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Philosophy
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Democracy in America
A two-volume study of American society and government by a young French aristocrat who travelled through the United States in 1831–32 with Gustave de Beaumont, officially to report…
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The German Ideology
A large, unfinished manuscript written by Marx and Engels in Brussels in 1845–46 to settle accounts with the Young Hegelians. It found no publisher and was left, as…
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The Foundations of Arithmetic
A short book of 1884 in which Frege asks what numbers are and how we know the truths of arithmetic, written in plain prose without the logical notation…
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A System of Logic
Mill's first major book and the work that made his reputation, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive is a large treatise in six books on reasoning and…
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Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint
Brentano's main work, published in 1874 with the first two of a planned six books; the rest never appeared, though Book Two was reissued with new remarks in…
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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
A dialogue in Italian, set over four days in Venice, comparing the Ptolemaic system, with the earth at rest at the centre, and the Copernican system, with the…
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The New Science
Vico's attempt to found a science of the 'world of nations', first published in 1725 and twice rewritten; the version usually read is the third, of 1744. Its…
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The Fable of the Bees
A book that grew over nearly twenty-five years around a satirical poem, The Grumbling Hive, first printed in 1705. The poem describes a hive that thrives on fraud,…
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A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
A short treatise arguing that nothing exists outside minds and their ideas. The Introduction attacks Locke's doctrine of abstract general ideas, which Berkeley blames for much of the…
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On Crimes and Punishments
A short treatise, published anonymously in Livorno in 1764 by a young Milanese nobleman, that became the most widely read case for reforming criminal law in Europe. Beccaria…
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