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- Heroism
"Paradise is under the shadow of swords." Mahomet Ruby wine is drunk by knaves, Sugar spends to fatten slaves, Rose and vine-leaf deck buffoons; Thunderclouds are Jove's festoons, Drooping oft in wreaths of dread Lightning-knotte ...
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- An Essay on Beauty and Judgment
" Alexander Nehamas (born 1946) is Professor of philosophy and Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University . He works on Greek philosophy , aesthetics , Nietzsche , Foucault , and ...
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- Self-Reliance
"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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- On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
" Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. It argues that people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty to avoid allowing suc ...
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- History
There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all: And where it cometh, all things are; And it cometh everywhere. I am owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, Of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's h ...
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- An Interview With Cornel West - Philosophical Faith in Action
"Cornel Ronald West is a prominent African-American scholar and public intellectual. Formerly at Harvard University, West is currently a professor of Religion at Princeton. West's intellectual contributions draw from such diverse traditions as the ...
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- The Federalist Papers
" The Federalist Papers (correctly known as The Federalist ) are a series of 85 articles advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution. Seventy-seven of the essays were published serially in The Independent Jou ...
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