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"Our topic is the essence of truth. The question regarding the essence of truth is not concerned with whether truth is a truth of practical experience or of economic calculation, the truth of a technical consideration or of political sagacity, or, ...

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" The Republic of Plato is the longest of his works with the exception of the Laws, and is certainly the greatest of them. There are nearer approaches to modern metaphysics in the Philebus and in the Sophist; the Politicus or Statesman ...

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A Plea for Captain John Brown  is an essay by  Henry David Thoreau . It is based on a speech Thoreau first delivered to an audience at  Concord, Massachusetts  on  October 30 , 1859 , two weeks a ...

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Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinn (in English: " On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense ", also called " On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense ") is an (initially) unpublished work of Fri ...

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" Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the only book-length work published by Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in his lifetime. He wrote it while a soldier on leave during World War I in 1918. First published in German in 1921 as ...

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" René Descartes (1596-1650) is one of the most important Western philosophers of the past few centuries. During his lifetime, Descartes was just as famous as an original physicist, physiologist and mathematician. But it is as a hig ...

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"A pivotal work by Friedrich Von Schiller was Letters Upon The Aesthetic Education of Man, ( Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen in einer Reihe von Briefen ) which was inspired by the great disenchantment Schiller felt a ...

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" Abu Hamed Mohammad ibn Mohammad al-Ghazzli (1058-1111), known as Algazel to the western medieval world, was born and died in Tus , in the Khorasan province of Persia (modern day Iran ). He was a Muslim theologian , j ...

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  A Defence of Poetry  is an essay by the  English  poet  Percy Bysshe Shelley , written in 1821 and first published posthumously in 1840. It contains Shelley's famous claim that "poets are the unacknowledged le ...

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Divided into six sections, Provocations contains a little of everything from Kierkegaard's prodigious output, including his wryly humorous attacks on what he calls the "mediocre shell" of conventional Christianity, his brilliantly pithy pa ...

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