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The road

Author: Cormac McCarthy
Published: 2006
book: 287 pages
ISBN:0307387895
ISBN:9780307387899
Publisher: Vintage
Subject: Fiction

In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American ...

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The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle

Author: Aristotle
Published: 1906
book: 359 pages
ISBN:0307387895
ISBN:9780307387899
Publisher: null
Subject: Ethics

... every act and purpose, seems to aim at some someyooa . ,, as end or good : and so it has been well said that the good is mam*. that at which everything ...

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Either/or

Author: Søren Kierkegaard
Published: 1992-08-01
book: 633 pages
ISBN:0140445773
ISBN:9780140445770
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Subject: Philosophy

In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A', and the ethical Judge Vilhelm of the second section - ...

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Beyond Good and Evil

Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Published: 2007-10
book: 176 pages
ISBN:1434603709
ISBN:9781434603708
Publisher: BiblioBazaar, LLC
Subject: Philosophy

The Will to Truth- which is to tempt us to many a hazardous enterprise- the famous Truthfulness of which all philosophers have hitherto spoken with respect- ...

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Gorgias

Author: Plato
Published: 1891
book: 308 pages
ISBN:1434603709
ISBN:9781434603708
Publisher: null
Subject: Philosophy

The Beginnings of Bhetobic. The mighty impulse which the Hellenic spirit, throughout the whole extent of the Hellenic nationality, received from the ...

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Meditations

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Published: 2003-05-06
book: 256 pages
ISBN:0812968255
ISBN:9780812968255
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Subject: Philosophy

Offers a modern translation of the Roman philosopher's journal.

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On bullshit

Author: Harry G. Frankfurt
Published: 2005
book: 67 pages
ISBN:0691122946
ISBN:9780691122946
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Subject: Philosophy

This is the work of an extraordinarily acute, attentive, and versatile philosopher who has succeeded in addressing an audience comprised of both other ...

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Human nature and conduct

Author: John Dewey
Published: 1922
book: 336 pages
ISBN:0691122946
ISBN:9780691122946
Publisher: null
Subject: Social psychology

PART ONE THE PLACE OF HABIT IN CONDUCT HABITS may be profitably compared to physiological functions, like breathing, digesting. The latter are, to be sure, ...

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The Last Town on Earth

Author: Thomas Mullen
Published: 2007-07-31
book: 404 pages
ISBN:0812975928
ISBN:9780812975925
Publisher: Random House Inc
Subject: Fiction

Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a mill town called Commonwealth votes to quarantine itself in the wake of the 1918 flu pandemic, setting up guards ...

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Teach like your hair's on fire

Author: Rafe Esquith
Published: 2007-01-16
book: 244 pages
ISBN:0670038156
ISBN:9780670038152
Publisher: Viking Pr
Subject: Education

An inspiring guide to transforming education for children by an American Teacher Award recipient describes the methods through which he exposes first-generation ...

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Utilitarianism

Author: John Stuart Mill
Published: 1906
book: 96 pages
ISBN:0670038156
ISBN:9780670038152
Publisher: null
Subject: Utilitarianism

CHAPTER I GENERAL REMARKS ; There are few circumstances, among those which make up the present condition of human knowledge, more unlike what might have ...

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The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Author: Adam Smith
Published: 2009-01
book: 272 pages
ISBN:3640245903
ISBN:9783640245901
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Subject: Philosophy

Chap. I: Of Sympathy How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and ...

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An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation

Author: Jeremy Bentham
Published: 1907
book: 378 pages
ISBN:3640245903
ISBN:9783640245901
Publisher: null
Subject: Law

CHAPTER I. OF THE PRINCIPLE OF UTILITY. I.^Tature has placed mankind under the governance of two Mankind sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. ...

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Reverence

Author: Paul Woodruff
Published: 2002-12-05
book: 256 pages
ISBN:0195157958
ISBN:9780195157956
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Subject: Philosophy

Looks at the meaning of reverence and its role in religion and society.

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A treatise of human nature

Author: David Hume
Published: 1888
book: 709 pages
ISBN:0195157958
ISBN:9780195157956
Publisher: null
Subject: Philosophy

ments, it cannot make them purposely, with premeditation, and after such a manner as to satisfy itself concerning every particular difficulty which may ...

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Freedom of the Will

Author: Jonathan Edwards
Published: 2008-03-24
book: 368 pages
ISBN:1589604881
ISBN:9781589604889
Publisher: Sovereign Grace Pub
Subject: Philosophy

"Considered Edwards' finest work, the treatise is a monument of American philosophy," noted Christian History magazine (Vol. 4, No. 4, p.19).

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The ethics of psychoanalysis, 1959-1960

Author: Jacques Lacan
Published: 1997-07-01
book: 342 pages
ISBN:0393316130
ISBN:9780393316131
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Subject: Medical

One of the most influential French intellectuals of this century, Jacques Lacan is seen here at the height of his powers.

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Justice

Author: Michael J. Sandel
Published: 2010
book: 320 pages
ISBN:0374532508
ISBN:9780374532505
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Subject: Law

A Harvard professor assesses the role of justice in today's society as well as the moral responsibilities faced by everyday citizens, weighing a range of issues ...

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Ethics for the new millennium

Author: Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho (Dalai Lama XIV)
Published: 2001-05-01
book: 237 pages
ISBN:1573228834
ISBN:9781573228831
Publisher: Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
Subject: Religion

One of humankind's most respected religious leaders presents a plan for a new human and social paradigm, arguing that humankind is not inherently sinful and ...

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Modern social imaginaries

Author: Charles Taylor
Published: 2004
book: 215 pages
ISBN:0822332930
ISBN:9780822332930
Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
Subject: Philosophy

"Charles Taylor presents a fundamental challenge to neoliberal apologists for the new world order--but not only to them.

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