Liberty & Dignity, Philosophy
Featured Work Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle Rubricated Manuscript on Paper in Latin. This volume is a translation of Leonardo Bruni transcribed by an unrecorded scribe, Guillaume-Henri, citizen of Embrun at Carpentras in France. The work is presumed to be dedicated...
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Featured Work The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall by Francis Bacon Second Edition of the complete essays of Bacon, his most popular and important literary work. First published in 1625, it contains 58 essays on a variety of subjects. The work “provides...
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Featured Work Discourse of Free-Thinking by Anthony Collins English philosopher and proponent of deism. His writings gather together the results of previous English Freethinkers. The imperturbable courtesy of his style is in striking contrast to the violence of his...
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Featured Work Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume First Edition. David Hume’s “Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding” was first published in 1748. In 1758, the work became known as “An Enquiry...
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Featured Work Fables by Aesop First Edition. Sir Roger L’Estrange’s version of the “Fables of Aesop” was printed in 1692. It is a collection of fables attributed to Aesop, who is believed to be a Greek slave and storyteller that lived between 620 and 564 BC....
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Featured Work The Common-wealth of Oceana by James Harrington First Edition. James Harrington’s great Utopian political treatise, “The Common-Wealth of Oceana,” was published in 1656. “Oceana” was published in two first editions for Daniel Pakeman and Livewell Chapman...