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An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
Bentham's main work of moral and legal theory. It opens by declaring that nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure, and…
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
A short account written in 1542 by the Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas, who had come to the Caribbean as a settler and later became a defender…
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Emile, or On Education
Rousseau's treatise on education, written as the story of a tutor raising an imaginary pupil, Emile, from birth to marriage. It begins from the claim that everything is…
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Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind
A sketch of human history as a story of progress, written in 1793–94 while Condorcet was hiding from arrest under the Jacobins, and published after his death in…
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On the American Indians (De Indis)
A public lecture, or relectio, given at the University of Salamanca in 1539 by the Dominican theologian Francisco de Vitoria, and printed after his death. It asks by…
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Rameau’s Nephew
A satirical dialogue, written over many years and never published in Diderot's lifetime. One afternoon at the Café de la Régence in Paris, where people come to watch…
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An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
Hutcheson's first book, in two treatises, presented on its title page as a defence of the Earl of Shaftesbury's principles against the author of The Fable of the…
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Ethics for the New Millennium
A book by the 14th Dalai Lama, published in 1999 (in Britain as Ancient Wisdom, Modern World), that proposes an ethics for everyone, religious or not. He starts…
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Theological-Political Treatise
A treatise in twenty chapters, published anonymously in 1670 under a false imprint and soon banned in the Dutch Republic. Spinoza's stated aim is to show that freedom…
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The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching
An introduction to core Buddhist teachings by the Vietnamese Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh, published in 1998. It is organised in three parts. The first explains the Four…
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