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A System of Logic

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John Stuart Mill


"In this work, he formulated the five principles of inductive reasoning that are known as Mill's Methods. This work is important in the…

The Prophet (version 5)

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Kahlil Gibran


The Prophet is the best known work of Khalil Gibran, also known as Kahlil Gibran, a Lebanese American poet and artist.The poetic prose of Th…

The Problem of Truth

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Herbert Wildon Carr


A problem of philosophy is completely different from a problem of science. In science we accept our subject-matter as it is presented in una…

The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women

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Edward Carpenter


Written in 1908 by socialist critic and gay rights activist Edward Carpenter, The Intermediate Sex is a thoughtful, humanizing, and frequent…

Вехи-Сборник статей о русской интеллигенции (Vekhi)

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Nikolai Berdyaev, Sergei Bulgakov, Semyon Frank, Mikhail Gershenzon, Bogdan Kistyakovski, Aron Lande and Peter Struve


Сборник «Вехи» объединяет философские эссе, посвященные русской интеллигенции и её исторической роли. Появление сборника в 1909-…

Invisible Helpers

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C. W. Leadbeater


Even in this incredulous age, and amidst the full whirl of our nineteenth-century civilization, in spite of the dogmatism of our science and…

Ontology, or the Theory of Being

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Peter Coffey


The book is an introduction to metaphysics and Thomistic Ontology. - Summary by shreyasethi

The Nature and Authority of Conscience

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Rufus Jones


Rufus Matthew Jones (January 25, 1863 – June 16, 1948) was an American religious leader, writer, magazine editor, philosopher, and college p…

The Service

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Henry David Thoreau


An essay in three parts written in July 1840. "Human life is his topic, and he views it with an Oriental scope of thought, in which di…

Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure, and Other Essays

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Edward Carpenter


This publication, by English utopian socialist Edward Carpenter, describes civilisation as a sort of disease with which humanity is afflicte…

David Hume and his Influence on Philosophy and Theology

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James Orr


David Hume justly takes rank as the most distinguished member of that brilliant circle of literary men whose names gave such a lustre to the…

Essays Before a Sonata

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Charles Ives


Some philosophical studies in relation to the ideas of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne. Although the sonata is not explicitly referenced in this…

Der Lärm - Eine Kampfschrift gegen die Geräusche unseres Lebens

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Theodor Lessing


Jeder hat sich wohl schon einmal über lärmende Zeitgenossen geärgert. Der von Mitmenschen verursachte Krach ist seit je her e…

Practical Mysticism (Version 2)

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Evelyn Underhill


I write only for the larger class which, repelled by the formidable appearance of more elaborate works on the subject, would yet like to kno…

Animals' Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress

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Henry Salt


In the book, Salt argues against the idea of speciesism, though the term was not coined for another 76 years.The book also argues against vi…

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