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Author: W.E.B. Du Bois

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Year of Death: 1963

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Description wiki: is a 1903 work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology and a cornerstone of African-American literature. The book contains several essays on race, some of which had been published earlier in The Atlantic Monthly. To develop this work, Du Bois drew from his own experiences as an African American in American society. Outside of its notable relevance in African-American history, The Souls of Black Folk also holds an important place in social science as one of the early works in the field of sociology. In The Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois used the term “double consciousness”, perhaps taken from Ralph Waldo Emerson (“The Transcendentalist” and “Fate”), applying it to the idea that black people must have two fields of vision at all times. They must be conscious of how they view themselves, as well as being conscious of how the world views them.

Description Good Reads: Although the Civil War marked an end to slavery in the United States, it would take another fifty years to establish the countrys civil rights movement. Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois was among the first generation of African-American scholars to spearhead this movement towards equality. As cofounder of the NAACP, he sought to initiate equality through social change, and as a talented writer, he created books and essays that provide a revealing glimpse into the black experience of the times. In The Gift of Black Folk-one of Du Bois most important works-he recounts the remarkable history of African-Americans and their many unsung contributions to American society.

Description Penquin: When The Souls of Black Folk was first published in 1903, it had a galvanizing effect on the conversation about race in America and it remains both a touchstone in the literature of African America and a beacon in the fight for civil rights. Believing that one can know the soul of a race by knowing the souls of individuals, W. E. B. Du Bois combines history and stirring autobiography to reflect on the magnitude of American racism and to chart a path forward against oppression, and introduces the now-famous concepts of the color line, the veil, and double-consciousness. Penguin Vitae loosely translated as Penguin of one s life is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.

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Author: Julian Hawthorne

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Year of Death: 1934

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Description Good Reads: Mary Faust, a brilliant scientist, has developed a machine that can allow the conscious human soul to explore the cosmos! Her promising young assistant Miriam Mayne has accidentally transferred her consciousness to Saturn, where she falls under the enchantment of an evil sorcerer! Jack Paladin, her love, sets out after her on a thrilling celestial journey to the ringed planet! Swashbuckling adventure and high romance await in Julian Hawthornes The Cosmic Courtship!

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Additional Research: amazon – Love at first sight becomes love beyond the universe in Julian Hawthornes romantic The Cosmic Courtship in 1917. Argosy sees Jack Paladin, the nephew of the famous explorer. and his attempts to defeat the mighty Miriam Mayne, but when Miriam disappears, Jack sets out to find her. Even if that means smiling at Saturns enclosed world to draw her from the sorcerers intergalactic tyrant. The result is a strangely evocative blend of Christian romance and redemption that makes C. S. Lewis is known as Out of the Silent Planet, but where Lewis ransom tries desperately to prevent another collapse, Paladin and his Saturn allies try to salvage and restore the lost.

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Author: Bertrand Russell

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Year of Death: 1970

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Date Published: 1924

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Description wiki: is a theoretical engineering design study aimed at designing a credible, mainly nuclear fusion-based, unmanned interstellar space probe.[1] Project Icarus was an initiative of members of the British Interplanetary Society and the Tau Zero Foundation (TZF) started in 2009. The project was under the stewardship of Icarus Interstellar until 2019. It remains a BIS project. The project was planned to take around five years and began formally on September 30, 2009.[2] An international team of scientists and engineers was assembled and a number of papers were published on many aspects of Interstellar flight during the active phase of the project.[3]

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Additional Research: AMAZON) Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, essayist and social critic best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. Over the course of a long career, Russell also made important contributions to a broad range of other subjects, including ethics, politics, educational theory and religious studies. Generations of general readers have also benefited from his popular writings on a wide variety of topics in both the humanities and the natural sciences. In Icarus, Russell argues that modern science and technology under individualistic capitalist societies and in the hands of nationalistic forces are being perverted for the benefit of societal elites, serving to further dominate the masses and fueling the rivalrous passions that lead to Total War

