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In Defense of Women

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H. L. Mencken

In Defense of Women is H. L. Mencken's 1918 book on women and the relationship between the sexes. Some laud the book as progressive while ot…

Dreams Have a Meaning

In Dream Psychology

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Sigmund Freud

Not a few serious-minded students, [...], have been discouraged from attempting a study of Freud's dream psychology. The book in which he or…

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In The Sayings of Confucius

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Confucius 孔子

Promoting virtues such as filial devotion, compassion, loyalty, and propriety, these dialogues between the ancient Chinese philosopher Confu…

Ch 5 – Applications

In On Liberty

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John Stuart Mill

Published in 1859, On Liberty details Mill's view that individuals should be left wholly free to engage in any activity, thought or belief t…

Bk 5: Section IV, and Song IV: A Psychological Fallacy

In The Consolation of Philosophy

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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (transl. James) and Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year 524 AD. It has been…

Author's Preface

In The Antichrist

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FW Nietzsche and Friedrich Nietzsche

Save for his raucous, rhapsodical autobiography, Ecce Homo, The Antichrist is the last thing that Nietzsche ever wrote, and so it may be acc…

The Thing and its Relations

In Essays in Radical Empiricism

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William James

William James (1842 – 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psych…

The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike

In Long Poems Collection 004

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Robert Service and Robert W. Service

LibriVox’s Long Poems Collection 004: a collection of 8 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length.

Preface to the First Edition, 1781

In The Critique of Pure Reason

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Immanuel Kant

The Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781 with a second edition in 1787, has been called the most influential and important philo…