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The Problems of Philosophy (version 2)
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Bertrand Russell
This 1912 book remains among the most widely-used and well-written introductions to philosophy in English. It was aimed to be an accessible …
Mistakes of Moses
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Robert G. Ingersoll
Robert G. Ingersoll was an extremely popular humanist orator in the late nineteenth century, and he wrote Mistakes of Moses after many bootl…
All Things Are Possible
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Lev Shestov
A passionate exponent of Russian Existentialism, Lev Shestov is little known in the English-speaking world but had an extensive influence on…
The Conduct of Life
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is the best of Emerson's later works, qualifying his earlier popular essays, series one and two, with the heavier hand of experience. T…
The Discovery Of The Future
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H. G. Wells
The Discovery of the Future is a 1902 philosophical lecture by H. G. Wells that argues for the knowability of the future. It was originally …
Creative Unity
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Rabindranath Tagore
Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore talks of the many things he feels is necessary for creativity through joy of unity, he covers many topics like t…
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Version 2)
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the only book published by Ludwig Wittgenstein. Any summary would frankly do the work an injustice - t…
An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense
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Thomas Reid
"That excellent book by Thomas Reid, the Inquiry into the Human Mind (first edition, 1764; 6th edition, 1810), as a negative proof of t…
A Philosophical Enquiry
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Edmund Burke
Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry is an important treatise in the history of philosophical aesthetics, putting forth a theory of two concepts …
The Poverty of Philosophy
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Karl Marx
This work is a scathing criticism of the economic and philosophical arguments of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's The Philosophy of Poverty. (Summar…
מדינת היהודים (The Jewish State)
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Theodor Herzl
Der Judenstaat (German, The Jewish State) is a book written by Theodor Herzl and published in 1896 in Leipzig and Vienna by M. Breitenstein'…
Culture and Anarchy
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Matthew Arnold
Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book…
The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today
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Evelyn Underhill
Underhill emphasizes the practical, here-and-now nature of spiritual life. She argues that spirituality is a genuine and abiding human fact,…
Perpetual Peace, A Philosophic Essay (Trueblood Translation)
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Immanuel Kant
This essay, written in 1795, puts forth a plan for a lasting peace between nations and peoples. Kant puts forth necessary means to any peace…
History of Modern Philosophy
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Alfred William Benn
This book is a brief, but cogent discussion of Western philosophy-- from Francis Bacon and Giordano Bruno through Descartes, Spinoza, and Le…
The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
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Bertrand Russell
This book records Bertrand Russell's impressions of the new regime after a 1920 visit to Russia following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, inc…
El libro del té
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Kakuzō Okakura
Si los libros tienen personalidad propia, sin duda este es un volumen sereno y sabio. Esta obra amable, concebida como un acercamiento entre…
On Propositions: What They Are and How They Mean
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Bertrand Russell
In this piece, Bertrand Russell offers an account of propositions. This essay has been widely regarded as a turning point in Russell's thoug…
Essays of Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Schopenhauer is considered to be one of the most influential philosophers of all times. Many of his ideas and quotes have been quoted largel…
The Vocation of the Scholar
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (German: [ˈjoːhan ˈɡɔtliːp ˈfɪçtə]; May 19, 1762 – January 27, 1814) was a German philosopher. He was one of t…