Philosophy

The Communist Manifesto (German: Das Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) was first published on February 21, 1848, and is one of the world's most influential political tracts. Commissioned by the Communist League and written by communist theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it laid out the League's purposes and program. The Manifesto suggested a course of action for a proletarian revolution to overthrow capitalism and, eventually, to bring about a classless society. This was most spectacularly attempted in Russia by Vladimir Lenin in the early twentieth century. more...

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The Confessions of St. Augustine is the collection of St. Augustine's thirteen autobiographical books, each singly known as Confessions . In these books he details his sinful youth, his conversion to Christianity, and the regrets he thereafter lives with of his previous convictions and action. It is an incredibly important work, both as the theological study of his thought processes and development and also as a minute historical account from the 4th and 5th centuries. more...

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In the early eighteenth century, Edinburgh was a filthy backwater town synonymous with poverty and disease. Yet by century's end, it had become the marvel of modern Europe, home to the finest minds of the day and their breathtaking innovations in architecture, politics, science, the arts, and economics—all of which continue to echo loudly today. Adam Smith penned The Wealth of Nations . James Boswell produced The Life of Samuel Johnson . Alongside them, pioneers such as David Hume, Robert Burns, James Hutton, and Sir Walter Scott transformed the way we understand our perceptions and feelings, sickness and health, relations between the sexes, the natural world, and the purpose of existence. In Crowded with Genius , James Buchan beautifully reconstructs the intimate geographic scale and boundless intellectual milieu of Enlightenment Edinburgh. With the scholarship of a historian and the elegance of a novelist, he tells the story of the triumph of this unlikely town and the men whose vision brought it into being. more...

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1. An Introduction with Work to Do. 2. The Context of Chinese Philosophy: Language and Theory of Language. Part I The Positive Dao Period. 3. Confucius: The Baseline. 4. Mozi: Setting the Philosophical Agenda. Part II The Antilanguage Period. 5. Mencius: The Establishment Strikes Back. 6. Laozi: Language and Society. Part III The Analytic Period. 7. The School of Names: Linguistic Analysis in China. 8. Zhuangzi: Discriminating about Discriminating. Part IV The Authoritarian Response. 9. Xunzi: Pragmatic Confucianism. 10. Han Feizi: The Ruler's Interpretation. Notes. Glossary of Chinese Characters. Bibliography. Index more...

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David Boonin has written the most thorough and detailed case for the moral permissibility of abortion yet published. This major book will be especially helpful to those teaching applied ethics and bioethics in philosophy or in law and medicine and to general readers for whom abortion remains a high-profile issue. more...

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