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  • The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'my philosophy is like Thebes with a hundred gates: one can enter from all sides and through each gate arrive at the direct path to the centre' Schopenhauer's two essays On the Freedom of the Will and On the Basis of Morals form his complete system of ethics. Their doctrines, continuous with those in his major work The World as Will and Representation, are presented here in more accessible, self ... Read more

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  • Chronic Heart Failure

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Throughout the past decades, the understanding of the pathophysiology of chronic heart failure and the therapeutic approach to this condition have un dergone considerable change. New developments are reported every year. Perhaps it is because of this continuing interest of researchers and physi th cians that the chapter on chronic heart failure of the 4 edition of Klinische Kardiologie has been so ... Read more

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  • Cardiac Glycosides 1785–1985

    Biochemistry — Pharmacology — Clinical Relevance

    Edited by K. Greeff, J.C. Skou, E. Erdmann ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The bicentenary of William Withering's now famous medical report entitled "An Account of the Foxglove and Some of its Medical Uses" has given us the occasion to analyze the state of the art. Cardiac glycosides in 1985 are considered tobe the basis for medical treatment of myocardial failure, together with diuretics and vasodilators in the more severe cases. Nevertheless, the controversy as to ... Read more

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  • Essays and Aphorisms

    Translated by R. J. Hollingdale ...
    One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many other themes is taken from Schopenhauer's last work, Parerga and Paralipomena, which he ... Read more

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  • On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and on the Will in Nature - Two Essays

    Originally published in 1813, this early work by German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. Originally published as his doctoral dissertation and then later re-published, it outlines his cornerstone arguments on the subject of knowing. This fascinating work is highly recommended for anyone interested in 19th century philosophy and its ... Read more

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  • The Confessions

    Translated by Henry Chadwick ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    In this new translation the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine's colourful early life are conveyed to the English reader with accuracy and art. Augustine tells of his wrestlings to master his sexual drive, his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of high power at the imperial court of Milan, and his renunciation of secular ambition and marriage as ... Read more

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  • The Enneads

    Translated by Stephen MacKenna ...
    Regarded as the founder of Neo-Platonism, Plotinus (AD 204-70) was the last great philosopher of antiquity, producing 0works that proved in many ways a precursor to Renaissance thought. Plotinus was convinced of the existence of a state of supreme perfection and argued powerfully that it was necessary to guide the human soul towards this state. Here he outlines his compelling belief in three ... Read more

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  • Protagoras and Meno

    by Plato ...
    Translated by Adam Beresford ...
    Exploring the question of what exactly makes good people good, Protagoras and Meno are two of the most enjoyable and accessible of all of Plato's dialogues. Widely regarded as his finest dramatic work, the Protagoras, set during the golden age of Pericles, pits a youthful Socrates against the revered sophist Protagoras, whose brilliance and humanity make him one the most interesting and likeable ... Read more

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  • Early Socratic Dialogues

    Translated by Trevor Saunders ...
    Rich in drama and humour, they include the controversial Ion, a debate on poetic inspiration; Laches, in which Socrates seeks to define bravery; and Euthydemus, which considers the relationship between philosophy and politics. Together, these dialogues provide a definitive portrait of the real Socrates and raise issues still keenly debated by philosophers, forming an incisive overview of Plato's ... Read more

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  • The Basic Works of Aristotle

    by Aristotle ...
    Edited by Richard McKeon, with an introduction by C.D.C. ReevePreserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle’s works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion for nearly two thousand years. Richard McKeon’s The Basic Works of Aristotle—constituted out of the definitive Oxford translation and in print as a Random House hardcover for sixty years—has long ... Read more

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