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Kant’s ‘What Is Enlightenment?’: Dare to Know
In December 1783, a Berlin clergyman named Johann Friedrich Zöllner published an essay arguing that couples should be married in church, and dropped into…
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The Communist Manifesto: Reading Marx Without the Caricature
Few documents have been more thoroughly read about and less thoroughly read than the Manifesto of the Communist Party, the slim pamphlet Karl Marx and…
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Thoreau’s Walden: The Case for Living Deliberately
On the Fourth of July, 1845 — Independence Day, and Thoreau chose the date on purpose — a Harvard-educated handyman and sometime schoolteacher moved into…
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Plato’s Symposium: What the Greeks Knew About Love
Philosophy does not begin in the classroom. In Plato’s hands it erupts in a lateral space, between goblets and speeches, between the drunkenness of bodies…
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Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations: Stoicism for a Chaotic World
The book we call the Meditations has no title. Marcus Aurelius gave it none, because he never imagined anyone would read it. The Greek heading that has…