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Author: Edith Nesbit

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Year of Death: 1924

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Description Good Reads: My name is Stumps, and my mistress is rather a nice little girl; but she has her faults, like most people. I myself, as it happens, am wonderfully free from faults. Among my mistresss faults is what I may call a lack of dignity, joined to a desire to make other people undignified too. You will hardly believe that, before I had belonged to her a month, she had made me learn to dance and to jump. I am a very respectable dachshund, of cobby build, and jumping is the very last exercise I should have taken to of my own accord. But when Miss Daisy said, “Now jump, Stumps; theres a darling ” and held out her little arms, I could not well refuse. For, after all, the child is my mistress. I never could understand why the cat was not taught to dance . . . Thats the start to “Tinker,” Nesbits first Doggy Tale. This volume includes “seven” tales about cats “Seven” of them — “Too Clever by Half,” “The White Persian,” “A Powerful Friend,” “A Silly Question,” “The Selfish Pussy,” “Meddlesome Pussy,” and “Nine Lives.” Besides “Tinker,” there are only “five” other tales about dogs, “Rats ,” “The Tables Turned,” “A Noble Dog,” “The Dyers Dog,” and “The Vain Setter.” No fair Were dog people, ourselves. Less cats More dogs

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Author: Louisa de la Ram , AKA uida

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Year of Death: 1908

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Description wiki: A Dog of Flanders is an 1872 novel by English author Marie Louise de la Ram e published with her pseudonym “Ouida”. It is about a Flemish boy named Nello and his dog, Patrasche, and is set in Antwerp. In Japan, Korea and the Philippines, the novel has been an extremely popular childrens classic for decades and has been adapted into several Japanese films and anime.[1] Since the 1980s, the Belgian board of tourism caught on to the phenomenon and built two monuments honoring the story to please East-Asian tourists. There is a small statue of Nello and Patrasche at the Kapelstraat in the Antwerp suburb of Hoboken, and a commemorative plaque in front of the Antwerp Cathedral donated by Toyota,[1] that was later replaced by a marble statue of the two characters covered by a cobblestone blanket, created by the artist Batist Vermeulen.

Description Good Reads: Marie Louise de la Ram e (1839-1908) wrote many popular novels of adventure and romance in the 1870s and 80s under the pen name of Ouida. She also produced a number of captivating stories for youngsters. One of the best, A Dog of Flanders,. First published in 1872, A Dog of Flanders tells the moving story of Nello, a gentle boy with aspirations of becoming a painter, and Patrasche his devoted Belgian work dog. The two, along with Nellos grandfather, live in a little village near Antwerp where Nellos idol, the artist Rubens, once worked. Nello and Patrasche suffer countless hardships poverty, hunger, cruelty, and rejection. But they persevere in the face of adversity, up to their tragic, bittersweet end. Rich in the sentiment of its Romantic tradition, yet convincing in its portrayal of both human and animal nature, this touching classic has tugged at the heartstrings of readers and listeners alike for generations. It remains one of the nineteenth centurys most imaginative and arresting works of fiction for children.

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Additional Research: amazon – Marie Louise de la Ram e (1839-1908) wrote many popular novels of adventure and romance in the 1870s and 80s under the pen name of Ouida, among them such well-known works as Under Two Flags and Held in Bondage. She also produced a number of captivating stories for youngsters. One of the best, A Dog of Flanders, is presented in this handsome edition complete, unabridged, and newly set in large, easy-to-read type with six original black-and-white illustrations by Harriet Golden. First published in 1872, A Dog of Flanders tells the moving story of Nello, a gentle boy with aspirations of becoming a painter, and Patrasche his devoted Belgian work dog. The two, along with Nellos grandfather, live in a little village near Antwerp where Nellos idol, the artist Rubens, once worked. Nello and Patrasche suffer countless hardships poverty, hunger, cruelty, and rejection. But they persevere in the face of adversity, up to their tragic, bittersweet end. Rich in the sentiment of its Romantic tradition, yet convincing in its portrayal of both human and animal nature, this touching classic has tugged at the heartstrings of readers and listeners alike for generations. It remains one of the nineteenth centurys most imaginative and arresting works of fiction for children.

