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The Last U-Turn
The final volume of The Architect's Protocol examines artificial intelligence and transhumanism, asking whether these technologies will remain tools under human direction or become sources of authority and…
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Adam and the Answerable Being
A standalone scholarly work on Islam and evolution. It treats Adam as a real and theologically central figure, and asks a moral question: what kind of being can…
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The Coordinates of Thought
A map of the whole of philosophy: 131 questions, each with the answers given to it, who gave them, where, and what each answer costs — seven traditions, one timeline.
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The Refinement of Character
The best-known work of philosophical ethics in Arabic, by Miskawayh, a historian who served Buyid rulers and their ministers. It aims to show how good character can be…
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Profile of Man and Culture in Mexico
Samuel Ramos's short book, a founding work of the philosophical inquiry into 'lo mexicano', tries to explain Mexican culture through a psychological diagnosis. Influenced by José Ortega y…
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The Revival of the Religious Sciences
Al-Ghazālī's largest and most influential work, written in the years after he left his teaching post in Baghdad in 1095. It is organised in forty books, divided into…
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Wollstonecraft's argument that women are rational beings whose apparent weakness is the product of a corrupt education and social position, not of nature. Dedicated to the French statesman…
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The Ring of the Dove
A treatise on love written in al-Andalus by Ibn Ḥazm, the Córdoban jurist and theologian, at a friend's request, in thirty chapters mixing prose analysis, his own poems,…
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
The only philosophical book Wittgenstein published in his lifetime, written largely during his service in the First World War and published in German in 1921 and in English,…
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Alberuni’s India
A study of Indian religion, philosophy, science and customs by al-Bīrūnī, the polymath astronomer from Khwarazm, written after years in the service of the Ghaznavid sultan Maḥmūd, who…
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