begins with his view on metaphilosophy:

He then sets out throughout the rest of the book to demonstrate the limitations of this conception, including, he argues, many traditional philosophical puzzles and confusions that arise as a result of this limited picture.

Within the Anglo-American tradition, the book is considered by many as being one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th century, and it continues to influence contemporary philosophers, especially those studying mind and language.

Steiner later spoke of this book as containing implicitly, in philosophical form, the entire content of what he later developed explicitly as anthroposophy.

New York publisher Evert Augustus Duyckinck wrote to Nathaniel Hawthorne that " it is a lively and pleasant book, not over philosophical perhaps.

It has been claimed that Paley was not a very original thinker and that the philosophical part of his treatise on ethics is “ an assemblage of ideas developed by others and is presented to be learned by students rather than debated by colleagues .” Nevertheless, his book The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy ( 1785 ) was a required text at Cambridge and Smith says that Paley ’ s writings were “ once as well known in American colleges as were the readers and spellers of William McGuffey and Noah Webster in the elementary schools .” Although now largely missing from the philosophical canon, Schneewind writes that " utilitarianism first became widely known in England through the work of William Paley.

As he states in the preface, he saw the book as a preamble to his other philosophical and theological books ; in fact, he suggests that Natural Theology should be read first, so as to build a systematic understanding of his arguments.

Søren Kierkegaard publishes his famous philosophical book " Either / Or " in 1843.

** Søren Kierkegaard's philosophical book Fear and Trembling is first published.

His best known book, Being and Time is considered one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th century.

According to Marie Dowling " Anne tried to educate her waiting-women in scriptural piety ” and is believed to have reproved her cousin, Mary Shelton, for “ having ‘ idle poesies ’ written in her prayer book .” If Cavendish is to be believed, Anne's outrage at Wolsey may have personalized whatever philosophical defiance she brought with her from France.

his 1951 book ), following his mentor Hilbert, but his writings betray substantial philosophical curiosity and a very open mind about intuitionistic logic.

Another criticism of the book, made by the philosopher Mary Midgley in her book Evolution as a Religion, is that it discusses philosophical and moral questions that go beyond the biological arguments that Dawkins makes.

During its flowering in the sixth to the eighth centuries, Mahayana offered a supernatural package to the Chinese which bears no resemblance to the highly digested philosophical Zen morsels offered to the modern Western reader.

The most prominent examples with philosophical merit are Sanlun, Tiantai, Huayan, and Chán ( a. k. a. Zen ).

Robert Maynard Pirsig ( born September 6, 1928 ) is an American writer and philosopher, and author of the philosophical novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values ( 1974 ) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals ( 1991 ).

It has also been claimed that a number of elements within Heidegger's thought bear a close parallel to Eastern philosophical ideas, particularly Zen Buddhism and Taoism.

Furthermore, it has been claimed that a number of elements within phenomenology ( mainly Heidegger's thought ) have some resonance with Eastern philosophical ideas, particularly with Zen Buddhism and Taoism.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values ( ZAMM ) is a 1974 philosophical novel, the first of Robert M. Pirsig's texts in which he explores his Metaphysics of Quality.

This period saw the introduction of the two schools that had perhaps the greatest impact on the country: ( 1 ) the Amidist Pure Land schools, promulgated by evangelists such as Genshin and articulated by monks such as Hōnen, which emphasize salvation through faith in Amitabha and remain the largest Buddhist sect in Japan ( and throughout Asia ); and ( 2 ) the more philosophical Zen schools, promulgated by monks such as Eisai and Dogen, which emphasize liberation through the insight of meditation, which were equally rapidly adopted by the upper classes and had a profound impact on Japanese culture.

Some writers noted, " Husband Robert Butts stated that similarities exist between Seth's ideas and those of various religious, philosophical, and mystical doctrines from the Near, Middle, or Far East .... and we've done a little reading on Buddhism, Hinduism, Zen, and Taoism, for example, not to mention subjects like shamanism, voodooism, and obeah.

Lila: An Inquiry into Morals ( 1991 ) is the second philosophical novel by Robert M. Pirsig, who is best known for his classic text, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

The sect, or sub-sect, traced its philosophical roots to the eccentric Zen master Puhua, as well as similarities and correspondences with the early Linji House and previous Chán traditions – particularly Huineng's " Sudden Enlightenment " ( Southern Chán ) – in Tang Dynasty China.

In an interview Deshimaru affirmed he chose France to teach because of its philosophical tradition ; he cited Michel de Montaigne, René Descartes, Henri Bergson and Nicolas Malebranche as philosophers who understood Zen without even knowing it.

Zen gardens are both philosophical and religious.

He wrote a series of essays collected into the book Zen For Americans.

He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and clinical depression as a result of an evaluation conducted by psychoanalysts, and was treated with ECT on numerous occasions, which he himself talks about in his autobiographical book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Pirsig ’ s work in his book Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance analyzes the Rhetoric and Dialectic forms of Philosophies and their implications in the context of modern science and lifestyle.

* Zen And Now-Mark Richardson's book contains more Pirsig biographical detail.

Highway 175 was mentioned as the next to last highway ridden in the classic book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig.

In this capacity, Merton was influenced by the book Zen Catholicism.

This popular view is likely the result of a single book Zen in the Art of Archery ( 1948 ) by the German author Eugen Herrigel.

In his book Three Pillars of Zen, Philip Kapleau says that practitioners in the Rinzai school face in, towards each other with their backs to the wall, and in the Soto school, practitioners face the wall or a curtain.

His book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind has become a classic in western Zen culture.

A book of his teachings, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, is one of the most popular books on Zen and Buddhism in the West.

The title is an apparent play on the title of the book Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel.

With this, the book details two types of personalities: those who are interested mostly in gestalts ( romantic viewpoints, such as Zen, focused on being " In the moment ", and not on rational analysis ), and those who seek to know the details, understand the inner workings, and master the mechanics ( classic viewpoints with application of rational analysis, vis-a-vis motorcycle maintenance ) and so on.

In contrast to this opinion, some of the Zen masters in Loori's book The Art of Just Sitting deride Yasutani's description, giving their own version as the right or correct way to do shikantaza.

* The book Three Pillars of Zen by Philip Kapleau ( ISBN 0-385-26093-8 ) contains several first-person accounts of Rinzai sesshin experiences.

Another key legend regards Dogen Zenji ( 道元禅師 ; 1200 – 1253 ), who brought the Soto Zen sect to Japan: After an extended visit to China for the purpose of studying Zen, on the night before his planned return to Japan, Dogen saw the Bìyán Lù for the first time, and stayed up all night making a handwritten copy of the book.

Michael Abrash is a game programmer and technical writer specializing in optimization and 80x86 assembly language programming, a reputation cemented by his 1990 book Zen of Assembly Language Volume 1: Knowledge.

Related issues were covered in his later book Zen of Graphics Programming.

His second book, Zen of Assembly Language ( 1990 ), focused on writing efficient assembly code for the 16-bit 8086 processor, but was released after the 80486 CPU was already available.

The key point of Zen of Assembly Language was that performance must always be measured, and the book included a measurement tool called the Zen Timer to check if theoretical code optimizations actually worked.

Although already in the book The Zen of Running from 1974 it was recommended to run barefoot and " as undressed as possible " to get " well bathed by sun and air " nude running has never gained wide acceptance.