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Free Download Max Scheler, "Cognition and Work: A Study concerning the Value and Limits of the Pragmatic Motifs in the Cognition of the World "
English | ISBN: 0810142708 | 2021 | 256 pages | EPUB | 459 KB
Max Scheler’s Cognition and Work (Erkenntnis und Arbeit) first appeared in German in 1926, just two years before his death. The first part of the book offers one of the earliest critical analyses of American pragmatism, an analysis that would come to have a significant impact on the reception of pragmatism in Germany and western Europe. The second part of the work contains Scheler’s phenomenological account of perception and the experience of reality, an account that is as original as both Husserl’s and Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenologies of perception. Scheler aims to show that the modern mechanistic view of nature fails to account for the dynamic relation that not only the human being but all living beings have to the environment they inhabit.

Free Download Concerning the Future of Souls by Joy Williams
English | July 2, 2024 | ISBN: 1959030590 | True EPUB | 176 pages | 1.5 MB
"Quite possibly America’s best living writer of short stories."―NPR

Free Download An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals and Other Works (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYVN6KTQ | 2024 | 6 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 346 MB
Author: David Hume
Narrator: Jonathan Keeble
In his autobiography, David Hume declared unequivocally that this work, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751) is "of all my writings, historical, philosophical, or literary, incomparably the best." In it, Hume takes the discussion away from traditional attitudes where either rational or metaphysical issues govern moral principles. Instead, he introduces the human factor, introducing the sentiments and passions inherent in human psychology. Hume’s "An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals" stands as a testament to his profound insight into the complexities of human nature and morality.

Free Download Berkeley’s A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge: An Introduction by P. J. E. Kail
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0521173116 | 200 Pages | PDF | 1.6 MB
George Berkeley’s Principles of Human Knowledge is a crucial text in the history of empiricism and in the history of philosophy more generally.

Free Download New Science: Principles of the New Science Concerning the Common Nature of Nations (Penguin Classics) by Giambattista Vico, translated by David Marsh
English | January 1, 2000 | ISBN: 0140435697 | True EPUB | 560 pages | 0.9 MB
Barely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is an astonishingly perceptive and ambitious attempt to decipher the history, mythology and laws of the ancient world. Discarding the Renaissance notion of the classical as an idealised model for the modern, it argues that the key to true understanding of the past lies in accepting that the customs and emotional lives of ancient Greeks and Romans, Egyptians, Jews and Babylonians were radically different from our own.

Free Download Kenneth Williford, "Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion"
English | ISBN: 1138087076 | 2023 | 444 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1283 KB + 13 MB
David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical and literary classic of the highest order. It is also an extremely relevant work because of its engagement with issues as alive today as in Hume’s time: the Design Argument for a deity, the Problem of Evil, the dangers of superstition and fanaticism, the psychological roots and social consequences of religion.

Free Download William Godwin, "Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness"
English | 2012 | pages: 246 | ISBN: 1290639515 | EPUB | 1,0 mb
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice established William Godwin as the chief exponent of British radicalism, in the tradition of the French Revolution. In it, he criticizes the ‘brute engine’ of government for systematizing oppression of individual liberty in the name of law and order, and calls for the abolition of all forms of rule and for the institution of an anarchist society based on the principles of simplicity, sincerity and equality. His book influenced everyone from Shelley and Coleridge (who revered him) to Thomas Malthus (who wrote his Essay on the Principle of Population in outraged response to him). The book’s ideas would later echo through the writings of thinkers as diverse as Proudhon, Kropotkin, Marx and Thoreau, and it remains one of the great polemics of political literature.