- The Alchemy of Happiness
" 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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- Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?
"Where are we going? Near to death an old woman....What are we? Day to day existence.....Where do we come from? Source. Child. Life begins....Behind a tree two sinister figures, cloaked in garments of somber color, introduce, near the tr ...
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- Lecture on Ethics
A popular lecture given, it is believed, in Cambridge to the society known as “The Heretics” in 1929 or 1930.
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- On the Concept of History
" Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (July 15, 1892 – September 27, 1940) was a German -Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher . He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of ...
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- An Answer to the Question: "What is Enlightenment?"
" Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment? " (German: "Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?") is the title of a 1784 essay by the philosopher Immanuel Kant . In the December 1784 publication of the Berlinis ...
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- An Essay on Beauty and Judgment
" Alexander Nehamas (born 1946) is Professor of philosophy and Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University . He works on Greek philosophy , aesthetics , Nietzsche , Foucault , and ...
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- Death's Duel
"This sermon was, by sacred authority, styled the author's own funeral sermon, most fitly, whether we respect the time or matter. It was preached not many days before his death, as if, having done this, there remained nothing for him to do but to d ...
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- The Federalist Papers
" The Federalist Papers (correctly known as The Federalist ) are a series of 85 articles advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution. Seventy-seven of the essays were published serially in The Independent Jou ...
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- A New System of the Nature and Communication of Substances
" Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (also Leibnitz or von Leibniz (July 1 (June 21 Old Style ) 1646 – November 14, 1716) was a German polymath who wrote primarily in Latin and French.
"He occupies an equally grand place in both the ...
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- The Critique of Judgement
" Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgement , also known as the third critique, simultaneously completes Kant's Critical project and lays the foundations for modern aesthetics . The standard English translation is the one made by James C ...
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