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Author: A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding

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Year of Death: 1930

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Date Published: 1907

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Description wiki: A Book of Instruction for Trappers About These and Other Home-Made Traps is a 1907 book by A. R. Harding.

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Additional Research: amazon – A Book of Instruction for Trappers. Deadfalls and Snares by A. R. Harding gives a great start to anyone looking to start trapping. Providing great detail and clear instruction to setting, triggering and where to build traps. With Harding s knowledge of trapping even a lifetime trapper would find many useful items in this book.

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Author: William T. Hornaday

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Year of Death: 1937

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Description Good Reads: Excerpt from The Minds and Manners, of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observations: During these days of ceaseless conflict, anxiety and unrest among men, when at times it begins to look as if “the Caucasian” really is “played out,” perhaps the English-reading world will turn with a sigh of relief to the contemplation of wild animals. At all events, the author has found this diversion in his favorite field mentally agreeable and refreshing. In comparison with some of the alleged men who now are cursing this earth by their baneful presence, the so-called “lower animals” do not seem so very “low” after all! As a friend of the animals, this is a very proper time in which to compare them with men. Furthermore, if thinking men and women desire to know the leading facts concerning the intelligence of wild animals, it will be well to consider them now, before the bravest and the best of the wild creatures of the earth go down and out under the merciless and inexorable steam roller that we call Civilization. The intelligence and the ways of wild animals are large subjects. Concerning them I do not offer this volume as an all-in-all production. Out of the great mass of interesting things that might have been included, I have endeavored to select and set forth only enough to make a good series of sample exhibits, without involving the general reader in a hopelessly large collection of details. The most serious question has been: What shall be left out? Mr. A. R. Spofford, first Librarian of Congress, used to declare that “Books are made from books”; but I call the reader to bear witness that this volume is not a mass of quotations. A quoted authority often can be disputed, and for this reason the author has found considerable satisfaction in relying chiefly upon his own testimony.

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Additional Research: amazon – .. Many a mind misinterprets the thing seen, sometimes innocently, and again wantonly. The nature fakir is always on the alert to see wonderful phenomena in wild life, about which to write; and by preference he places the most strained and marvellous interpretation upon the animal act. Beware of the man who always sees marvellous things in animals, for he is a dangerous guide. There is one man who claims to have seen in his few days in the woods more wonders than all the older American naturalists and sportsmen have seen added together …

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Author: Katherine Mansfield

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Description Good Reads: Written during the final stages of her illness, “The Garden Party and Other Stories” is full of a sense of urgency and was Katherine Mansfields last collection to be published during her lifetime. The fifteen stories featured, many of them set in her native New Zealand, vary in length and tone from the opening story, “At the Bay, ” a vivid impressionistic evocation of family life, to the short, sharp sketch “Mrs. Brill, ” in which a lonely womans precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed when she overhears two young lovers mocking her. Sensitive revelations of human behaviour, these stories reveal Mansfields supreme talent as an innovator who freed the story from its conventions and gave it a new strength and prestige.

Description Penquin: An afternoon at the Sheridan s garden party will be perfect. Darling Laura is doing a marvelous job negotiating with the band, workmen, cook, and florist who appears with an unexpected delivery, all without her mother s help. But, distressing news reaches the house just before lunch. A young man from one of the sordid little cottages down the lane was killed in an accident, and suddenly Laura can t imagine proceeding with the party. From Katherine Mansfield, one of the most talented and pioneering masters of the short story in English, of whom Virginia Woolf once wrote: I was jealous of her writing the only writing I have ever been jealous of, The Garden Party is an exquisite paragon of the form.

