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Forcing Justice: Violence and Nonviolence in Selected Texts by Thoreau and Gandhi
Gandhi, Mahatma; Thoreau, Henry David; Woods, Dan; Anderson, Albert A.; Anderson, AidanSaga Egmont 2021 1. utgåvaCan justice be forced on individuals and communities? The essays in this collection by Henry David Thoreau urge us to consider the difficult matter of how to counter the specific...
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Forcing Justice: Violence and Nonviolence in Selected Texts by Thoreau and Gandhi
Thoreau, Henry David; Gandhi, MahatmaSaga EgmontCan justice be forced on individuals and communities? The essays in this collection by Henry David Thoreau urge us to consider the difficult matter of how to counter the specific...
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Fading of the Light: A Love Story
Anderson, Albert A.Saga Egmont“The Fading of the Light: A Love Story” is Albert A. Anderson’s touching account of the loss of his wife to Alzheimer’s disease. The poems contained in this collection were a way f...
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Anderson’s Reality and the Arts
Anderson, Albert A.Saga EgmontArt is the creative manifestation of essences. In order to understand the relation between art and reality, we need a philosophical guide. The best way to comprehend how the creati...
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Fading of the Light: A Love Story
Anderson, Albert A.Saga Egmont“The Fading of the Light: A Love Story” is Albert A. Anderson’s touching account of the loss of his wife to Alzheimer’s disease. The poems contained in this collection were a way f...
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Kant’s Foundations of Ethics
Kant, ImmanuelSaga EgmontThese works articulate the most fundamental principles of Kant’s ethical and political world-view. “What is Enlightenment?” (1784) and "Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of...
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Anderson’s Reality and the Arts
Anderson, Albert A.Saga EgmontArt is the creative manifestation of essences. In order to understand the relation between art and reality, we need a philosophical guide. The best way to comprehend how the creati...
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Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Hume, DavidSaga EgmontDavid Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion had not yet been published when he died in 1776. Even though the manuscript was mostly written during the 1750s, it did not appea...
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Plato’s Apology
, PlatoSaga EgmontSocrates is on trial for his life. He is charged with impiety and corrupting young people. He presents his own defense, explaining why he has devoted his life to challenging the mo...
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An Introduction to Metaphysics
Bergson, HenriSaga EgmontThe basic principles that Bergson articulates, especially his way of thinking about reality as a dynamic process and his view of human beings as creative and evolving, should be he...
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Whitehead’s The Function of Reason
Whitehead, Alfred NorthSaga EgmontWhitehead presented these three lectures at Princeton University in 1929. Although 85 years have passed, his central thesis and his analysis remain remarkably current. The scientif...
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Lao Zi’s Dao De Jing
Zi, LaoSaga EgmontThe "Dao De Jing" exists on the border between poetry and philosophy, embracing both mythos and logos. Its poetic form can stand alone, but it is enriched when its timeless ideas a...
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Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy
Descartes, RenéSaga EgmontRené Descartes is often described as the first modern philosopher, but much of the content of his "Meditations on First Philosophy" can be found in the medieval period that had alr...
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Mill’s On Liberty
Mill, John StuartSaga EgmontJohn Stuart Mill’s "On Liberty" was first published in 1859. In the 21st century this text confirms Socrates’ claim that “it is only the life of true philosophy that scorns the lif...
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Berkeley’s Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
Berkeley, GeorgeSaga EgmontBerkeley uses the Socratic mode of inquiry in "Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous" to question fundamental beliefs about knowledge and reality. These dialogues are between...
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Aristotle’s Poetics
, AristotleSaga EgmontAristotle's Poetics is best known for its definition and analysis of tragedy and comedy, but it also applies to truth and beauty as they are manifested in the other arts. In our ag...