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Thomas More

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Prin intermediul experiențelor vieții mele, vreau să îți arăt că și tu poți, cititorule, oricât ar fi de greu.Nu există scuze, nu există vinovați, totul ține doar de tine – și punct!Iubesc oamenii, iubesc România și cel mai mult îl iubesc pe Dumnezeu. Stabilește-ți o prioritate și trage cu toată ființa ta să o atingi, dar fă-o curat, fără să-i faci pe alți oameni să sufere; va fi greu, vei plânge, ... Read more

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'If you put me to death,' Socrates warned his Athenian judges, 'you will not easily find anyone to take my place.' So indeed it would prove, a single cup of hemlock robbing the western philosophical tradition of the man with best claims to be its founding father.Yet Socrates' influence was not so easily to be done away with. His words lovingly recorded by his devoted disciple Plato, his doctrines ... Read more

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For some people philosophy is everything. For others it's nothing. It's a subject that solves problems, causes arguments and even brings war. But what is philosophy, and who are the famous men and women who have changed our world with their ideas?In this eBook, you will find simple biographies and basic explanations of the ideas of twenty of the most important western philosophers. It can be read ... Read more

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Plato of Athens

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The first ever biography of the founder of Western philosophy Considered by many to be the most important philosopher ever, Plato was born into a well-to-do family in wartime Athens at the end of the fifth century BCE. In his teens, he honed his intellect by attending lectures from the many thinkers who passed through Athens and toyed with the idea of writing poetry. He finally decided to go into ... Read more

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The first ever biography of the founder of Western philosophy Considered by many to be the most important philosopher ever, Plato was born into a well-to-do family in wartime Athens at the end of the fifth century BCE. In his teens, he honed his intellect by attending lectures from the many thinkers who passed through Athens and toyed with the idea of writing poetry. He finally decided to go into
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What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd, perhaps including some who had seen Macbeth forty-four years earlier, could stand and watch the execution of a king? Or consider the difference between a magus
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This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. Kaufmann rehabilitated Nietzsche nearly single-handedly, presenting his works as one of the great achievements of ... Read more

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This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. Kaufmann rehabilitated Nietzsche nearly single-handedly, presenting his works as one of the great achievements of
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THE REPUBLIC

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Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life

A Nineteenth-Century Life

by Jonathan Sperber ...

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Karl Marx is a magisterial and defining biography that vividly explores not only the man himself but also the revolutionary times in which he lived.Between his birth in 1818 and his death sixty-five years later, Karl Marx became one of Western civilization’s most influential political philosophers. Two centuries on, he is still revered as a prophet of the modern world, yet he is also blamed for
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The Great Philosophers:Heidegger

by Jonathan Rée ...

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'The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking' Heidegger'We should never allow our fears of the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny'Martin Heidegger was one of the most controversial philosophers of the 20th century, and still causes widespread division. Born in Germany, he was concerned with what makes beings intelligible
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The Complete Works of Plato

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by Plato, Bauer Books ...

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The Complete Works of PlatoAll books translated by Benjamin JowettPart 1: Early DialoguesThe ApologyCritoCharmidesLachesLysisEuthyphroMenexenusIonGorgiasProtagorasMenoPart 2: Middle DialoguesEuthydemusCratylusPhaedoPhaedrusThe Symposium<l... ... Read more

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These stories are evidently, all together, a Book of Alchemy that I hope is also a bit amusing: a new way to teach, perhaps, in life. In the manifestation of natural powers, in the excesses during their use during the formation and growth of everyone, many forces, subtle and not, show up suddenly and equally quickly disappear, in order to be replaced by other experiences still. The extraordinary
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