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" The Republic of Plato is the longest of his works with the exception of the Laws, and is certainly the greatest of them. There are nearer approaches to modern metaphysics in the Philebus and in the Sophist; the Politicus or Statesman ...

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" René Descartes (1596-1650) is one of the most important Western philosophers of the past few centuries. During his lifetime, Descartes was just as famous as an original physicist, physiologist and mathematician. But it is as a hig ...

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" Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the only book-length work published by Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in his lifetime. He wrote it while a soldier on leave during World War I in 1918. First published in German in 1921 a ...

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"A pivotal work by Friedrich Von Schiller was Letters Upon The Aesthetic Education of Man, ( Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen in einer Reihe von Briefen ) which was inspired by the great disenchantment Schiller felt a ...

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" Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous is a book written by George Berkeley in 1713. "The most important concepts in the Three Dialogues are: perceptual relativity, the conceivability ("master") argument and ...

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"Where are we going? Near to death an old woman....What are we? Day to day existence.....Where do we come from? Source. Child. Life begins....Behind a tree two sinister figures, cloaked in garments of somber color, introduce, near the tr ...

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" Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment? " (German: "Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?") is the title of a 1784 essay by the philosopher Immanuel Kant . In the December 1784 publication of the Berlinis ...

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" Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgement , also known as the third critique, simultaneously completes Kant's Critical project and lays the foundations for modern aesthetics . The standard English translation is the one made by James C ...

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" Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a German philosopher. His writing included critiques of religion , morality , contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive style ...

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"Self-Reliance is an essay written by American Transcendentalist philosopher and essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson . It was first published in his 1841 collection, Essays: First Series. It contains the most solid statement of one of ...

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