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Philosophy
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On the Nature of the Gods
A dialogue in three books in which the main Hellenistic schools debate whether gods exist, what they are like and whether they care for us. It is set…
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Scivias
A book of visions completed around 1151 by Hildegard, a Benedictine abbess in the Rhineland. The title shortens Scito vias Domini, 'know the ways of the Lord'. In…
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The Virtuous City (Principles of the Opinions of the People of the Virtuous City)
A systematic treatise that moves from God to the ideal society, written in Baghdad and finished in Damascus late in al-Fārābī's life. It begins with the First Being,…
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Tusculan Disputations
A work in five books, written in 45 BCE soon after the death of Cicero's daughter Tullia and dedicated to Brutus. It reports discussions held over five days…
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The Journey of the Mind into God
A short spiritual treatise written in 1259, when Bonaventure, then minister general of the Franciscans, withdrew to Mount La Verna, where Francis of Assisi was said to have…
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The Attainment of Happiness
A short treatise that forms the first part of al-Fārābī's trilogy The Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle. It opens by naming the four human things that bring happiness…
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On the Shortness of Life
A short moral essay in the form of a letter to Paulinus, an official in charge of Rome's grain supply. Seneca rejects the common complaint that life is…
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Summa contra Gentiles
A treatise in four books, written between about 1259 and 1265, also called the Book on the Truth of the Catholic Faith against the Errors of Unbelievers. An…
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The Metaphysics of The Healing
The metaphysical part of Kitāb al-Shifāʾ, Ibn Sīnā's largest philosophical encyclopedia, in ten books. It first asks what metaphysics studies and answers that its subject is the existent…
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Discourses
Informal talks of the Stoic teacher Epictetus, a former slave who ran a school at Nicopolis in Greece, written down by his student Arrian. Four books survive from…
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