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William 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 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,…
View BookA compact rationalist system in ninety propositions, Monadology explains reality through simple, non-spatial substances whose internal perceptions unfold in harmony. Leibniz distinguishes bare monads, animal souls and rational spirits, grounds…
View BookGeorge Berkeley's Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous defends immaterialism through a lively exchange between a materialist and a spokesman for Berkeley's philosophy. Across three Dialogues, sensible qualities are shown…
View BookRené Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy leads the reader through six stages of radical doubt and rational reconstruction. It develops the certainty of the thinking self, arguments for God's existence,…
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