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Author: Katherine Mansfield

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Description Good Reads: A collection of short stories by Katherine Mansfield, widely recognized as one of the greatest writers of her period, that capture with accuracy those emotionally-charged moments when an individual is most revealing.

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Additional Research: Originally published in 1920, Bliss and Other Stories, is an iconic collection of Katherine Mansfields masterful narratives that include “The Man Without a Temperament.” This captivating work embodies the authors signature style and unmistakable tone. Bliss and Other Stories consists of fourteen anecdotes written during the early 1900s. It features “Mr. Reginald Peacocks Day,” which follows a disgruntled husband who harshly criticizes his wife, and “The Wind Blows,” a surprising tale about a girls revelation surrounding a memory from her childhood. “Pictures” centers a downtrodden woman on the brink of poverty, while “The Little Governess” follows a na ve young woman as she travels from France to Munich. In Bliss and Other Stories Mansfield is able to find the spectacular in the ordinary. No matter the circumstance, the characters are faced with subtle but shocking realizations. Whether its family or friendship, human connection plays a pivotal role. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Bliss and Other Stories is both modern and readable.

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Author: James Cook

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Description Good Reads: Captain James Cook, FRS, RN was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager and joined the Royal Navy in 1755. He saw action in the Seven Years War, and subsequently surveyed and mapped much of the entrance to the Saint Lawrence River during the siege of Quebec. This helped bring Cook to the attention of the Admiralty and Royal Society. This notice came at a crucial moment in both Cooks career and the direction of British overseas exploration, and led to his commission in 1766 as commander of HM Bark Endeavour for the first of three Pacific voyages.

Description Penquin: John Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from the Antarctic circle to the Arctic Sea, Cook charted Australia and the whole coast of New Zealand, and brought back detailed descriptions of the natural history of the Pacific. Accounts based on Cook s journals were issued at the time, but it was not until this century that the original journals were published in Beaglehole s definitive edition. His journals tell the story of these voyages as Cook wanted it to be told, radiating the ambition, courage and skill which enabled him to carry out an unrivalled series of expeditions in dangerous waters.

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Author: Hume, David

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Description wiki: A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects (1739 40) is a book by Scottish philosopher David Hume, considered by many to be Humes most important work and one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy.[1] The Treatise is a classic statement of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. In the introduction Hume presents the idea of placing all science and philosophy on a novel foundation: namely, an empirical investigation into human nature. Impressed by Isaac Newtons achievements in the physical sciences, Hume sought to introduce the same experimental method of reasoning into the study of human psychology, with the aim of discovering the “extent and force of human understanding”. Against the philosophical rationalists, Hume argues that the passions, rather than reason, cause human behaviour. He introduces the famous problem of induction, arguing that inductive reasoning and our beliefs regarding cause and effect cannot be justified by reason; instead, our faith in induction and causation is caused by mental habit and custom. Hume defends a sentimentalist account of morality, arguing that ethics is based on sentiment and the passions rather than reason, and famously declaring that “reason is, and ought only to be the slave to the passions”. Hume also offers a skeptical theory of personal identity and a compatibilist account of free will.

Description Good Reads: A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), David Humes comprehensive attempt to base philosophy on a new, observationally grounded study of human nature, is one of the most important texts in Western philosophy. It is also the focal point of current attempts to understand 18th-century philosophy. The Treatise first explains how we form such concepts as cause and effect, external existence, and personal identity, and to form compelling but unconfirmable beliefs in the entities represented by these concepts. It then offers a novel account of the passions, explains freedom and necessity as they apply to human choices and actions, and concludes with detailed explanations of how we distinguish between virtue and vice and of the different kinds of virtue. Humes Abstract of the Treatise, also included in the volume, outlines his chief argument regarding our conception of, and belief in, cause and effect. The texts printed in this volume are those of the critical edition of Humes philosophical works now being published by the Clarendon Press. The volume includes a substantial introduction explaining the aims of the Treatise as a whole and of each of its ten parts, extensive annotations, a glossary of terms, a comprehensive index, and suggestions for further reading.

