Soren Kierkegaard
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The first major work by the precursor of existentialism examines the philosophical choice between aesthetic and romantic life versus ethical and domestic life, and offers profound observations on the meaning of ch ... more.

Soren Kierkegaard; Alastair Hannay, ed. & trans.
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Drawn from Kierkegaard's private papers and journals, this meticulously edited volume of philosophical musings, theoretical arguments, and descriptions of everyday life sheds lig ... more.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) was a key figure in the turbulent closing years of the Roman Republic. The principles he expounded, occasionally compromised, and eventually died for, draw on wide practical experience as well a ... more.

Karl Marx
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After some four years of collaboration, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels produced this incisive account of their conception of Communism, in which they envisage a society without classes, private property or a state. The Manifesto ... more.

Boethius, translated by Victor Watts
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(PUBPenguin)Composed in the sixth century A.D., while its author was awaiting death on a charge of treason, this Christian treatise consoles readers with the tenets of Greek philosophy in the form of a ... more.

Alastair Hannay
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Two Ages, the novel under review, tells the story of a family whose fortunes span the immediate post-Revolutionary Age, a period characterized by honour, loyalty and passion, and the advent of Modernity, w ... more.

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Kierkegaard's Either/Or can be read in multiple ways. One important possible reading at the present time is to read it as a critique of the sexual stereotyping of women (and, implicitly, the stereotyping of men as well) and gender relations t ... more.

Niccolo Machiavelli
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Machiavelli grew up at a time when the excesses of the church were more under scrutiny than at any time since Constantine. As Savonarola was decrying Florentine governmental excesses in the 1490s, Machiavelli's star was on the rise. T ... more.

Thomas Paine
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All of Paine's masterpieces are included here: The Rights of Man, a magnificent defence of the French Revolution against Edmund Burke and, according to A.J.P. Taylor, 'the best statement of the democratic belief in any la ... more.

Friedric Nietzsche
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Twilight of the Idols, 'a grand declaration of war' on all the prevalent ideas of Friedric Nietzsche's time, offers a lighting tour of his whole philosophy. It also prepares the way for The An ... more.

W. Jay Wood
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How do we know what we know? What have wisdom, prudence and studiousness to do with justifying our beliefs? Jay Wood begins this introduction to epistemology by taking an extended look at the idea of knowing within the c ... more.

David Hume
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In the Dialogues, one of his supreme masterpieces, David Hume savages most of the traditional arguments for the existence of God, shows how religion is often founded on ignorance and irrational fears, and sugges ... more.

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This volume brings together the era's classic works, with more than a hundred selections from a broad range of sources - including works by Kant, Diderot, Voltaire, Newton, Rousseau, Locke, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, and Pain ... more.

Karl Marx
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Das Kapital, originally intended as an unbelievably ambitious (and never completed) six-volume work, represents one of the key landmarks in the scientific understanding of capitalist development, bourgeois society and the economics of clas ... more.

Karl Marx
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Indeed, this 'forgotten' volume, suggests Ernest Mandel in his stimulating Introduction, occupies a 'key place in the monumental theoretical construction'. For it is here that Marx analyses in depth the specific problems of the commodity ... more.

Karl Marx
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It is in this third volume that Marx sets out his central, epoch-making thesis that 'the basic laws of motion of the capitalists mode of production lead to explosive crises and its ultimate collapse'. Here we find not only a sustained e ... more.

Andrew Louth
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The writings ascribed to the Athenian convert of St. Paul, Denys (or Dionysius) the Areopagite, made their first appearance the early sixth century. Since then, through the Renaissance and beyond, they have exercised an enormous inf ... more.

Michel Montaigne
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In 1572 Montaigne retired from public life and began the reading and writing which were to develop into 'assays' of his thoughts and opinions. Nobody in Western civilization had ever tried to do what Montaigne set out to do. ... more.

Edited by Julian Baggini & Jeremy Stangroom
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(PUBContinuum)Probing interviews with some of the world's leading philosophers: Russell Stannard on science and religion; Richard Swinburne on evil; Stuart Hampshire on justice; Roger Scruton o ... more.

Aristotle
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In The Metaphysics, Aristotle laid the foundations for one of the central branches of Western philosophy. The son of a doctor and an eminent scientist in his own right, Aristotle was always passionately interested in natural phenomena. ... more.

Blaise Pascal
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Updated edition of the famous Krailsheimer translation, the first to follow the order of notes as Pascal left them. This unfinished apology for Christianity was meant to confound the followers of Descartes by emphasizing the inadequac ... more.

Benjamin Daise
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In his well-argued monograph, Benjamin Daise finds support for Keirkegaard's claim that he was a midwife for Christendom. The idea of midwifery is developed by means of an analysis of portions of Plato's Meno. Daise's analys ... more.

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This collection is the first focused effort to bring modern research techniques to bear on Kierkegaard's earliest polemical writings and literary efforts as gathered in the first volume of Kierkegaard's Writings under the title Early Pole ... more.

Frederick Copleston
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'Universally esteemed as one of the most careful, thorough, scholarly, and fair treatments,'---International Philosophical Quarterly. Oxford Jesuit's attempt to remedy the woefully inadequate presentation ... more.

Frederick Copleston
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Frederick Copleston's nine-volume A History of Philosophy has universal acclaim as the best history of philosophy in English. Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit, knew that seminary students familiarity with most of hist ... more.

Frederick Copleston
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Frederick Copleston's nine-volume A History of Philosophy has universal acclaim as the best history of philosophy in English. Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit, knew that seminary students familiarity with most of hist ... more.

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To claim that Works of Love is an important philosophical essay is to assume a hazardous burden of proof. Works of Love is a deep and rich book, one that deserves to be widely read and reflected upon. However, the aim of Kierkegaard's la ... more.

Rene Descartes
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Rene Descartes did major research in optics, geometry, astronomy and physiology, although he published nothing until he was over forty. The Discourse forms the preface to his first collection of scientific p ... more.

Rene Descartes
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The six Meditations and accompanying selections from the Objections and Replies provide a definitive statement of what Descartes intended as the foundations of his whole philosophy. His project was to r ... more.

Frederick Copleston
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Frederick Copleston's nine-volume A History of Philosophy has universal acclaim as the best history of philosophy in English. Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit, knew that seminary students familiarity with most of hist ... more.