Catálogo de libros: Filosofía

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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Essays
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'Within man is the soul of the whole; The wise silence; The universal beauty.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, EssaysEssays: First Series (1841) is a collection of essays drafted early in Emerson’s career as a writer. In them, he elaborates on the ideas that emerged following approximately fifteen years spent studying philosophy, religion, and literature and formulating a set of beliefs t...
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  • Love
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'Thus are we put in training for a love which knows not sex, nor person, nor partiality, but which seeks virtue and wisdom everywhere, to the end of increasing virtue and wisdom.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, LoveLove (1841) is an essay in which Emerson attempts to explain the love between two people and how it evolves with time and age. According to Emerson, youthful lovers feel a pas...
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  • A Treatise of Human Nature
    David Hume
    A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40) is a book by Scottish philosopher David Hume, considered by many to be Hume's most important work and one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. The Treatise is a classic statement of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. In the introduction Hume presents the idea of placing all science and philosophy...
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  • Nature
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man: space, the air, the river, the leaf.'-Ralph Waldo EmersonNature (1836) was originally written by Ralph Waldo Emerson as a long essay in which he began to break away from traditional religious and social thinking and formulated the ideas and beliefs that were basic to the philosophy of Transcendentalism. In this ...
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  • Nature
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Nature, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, is a superb nature essay and a philosophical interpretation of nature and how it influences man physically and spiritually. Emerson's writing is redolent with the wonder of the true romantic, but never sinks to the level of maudlin fluff.In the essay Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-tr...
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  • Valerius Terminus
    Sir Francis Bacon
    It is impossible to ascertain the motive which determined Bacon to give to the supposed author the name of "Valerius Terminus-Of the Interpretation of Nature", or to his commentator, of whose annotations we have no remains, that of Hermes Stella. It may be conjectured that by the name Terminus he intended to intimate that the new philosophy would put an end to the wandering of ...
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  • The Poetics
    Aristotle
    Aristotle's Poetics (Greek: Περὶ ποιητικῆς; Latin: De Poetica;[1] c. 335 BC[2]) is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.[3] In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term that derives from a classical Greek term, ποιητής, that means "poet; author; maker" and in this context i...
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  • An Essay on the Principle of Population
    Thomas Robert Malthus
    The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in 1798, but the author was soon identified as Thomas Robert Malthus. The book predicted a grim future, as population would increase geometrically, doubling every 25 years, but food production would only grow arithmetically, which would result in famine and starvation, unless births were controlled...
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  • Two Treatises of Government
    John Locke
    Two Treatises of Government (or Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown. The Latter Is an Essay Concerning The True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government) is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise attacks p...
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  • Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
    Immanuel Kant
    Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (German: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten; 1785; also known as the Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, Grounding of the Metaphysics of Morals and the Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals) is the first of Immanuel Kant's mature works on moral philosophy and remains one of the most influential in the field. Kant conceives ...
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  • Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
    David Hume
    Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical work by the Scottish philosopher David Hume. Through dialogue, three philosophers named Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes debate the nature of God's existence. Whether or not these names reference specific philosophers, ancient or otherwise, remains a topic of scholarly dispute. While all three agree that a god exists, they...
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  • On the Social Contract
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau / G. D. H. Cole / GDHCole
    Unabridged English reproduction of On The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and translated by G. D. H. Cole.  It’s publication in 1762 lead to great discussion about 'what is government?' on both sides of the Atlantic, and is still essential reading today. ...
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    15,34 €

  • A Discourse Upon The Origin And The Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind
    Jean Jacques Rousseau
    A Discourse Upon The Origin And The Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind is a classic political science text on the subjects of natural law and equality by the great French wrter and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau."'Tis of man I am to speak; and the very question, in answer to which I am to speak of him, sufficiently informs me that I am going to speak to men; for ...
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