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Philosophy
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Leviathan
Hobbes's masterpiece of political philosophy, published in 1651 in the aftermath of the English Civil War. Part I builds a materialist account of human beings: sensation, imagination, speech,…
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The Kuzari
A dialogue in five parts written in Judaeo-Arabic by the poet and philosopher Judah Halevi, built on the reported conversion of the king of the Khazars to Judaism.…
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The Social Contract
Rousseau's short treatise begins from a paradox: human beings are born free and are everywhere in chains, and he asks what could make that condition legitimate. Force cannot…
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On the Creation of the World
Philo's treatise on the opening chapters of Genesis, written in Greek by a leading member of Alexandria's Jewish community. It reads the creation story with the help of…
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Phenomenology of Spirit
Hegel's first major book, finished in Jena in 1806 as Napoleon's army arrived, traces the path by which consciousness, starting from the simplest claim to know, is driven…
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Light of the Lord
The main philosophical work of Hasdai Crescas, a leading rabbi of Aragon, completed in 1410, two decades after the anti-Jewish riots of 1391 in which his son was…
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Arendt's report on the 1961 trial in Jerusalem of Adolf Eichmann, the SS officer who organised the deportation of Jews to the death camps, first published as a…
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The City of God
Augustine began this enormous work, in twenty-two books, after the sack of Rome by the Visigoths in 410, when pagans blamed the disaster on the abandonment of the…
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Summa of Logic
Ockham's comprehensive textbook of logic, in three parts: on terms, on propositions, and on arguments, the last covering syllogisms, consequences, demonstration and fallacies. The first part contains his…
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The Book of the City of Ladies
Christine de Pizan, a widow who supported her family by writing for the French court, opens the book in her study, dejected after reading yet another misogynist text…
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