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Heracles
by Euripides  Publisher Comments Daughter, there may yet be a happy escape from present troubles for me and thee; my son, thy husband, may yet arrive. So calm thyself, and wipe those tears from thy children's eyes, and soothe them with soft words, inventing a tale to delude them...
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The Discourses. Books 1-4
by Epictetus Publisher Comments Epictetus, a great philosopher taught the importance of control over one's own mind and will, for true happiness must not depend on things one cannot control. Unlike most philosophers, Epictetus taught not for the select few, but for the many and humble....
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On Compromise
by John Morley Publisher Comments The main field of discussion touching Compromise in expression and avowal lies in the region of religious belief. In politics no one seriously contends that respect for the feelings and prejudices of other people requires us to be silent about our...
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The Shows Or De Spectaculis
by Tertullian Publisher Comments Having sufficiently established the charge of idolatry, which alone ought to be reason enough for our giving up the shows, let us now ex abundanti look at the subject in another way, for the sake of those especially who keep themselves comfortable in the...
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Foucault and Religion
by Jeremy R. Carrette Synopsis This study of Michel Foucault in relation and response to religion argues that Foucault offeres a twofold critique of Christianity by bringing the body and sexuality into religious practice and exploring a political spirituality of the self....
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Kant, Critique and Politics
by Kimberly Hutchings Publisher Comments This is the first book to offer both a systematic reading of Kant and to contextualise his work in the light of the continental tradition. It will be central to political philosophers, students of international relations and feminist theory....
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What is Coming - A Forecast of Things after the War
by H. G. Wells Publisher Comments Prophecy may vary between being an intellectual amusement and a serious occupation; serious not only in its intentions, but in its consequences. For it is the lot of prophets who frighten or disappoint to be stoned. But for some of us moderns, who have...
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Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy
by Claudia Baracchi Publisher Comments In Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy, Claudia Baracchi demonstrates the indissoluble links between practical and theoretical wisdom in Aristotle's thinking. Referring to a broad range of texts from the Aristotelian corpus, Baracchi shows how the...
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A Future Metaphysics
by Edward F Little Publisher Comments For anyone, professional or amateur interested in metaphysical thought....
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A Treastise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
by George Berkley Publisher Comments WHAT I here make public has, after a long and scrupulous inquiry, seemed to me evidently true and not unuseful to be known- particularly to those who are tainted with Scepticism, or want a demonstration of the existence and immateriality of God, or the...
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Hegel After Derrida
by Stuart Barnett Publisher Comments This book provides an insight into the importance of not just Hegel and the importance of Derrida's work on Hegel but also the foundations of postmodern and deconstructionalist thought. Important for those studying Hegel and Derrida....
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Kierkegaard's Writings: VI. Fear and Trembling/Repetition
by Soren Kierkegaard Publisher Comments In Repetition Kierkegaard discusses the most profound implications of the unity of personhood and of identity within change-the repetition that creates the rebirth of God in the heart of man, brings the eternal into the present, and allows the past to...
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Exposition du syst
by M. le Marquis de Laplace Publisher Comments J'adopterai dans cet ouvrage, la division décimale de l'angle droit et du jour : je rapporterai les mesures linéaires, à la longueur du mètre, déterminée par l'arc du méridien terrestre, compris entre dunkerque et barcelone ; et les temp...
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Hermes Unveiled
by Cyliani Patrick Smith Publisher Comments The reader who understands my processes will only have to seek the Matter, the Fire, and the Labors of Hercules. Duty has forced all philosophers to make a mystery of this. I have sworn to Almighty God to carry this secret into the grave and will not be...
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On The Nature Of Things
by Lucretius Publisher Comments But yet creation's neither crammed nor blocked About by body: there's in things a void- Which to have known will serve thee many a turn, Nor will not leave thee wandering in doubt, Forever searching in the sum of all....
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The Consciousness of the Cosmos
by David Norenberg Publisher Comments Is there a God? Why are we here? What might immortality be like, if there is such a thing? These paramount questions have haunted the minds of introspective stargazers for thousands of years. Does every effect have a cause? Is the universe deterministic?...
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The Great Agora
by Delyan Zahariev Publisher Comments The Great Agora is a metaphor-the metaphor of modern, cultivated, hurried, violent, intense, hostile, turbulent and media-dominated life. The book contains implied as well as more explicit critical/satirical approaches to ways and manners of existence...
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Maurice Blanchot
by Ullrich Haase Publisher Comments Without Maurice Blanchot, literary theory as we know it would ne very different. Many other thinkers wer influenced by Blanchot's work and this guide explores his writings and thoughts about death, literature and ethics and politics....
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Luck Or Cunning?
by Samuel Butler Publisher Comments In brief, there is nothing in life of which there are not germs, and, so to speak, harmonics in death, and nothing in death of which germs and harmonics may not be found in life. Each emphasizes what the other passes over most lightly--each carries to...
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Eastern Philosophy: Key Readings
by Oliver Leaman Publisher Comments Through key readings from primary and secondary sources, this book guides the reader through the principle features of the remarkable range of eastern thought - including Buddhist, Confucian, Hindu, Islamic, Shinto and Zoroastrian....
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