📜 Kantian Aesthetics

Philosophical investigations into Kant's theories of beauty, the sublime, and aesthetic judgment, exploring how disinterested contemplation reveals something profound about human experience.

Critique of Judgment

by Immanuel Kant • 1790

Beauty demands universal agreement from nothing more than your own private feeling.

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🎨 Aesthetic Theory ⛰️ The Sublime 🌸 Beauty And Taste

Critique of Judgment 93%

Beauty demands universal agreement from nothing more than your own private feeling.

by Immanuel Kant 1790

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10k+ ratings

🎨 Aesthetic Theory ⛰️ The Sublime 🌸 Beauty And Taste

Beauty

by Roger Scruton • 2009

From dinner tables to galleries, beauty is a rational demand we are ignoring.

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🏛️ Philosophical Aesthetics 🎨 Art Criticism ⚖️ Aesthetic Judgment

Beauty 93%

From dinner tables to galleries, beauty is a rational demand we are ignoring.

by Roger Scruton 2009

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3k+ ratings

🏛️ Philosophical Aesthetics 🎨 Art Criticism ⚖️ Aesthetic Judgment

Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime

by Immanuel Kant • 2004

Kant's early map: everything in human life divides between awe and joy, from love to nations.

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🎨 Aesthetic Theory 🕯️ Enlightenment Thought 🏔️ The Sublime

Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime Summary

Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime 92%

Kant's early map: everything in human life divides between awe and joy, from love to nations.

by Immanuel Kant 2004

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1k+ ratings

🎨 Aesthetic Theory 🕯️ Enlightenment Thought 🏔️ The Sublime

Kant

by Roger Scruton • 1983

Why the limits of your own mind are the only foundation for science, morality, and beauty.

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🧠 German Idealism 💡 Enlightenment Thought ⚖️ Kantian Ethics

Kant 92%

Why the limits of your own mind are the only foundation for science, morality, and beauty.

by Roger Scruton 1983

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🧠 German Idealism 💡 Enlightenment Thought ⚖️ Kantian Ethics

Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel • 2004

Art makes truth visible, but the age when it could fully satisfy the spirit is over.

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🎨 Aesthetic Theory 🇩🇪 German Idealism 💡 Truth And Art

Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics Summary

Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics 91%

Art makes truth visible, but the age when it could fully satisfy the spirit is over.

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 2004

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🎨 Aesthetic Theory 🇩🇪 German Idealism 💡 Truth And Art

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

by Immanuel Kant • 1998

Morality comes not from outcomes or emotions but from a test any rational being can apply.

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🏛️ Moral Philosophy 💡 Enlightenment Thought ⚖️ Deontological Ethics

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals Summary

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals 91%

Morality comes not from outcomes or emotions but from a test any rational being can apply.

by Immanuel Kant 1998

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🏛️ Moral Philosophy 💡 Enlightenment Thought ⚖️ Deontological Ethics

Critique of Pure Reason

by Immanuel Kant • 1781

The mind's hidden architecture makes experience possible and certain questions unanswerable.

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🏛️ German Idealism 📚 Theory Of Knowledge ⚠️ Limits Of Reason

Critique of Pure Reason 91%

The mind's hidden architecture makes experience possible and certain questions unanswerable.

by Immanuel Kant 1781

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🏛️ German Idealism 📚 Theory Of Knowledge ⚠️ Limits Of Reason

Per la pace perpetua

by Immanuel Kant • 1795

A Dutch inn sign with a cemetery: Kant's starting point for a plan to end war.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 🌐 International Relations 📜 Kantian Ethics

Per la pace perpetua 91%

A Dutch inn sign with a cemetery: Kant's starting point for a plan to end war.

by Immanuel Kant 1795

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 🌐 International Relations 📜 Kantian Ethics

Critique of Practical Reason

by Immanuel Kant • 1788

Morality comes from reason alone, not feelings or consequences; through it we discover our freedom.

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🏛️ Moral Philosophy 📜 Deontological Ethics 🧠 Practical Reason

Critique of Practical Reason 91%

Morality comes from reason alone, not feelings or consequences; through it we discover our freedom.

by Immanuel Kant 1788

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12k+ ratings

🏛️ Moral Philosophy 📜 Deontological Ethics 🧠 Practical Reason

Philosophy of Art

by Noël Carroll • 1999

Art defies every definition. A tour through the best philosophical attempts, and what survives.

