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On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

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" On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense ", also called " On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense ") is an (initially) unpublished work of Fri ...

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Letters Upon The Aesthetic Education of Man

"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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On the Essence of Truth

"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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The Vocation Lectures

" Science as a Vocation " " Science as a Vocation ( Wissenschaft als Berufung ) is the text of a lecture given in 1918 at Munich University by Max Weber , a German economist and sociologist. The original version wa ...

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An Answer to the Question: "What is Enlightenment?"

" 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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On the Concept of History

" Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (July 15, 1892 – September 27, 1940) was a German -Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher . He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of ...

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A New System of the Nature and Communication of Substances

" Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (also Leibnitz or von Leibniz (July 1 (June 21 Old Style ) 1646 – November 14, 1716) was a German polymath who wrote primarily in Latin and French. "He occupies an equally grand place in both the ...

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Christianity or Europe: A Fragment

" Novalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr (Baron) von Hardenberg (May 2, 1772 - March 25, 1801), an author and philosopher of early German Romanticism ." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novalis ...

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Hymns to the Night

" Novalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr (Baron) von Hardenberg (1772-1801), called Friedrich von Hardenberg. The death in 1797 of his young fiancé, Sophie von Kühn, led him to write Hymnen an d ...

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The Critique of Judgement

" 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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