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Philosophy
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Profile of Man and Culture in Mexico
Samuel Ramos's short book, a founding work of the philosophical inquiry into 'lo mexicano', tries to explain Mexican culture through a psychological diagnosis. Influenced by José Ortega y…
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The Revival of the Religious Sciences
Al-Ghazālī's largest and most influential work, written in the years after he left his teaching post in Baghdad in 1095. It is organised in forty books, divided into…
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Wollstonecraft's argument that women are rational beings whose apparent weakness is the product of a corrupt education and social position, not of nature. Dedicated to the French statesman…
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The Ring of the Dove
A treatise on love written in al-Andalus by Ibn Ḥazm, the Córdoban jurist and theologian, at a friend's request, in thirty chapters mixing prose analysis, his own poems,…
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
The only philosophical book Wittgenstein published in his lifetime, written largely during his service in the First World War and published in German in 1921 and in English,…
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Alberuni’s India
A study of Indian religion, philosophy, science and customs by al-Bīrūnī, the polymath astronomer from Khwarazm, written after years in the service of the Ghaznavid sultan Maḥmūd, who…
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Leviathan
Hobbes's masterpiece of political philosophy, published in 1651 in the aftermath of the English Civil War. Part I builds a materialist account of human beings: sensation, imagination, speech,…
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The Kuzari
A dialogue in five parts written in Judaeo-Arabic by the poet and philosopher Judah Halevi, built on the reported conversion of the king of the Khazars to Judaism.…
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The Social Contract
Rousseau's short treatise begins from a paradox: human beings are born free and are everywhere in chains, and he asks what could make that condition legitimate. Force cannot…
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On the Creation of the World
Philo's treatise on the opening chapters of Genesis, written in Greek by a leading member of Alexandria's Jewish community. It reads the creation story with the help of…
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