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On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

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" On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense ", also called " On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense ") is an (initially) unpublished work of Fri ...

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On the Essence of Truth

"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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Letters Upon The Aesthetic Education of Man

"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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The Vocation Lectures

" Science as a Vocation " " Science as a Vocation ( Wissenschaft als Berufung ) is the text of a lecture given in 1918 at Munich University by Max Weber , a German economist and sociologist. The original version wa ...

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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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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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On the Inner Nature of Art

" Arthur Schopenhauer (February 22, 1788 – September 21, 1860) was a German philosopher. He is most famous for his work The World as Will and Idea . Schopenhauer called himself a Kantian , but hurled invective at several oth ...

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The Revolution

After a failed attempt to establish himself in Paris between 1839 and 1842, Wagner returned to Germany at the age of 28 and found employment as conductor of the court opera at Dresden. He was there until 1849. The revolutions of 1848 in Paris ...

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