Eclipse of Reason (Eclipse of Reason Ppr)
 Reason as Failure: Horkheimer's book, Eclipse of Reason deals with the concept of "reason" within the history of Western philosophy. Horkheimer defines true reason as rationality. He details the difference between objective and subjective [... more]
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Two Treatises of Government
Book Description: Originally published in 1960, this analysis of all of Locke's publications quickly became established as the standard edition of the Treatises as well as a work of political theory in its own right. Most Representative Thinker in Anglo- [... more]
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Introducing Hegel, 2nd Edition (Introducing...(Totem))
a good launching off point to learning about Hegel's philosophy: Introducing Hegel, like all the introducing series provides only an introduction to the philosophy of Hegel. Still, I found it interesting. I now know that Hegel's philosophy is tied to [... more]
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New Atlantis and the Great Instauration (Crofts Classics)
Author: Francis Bacon Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 100 EAN: 9780882951263 Edition: Rev Sub ISBN: 0882951262 Number Of Pages: 128 Publication Date: 1989-01 [... more]
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Great Books in Philosophy)
Book Description: Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) lays the foundation for a general system of morals, and is a text of central importance in the history of moral and political thought. By means of the idea of sympathy and the mental [... more]
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Emile: Or, On Education
The Unread Masterpiece: A natural education is one that "consists not in teaching the child many things, but never letting anything but accurate and clear ideas enter his brain." Rousseau, in his longing to return to the state of nature, [... more]
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An Autobiography
Great book, possibly not by Maimon: This is an amazing book and I am surprised it is not better known. It tells about the life of a Polish Jew who escaped from what he considered the stifling atmosphere of Polish Hasidic life and went to Germany to [... more]
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SPIRIT OF THE LAWS (Hafner Library of Classics)
Important book in the history of ideas: There are mainly two reasons why Montequieu's book is important. One is for his ideas, which still have relevance for current political issues, such as separation of church and state. The second is that it [... more]
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Penguin Classics)
Is God Knowable By Reason?: David Hume made a reputation by writing on reason and its limits. The main thrust of the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is to question whether theological arguments for God that assign Him positive attributes ( [... more]
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A Discourse on Inequality (Penguin Classics)
Thank you, but no, thanks: "I have received your new book against the human race, and thank you for it. Never was such cleverness used in the design of making us all stupid. One longs, in reading your book, to walk on all fours. But as I have lost [... more]
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An Apology for Raymond Sebond (Penguin Classics)
Anything But ... The Apology for Raymond Sebond: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) was never famous for staying on topic. The titles of his essays, and this book is his longest essay, are pretexts for writing about what interested him at the time. [... more]
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Rousseau (Past Masters)
Assumes too much and does not deliver on the Rest: Rousseau is one of the giants of western thought and also one of the most controversial. Although I am no expert on Rousseau, his influence is too profound in history and current political thought to [... more]
$9.95
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