Description Penquin: One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume s Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of English empiricism, it is a comprehensive attempt to apply scientific methods of observation to a study of human nature, and a vigorous attack upon the principles of traditional metaphysical thought. With masterly eloquence, Hume denies the immortality of the soul and the reality of space; considers the manner in which we form concepts of identity, cause and effect; and speculates upon the nature of freedom, virtue and emotion. Opposed both to metaphysics and to rationalism, Hume s philosophy of informed scepticism sees man not as a religious creation, nor as a machine, but as a creature dominated by sentiment, passion and appetite.

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Year of Death: 1776

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Description wiki: is a book by Scottish enlightenment philosopher David Hume. In it, Hume argues (among other things) that the foundations of morals lie with sentiment, not reason. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals is the enquiry subsequent to the Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (EHU). Thus, it is often referred to as “the second Enquiry”. It was originally published in 1751, three years after the first Enquiry.[1] Hume first discusses ethics in A Treatise of Human Nature (in Book 3 – “Of Morals”). He later extracted and expounded upon the ideas he proposed there in his second Enquiry. In his short autobiographical work, My Own Life (1776), Hume states that his second Enquiry is “of all my writings, historical, philosophical, or literary, incomparably the best.

Description Good Reads: A splendid edition. Schneewinds illuminating introduction succinctly situates the Enquiry in its historical context, clarifying its relationship to Calvinism, to Newtonian science, and to earlier moral philosophers, and providing a persuasive account of Humes ethical naturalism. –Martha C. Nussbaum, Brown University

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Year of Death: 1776

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Description wiki: work by the Scottish philosopher David Hume, first published in 1779. Through dialogue, three philosophers named Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes debate the nature of Gods existence. Whether or not these names reference specific philosophers, ancient or otherwise, remains a topic of scholarly dispute. While all three agree that a god exists, they differ sharply in opinion on Gods nature or attributes and how, or if, humankind can come to knowledge of a deity. In the Dialogues, Humes characters debate a number of arguments for the existence of God, and arguments whose proponents believe through which we may come to know the nature of God. Such topics debated include the argument from design for which Hume uses a house and whether there is more suffering or good in the world (argument from evil). Hume started writing the Dialogues in 1750 but did not complete them until 1776, shortly before his death. They are based partly on Ciceros De Natura Deorum. The Dialogues were published posthumously in 1779, originally with neither the authors nor the publishers name.[1] In The Blind Watchmaker (1986), evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins discussed his choice to title his book after theologian William Paleys famous statement of the teleological argument, the watchmaker analogy, and noted that Humes critique of the argument from design as an explanation of design in nature was the initial criticism that would ultimately be answered by Charles Darwin in On the Origin of Species (1859).[2] In the second part of the Dialogues (1779), the character Philo observes that animal reproduction appears to be more responsible for the intricacies and order of animal bodies rather than intelligent design, stating: But were we ever so much assured, that a thought and reason, resembling the human, were to be found throughout the whole universe, and were its activity elsewhere vastly greater and more commanding than it appears in this globe; yet I cannot see, why the operations of a world constituted, arranged, adjusted, can with any propriety be extended to a world which is in its embryo state, and is advancing towards that constitution and arrangement. By observation, we know somewhat of the economy, action, and nourishment of a finished animal; but we must transfer with great caution that observation to the growth of a foetus in the womb, and still more to the formation of an animalcule in the loins of its male parent. Nature, we find, even from our limited experience, possesses an infinite number of springs and principles, which incessantly discover themselves on

