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Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism

Arthur Schopenhauer, an early 19th century philosopher, made significant contributions to metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics. His work also informed theories of evolution and psychology, largely through his theory...

D.E. Wittkower 3 hours 25 minutes

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Mikhail Bakunin - God and the State

Bakunin's most famous work, published in various lengths, this version is the most complete form of the work published hitherto. Originally titled «Dieu et l'état», Bakunin intended it to be part of the second...

Carl Manchester 3 hours 13 minutes

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Alfred North Whitehead - Concept of Nature

In The Concept of Nature , Alfred North Whitehead discusses the interrelatedness of time, space, and human perception. The idea of objects as 'occasions of experience', arguments against body-mind duality and the...

Leon Mire and 5 more 6 hours 56 minutes

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Kakuzō Okakura - Book of Tea

The Book of Tea was written by Okakura Kakuzo in the early 20th century. It was first published in 1906, and has since been republished many times. — In the book, Kakuzo introduces the term Teaism and how Tea has...

Mike Rosenlof 2 hours 5 minutes

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Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason

The Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781 with a second edition in 1787, has been called the most influential and important philosophical text of the modern age. Kant saw the Critique of Pure Reason...

ML Cohen and 14 more 27 hours 6 minutes

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Henry David Thoreau - Walden

Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s life for two years, two months, and two days around the shores of Walden Pond....

Gord Mackenzie 14 hours 18 minutes

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William James - Essays in Radical Empiricism

William James (1842 – 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and...

Carl Manchester and 7 more 6 hours 45 minutes

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Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a nineteenth-century German philosopher. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, using a distinctive German language...

Chris Masterson and 14 more 12 hours 40 minutes

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Friedrich Engels - Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote their Manifesto in December 1847, as a guide to the fundamental principles and practices of Communists. The Manifesto also predicted the ultimate downfall of the capitalist...

Jon Ingram 1 hour 36 minutes

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Laozi 老子 - Tao Teh King

Lao-Tze's Tao Teh King illuminates The Tao: a guiding principle of the universe and all within it. By exploring the nature of dualities and complements, Lao-Tze dissects strength and weakness; presence and absence;...

Eric S. Piotrowski 1 hour 34 minutes

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Niccolò Machiavelli - Prince

ll Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine writer Niccolò Machiavelli, originally called “De Principatibus” (About Principalities). It was written around 1513, but not published until 1532,...

Chip and 6 more 5 hours 54 minutes

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John Stuart Mill - On Liberty

Published in 1859, On Liberty details Mill's view that individuals should be left wholly free to engage in any activity, thought or belief that does not harm others. Simple though it sounds, it is a position that...

David Barnes and 3 more 5 hours 21 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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