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The Art of Controversy (or: The Art of Being Right)

Read by Carl Manchester


Arthur Schopenhauer


The Art of Controversy (or The Art of Being Right) (Die Kunst, Recht zu Behalten) is a short treatise written in 1831 by the German philosop…

Wage-Labour and Capital

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Karl Marx


Originally written as a series of newspaper articles in 1847, Wage-Labour and Capital was intended to give an overview of Marx’s central the…

God and the State

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Mikhail Bakunin


Bakunin's most famous work, published in various lengths, this version is the most complete form of the work published hitherto.Originally t…

Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

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Karl Marx


The “Theses on Feuerbach” are eleven short philosophical notes written by Karl Marx in 1845. They outline a critique of the ideas of Marx’s …

Aphorisms

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Oscar Wilde


In 1894, Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) published two collections of aphorisms: A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated, in the Sa…

Has a Frog a Soul?

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Thomas Henry Huxley


Thomas Huxley, known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his championing and development of Darwinism, was perhaps the most important Victorian biolog…

The Unreality of Time

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John Mctaggart


John McTaggart was a British metaphysician and philosophical idealist. In this famous article for the periodical Mind, he introduced the not…

A Walk In A Workhouse from 'Reprinted Pieces'

In Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1

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Charles Dickens


The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works previously unrecorded for LibriVox - fiction, essays, poetry, letters…

Two Types of Conditioned Reflex and a Pseudo Type

In American Psychology, 1922-1947

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B. F. Skinner


This is the second of what is intended to be three projects featuring journal articles which chart the development of psychology as an acade…

Conditioned Emotional Reactions

In American Psychology, 1900-1922

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John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner and John B. Watson


This is the first of what is intended to be three projects featuring journal articles which chart the development of psychology as an academ…

Front Matter

In How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five …

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Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict, Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Elsie Lincoln Benedictandralph Paine Benedict


In this popular American book from the 1920s, accomplished public speaker and self-help charlatan Elsie Lincoln Benedict outlines her pseudo…

Of a Dialectic of Pure Practical Reason Generally

In The Critique of Practical Reason

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Immanuel Kant


The Critique of Practical Reason (Kritik der praktischen Vernunft) is the second of Immanuel Kant's three critiques, first published in 1788…

Introductory – On Markets

In Principles of Economics, Book 5: General Relations of Demand, Supply and Value

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Alfred Marshall


Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…

Introduction by Judd Larmor

In Science and Hypothesis

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Henri Poincaré


Jules Henri Poincaré (1854 – 1912) was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of scien…

General View of Distribution

In Principles of Economics, Book 6: The Distribution of National Income

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Alfred Marshall


Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…