Philalethes Explained

Philalethes (Greek: φιλαλήθης, philaléthēs, pronounced [filalétɛːs]) was an Ancient Greek name, also often adopted in pseudonyms (based on its literal translation, "lover of truth"). It may apply to:

• Philalethes, book by Severus of Antioch
• Alazonomastix Philalethes, pseudonym of Henry More
• Alexander Philalethes
• Demosthenes Philalethes
• Eirenaeus Philalethes, alchemical writer, now usually identified with George Starkey
• Eugenius Philalethes, alchemical writer, now usually identified with Thomas Vaughan (philosopher)
• Irenaeus Philalethes, pseudonym of Lewis Du Moulin
• Philalethes Cantabrigiensis, pseudonym of James Jurin
• Philalethes, pen-name of William Hazlitt
• Philalethes, pseudonym of John of Saxony as translator of Dante's Divine Comedy
• Philalethes, pen-name of Henry Portsmouth, author of an index to William Penn's works (1730)
• Philalethes is a character in Humphry Davy's Consolations in Travel (1830)

See also

• Philalethes Society, Masonic organization