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🎨 Philosophy Of Art 🔍 Analytic Aesthetics 🎭 Aesthetic Experience

Philosophy of Art 90%

Art defies every definition. A tour through the best philosophical attempts, and what survives.

by Noël Carroll 1999

3.88

204 ratings

🎨 Philosophy Of Art 🔍 Analytic Aesthetics 🎭 Aesthetic Experience

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

by Edmund Burke • 1757

Terror produces the sublime. Smoothness and delicacy produce the beautiful. Two instincts, not one.

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🎨 Aesthetic Philosophy ⛰️ Sublime And Beautiful 😨 Fear And Aesthetics

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful Summary

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful 90%

Terror produces the sublime. Smoothness and delicacy produce the beautiful. Two instincts, not one.

by Edmund Burke 1757

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🎨 Aesthetic Philosophy ⛰️ Sublime And Beautiful 😨 Fear And Aesthetics

Tragedy and Hope

by Carroll Quigley • 1966

Art turned ugly, stopped making sense, and became useless. That was its last honest act.

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🏫 Frankfurt School 🎨 Aesthetic Theory 🏛️ Art And Society

Tragedy and Hope 90%

Art turned ugly, stopped making sense, and became useless. That was its last honest act.

by Carroll Quigley 1966

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917 ratings

🏫 Frankfurt School 🎨 Aesthetic Theory 🏛️ Art And Society

The Man Without Content

by Giorgio Agamben • 1970

Plato banished poets for their power. Aesthetics made art safe, and the artist empty.

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🎨 Aesthetic Theory 📚 Continental Aesthetics 🌲 Heideggerian Thought

The Man Without Content 90%

Plato banished poets for their power. Aesthetics made art safe, and the artist empty.

by Giorgio Agamben 1970

4.15

383 ratings

🎨 Aesthetic Theory 📚 Continental Aesthetics 🌲 Heideggerian Thought

Standpoints

by Svend Brinkmann • 2018

Modernity wants a use for everything. Ten old ideas that refuse to earn their keep.

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🚫 Anti-Self-Help 🧠 Existential Philosophy 🏛️ Virtue Ethics

Standpoints 89%

Modernity wants a use for everything. Ten old ideas that refuse to earn their keep.

by Svend Brinkmann 2018

3.77

787 ratings

🚫 Anti-Self-Help 🧠 Existential Philosophy 🏛️ Virtue Ethics

History of Beauty

by Umberto Eco • 2004

Beauty was never absolute. Every era invents its own: from sacred light to industrial symmetry.

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🎨 Aesthetic Theory 🏛️ Western Art History 💎 Concept Of Beauty

History of Beauty 89%

Beauty was never absolute. Every era invents its own: from sacred light to industrial symmetry.

by Umberto Eco 2004

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68k+ ratings

🎨 Aesthetic Theory 🏛️ Western Art History 💎 Concept Of Beauty

The Fundamentals of Ethics

by Russ Shafer-Landau • 2009

Three questions, twelve theories. Every one of them falters on the hard cases.

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⚖️ Ethical Theories 📏 Normative Ethics 🔍 Metaethics

The Fundamentals of Ethics 89%

Three questions, twelve theories. Every one of them falters on the hard cases.

by Russ Shafer-Landau 2009

3.73

798 ratings

⚖️ Ethical Theories 📏 Normative Ethics 🔍 Metaethics

The Philosophy of 'as If '

by Hans Vaihinger • 1911

Thought runs on conscious falsehoods: the harder the contradiction, the sharper the tool.

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🏛️ Neo-Kantianism 🔬 Philosophy Of Science 📚 Epistemology

The Philosophy of 'as If ' 89%

Thought runs on conscious falsehoods: the harder the contradiction, the sharper the tool.

by Hans Vaihinger 1911

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72 ratings

🏛️ Neo-Kantianism 🔬 Philosophy Of Science 📚 Epistemology

What Is Art?

by Leo Tolstoy • 1897

Real art does one thing: transmit a feeling from artist to stranger. Everything else is decoration.

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🎨 Philosophy Of Art 💭 Art And Emotion 🏛️ Art And Class

What Is Art? 89%

Real art does one thing: transmit a feeling from artist to stranger. Everything else is decoration.

by Leo Tolstoy 1897

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🎨 Philosophy Of Art 💭 Art And Emotion 🏛️ Art And Class

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

by Walter Benjamin • 1936

Why does a perfect copy feel less real? Benjamin's answer upends art and politics.

