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Leo Tolstoy challenges beauty, pleasure and expert taste as foundations for defining art. He argues that art communicates feeling by bringing artist and audience into a shared experience, then asks…
View BookWilliam James presents pragmatism as a method for clarifying ideas through their practical consequences and as an account of how beliefs become true through verification in experience. Across eight lectures,…
View BookIn 'The Subjection of Women', John Stuart Mill argues that the legal and social subordination of women is unjust in itself and a serious obstacle to human progress. Examining marriage,…
View BookSet on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, The Bhagavad Gita presents Krishna's response to Arjuna's crisis about duty, violence and moral responsibility. Sir Edwin Arnold's poetic translation explores disciplined action without…
View BookA foundational collection of 423 Buddhist verses, The Dhammapada examines how the mind shapes conduct and how heedfulness, non-harm, self-discipline and wisdom lead beyond suffering. F. Max Müller's historic translation…
View BookTraditionally attributed to Laozi, the Tao Te Ching is the foundational Daoist classic of the Way and its virtue or power. Across 81 concise chapters, James Legge's translation explores naturalness,…
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