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Critique of Practical Reason |
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German philosopher Immanuel Kant's central work on his theory of deontological ethics. |
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Ethics Without Ontology |
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Emeritus Harvard professor Hilary Putnam's attempt to create an ethical system free of ontological constraints. |
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Critique of Pure Reason |
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German philosopher Immanuel Kant's magnum opus. His project is to outline the limits of human knowledge and our understanding of phenomenal experience. |
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Tractus Logico Philosophicus |
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Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein elucidation on language and its limitations, which he sees as key to understanding what philosophy can and cannot successfully achieve. |
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The Republic |
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Plato's greatest work, which has served as the foundation for much of the western philosophical tradition as we know it. |
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Nicomachean Ethics |
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Greek philosopher Aristotle's foundational work in the field now referred to as Virtue Ethics. |
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Poetry, Language, Thought |
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A collection of German philosopher Martin Heidegger's essays on the importance of poetry as a tool for opening up the realm of truth in ways that traditional philosophical inquiry cannot. |
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The Inversion of Consciousness from Dante to Derrida: A Study of Intellectual History (Studies in the History of Philosophy) |
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Hugh Curtler historical study of the phenomenon of Inverted Consciousness which was first articulated by phenomenologist Edmund Husserl |
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Philosophy and Social Hope |
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A collection of essays by American pragmatist Richard Rorty on a wide variety of topics. |
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Masterpieces of World Philosophy |
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Frank Magill's helpful book which serves as a very short introduction to some of the great works of world philosophy. |
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The Social Contract |
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French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau's articulation of his version of the origins and impact of "the social contract." |