Catálogo de libros: Filosofía

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  • Symposium
    Plato / Benjamin Jowett
    The Symposium is a philosophical text by Plato dated c. 385–370 BC. It depicts a friendly contest of extemporaneous speeches given by a group of notable men attending a banquet. The men include the philosopher Socrates, the general and political figure Alcibiades, and the comic playwright Aristophanes. The speeches are to be given in praise of Eros, who is the god of love and d...
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    10,34 €

  • The Tao Te Ching
    Tzu Lao
    The Tao Te Ching is a Chinese classic text traditionally credited to the 6th-century BC sage Laozi. The text's authorship, date of composition and date of compilation are debated. The oldest excavated portion dates back to the late 4th century BC, but modern scholarship dates other parts of the text as having been written—or at least compiled—later than the earliest portion...
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    10,77 €

  • Life Without Principle
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    'Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.' - Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle (1863)Life Without Principle (1863) is an essay written by Henry David Thoreau that easily transcends time with its themes of the busyness of life and man’s pursuit of wealth. Thoreau asserts that society should place less value on...
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    7,48 €

  • Life Without Principle and Other Essays
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    'Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves-sometimes split into quarters-which grind on each other.' -Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle (1863) Life Without Principle and Other Essays is a collection of Henry David Thoreau’s most influential works which have transcended time and paved the way for ...
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    17,43 €

  • Autumnal Tints
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    'October is the month for painted leaves. Their rich glow now flashes round the world. As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall so the year near its setting.'-Henry David Thoreau, Autumnal Tints (1862)Autumnal Tints (1862) was originally delivered as a lecture by Henry David Thoreau in 1859 and first published posthumously in the Octob...
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    7,69 €

  • A Plea for Captain John Brown
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    'They could bravely face their country’s foes, but he had the courage to face his country herself, when she was in the wrong.' - Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859)A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859) is Henry David Thoreau’s essay extolling Captain John Brown as a hero. First a speech delivered in the weeks that followed Brown’s raid on the federal arsena...
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    7,56 €

  • Slavery in Massachusetts
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    'I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.' - Henry David Thoreau, Slavery in Massachusetts (1854)Slavery in Massachusetts (1854) was originally delivered as a speech on July 4, 1854, at an anti-slavery rally in Framingham, Massachusetts, defending the rights of Baptist 'slave preacher,' Anthony Burns. Burns ha...
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    7,39 €

  • Use of Great Men
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    '...great men exist that there may be greater men. The destiny of organized nature is amelioration, and who can tell its limits.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Use of Great Men (1850) Use of Great Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850) is one of seven essays about notable scholars whom the author discusses in his collection entitled Representative Men (also available from Cosimo Classics). I...
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    7,47 €

  • Nature
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1849)Nature-Addresses and Lectures (1849) is a collection that brings together several short commentaries by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson is among the most quoted of American writers, and his essays are considered classics. This volume includes Emerso...
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    26,04 €

  • Civil Disobedience
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    Disgusted by slavery and the Mexican War, Thoreau gave lectures on, “The Rights and Duties of the Individual in relation to Government,” which became the basis for this 1849 essay Civil Disobedience originally titled, “Resistance to Civil Government.” Cited by both Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. as influential in their drive to create positive change through nonvio...
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    6,23 €

  • Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    Natural philosopher and rugged poet Henry David Thoreau has inspired many generations through Thoreau’s popular essays included here: Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown, Walking, and Life without Principle. Cited by both Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. as influential in their drive to create positive change through nonviolent...
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    6,42 €

  • Civil Disobedience
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    Disgusted by slavery and the Mexican War, Thoreau gave lectures on, “The Rights and Duties of the Individual in relation to Government,” which became the basis for this 1849 essay Civil Disobedience originally titled, “Resistance to Civil Government.” Cited by both Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. as influential in their drive to create positive change through nonvio...
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    16,56 €

  • Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    Natural philosopher and rugged poet Henry David Thoreau has inspired many generations through Thoreau’s popular essays included here: Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown, Walking, and Life without Principle. Cited by both Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. as influential in their drive to create positive change through nonviolent...
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    16,50 €

  • The Poet
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    '. . . for the poet is representative. He stands among partial men for the complete man, and apprises us not of his wealth, but of the common-wealth.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet The Poet, written by Ralph Waldon Emerson between 1841 and 1843, is an essay in which Emerson argues for the United States, when it was a relatively young nation, to establish a position of national ...
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  • Politics
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'The theory of politics, which has possessed the mind of men, and which they have expressed the best they could in their laws and in their revolutions, considers persons and property as the two objects for whose protection government exists.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Politics (1844)Politics (1844), by Ralph Waldo Emerson details the author’s views of the transitory nature of politi...
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    7,39 €

