Nanaimo School of Thought and Art

The Bless Series

Oil Painting

https://philippweber.com/artworks

A clear and complete insight into the nature of madness, a correct and distinct conception of what really distinguishes the sane from the insane, has, so far as I know, never yet been found.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The World as Will and Representation
(Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung)

Volume I
Third Book
Page: 192

The Representation Independent of the Principle of Sufficient Reason

The Platonic Idea
The Object of Art

Kiss

Yves Pires

https://www.yvespires.com/catalogue/sculpture-groupes,-1,5,-1,-1.htm

Retina does not see the shapes, it only sees light. The veil is not on the substance, it's on the eyes.

The He

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Through the Iris

Pencil drawing.

Armin Mersmann

The He 322 pages. Black and white, printed on 70lb text, perfect bound to a finished size of 5″ × 8″, cover printed on 10pt coated cover.ISBN: 978-1-7771305-0-3

Philosopher and His Pupils

Oil on panel, 1626.

Willem van der Vliet

Neoplatonic School

Hypatia

Oil on canvas, 1889.

Johan Julius Ferdinand Kronberg

https://www.platonicfoundation.org/

The Death of Socrates

Oil on canvas, 1787.

Jacques-Louis David

What we see in the mirror is not ourselves, it is what other people see when they look at us.

The He

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The Lovers

Oil on canvas, 1928.

R. Magritte

The He 322 pages. Black and white, printed on 70lb text, perfect bound to a finished size of 5″ × 8″, cover printed on 10pt coated cover.ISBN: 978-1-7771305-0-3

The Debate of Socrates and Aspasia

Oil on canvas, 1801.

Nicolas A. Monsiau

'Tis an establish'd maxim in metaphysics, That whatever the mind clearly conceives includes the idea of possible existence, or in other words, that nothing we imagine is absolutely impossible.

David Hume

A Treatise of Human Nature
Book I: Of the Understanding
Section II. Of the infinite divisibility of space and time.

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The He 322 pages. Black and white, printed on 70lb text, perfect bound to a finished size of 5″ × 8″, cover printed on 10pt coated cover.ISBN: 978-1-7771305-0-3

Thus, all philosophy is like a tree, of which metaphysics is the root, physics the trunk, and all the other sciences the branches that grow out of this trunk, which are reduced to three principle, namely, medicine, mechanics and ethics, by the science of ethics, I understand the highest and most perfect which, presupposing an entire knowledge of the other sciences, is the last degree of wisdom.

R. Descartes

Letter to the French Translator,
on Principia Philosophiae.

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The Potato Eaters, oil on canvas, 1885.

Van Gogh

It is also right for philosophy to be called "a science of truth."

Aristoteles

Metaphysics-P.35-Book Alpha.

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A Pair of Boots, oil on canvas, 1887.

Van Gogh