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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 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 BookThe Genealogy of Morals investigates the historical and psychological formation of moral values. Its three essays trace noble and reactive valuation, the transformation of debt into guilt and bad conscience,…
View BookBeyond Good and Evil challenges dogmatic metaphysics and inherited moral oppositions by examining the drives and valuations concealed within claims to truth. Nietzsche’s nine chapters move through free spirits, religion,…
View BookJohn Stuart Mill's On Liberty defends freedom of thought, discussion and self-directed living against both government coercion and social conformity. Its five chapters formulate the harm principle, explain why dissent…
View BookJohn Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism defends the greatest happiness principle while distinguishing higher from lower pleasures and giving impartial weight to every person's welfare. Its five chapters examine the foundations of…
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