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Common Sense

by Thomas Paine

Common Sense is a classic philosophical short story by Thomas Paine.

When Thomas Paine first anonymously published his series of pamphlets titles Common Sense they became an overnight success. First released...

Beyond Good and Evil

by Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil is a classic philosophical novel by Friedrich Nietzsche.

Beyong Good and Evil expands on the ideas Nietzsche first published in Thus Spake Zarathustra. Darker in its philosophy, this text...

As A Man Thinketh

by James Allen

As a Man Thinketh is a classic philosophical short story by James Allen.

This little volume (the result of meditation and experience) is not intended as an exhaustive treatise on the much-written-upon subject...

Analects of Confucius

by Confucius

Analects of Confucius is a classic philosophical short story by Confucius.

The Analects of Confucius gathers the teachings or aphorisms of the Chinese philosopher Confucius (551-479 BC). He discusses the morality...

Guidelines for Inter-Religious Dialogue

by Inter, religious Think, Tank & Gabrielle Girau Pieck et al.

In recent decades more and more people have realised that in our globalised world, cultural and religious plurality is here to stay. This plurality can enrich us all. But suspicion and fear of other cultures...

The Prophet

by Kahlil Gibran

The Prophet is about prophet Almustafa who has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses...

The Wisdom of Life

by Arthur Schopenhauer

In these pages I shall speak of The Wisdom of Life in the common meaning of the term, as the art, namely, of ordering our lives so as to obtain the greatest possible amount of pleasure and success; an art the...

The Art of Controversy

by Arthur Schopenhauer

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Published posthumously, The Art of Controversy is one of the most popular books written by Arthur Schopenhauer. It provides us with invaluable...

Princeton Readings in Political Thought

by Mitchell Cohen

This is a thoroughly updated and substantially expanded new edition of one of the most popular, wide-ranging, and engaging anthologies of Western political thinking, one that spans from antiquity to the twenty-first...

The Dialectic of Historicity in Modernist Fiction: a Study Based on Select Works of O V Vijayan and M Mukundan

by Swapna Gopinath

Modernism when viewed through the spectacles of Marxian aesthetics emerges as a problematic artistic movement, especially when placed within the context of social structures that define the cultural practices...

The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 2

by Jeremy Bentham, Professor Timothy L. S. Sprigge & Professor J.H. Burns

The first five volumes of the Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham contain over 1,300 letters written both to and from Bentham over a 50-year period, beginning in 1752 (aged three) with his earliest surviving letter...

The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham Volume 5

by Jeremy Bentham, Alexander Taylor Milne & Professor J.H. Burns

The first five volumes of the Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham contain over 1,300 letters written both to and from Bentham over a 50-year period, beginning in 1752 (aged three) with his earliest surviving letter...

The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 4

by Jeremy Bentham, Alexander Taylor Milne & John R. Dinwiddy

The first five volumes of the Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham contain over 1,300 letters written both to and from Bentham over a 50-year period, beginning in 1752 (aged three) with his earliest surviving letter...

The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 3

by Jeremy Bentham, Professor Ian R. Christie & Professor J.H. Burns

The first five volumes of the Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham contain over 1,300 letters written both to and from Bentham over a 50-year period, beginning in 1752 (aged three) with his earliest surviving letter...

The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 1

by Jeremy Bentham, Professor Timothy L. S. Sprigge & Professor J.H. Burns

The first five volumes of the Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham contain over 1,300 letters written both to and from Bentham over a 50-year period, beginning in 1752 (aged three) with his earliest surviving letter...

Reason:

by John Hendry

In this book by John Hendry the author explains in a straightforward way how reason works together with our other faculties. He explores what it can do for us in different fields of enquiry, how and where it...

Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

by Immanuel Kant

The first of Immanuel Kant's mature works on moral philosophy and remains one of the most influential in the field. Kant conceives his investigation as a work of foundational ethics, one that clears the ground...

The Critique of Practical Reason

by Immanuel Kant

The Critique of Practical Reason follows on from Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and deals with his moral philosophy. The second Critique exercised a decisive influence over the subsequent development of the...

The Critique of Pure Reason

by Immanuel Kant

One of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. Known as Kant's First Critique, dealing with questions concerning the foundations and extent of human knowledge, Kant builds on the work of empiricist...

Vico's "New Science"

by Donald Phillip Verene

Giambattista Vico (1668–1744) is best remembered for his major work, the New Science (Scienza nuova), in which he sets forth the principles of humanity and gives an account of the stages common to the development...