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Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason
Russell Shorto
Doubleday
Doubleday
On a brutal winter's day in 1650 in Stockholm, the Frenchman René Descartes, the most influential and controversial thinker of his time, was buried after a cold and lonely death far from home. Sixteen years later, the French Ambassador Hugues de...
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Leviathan (Penguin Classics)
Thomas Hobbes
Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics
The Leviathan is the vast unity of the State. But how are unity, peace and security to be attained? Hobbes' answer is sovereignty, but the resurgence of interest today in Leviathan is due less to its answers than its methods. Hobbes sees politics as...
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The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
BN Publishing
BN Publishing
"Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains." These are the famous opening words of a treatise which, from the French Revolutionary terror to the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, has been interpreted as a blueprint for totalitarianism. But in...
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Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings
Marquis De Sade
Grove Press
Grove Press
This volume contains Philosophy in the Bedroom, a major novel that presents the clearest summation of his political philosophy; Eugénie de Franval, a novella widely considered to be a masterpiece of eighteenth-century French literature; and the...
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Kant: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Roger Scruton
Oxford University Press, USA
Oxford University Press, USA
Immanuel Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but is also one of the most difficult. In this illuminating Very Short Introduction, Roger Scruton--a well-known and controversial philosopher in his own right--tackles his...
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Ethics (Penguin Classics)
Benedict de Spinoza, Benedictus de Spinoza
Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics
Published shortly after his death in 1677, Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza’s greatest work—a fully cohesive philosophical system that strives to provide a coherent picture of reality and to comprehend the meaning of an ethical life. Following...
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Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press
This entirely new translation of Critique of Pure Reason is the most accurate and informative English translation ever produced of this epochal philosophical text. Though its simple, direct style will make it suitable for all new readers of Kant,...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke
Hackett Publishing Company
Hackett Publishing Company
In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1690, John Locke (1632 1704) provides a complete account of how we acquire everyday, mathematical, natural scientific, religious and ethical knowledge. Rejecting the theory that some...
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Pensees and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics)
Blaise Pascal
Oxford University Press, USA
Oxford University Press, USA
For much of his life, Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in the form the philosopher intended. Instead, Pascal left a mass of fragments, some of them meant as notes for the Apologie. These became known as the...
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