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  • Harvard Classics Volume 24

    On The Sublime, French Revolution, Etc., Burke

    Series Book 24 - Harvard Classics
    Contents: 1. On Taste, On the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution, and A Letter to a Noble Lord, by Edmund Burke Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics) ... Read more

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  • The Portable Enlightenment Reader

    by Various ...
    Series series Portable Library
    The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal of the universe through rational inquiry and natural experience, Enlightenment philosophers in Europe and America planted the seeds for modern ... Read more

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  • Utopia [ Illustrated ]

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    by Thomas More ...
    * Illustrated* Author Biography* Interactive Table of Contents* Free Audiobook DownloadUtopia [ Illustrated ] [ Free Audiobooks Download ]Utopia is a work of fiction and political philosophy by Thomas More published in 1516. English translations of the title include A Truly Golden Little Book, No Less Beneficial Than Entertaining, of the Best State of a Republic, and of the New Island Utopia ... Read more

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  • A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful

    Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society. In this landmark work, he propounds his theory that the sublime and the beautiful should be regarded as distinct and wholly separate states - the first, an experience inspired by fear and awe, the second an expression of pleasure and serenity. Eloquent and profound, A ... Read more

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  • The Evils of Revolution

    by Edmund Burke ...
    Written at a time when most of Europe supported the French Revolution, Edmund Burke’s prescient and, at the time, controversial denunciation of its mob rule predicted the Terror, began the modern conservative tradition and still serves as a warning to those who seek to reshape societies through violence.Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ... Read more

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  • The Portable Edmund Burke

    by Edmund Burke ...
    Series series Portable Library
    The intellectual wellspring of modern political conservatism, Edmund Burke is also considered a significant figure in aesthetic theory and cultural studies. As a member of the House of Commons during the late eighteenth century, Burke shook Parliament with his powerful defense of the American Revolution and the rights of persecuted Catholics in England and Ireland; his indictment of the English ... Read more

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  • Of Crimes and Punishments

    In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort, and to diffuse their influence universally and equally. But men generally abandoned the care of their most important concerns to the uncertain prudence and discretion ... Read more

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  • An Essay on Crimes and Punishments

    On Crimes and Punishments, is a treatise written by Cesare Beccaria in 1764. It condemned torture and the death penalty, and was a founding work in the field of penology. ... Read more

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  • Enquiry Concerning Political Justice

    And Its Influence On Morals And Happiness

    One of the great polemics and the key founding anarchist text, Godwin's Enquiry is his major work of political philosophy.Enquiry Concerning Political Justice established William Godwin as the chief exponent of British radicalism, in the tradition of the French Revolution. In it, he criticizes the 'brute engine' of government for systematizing oppression of individual liberty in the name of law ... Read more

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  • Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary (Volume I of II)

    by David Hume ...
    David Hume (1711-1776) is regarded as one of the most significant literary figures in the history of the Scottish Enlightenment and Western philosophy. A Scottish born historian, philosopher, economist, and essayist, Hume is especially known for his concentration in philosophical empiricism and skepticism. He is often grouped with a handful of other British Empiricists of the time such as John ... Read more

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  • A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England (Illustrated)

    The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter.Thomas Hobbes is a great English philosopher and one of the founders of the modern system of political philosophy. He is in the row with the greatest thinkers as Isaac Newton, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, Francis Bacon, and Jean Rousseau. Their collected thoughts has had strong influence on building the foundation of the United ... Read more

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  • Social Contract, Essays by Locke, Hume and Rousseau

    by Ernest Baker ...
    Locke and Rousseau, if in different ways and different degrees, accepted the idea of the Social Contract: Hume, more historically minded, and more conservative in his convictions, was its critic. His sceptical intellect led him to approach political theories - the theory of divine right as well as the theory of Social Contract, but more especially the latter - with a touch of acid realism, which ... Read more

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