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Elements of the Philosophy of Right
The last major book Hegel published, written as a textbook for his Berlin lectures and set out in numbered paragraphs with remarks. Its subject is right in a…
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Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
Berkeley's restatement of his immaterialism as three conversations between Hylas, who defends matter, and Philonous, the 'lover of mind', written after the Principles had found few readers. In…
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Man a Machine
A short, provocative essay, published anonymously in Leiden, that extends Descartes' account of animals as machines to human beings and drops the immaterial soul altogether. La Mettrie, a…
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Lectures on the Philosophy of History
A posthumous book assembled from the lectures Hegel gave in Berlin five times between 1822 and 1831, first edited by Eduard Gans in 1837 and later by Hegel's…
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A Treatise of Human Nature
Hume's first and largest work, published in three books while he was still in his twenties, and subtitled an attempt to introduce the experimental method of reasoning into…
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
A long open letter to a young French correspondent, attacking the French Revolution in its first year and its English admirers, above all the dissenting minister Richard Price.…
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Science of Logic
Hegel's most demanding work, published in three parts between 1812 and 1816, with a revised first part completed shortly before his death in 1831. Despite the title it…
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
A dialogue in twelve parts on whether reason can tell us anything about God, revised over some twenty-five years and published after Hume's death. Pamphilus reports a conversation…
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Burke's early treatise on aesthetics, which separated the sublime from the beautiful and grounded both in human feeling. Part I argues that pain and danger, felt at a…
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The Vocation of Man
A short, deliberately popular book in which Fichte presents his philosophy to a general reader, written in Berlin after the 'atheism controversy' had cost him his chair at…
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