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In '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 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 foundational collection of sayings and conversations associated with Confucius, The Analects examines character, learning, family relationships, ritual and ethical government. In James Legge's historic translation, its twenty Books present…
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 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 BookJean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract asks how political authority can be legitimate while citizens remain free. Rousseau develops the social pact, popular sovereignty, the general will, law, government and civil…
View BookJohn Locke's Second Treatise of Government develops a theory of legitimate political power grounded in natural equality, rights and consent. Beginning with the state of nature, Locke examines property, family,…
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