Description Good Reads: Humes brilliant and dispassionate essay “Of Miracles” has been added in this expanded edition of his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, which also includes “Of the Immortality of the Soul”, “Of Suicide”, and Richard Popkins illuminating Introduction

Description Penquin: In the posthumously published Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, the Enlightenment philosopher David Hume attacked many of the traditional arguments for the existence of God, expressing the belief that religion is founded on ignorance and irrational fears. Though calm and courteous in tone at times even tactfully ambiguous the conversations between Hume s vividly realized fictional figures form perhaps the most searching case ever mounted against orthodox Christian theological thinking and the deism of the time, which pointed to the wonders of creation as conclusive evidence of God s Design. Hume s characters debate these issues with extraordinary passion, lucidity and humour, in one of the most compelling philosophical works ever written. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Description wiki: 7 May 1711 NS (26 April 1711 OS) 25 August 1776)[10] was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian[11] and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism.[1] Beginning with A Treatise of Human Nature (1739 40), Hume strove to create a naturalistic science of man that examined the psychological basis of human nature. Hume argued against the existence of innate ideas, positing that all human knowledge derives solely from experience. This places him with Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and George Berkeley as a British Empiricist.[12] Hume argued that inductive reasoning and belief in causality cannot be justified rationally; instead, they result from custom and mental habit. We never actually perceive that one event causes another but only experience the “constant conjunction” of events. This problem of induction means that to draw any causal inferences from past experience, it is necessary to presuppose that the future will resemble the past, a presupposition which cannot itself be grounded in prior experience.[13] An opponent of philosophical rationalists, Hume held that passions rather than reason govern human behaviour, famously proclaiming that “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.”[12][14] Hume was also a sentimentalist who held that ethics are based on emotion or sentiment rather than abstract moral principle. He maintained an early commitment to naturalistic explanations of moral phenomena and is usually taken to have first clearly expounded the is ought problem, or the idea that a statement of fact alone can never give rise to a normative conclusion of what ought to be done.[15] Hume also denied that humans have an actual conception of the self, positing that we experience only a bundle of sensations, and that the self is nothing more than this bundle of causally-connected perceptions. Humes compatibilist theory of free will takes causal determinism as fully compatible with human freedom.[16] His views on philosophy of religion, including his rejection of miracles and the argument from design for Gods existence, were especially controversial for their time.

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Description Penquin: David Hume was born in Edinburgh in 1711, and by his death in 1776 had become one of Britain s greatest men of letters, equal in stature to Voltaire and Rousseau and described by Boswell as the greatest Writer in Brittain . As well as his Essays, which were republished and expanded throughout his life, he wrote A Treatise of Human Nature (later recast as Enquiries concerning Human Understanding and concerning the Principles of Morals) and a History of Britain.

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Description wiki: emocracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education is a 1916 book by John Dewey

Description Good Reads: In this book, written in 1916, Dewey tries to criticize and expand on the educational philosophies of Rousseau and Plato. Deweys ideas were seldom adopted in Americas public schools, although a number of his prescriptions have been continually advocated by those who have had to teach in them

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Additional Research: AMAZON) A new edition of philosopher and education reformer John Deweys classic treatise on progressive education, Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education, originally published in 1916. John Dewey (1859 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist and education reformer, among the most influential thinkers in the area of education and social reform during the first half of the twentieth century and leading figures in the pragmatic or instrumentalist intellectual movements. The recurring theme of Dewey s work is democratization, not just in politics but in education and other social institutions. Dewey believed bringing democracy to education to be the principal means of creating a more democratic country, with a better informed and more intelligent citizenry that is capable of holding officeholders accountable. While Dewey s theories of education were not fully integrated into many schools, they were immensely influential on progressive political thinkers and policymakers across the world in the 20th century and remain widely read and studied to do this day.

