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Everyman's library. Theology and philosophy volume no. 636
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English
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A highly influential figure in the Church of England, John Henry Newman stunned the Anglican community in 1843, when he left his position as vicar of St. Mary's, Oxford, to join the Roman Catholic church. Perhaps no one took greater offense than Protestant clergyman Charles Kingsley, whose scathing attacks against Newman's faith and honor inspired this brilliant response. Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Newman's spiritual autobiography, explores the depths...
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Everyman's library. Theology and philosophy volume no. 483
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Dutton
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[1910]
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English
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Everyman's library. Theology and philosophy volume no. 547
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English
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Nicomachean Ethics focuses on the importance of habitually behaving virtuously and developing a virtuous character. Aristotle emphasized the importance of context to ethical behavior, and the ability of the virtuous person to recognize the best course of action. Aristotle argued that happiness and well being is the goal of life, and that a person's pursuit of such, rightly conceived, will result in virtuous conduct. "EVERY art and every inquiry, and...
5) Leviathan
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The renowned work by the English political philosopher examines the structure of society and legitimate government, arguing for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign.
""During the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called Warre." Written during the turmoil of the English Civil War, Leviathan is an ambitious and highly original work of political philosophy. Claiming that...
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The Anatomy of Melancholy is one of the most remarkable books ever written. First published in 1621, and hardly ever out of print since, it is a huge, varied, idiosyncratic, entertaining and learned survey of the experience of melancholy, seen from just about every possible angle that could be imagined. Its subtitle explains much: The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of It....
7) Pensées
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Everyman's library. Theology and philosophy volume no. 874
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English
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"Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Pensees is a collection of philosophical fragments, notes and essays in which he explores the contradictions of human nature in psychological, social, metaphysical and, above all, theological terms. Mankind emerges from Pascal's analysis...
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Everyman's library. Theology and philosophy volume no. 905
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J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd
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[1934]
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English
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Everyman's library. Theology and philosophy volume 461
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Dutton
Pub. Date
1951
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English
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Everyman's library. Theology and philosophy volume 92A
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Dutton
Pub. Date
1951
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English
14) The Koran
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Everyman's library. Theology and philosophy volume 380
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J.M. Dent
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English
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Everyman's library. Theology and philosophy volume no. 481
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Dutton
Pub. Date
1959
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English
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Everyman's library. Theology and philosophy volume no. 874
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Dutton
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[©1960]
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English
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