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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 as ...

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Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinn (in English: " On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense ", also called " On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense ") is an (initially) unpublished work of Fri ...

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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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"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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"Our topic is the essence of truth. The question regarding the essence of truth is not concerned with whether truth is a truth of practical experience or of economic calculation, the truth of a technical consideration or of political sagacity, or, ...

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A Plea for Captain John Brown  is an essay by  Henry David Thoreau . It is based on a speech Thoreau first delivered to an audience at  Concord, Massachusetts  on  October 30 , 1859 , two weeks a ...

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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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"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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