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A reflective presentation of aspects of the "either," the esthetic view of life. It offers a collection of sardonic aphorisms that include essays on Mozart, modern drama, and boredom; and "The Seducer's Diary".

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Presented with Kierkegaard's notes of the celebrated Berlin lectures on "positive philosophy" by FWJ Schelling, this book is a seedbed of Kierkegaard's subsequent work, both stylistically and thematically. It concentrates on Socrates, as interpreted by Xenophon, Plato, and Aristophanes, with a word on Hegel and Hegelian categories.

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"Prefaces" was the last of four books by Soren Kierkegaard to appear within two weeks in June 1844. Shortly after publishing "Prefaces", Kierkegaard began to prepare "Writing Sampler" as a sequel. Although "Writing Sampler" remained unpublished during his lifetime, this title presents it here as Kierkegaard originally envisioned it.

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Offers a poetic example of Kierkegaard's vision of the three stages, or spheres, of existence: the esthetic, the ethical, and the religious. This book begins with a banquet scene patterned on Plato's "Symposium". Next is a discourse by "Judge William" in praise of marriage "in answer to objections."

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After deciding to terminate his authorship with the pseudonymous "Concluding Unscientific Postscript", Kierkegaard composed reviews as a means of writing without being an author. This work comments on the Danish novel "Two Ages", which contrasts the mentality of the age of the French Revolution with that of the subsequent epoch of rationalism.

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The various kinds and conditions of love are a common theme for Kierkegaard, beginning with his early "Either/Or", through "The Diary of the Seducer" and Judge William's eulogy on married love, to his last work, on the changelessness of God's love. This work presents an analysis of the forms and sources of love.

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Presents the author's story of a lifetime of writing and his understanding of the maze of greatly varied works that make up his oeuvre.

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Features Leibniz's writings including letters, published papers, and fragments on a variety of philosophical, religious, mathematical, and scientific questions.

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Descartes' Mediations on First Philosophy, the fundamental and originating work of the modern era in Western philosophy, is presented here in Donald Cress' completely revised edition of his well-established translation, bringing this version even closer to Descartes' original, while maintaining its clear and accessible style.

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A translation of the Mengzi (Mencius). Accompanied by selected passages from the classic commentary of Zhu Xi - one of the insightful interpreters of Confucianism - it provides readers with a parallel to the Chinese practice of reading a classic text alongside traditional commentaries.

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At last, a complete translation of Aristotle's classic that is both faithful and readable. In this volume, Joe Sachs (translator of Aristotle's Physics and Metaphysics) supplements his excellent translation with well-chosen notes and glossary of important terms. This is a major translation of a seminal book in Ethics.

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When the author wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. This title offers an account of his life and works, and of the uses and abuses to which subsequent generations had put his ideas.

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Contains selections of Ockham's philosophical writings which give a balanced introductory view of his work in logic, metaphysics, and ethics. This volume includes textual markings referring readers to appendices containing changes in the Latin text.

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English translation of one of the more challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues between Socrates and Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, that begins with Zeno defending his treatise of Parmenidean monism against those partisans of plurality.

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English translation of one of the more challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues between Socrates and Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, that begins with Zeno defending his treatise of Parmenidean monism against those partisans of plurality.

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Roger Ariew masterfully renders the oddities of 17th-century French vocabulary and syntax in this eloquent and philosophically astute translationthe first complete English translation based on the Sellier edition of Pascal's manuscript, widely accepted as the version closest to what Pascal intended.

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Pessimism is thought of as an exclusively negative stance that inevitably leads to resignation. Even when pessimism looks like utter truth, we are told that it makes the worst of a bad situation. This book challenges the received wisdom about pessimism, arguing that there is an unrecognized yet vibrant pessimistic philosophical tradition.

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A distillation of the author's masterful Hegel's Ladder, this lucid introduction to Hegel's thought articulates the conceptual unity of the Phenomenology as well as the structure of Hegel's system and the place of the Phenomenology within it.

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