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Additional Research: AMAZON) The 18th century German philosopher Immanuel Kant is widely considered as one the most important figures in modern philosophy. His fundamental arguments with regard to the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, and aesthetics, have been highly influential and form the basis for much of contemporary thought upon the subjects with which he was concerned. Kant believed that there were fundamental concepts that structured human experience, and that reason principally should guide one s examination of these concepts. Considered one of Kant s most important works, The Critique of Pure Reason is an exposition on humanity s faculty for reason in general. First published in 1781, this work builds upon the works of Kant s philosophical predecessors, notably the work of empiricists like John Locke and David Hume and of rationalists like Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Among the principal contributions to philosophy forwarded in this work is the idea that knowledge is both a product of experience, or a posteriori and independent of it, or a priori . Additionally Kant argues that judgments may be analytical , that they are contained within their own premise, or synthetic , that they contribute something external to themselves. An enduringly influential work, The Critique of Pure Reason remains to this day as one of the most important works of Western philosophy. This edition is follows the translation of J. M. D. Meiklejohn and includes a biographical afterword.

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Description wiki: This article is about the treatise by Aristotle. For the theory of literary forms and discourse, see Poetics. For other uses, see Poetics (disambiguation). Part of a series on the Corpus Aristotelicum “Aristoteles” (1811) by Francesco Hayez (1791 1882) Logic (Organon) CategoriesOn Interpretation Prior AnalyticsPosterior Analytics TopicsSophistical Refutations Natural philosophy (physics) PhysicsOn the HeavensOn Generation and CorruptionMeteorologyOn the Universe*On the SoulSense and SensibiliaOn MemoryOn SleepOn DreamsOn Divination in SleepOn Length and Shortness of LifeOn Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and RespirationOn Breath*History of AnimalsParts of AnimalsMovement of AnimalsProgression of AnimalsGeneration of AnimalsOn Colors*On Things Heard*Physiognomonics*On Plants*On Marvellous Things Heard*Mechanics Problems On Indivisible Lines*The Situations and Names of Winds*On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias* Metaphysics Metaphysics EthicsPolitics Nicomachean EthicsMagna Moralia Eudemian EthicsOn Virtues and Vices*PoliticsEconomics Constitution of the Athenians Fragments Fragments Other links AristotleAristotelianism [*]: Generally agreed to be spurious [ ]: Authenticity disputed vte Aristotles Poetics (Greek: ???? ????????? Peri poietik s; Latin: De Poetica;[1] c. 335 BC[2]) is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.[3] In this text Aristotle offers an account of ????????, which refers to poetry or more literally “the poetic art,” deriving from the term for “poet; author; maker,” ???????. Aristotle divides the art of poetry into verse drama (to include comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play), lyric poetry, and epic. The genres all share the function of mimesis, or imitation of life, but differ in three ways that Aristotle describes: Differences in music rhythm, harmony, meter and melody. Difference of goodness in the characters. Difference in how the narrative is presented: telling a story or acting it out. The Poetics is primarily concerned with drama, and the analysis of tragedy constitutes the core of the discussion.[4] Although the text is universally acknowledged in the Western critical tradition, “almost every detail about [t]his seminal work has aroused divergent opinions”.[5] Among scholarly debates on the Poetics, the three most prominent have concerned the meanings of catharsis and hamartia (these being the best known), and the question why Aristotle appears to contradict himself between chapters 13 and 14.[6][7]

Description Good Reads: In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently painful process. Taking examples from the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, The Poetics introduces into literary criticism such central concepts as mimesis ( imitation ), hamartia ( error ), and katharsis ( purification ). Aristotle explains how the most effective tragedies rely on complication and resolution, recognition and reversals, centring on characters of heroic stature, idealized yet true to life. One of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history, the Poetics has informed serious thinking about drama ever since. Malcolm Heath s lucid English translation makes the Poetics fully accessible to the modern reader. It is accompanied by an extended introduction, which discusses the key concepts in detail and includes suggestions for further reading.

