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George Santayana - Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy
Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive essays. He examined John Locke’s sensationalism, British Idealism, the...
2 hours 56 minutes
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489
Saint Augustine of Hippo - Enchiridion of Augustine
The Enchiridion, Manual, or Handbook of Augustine of Hippo is alternatively titled, «Faith, Hope, and Love». The Enchiridion is a compact treatise on Christian piety, written in response to a request by an otherwise...
2 hours 59 minutes
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin - Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution
In the heat of the failed 1905 revolution in Russia, Lenin here contrasts the precision of the Bolshevik political program and tactics with various inconsistent and servile factions within the Russian...
6 hours 30 minutes
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Thomas Henry Huxley - Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
Thomas H. Huxley, an English biologist and essayist, was an advocate of the theory of evolution and a self-proclaimed agnostic. A talented writer, his essays helped to popularize science in the 19th century, and he...
2 hours 12 minutes
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Karl Marx - Capital: a critical analysis of capitalist production, Vol 1
Capital, Volume I is the first of three volumes in Karl Marx’s monumental work, Das Kapital, and the only volume to be published during his lifetime, in 1867. Marx’s aim in Capital, Volume I is to uncover and...
37 hours 16 minutes
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Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. III
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was written by the celebrated English historian Edward Gibbon. Volume I was published...
18 hours 8 minutes