  • Manners
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'Manners aim to facilitate life, to get rid of impediments, and bring the man pure to energize. They aid our dealing and conversation, as a railway aids travelling, by getting rid of all avoidable obstructions of the road, and leaving nothing to be conquered but pure space.' -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Manners (1844)Emerson’s essay on Manners (1844) is an explication of the value of ...
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    7,53 €

  • Nature
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'Nature is always consistent, though she feigns to contravene her own laws. She keeps her laws, and seems to transcend them. She arms and equips an animal to find its place and living in the earth, and, at the same time, she arms and equips another animal to destroy it.' -Ralph Waldo Emerson, NatureNature (1844), by Ralph Waldo Emerson, is the second of two essays with the same...
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    7,44 €

  • Nominalist and Realist
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'All persons exist to society by some shining trait of beauty or utility, which they have.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nominalist and RealistNominalist and Realist (1844), by Ralph Waldo Emerson, is an essay Emerson wrote specifically as part of Essays: Second Series and in order to explore the ideas that contributed to his formulation of the philosophy of transcendentalism. It cont...
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  • New England Reformers
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'Every project in the history of reform, no matter how violent and surprising, is good, when it is the dictate of a man’s genius and constitution, but very dull and suspicious when adopted from another.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, New England ReformersNew England Reformers (1844), by Ralph Waldo Emerson, is a lecture the author delivered to the American Anti-Slavery Society, led by W...
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    7,50 €

  • Experience
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem.' -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Experience (1844)Experience (1844), by Ralph Waldo Emerson, was first published in Essays: Second Series. It is one of many of the author’s commentaries on the importance of the individual. In this essay, Emerson contend...
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    7,59 €

  • Essays
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: Second SeriesIn Essays: Second Series (1844) by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the author brought together a series of writings that laid out many of the fundamental concepts of the philosophical system that has come to be known as Transcendenta...
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    18,79 €

  • The Over-Soul
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Over-Soul The Over-Soul (1841) is a treatise on transcendentalism. Emerson was one of the original authors of this philosophical system, and in his essay, he argues the basic principles of individualism and free thought. He also elaborates on his belief that God lives in each of us, that we...
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    7,47 €

  • Spiritual Laws
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson In Spiritual Laws (1841), Emerson makes a case for simplicity as the path to serenity and success. According to the author, our intellects are clouded by material interests, and...
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    7,53 €

  • Self-Reliance
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance Self-Reliance (1841) is an essay that articulates Emerson’s belief in the importance of individualism and the need for each individual to rely on their own ideas and instincts. It offers an analysis of what the author describes as...
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    8,92 €

  • Prudence
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, PrudenceThis essay on Prudence (1841) was originally delivered by Emerson as a lecture in a course on human culture in the winter of 1837-8. In it, he sought to balance his lofty positions on love and friendship with practical experience, l...
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    7,36 €

  • Intellect
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'Nature shows all things formed and bound. The intellect pierces the form, overleaps the wall, detects intrinsic likeness between remote things, and reduces all things into a few principles.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, IntellectIn his essay on Intellect (1841), Emerson addresses his perception that human intellect is nothing more than an interpretation of a universal mind. Here, Emer...
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  • Friendship
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.' -Ralph Waldo Emerson, FriendshipEmerson’s essay on Friendship (1841) is essentially a tribute to the ways friendship enhances human lives. In it, he stresses the happiness that two people who meet on common ground can experience. As friendships grow, both parties learn to appreciate and admire th...
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  • Compensation
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'The law of nature is: Do the thing, and you shall have the power, but they who do not the thing have not the power.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, CompensationEmerson’s essay on Compensation (1841) affirms the author’s belief that there are natural laws governing the universe which everyone must follow or risk failure. The laws Emerson is concerned with ensure balance in the universe...
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    7,53 €

  • Circles
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world: but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much; and a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, CirclesIn his essay Circles (1841), Emerson writes about how fluid the universe is and the circular pat...
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    7,36 €

  • Heroism
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common, the heroic.' -Ralph Waldo Emerson, HeroismIn his essay on Heroism (1841), Emerson maintai...
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