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Philosophy
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Utopia
A short work of fiction in Latin, written by the English lawyer and humanist Thomas More and published at Leuven in 1516. Its name is a Greek pun:…
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Discourse on Metaphysics
A short treatise in thirty-seven articles, written in 1686 and the first full sketch of Leibniz's philosophy. He sent summaries of its articles to Antoine Arnauld, and their…
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Essays in Idleness (Tsurezuregusa)
A collection of 243 short sections, some a single sentence and some a page or two, written around 1330 by Yoshida Kenkō, a former courtier who had become…
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In Praise of Folly
A satirical speech in Latin, written in 1509 at the London house of Thomas More, whose name it puns on in its Greek title. The speaker is Folly…
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Theodicy
The only full-length philosophical book Leibniz published in his lifetime, written in French and coining the word 'theodicy', the justification of God. It is above all a reply…
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An Account of My Hut (Hōjōki)
A short prose work finished in 1212 by Kamo no Chōmei, a poet who had failed to inherit his family's post at the Kamo shrine and later took…
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Oration on the Dignity of Man
A Latin speech written in 1486 by the young Italian nobleman and scholar Pico della Mirandola to open a public debate in Rome on his 900 theses, drawn…
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New Essays on Human Understanding
Leibniz's chapter-by-chapter reply to Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, written in French as a dialogue between Philalethes, who speaks for Locke, and Theophilus, who speaks for Leibniz. He…
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Commentary on the Awakening of Faith
A commentary by the Silla monk Wonhyo on the Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna, a short treatise traditionally attributed to Aśvaghoṣa but probably composed in sixth-century China.…
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Essays
A collection of 107 essays in three books by a French magistrate who retired to his tower to read and write. Montaigne invented the essay as a form:…
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