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🏛️ Critical Theory 🏭 Frankfurt School ⚒️ Marxist Aesthetics

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Summary

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 89%

Why does a perfect copy feel less real? Benjamin's answer upends art and politics.

by Walter Benjamin 1936

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🏛️ Critical Theory 🏭 Frankfurt School ⚒️ Marxist Aesthetics

The Strength to Dream

by Colin Wilson • 1962

The crisis of modern literature is a failure of imagination, and the cost is human freedom.

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📝 Literary Criticism 🎨 Philosophy Of Art 🧠 Existentialism

The Strength to Dream 89%

The crisis of modern literature is a failure of imagination, and the cost is human freedom.

by Colin Wilson 1962

3.93

123 ratings

📝 Literary Criticism 🎨 Philosophy Of Art 🧠 Existentialism

Astrazione e empatia

by Wilhelm Worringer • 1907

Primitive art wasn't clumsy. It was fleeing from the terror of space into geometry.

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🎨 Art Theory 💭 Aesthetic Philosophy 🧠 Psychology Of Art

Astrazione e empatia 89%

Primitive art wasn't clumsy. It was fleeing from the terror of space into geometry.

by Wilhelm Worringer 1907

3.83

192 ratings

🎨 Art Theory 💭 Aesthetic Philosophy 🧠 Psychology Of Art

Truth and Method

by Hans-Georg Gadamer • 1960

Understanding is an event language and tradition perform through you, not a method you apply.

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📖 Hermeneutics 🧠 Phenomenology 🎨 Aesthetics

Truth and Method 89%

Understanding is an event language and tradition perform through you, not a method you apply.

by Hans-Georg Gadamer 1960

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📖 Hermeneutics 🧠 Phenomenology 🎨 Aesthetics

Doorway to Artistry

by Esther Lightcap Meek • 2023

Reality isn't a dead object to control; it's extending an invitation, and your art proves it.

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🖼️ Aesthetics 🎨 Creative Process 📖 Phenomenology

Doorway to Artistry 88%

Reality isn't a dead object to control; it's extending an invitation, and your art proves it.

by Esther Lightcap Meek 2023

4.67

21 ratings

🖼️ Aesthetics 🎨 Creative Process 📖 Phenomenology

The Birth of Tragedy

by Friedrich Nietzsche • 1871

Greek tragedy died of rationalism, a suicide a culture is still paying for.

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🎭 Aesthetic Theory 🏛️ Greek Tragedy 🌪️ Order And Ecstasy

The Birth of Tragedy 88%

Greek tragedy died of rationalism, a suicide a culture is still paying for.

by Friedrich Nietzsche 1871

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🎭 Aesthetic Theory 🏛️ Greek Tragedy 🌪️ Order And Ecstasy

The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

by Arthur Schopenhauer • 1818

Reality's hidden engine is a blind, striving will. Your desires obey it; art briefly escapes it.

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🧠 German Idealism 🏴 Philosophical Pessimism 💫 Metaphysics Of Will

The World as Will and Representation, Volume I Summary

The World as Will and Representation, Volume I 88%

Reality's hidden engine is a blind, striving will. Your desires obey it; art briefly escapes it.

by Arthur Schopenhauer 1818

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11k+ ratings

🧠 German Idealism 🏴 Philosophical Pessimism 💫 Metaphysics Of Will

Dr. Seuss and Philosophy

by Jacob M. Held • 2011

Philosophy hid on your childhood shelf. Horton on knowledge, the Lorax on ethics, Yertle on power.

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🧠 Pop Philosophy 📚 Children'S Literature ⚖️ Moral Dilemmas

Dr. Seuss and Philosophy 88%

Philosophy hid on your childhood shelf. Horton on knowledge, the Lorax on ethics, Yertle on power.

by Jacob M. Held 2011

4.14

441 ratings

🧠 Pop Philosophy 📚 Children'S Literature ⚖️ Moral Dilemmas

The Longing for Less

by Kyle Chayka • 2020

The clean lines of minimalism hide a messy history: Zen monks, art rebels, and $8,200 stereos.

