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A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
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Category: No Category | Series: Dover Philosophical Classics Ser.
"One of the greatest of all philosophical works, covering knowledge, imagination, emotion, morality, and justice." -- Baroness Warnock, The ListPublished in the mid-18th century and received with indifference (it "fell dead-born from the press," noted the author), David Hume's comprehensive three-volume ...Show more
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
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Category: Critical Thinking | 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
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Category: Critical Thinking | 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
Pragmatism by William James
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Category: Critical Thinking | 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)
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Category: Critical Thinking | 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
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