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A man throws off the burdens of modern society to live for a year in the woods. Walden is Henry David Thoreau's account of a radical experiment in living. Outside of the complications of civilization, ...
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Plato's The Republic is one of the most important philosophical works ever written. It is the account, as told by Socrates, of a meeting and debate between some of the greatest minds of ancient Greece ...
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As Adam and Eve make their debut in the world, as pure and innocent as can be, a vengeful Satan enlists a dark army to wreak havoc on the earth. Milton's 1667 epic offers a still-revolutionary and mod ...
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Published in 1532, The Prince is a shockingly frank guide to the art of cultivating power. How does one establish power and maintain control over other people—or an entire nation? How does a pri ...
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Beyond Good and Evil heralds a new generation of thinkers and a bold new way of living in the world. One of the most famous works by the German philosopher Fredrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil dec ...
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One of the great German philosopher Fredric Nietzsche's signature works, Thus Spake Zarathustra offers a radical revisionist theory of the universe. Zarathustra is a wandering prophet, offering his ea ...
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Dante's Inferno is one of the grandest visions ever conceived of a frightening world beyond our own. What does the underworld look like? Who ends up there? What happens to these unlucky souls? Dante's ...
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PREFACE. This work is called the Critique of Practical Reason, not of the pure practical reason, although its parallelism with the speculative critique would seem to require the latter term. The reaso ...
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One of the most important classic spiritual texts in all of history, the Tao Te Ching offers value to all who seek its wisdom. Thought to be the sixth century B.C. work of philosopher Lao Tzu, the Tao ...
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A sensation since it debuted in 1848, The Communist Manifesto is one of the most important political texts ever written. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were German theorists who, by the mid-nineteenth ...
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As Dante’s Purgatory, the second part of his grand Divine Comedy, opens, Dante and his guide Virgil have at last made their way out of the terrifying Inferno. Once out of the horrible circles of hel ...
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If this Discourse appear too long to be read at once, it may be divided into six parts: and, in the first, will be found various considerations touching the Sciences; in the second, the principal rul ...
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Comprised of his three most famous works, Antigone, Oedipus Rex, and Oedipus at Colonnus, Sophocles’s Oedipus Trilogy is a landmark in the history of Western drama. The gripping trilogy of plays abo ...
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An ancient text still relevant to this day, Aristotle’s Poetics describes the nature of all verse. As Aristotle saw it, poetry could be classified as one of three types: Tragedy, Comedy, or Epic. Of ...
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Paradise, the conclusion of Dante’s epic Divine Comedy, opens with Virgil, who is not a Christian, being left behind in limbo as Dante at last exits Purgatory. Although he must leave his faithful gu ...
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Readers may find themselves wishing they could live on the island described in Sir Thomas More’s 1516 work Utopia. More describes this wondrous island as a philosophical and political meditation on ...
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In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best—selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future ... generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men, an ...
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Ten Eternal Questions asks leading political, artistic, and religious figures the timeless spiritual questions. "What is your concept of God?" "Do you think this life is all there is?&q ...
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