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Philosophy
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The Ringstones of Wisdom (Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam)
Ibn 'Arabī's most studied and most controversial work, which he says the Prophet Muhammad gave him in a vision in Damascus in 1229. Its twenty-seven chapters each set…
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Written in Chile, where Freire lived in exile after the 1964 military coup in Brazil, and drawing on his work teaching adult peasants and workers to read. Freire…
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The Conference of the Birds
A Persian narrative poem in which the birds of the world gather and resolve to seek a king. The hoopoe, who served Solomon, tells them their king is…
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The Cosmic Race
An essay by José Vasconcelos, philosopher and Mexico's first Secretary of Public Education after the Revolution, published after a journey to South America. Against the doctrines of racial…
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Treatise on the Golden Lion
A very short essay, traditionally said to have been composed by Fazang, the great systematiser of Huayan Buddhism, to explain its teaching to Empress Wu Zetian by pointing…
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Han Feizi
The collected writings associated with Han Fei, a prince of the state of Han who, according to tradition, studied with Xunzi, and whose ideas were taken up by…
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The Doctrine of the Mean (Focusing the Familiar)
A short text that was originally a chapter of the Book of Rites (Liji) and was later made one of the Four Books by Zhu Xi, after which…
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The Art of War
A treatise on military strategy in thirteen short chapters, traditionally attributed to Sun Wu, a general said to have served the state of Wu around 500 BCE; most…
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Balanced Inquiries (Lunheng)
A large collection of essays, eighty-five in number with one lost, in which Wang Chong, a scholar of modest official rank in the Eastern Han, tests the beliefs…
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Reflections on Things at Hand
An anthology compiled by Zhu Xi with his friend Lü Zuqian, gathering some six hundred passages from four Northern Song thinkers: Zhou Dunyi, Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi and…
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