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A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
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Include books by the same authorDiscourse on the Origin of Inequality
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 112 pages
In his Discourses (1755), Rousseau argues that inequalities of rank, wealth and power are the inevitable result of the civilising process. If inequality is intolerable - and Rousseau shows with unparalledled eloquence how it robs us not only of our material but also of our psychological independence - then how can we recover the peaceful self-sufficiency of life in the state of nature? We cannot r
The Birth of Tragedy
Friedrich Nietzsche · 160 pages
"In The Birth of Tragedy (1872) Nietzsche explores the origins of Greek tragedy and its relevance to the German culture of his time. For Nietzsche, Greek tragedy is the expression of a culture that has achieved a balance between Dionysian insight into the.
The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
Albert Camus · 306 pages
By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the popular uprisings against established orders throughout history. And yet, with an eye toward
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume · 162 pages
Now one of the most widely read works in philosophy, David Hume's An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1748) introduced his philosophy to a broad educated readership. In it he gives an elegant and accessible presentation of strikingly original and challenging views about the limited powers of human understanding, the attractions of skepticism, the compatibility of free will and determinism,
Critique of Practical Reason
Immanuel Kant
The Critique of Practical Reason is the second of Kant's three Critiques, following Critique of Pure Reason. In it he distinguishes between actual practical reason and desire-based practical reason, arguing for the first and against the application of the second. He sees practical reason as something to be cultivated and moreover believes Freedom can be proven by it.
Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration
John Locke · 188 pages
Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · 84 pages
The Conquest of Happiness
Bertrand Russell · 223 pages
In The Conquest of Happiness, first published in 1930, iconoclastic philosopher Bertrand Russell attempted to diagnose the myriad causes of unhappiness in modern life and chart a path out of the seemingly inescapable malaise so prevalent even in safe and prosperous Western societies. More than eighty years later, Russell's wisdom remains as true as it was on its initial release. Eschewing guilt-ba
The Ethics and Selected Letters
Baruch Spinoza · 262 pages
I. By that which is self-caused, I mean that of which the essence involves existence, or that of which the nature is only conceivable as existent.
Essays and Aphorisms
Arthur Schopenhauer · 237 pages
One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many other themes is taken from Schopenhauer's last work, Parerga and Paralipomena, which he publish
Phaedo
Plato · 147 pages
Plato's Phaedo is deservedly one of the best known works of Greek literature, but also one of the most complex. Set in the prison where Socrates is awaiting execution, it portrays Plato's model philosopher in action, spending his last hours in conversation with two other seasoned members of his circle about the fate of the human soul after death. Professor Rowe attempts to help the reader find a w
The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
Soren Kierkegaard · 294 pages
"This edition replaces the earlier translation by Walter Lowrie that appeared under the title The Concept of Dread. Along with The Sickness unto Death, the work reflects from a psychological point of view Søren Kierkegaard's longstanding concern with the Socratic maxim, "Know yourself." His ontological view of the self as a synthesis of body, soul, and spirit has influenced philosophers such as He
Apology/Crito/Phaedo
Plato, Epictetus, George Long, Benjamin Jowett, Hastings Crossley, Marcus Aurelius · 168 pages
The Human Condition
Hannah Arendt · 340 pages
A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The problems Arendt identified then--diminishing human agency and political freedom, the paradox th
A Letter Concerning Toleration: Humbly Submitted
John Locke, James Tully · 77 pages
*A Letter Concerning Toleration* by John Locke was originally published in 1689. Its initial publication was in Latin, and it was immediately translated into other languages. Locke's work appeared amidst a fear that Catholicism might be taking over England, and responds to the problem of religion and government by proposing religious toleration as the answer. This "letter" is addressed to an anony
Existentialism Is a Humanism
Jean-Paul Sartre · 128 pages
"It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to speak on October 29, 1945, at the Club Maintenant in Paris. The unstated objective of his lecture ("Existentialism Is a Humanism") was to expound his philosophy as a form of "existentialism," a term much bandied about at the time. Sartre asserted that existentialism was essentially a doctrine for philo
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein · 166 pages
Wittgenstein's book about the problems of language and his attempt of describing the world and an philosophical accurate and most of all logical language.
Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies
Rene Descartes · 167 pages