Monadology and Other Philosophical Essays
By: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
3.93
Format: 163 pages, Paperback
Monadologie is one of Gottfried Leibniz’ works that best define his philosophy, monadism. Written t…
Want to Read"The present state of a single substance is the natural result of its precedent state, so much so that the present is pregnant with the future."-Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Monadology and Other Philosophical Essays
"The present state of a single substance is the natural result of its precedent state, so much so that the present is pregnant with the future."-Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Monadology and Other Philosophical Essays
"This connection of all created things with every single one of them and their adaptation to every single one, as well as the connection and adaptation of every single thing to all others, has the result that every single substance stands in relations which express all the others. Whence every single substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe."-Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Monadology and Other Philosophical Essays
"This connection of all created things with every single one of them and their adaptation to every single one, as well as the connection and adaptation of every single thing to all others, has the result that every single substance stands in relations which express all the others. Whence every single substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe."-Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Monadology and Other Philosophical Essays
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1. Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
By: Jean Baudrillard , Sheila Faria Glaser
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Format: 164 pages, Paperback
The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step t… read more
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"The balance of terror is the terror of balance."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
"Forgetting extermination is part of extermination."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
"But when everything is repressed, nothing is anymore."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
"Nada llegó ni llegará ahora al término de su historia."-Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)
2. An Introduction to Metaphysics
By: Henri Bergson , T.E. Hulme , Thomas A. Goudge
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An Introduction to Metaphysics (Introduction à la Métaphysique) is a 1903 essay by Henri Bergson (p… read more
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"De diez errores políticos, nueve consisten simplemente en creer todavía verdadero lo que ha cesado de serlo."-Henri Bergson, An Introduction to Metaphysics
"Either there is no philosophy possible, and all knowledge of things is a practical knowledge aimed at the profit to be drawn from them, or else philosophy consists in placing oneself within the objec…"-Henri Bergson, An Introduction to Metaphysics
"But this metaphysics, like this science, has enfolded its deeper life in a rich tissue of symbols, forgetting something that, while science needs symbols for its analytical development, the main obje…"-Henri Bergson, An Introduction to Metaphysics
3. Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
By: William James
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Format: 24 pages, Paperback
A profoundly influential figure in American psychology, William James (1842-1910) was also a philos… read more
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4. Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Format: 136 pages, Paperback
If humans are benevolent by nature, how do societies become corrupt? And how do governments founded… read more
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5. Phaedo
By: Plato , David Gallop , R.D. Archer-Hind
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Format: 67 pages, Paperback
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6. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
By: Immanuel Kant , James W. Ellington , Paul Carus
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Format: 29 pages, Paperback
This edition of Prolegomenaincludes Kant's letter of February, 1772 to Marcus Herz, a momentous doc… read more
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7. Meditations on First Philosophy
By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress
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8. The Aleph and Other Stories
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley
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Format: 48 pages, Paperback
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9. Clouds
By: Aristophanes , None
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10. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
By: John Locke
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11. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Format: None pages, Paperback
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12. The Merchant of Venice
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , None
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"He will fence with his own shadow."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"i buy a thousand pound a year! i buy a rope!"-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
13. Critique of Pure Reason
By: Immanuel Kant , Allen W. Wood , Paul Guyer
3.96
Format: 785 pages, Paperback
'The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old … read more
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"The great mass of people are worthy of our respect."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
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14. The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay
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15. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
By: Immanuel Kant , Christine M. Korsgaard , Mary J. Gregor
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Format: 197 pages, paper
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16. The Symposium
By: Plato , Christopher Gill
4.09
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
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"The truth about eros is terrifying."-Plato, The Symposium
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"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"-Plato, The Symposium
17. Ion
By: Plato
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18. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
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Format: 416 pages, Paperback
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19. Civilization and Its Discontents
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay
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20. Monadology and Other Philosophical Essays
By: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
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Format: 163 pages, Paperback
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"But in the treasures of divine wisdom, that is, in the hidden God and (which comes to the same) in the universal harmony of the world, a profundity (bathos) is latent, which contains the reasons why …"-Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Monadology and Other Philosophical Essays
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