Description Penquin: In the Poetics, his near-contemporary account of classical Greek tragedy, Aristotle examine the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently painful process. Taking examples from the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, the Poetics introduced into literary criticism such central concepts as mimesis ( imitation ), hamartia ( error ) and katharsis, which have informed serious thinking about drama ever since. Aristotle explains how the most effective tragedies rely on complication and resolution, recognition and reversals, while centring on chaaracerts of heroic stature, idealised yet true to life. One of the most perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history, the Poetics has informed serious thinking about drama ever since. Malcolm Heath s lucid translation makes the Poetics fully accessible to the modern reader. In this edition it is accompanied by an extended introduction, which discusses the key concepts in detail, and includes suggestions for further reading. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Description wiki: (Greek ?????????? Kat?goriai; Latin Categoriae or Praedicamenta) is a text from Aristotles Organon that enumerates all the possible kinds of things that can be the subject or the predicate of a proposition. They are “perhaps the single most heavily discussed of all Aristotelian notions”.[1] The work is brief enough to be divided, not into books as is usual with Aristotles works, but into fifteen chapters. The Categories places every object of human apprehension under one of ten categories (known to medieval writers as the Latin term praedicamenta). Aristotle intended them to enumerate everything that can be expressed without composition or structure, thus anything that can be either the subject or the predicate of a proposition.

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Additional Research: AMAZON) On the Art of Poetry By Aristotle Translated By Ingram Bywater Student Edition In the tenth book of the Republic, when Plato has completed his final burning denunciation of Poetry, the false Siren, the imitator of things which themselves are shadows, the ally of all that is low and weak in the soul against that which is high and strong, who makes us feed the things we ought to starve and serve the things we ought to rule, he ends with a touch of compunction: We will give her champions, not poets themselves but poet-lovers, an opportunity to make her defence in plain prose and show that she is not only sweet as we well know but also helpful to society and the life of man, and we will listen in a kindly spirit. For we shall be gainers, I take it, if this can be proved. Aristotle certainly knew the passage, and it looks as if his treatise on poetry was an answer to Platos challenge. Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading. They nearly all need study and comment, and at times help from a good teacher, before they yield up their secret. And the Poetics cannot be accounted an exception. For one thing the treatise is fragmentary. It originally consisted of two books, one dealing with Tragedy and Epic, the other with Comedy and other subjects. We possess only the first. For another, even the book we have seems to be unrevised and unfinished. The style, though luminous, vivid, and in its broader division systematic, is not that of a book intended for publication. Like most of Aristotles extant writing, it suggests the MS. of an experienced lecturer, full of jottings and adscripts, with occasional phrases written carefully out, but never revised as a whole for the general reader. Even to accomplished scholars the meaning is often obscure, as may be seen by a comparison of the three editions recently published in England, all the work of savants of the first eminence, (1) or, still more strikingly, by a study of the long series of misunderstandings and overstatements and corrections which form the history of the Poetics since the Renaissance.

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Description Good Reads: Oscar Wildes audacious drama of social scandal centres around the revelation of Mrs Arbuthnots long-concealed secret. A house party is in full swing at Lady Hunstantons country home, when it is announced that Gerald Arbuthnot has been appointed secretary to the sophisticated, witty Lord Illingworth. Geralds mother stands in the way of his appointment, but fears to tell him why, for who will believe Lord Illingworth to be a man of no importance?

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Additional Research: The classic satirical play about England s upper class from a master dramatist. Centering on a long-concealed secret, A Woman of No Importance, like many of Oscar Wilde s plays, satirizes England s upper class. A house party is in full swing at Lady Hunstanton s country home, when it is announced that Gerald Arbuthnot has been appointed secretary to the sophisticated, witty Lord Illingworth. Only Gerald s mother stands in the way of his appointment, but she fears telling him why, for who will believe Lord Illingworth to be a man of no importance? A classic takedown of the British upper class, A Woman of No Importance remains just as relevant today as when it first graced the stages of London.

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