This is Kant's major work on moral philosophy in which he discusses the principles of rights and virtues...

This is Kant's major work on moral philosophy in which he discusses the principles of rights and virtues...

James Joyce is one of the most well-known writers of the twentieth century and was noted for his unconventional use of language. His first work, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, drawn from his own experience, tells the story of an Irish boy who eventually casts off his social, familial, and religious constraints to pursue his passion for writing. ..

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Published in 1790, The Science of Right discusses Kant's definitions of rights and how to apply them in civil society...

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The Knights is Aristophanes' comedy in which a sausage-seller is enlisted by a couple of terrorized slaves to overthrow their abusive, sycophant overseer, Paphlagonian, by winning the favor of their master, Demos ("the people"). The Knights, a prestigious order of citizens who act as the chorus, pledge their support to the sausage-seller, who beats the flatterer at his own game in a witty, sarcastic verbal contest. The character Paphlagonian is a satiric portrait of the powerful demagogue Cleon, who had brought charges against Aristophanes for having "slandered the city in the presence of foreigners" in The Acharnians. Because no actor would risk Cleon's retribution by performing Paphlagonian, and no mask-builder would construct the likeness of his face, Aristophanes himself is said to have played the character in face paint. The sausage-seller wins and Paphlagonian is sent from the house of Demos. The play was well received and won first prize in the festival of 424 B.C...

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Considered to be Kant's best work as well as one of the most important philosophical works ever written, The Critique of Pure Reason is his attempt to discover the limits of human reason and to bridge the gap between empiricism and rationalism. ..

The Critique of Practical Reason is the second critique by Immanuel Kant in which he argues that the categorical imperative is the only moral law...

In his third critique, Immanuel Kant attempts to find a priori principle for judgment. The first part of the critique discusses aesthetic sensibility while the second part addresses the teleology in nature's design of organisms...

The main character is taken from an Irish folk tale and the time is one of famine, and the peasants are selling their souls to demons for food. While the countess does all she can to relieve their hunger, her wealth is stolen by the demons and she, too, sells her soul to keep her life...

Aristotle's natural science inquiries formed the basis of European belief in the Earth's stationary position at the center of the universe. In Meteorology, he studies the natural phenomona of earth, air, water, and fire...

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When transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau moved to Walden Pond, he kept journals documenting his thoughts on ecology, government and the economy, modern civilization, and the natural world. These insights provide the foundation for Walden, which has for 150 years been a well-spoken mandate to live simply and live well...

Late in his career as professor, poet, and school inspector, Matthew Arnold was much occupied with literary criticism. In The Study of Poetry, Arnold argues for the endurance of good literature despite the trend toward the production of ?masses of a common sort of literature.? He insists that [c]urrency and supremacy are insured to it . . . by the instinct of self-preservation in humanity.? ..