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Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B.F. Skinner
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Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
In this profound and profoundly controversial work, a landmark of 20th-century thought originally published in 1971, B F Skinner makes his definitive statement about humankind and society. The book urges us to re-examine the ideals we have taken for granted and to consider the possibility of a radically ...Show more
Essential Galileo by Galileo
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Category: Science | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
Spanning Galileo's entire career, this new collection presents an annotated translation of Galileo's most important writings as judged by their historical impact from the seventeenth century to the present. It thus presents not only those writings that bear most closely on key developments in physics, a ...Show more
Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo by Plató; G. M. A. Grube (Translator); John M. Cooper (Revised by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
The second edition of Five Dialogues presents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for Plato, Complete Works. A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with an updated bibliography.
GROUNDING FOR THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS by Immanuel Kant; James W. Ellington (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
This expanded edition of James Ellington's preeminent translation includes Ellington's new translation of Kant's essay Of a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns in which Kant replies to one of the standard objections to his moral theory as presented in the main text: that it requires ...Show more
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes; Edwin M. Curley (Editor)
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Category: Politics | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
Designed to meet the needs of both student and scholar, this edition of Leviathan offers a brilliant introduction by Edwin Curley, modernized spelling and punctuation of the text, and the inclusion, along with historical and interpretive notes, of the most significant variants between the English versio ...Show more
Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes; Donald A. Cress (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Hackett Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Meditations on First Philosophy is a philosophical treatise by René Descartes.
ODYSSEY by Homer; Stanley Lombardo (Translator); Sheila Murnaghan (Introduction by)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
"Wilson's language is fresh, unpretentious, and lean. Even knowing the text well, I found myself rapt. Her worthy goal is always to engage readers, inviting them more deeply into the story. In this she succeeds with the skill of an ancient bard."--MADELINE MILLER, author of Circe
OEDIPUS TYRANNUS by Sophocles; Peter Meineck (Introduction by, Translator, Notes by); Paul Woodruff (Translator)
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
"Passages from Ancient Authors" includes selections from Homer's Odyssey, Thucydides' account of the plague, and Euripedes' Phoenissae.The best of ancient and modern criticism is represented, encouraging discussion from psychological, religious, anthropological, dramatic, and literary perspectives.Under ...Show more
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill; Elizabeth Rapaport (Editor, Introduction by)
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Category: Politics | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
On Libertyby John Stuart MillOn Liberty is a philosophical work by 19th century English philosopher John Stuart Mill, first published in 1859. To the Victorian readers of the time it was a radical work, advocating moral and economic freedom of individuals from the state.
Republic by Plato
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Category: No Category | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
Since its publication in 1974, scholars throughout the humanities have adopted G M A Grube's masterful translation of the Republic as the edition of choice for their study and teaching of Plato's most influential work. In this brilliant revision, C D C Reeve furthers Grube's success both in preserving t ...Show more
Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
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Category: Politics | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
The Second Treatise is one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the most far-reaching in its influence. In his provocative 15-page introduction to this edition, the late eminent political theorist C. B. Macpherson examines Locke's arguments for limited, conditional govern ...Show more
The Handbook of Epictetus by Epictetus
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Category: No Category | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
From the Introduction: "Stoic philosophy, of which Epictetus (c. a.d. 50-130) is a representative, began as a recognizable movement around 300 b.c. Its founder was Zeno of Cytium (not to be confused with Zeno of Elea, who discovered the famous paradoxes). He was born in Cyprus about 336 b.c., but all o ...Show more