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Six Radical Thinkers: Bentham, J.S. Mill, Cobden, Carlyle, Mazzini, T.H. Green
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John Maccunn
A radical is a person who holds extreme or unconventional convictions and who advocates fundamental political, economic, or social reforms. …
The Destination Of Man
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johanne Fichte published The Destination of Man (Die Bestimmung des Menschen) in 1799. It was translated into English in 1846 by Jane Sinnet…
A System of Logic
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John Stuart Mill
"In this work, he formulated the five principles of inductive reasoning that are known as Mill's Methods. This work is important in the…
Invisible Helpers
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C. W. Leadbeater
Even in this incredulous age, and amidst the full whirl of our nineteenth-century civilization, in spite of the dogmatism of our science and…
The Priest and His Disciples (Shaw Translation)
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Hyakuzō Kurata
At the age of twenty-six (at the height of the Great War in Europe), the religious pilgrim and maverick Kurata Hyakuzō wrote a profoundly ph…
Thomas Hobbes
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Alfred Edward Taylor
This work is a look at the life and ideas of Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher of the seventeenth century. The most important ideas are fo…
Pauls Ontwaken
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Frederik Van Eeden
In dit aangrijpende korte werk beschrijft de schrijver en psychiater Frederik van Eeden het leven en met name de dood van Paul, de jongste z…
The New Idealism
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May Sinclair
The genius of May Sinclair lies in her brilliant bridging of the Victorian and the modern eras, in her determination never to become ossifie…
The Problem of Truth
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Herbert Wildon Carr
A problem of philosophy is completely different from a problem of science. In science we accept our subject-matter as it is presented in una…
The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women
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Edward Carpenter
Written in 1908 by socialist critic and gay rights activist Edward Carpenter, The Intermediate Sex is a thoughtful, humanizing, and frequent…
Вехи-Сборник статей о русской интеллигенции (Vekhi)
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Nikolai Berdyaev, Sergei Bulgakov, Semyon Frank, Mikhail Gershenzon, Bogdan Kistyakovski, Aron Lande and Peter Struve
Сборник «Вехи» объединяет философские эссе, посвященные русской интеллигенции и её исторической роли. Появление сборника в 1909-…
Ontology, or the Theory of Being
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Peter Coffey
The book is an introduction to metaphysics and Thomistic Ontology. - Summary by shreyasethi
The Nature and Authority of Conscience
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Rufus Jones
Rufus Matthew Jones (January 25, 1863 – June 16, 1948) was an American religious leader, writer, magazine editor, philosopher, and college p…
The Service
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Henry David Thoreau
An essay in three parts written in July 1840. "Human life is his topic, and he views it with an Oriental scope of thought, in which di…
Philosophy
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell was a well known mathematician, philosopher, and author. First published in England under the title "An Outline of Ph…
Bushido: el alma del Japón
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Inazō Nitobe
Inazō Nitobé, plasmó el código de los samuráis, guerreros japoneses, para dar a conocer y difundir los valores y…
Practical Mysticism (Version 2)
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Evelyn Underhill
I write only for the larger class which, repelled by the formidable appearance of more elaborate works on the subject, would yet like to kno…
Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure, and Other Essays
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Edward Carpenter
This publication, by English utopian socialist Edward Carpenter, describes civilisation as a sort of disease with which humanity is afflicte…
Science and the Modern World
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Alfred North Whitehead
It is fortunate that in the twentieth century, science and philosophy are beginning to be united in the same person as they were in the seve…
David Hume and his Influence on Philosophy and Theology
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James Orr
David Hume justly takes rank as the most distinguished member of that brilliant circle of literary men whose names gave such a lustre to the…