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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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" 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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" 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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After a failed attempt to establish himself in Paris between 1839 and 1842, Wagner returned to Germany at the age of 28 and found employment as conductor of the court opera at Dresden. He was there until 1849. The revolutions of 1848 in Paris ...

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" Arthur Schopenhauer (February 22, 1788 – September 21, 1860) was a German philosopher. He is most famous for his work The World as Will and Idea . Schopenhauer called himself a Kantian , but hurled invective at several oth ...

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" 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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" 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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