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Philosophy
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The Search after Truth
The main work of the French Oratorian priest Nicolas Malebranche, who combined Descartes's philosophy with Augustine's theology. It is a study of the causes of human error and…
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Secrets on Cultivating the Mind
A short guide to Seon (Korean Zen) practice by Jinul, the most influential Seon master of the Goryeo period, written between about 1203 and 1205. It is set…
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Novum Organum
A treatise in two books of numbered aphorisms, published in 1620 as the second part of Bacon's unfinished Great Instauration, his plan to rebuild all knowledge. The title…
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Observations upon Experimental Philosophy
A critique of the new experimental science of the Royal Society, published in 1666 together with Cavendish's prose fiction The Blazing World. Her main target is the use…
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The Essentials of the Learning of the Sages (Seonghak jibyo)
A Neo-Confucian handbook compiled by Yi I, known as Yulgok, and presented in 1575 to the young King Seonjo of Joseon. Its aim is to educate a ruler…
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On the Law of War and Peace
A long Latin treatise in three books, written by the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius in exile in Paris during the Thirty Years' War and dedicated to Louis XIII.…
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The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy
The only surviving philosophical work of the English philosopher Anne Conway, written in the 1670s and published after her death, first in a Latin translation in Amsterdam in…
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Admonitions on Governing the People (Mongmin simseo)
A large practical manual for county magistrates by Jeong Yak-yong, known as Dasan, completed in 1818 near the end of his eighteen years of exile in Gangjin. Dasan,…
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Discourse on the Method
A short work in six parts, published anonymously in French in 1637 as the preface to three scientific essays on optics, meteorology and geometry. Part autobiography, it opens…
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Wild Ivy
The spiritual autobiography of Hakuin Ekaku, the Rinzai Zen master who revived the school in eighteenth-century Japan, written in 1766 when he was about eighty. Hakuin tells how,…
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