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John 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 BookMary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman argues that women's apparent weakness is produced by restricted education and enforced dependence rather than natural intellectual inferiority. She calls for…
View BookPlato's Republic asks what justice is and why the just life is better than injustice. Across ten Books, Socrates constructs an ideal city, relates its classes to the parts of…
View BookImmanuel Kant's Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals seeks the supreme principle of morality in reason rather than experience or consequences. Beginning with good will and duty, Kant develops…
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…
View BookAristotle's Nicomachean Ethics examines the highest human good and the character required for a flourishing life. Across ten Books, it develops influential accounts of happiness, habituation, the moral virtues, the…
View BookEpicurus' Letter to Menoeceus offers a concise guide to happiness through philosophy. It challenges fear of divine punishment and death, distinguishes necessary desires from groundless ones, and explains pleasure as…
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