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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
Category: Reference | Series: Dover Philosophical Classics Ser.
This 1748 treatise by David Hume offers an accessible account of his unprecedented and challenging notions about the limitations of the human mind. It expounds the most influential theory of causality in modern times - one that prompted Kant to create an entirely new school of thought. Highly controvers ...Show more
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham
Category: Reference | Series: Dover Philosophical Classics Ser.
First published in 1789, Jeremy Bentham's best-known work remains a classic of modern philosophy and jurisprudence. Its definitions of the foundations of utilitarian philosophy and its groundbreaking studies of crime and punishment retain their relevance to modern issues of moral and political philosoph ...Show more
Critique of Judgment by Immanuel Kant; J. H. Bernard (Translator)
Category: Science | Series: Dover Philosophical Classics Ser.
Kant, the most revolutionary and important figure in Western philosophy since Aristotle, wrote the Critique of Judgment as the capstone of his trilogy of Critiques. Through its investigation of the beautiful and the sublime, it set the terms for modern aesthetics and art criticism. Its discussion of t ...Show more
Critique of Pure Reason by KANT, IMMANUEL
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Dover Philosophical Classics
Matter and Memory by Henri Bergson
Category: Culture | Series: Dover Philosophical Classics Ser.
"Since the end of the last century," Walter Benjamin wrote, "philosophy has made a series of attempts to lay hold of the 'true' experience as opposed to the kind that manifests itself in the standardized, denatured life of the civilized masses. It is customary to classify these efforts under the heading ...Show more
Pragmatism by William James
Category: Reference | Series: Dover Philosophical Classics Ser.
A profoundly influential figure in American psychology, William James (1842-1910) was also a philosopher of note, who used Charles S. Peirce's theories of pragmatism as a basis for his own conception of that influential philosophy. For James, this meant an emphasis on ""radical empiricism"" and the conc ...Show more
Suffering, Suicide and Immortality - Eight Essays from the Parerga by Arthur Schopenhauer; T. Bailey Saunders (Editor)
Category: Reference | Series: Dover Philosophical Classics Ser.
One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Arthur Schopenhauer is best known for his writings on pessimism. In this 1851 essay collection, he offers concise statements of the unifying principles of his thinking. Schopenhauer, unlike most philosophers, expressed himself in simple, direct ...Show more
The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer; Arthur Brodrick Bullock (Translator)
Category: Culture | Series: Dover Philosophical Classics Ser.
The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche; Thomas Common (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Philosophical Classics Ser.
One of Friedrich Nietzsche's classic works, The Gay Science (also known as The Joyful Wisdom), is the first of Nietzsche's writings to proclaim "God is dead" and to introduce Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of the eternal recurrence. Writing in Nietzsche's aphoristic style, the book also includes a number ...Show more
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