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Laozi · English
Eighty-one chapters consider the Dao, virtue, desire, government, humility, and the strength of yielding in an independent English translation.
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Laozi · English
Eighty-one chapters consider the Dao, virtue, desire, government, humility, and the strength of yielding in an independent English translation.

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Friedrich Nietzsche · German
Vier Betrachtungen prüfen Bildung, Geschichtsbewusstsein und kulturelle Erneuerung an David Strauß, Schopenhauer und Richard Wagner als zeitgenössischen Beispielen.

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Charles Duclos · French
Charles Duclos examine l’éducation, la réputation, la politesse et les distinctions sociales dans une suite de réflexions sur les mœurs.

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Wang Yangming · Italian
Dialoghi e lettere di Wang Yangming indagano la conoscenza morale, la coltivazione interiore e l’unità di sapere e azione.

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John Morley · English
John Morley considers when compromise protects social cooperation and when it weakens intellectual honesty, conviction, and the pursuit of truth.

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Richard Jefferies · English
Richard Jefferies turns solitary encounters with the English landscape into an intense meditation on consciousness, desire, time, and spiritual freedom.

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Antero de Quental · Portuguese
Antero de Quental discute o naturalismo, a evolução e os limites da explicação mecânica em cinco artigos de reflexão filosófica.

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Hermann Cohen · German
Hermann Cohen untersucht das Verhältnis der Religion zu Logik, Ethik, Ästhetik und Psychologie innerhalb eines philosophischen Systems.

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John Dewey · English
John Dewey examines inquiry as an experimental activity, connecting logical ideas with practical problems and the reconstruction of experience.

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Maurice Maeterlinck · French
Treize essais de Maeterlinck explorent le silence, la vie intérieure et les forces discrètes qui transforment notre existence quotidienne.

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Maurice Maeterlinck · French
Maeterlinck interroge la justice, le hasard et notre rapport au temps dans six méditations philosophiques liées à l’expérience humaine.

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Friedrich Nietzsche · German
Nietzsche untersucht die Herkunft moralischer Urteile und erprobt eine psychologische Kritik scheinbar selbstverständlicher Werte und gesellschaftlicher Gewohnheiten.

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William James · English
Twelve philosophical essays examine pure experience, consciousness, relations, and the possibility of a world shared by different minds.

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Henri Poincaré · French
Henri Poincaré interroge les fondements des mathématiques, de la géométrie et de la physique à travers le rôle des hypothèses.

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Alain · French
Alain parcourt sommeil, langage, passions et vie sociale pour montrer comment les idées prennent forme dans l'existence humaine.

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John Dewey · English
John Dewey reconsiders inherited philosophical problems through modern science, changing social conditions, practical inquiry, and democratic experience.

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Georg Simmel · German
Simmel untersucht gesellschaftliche Wechselwirkungen, Geselligkeit und die Spannungen zwischen individueller Eigenart, Gruppenleben und geschichtlichen Freiheitsvorstellungen im sozialen Zusammenleben.

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Georg Simmel · German
Georg Simmel erschließt philosophische Grundfragen, indem er Sein, Werden, Erkenntnis und ideale Forderungen als zusammenhängende Probleme betrachtet.

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Zhuangzi · Portuguese
Trinta e três capítulos exploram liberdade, transformação e vida espontânea por meio de diálogos, paradoxos e narrativas do pensamento chinês.

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Henri Bergson · French
Sept études de Bergson interrogent la conscience, la mémoire, le rêve et les rapports entre activité mentale et fonctionnement du cerveau.

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Qu Yuan and other poets · Italian
I sessantaquattro esagrammi dell’I Ching presentano immagini di mutamento, giudizi e linee per riflettere sulle situazioni e sulle decisioni.

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Maurice Maeterlinck · French
Maeterlinck observe les stratégies végétales puis élargit sa méditation aux parfums, au temps, à la morale et aux incertitudes humaines.

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William James · English
James contrasts monism and pluralism through lectures on experience, consciousness, Hegel, Fechner, and Bergson.

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Hippolyte Taine · French
Taine examine la philosophie de Stuart Mill et discute les rapports entre expérience, induction, abstraction et connaissance scientifique.