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🎨 Modernist Art 📐 Design Philosophy 📰 Cultural Criticism

The Longing for Less 88%

The clean lines of minimalism hide a messy history: Zen monks, art rebels, and $8,200 stereos.

by Kyle Chayka 2020

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1k+ ratings

🎨 Modernist Art 📐 Design Philosophy 📰 Cultural Criticism

Philosophy Bites

by David Edmonds • 2012

The big questions of philosophy, served in bite-sized interviews with today's leading thinkers.

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Philosophy Bites 88%

The big questions of philosophy, served in bite-sized interviews with today's leading thinkers.

by David Edmonds 2012

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371 ratings

Shakespeare's Freedom

by Stephen Greenblatt • 2010

Shakespeare dreamed of absolute freedom; his entire career became a record of its limits.

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🎭 Shakespearean Criticism 📜 Renaissance Studies 🏛️ New Historicism

Shakespeare's Freedom 88%

Shakespeare dreamed of absolute freedom; his entire career became a record of its limits.

by Stephen Greenblatt 2010

3.83

175 ratings

🎭 Shakespearean Criticism 📜 Renaissance Studies 🏛️ New Historicism

Phenomenology of Spirit

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel • 1807

Truth is the whole journey. Every stage consciousness passes through is both wrong and necessary.

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🏛️ German Idealism 🔄 Dialectical Method 👁️ Consciousness Studies

Phenomenology of Spirit 88%

Truth is the whole journey. Every stage consciousness passes through is both wrong and necessary.

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1807

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🏛️ German Idealism 🔄 Dialectical Method 👁️ Consciousness Studies

Hertzian Tales

by Anthony Dunne • 1999

Electronic objects are behavioral scripts and portals to a hidden electromagnetic world.

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🔮 Critical Design 📦 Poetics Of Objects 👆 Aesthetics Of Use

Hertzian Tales 88%

Electronic objects are behavioral scripts and portals to a hidden electromagnetic world.

by Anthony Dunne 1999

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125 ratings

🔮 Critical Design 📦 Poetics Of Objects 👆 Aesthetics Of Use

Fellow Creatures

by Christine M. Korsgaard • 2018

Value only exists relative to a creature; human superiority over animals was never coherent.

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🔎 Animal Ethics 🏛️ Moral Philosophy 🧠 Kantian Ethics

Fellow Creatures 88%

Value only exists relative to a creature; human superiority over animals was never coherent.

by Christine M. Korsgaard 2018

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221 ratings

🔎 Animal Ethics 🏛️ Moral Philosophy 🧠 Kantian Ethics

Archaeologies of the Future

by Fredric Jameson • 2005

Utopia's function is not to predict the future but to prove the present is not inevitable.

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📚 Literary Criticism 🧠 Critical Theory ☭ Western Marxism

Archaeologies of the Future 88%

Utopia's function is not to predict the future but to prove the present is not inevitable.

by Fredric Jameson 2005

4.04

596 ratings

📚 Literary Criticism 🧠 Critical Theory ☭ Western Marxism

Philosophy

by Nigel Warburton • 1995

Philosophy without the jargon: the big questions, and how to think them through.

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🏛️ Western Philosophy ⚖️ Ethical Theories 🗳️ Political Philosophy

Philosophy 88%

Philosophy without the jargon: the big questions, and how to think them through.

by Nigel Warburton 1995

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3k+ ratings

🏛️ Western Philosophy ⚖️ Ethical Theories 🗳️ Political Philosophy

The Bloomsbury Companion to Arendt

by Peter Gratton • 2020

Why totalitarianism aims to make humans unnecessary, and the public acts that can stop it.

🏛️ Political Theory 🏴 Totalitarianism 📚 Continental Philosophy

The Bloomsbury Companion to Arendt Summary

The Bloomsbury Companion to Arendt 88%

Why totalitarianism aims to make humans unnecessary, and the public acts that can stop it.

by Peter Gratton 2020

🏛️ Political Theory 🏴 Totalitarianism 📚 Continental Philosophy

The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity

by Jürgen Habermas • 1985

Western philosophy bet everything on the individual knower. From Hegel onward, the bet kept losing.

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🏛️ Continental Philosophy 📖 German Idealism 🏭 Frankfurt School

The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity Summary

The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity 88%

Western philosophy bet everything on the individual knower. From Hegel onward, the bet kept losing.

by Jürgen Habermas 1985

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1k+ ratings

🏛️ Continental Philosophy 📖 German Idealism 🏭 Frankfurt School

Slavoj Zizek

by Tony Myers • 2003

Your cynicism isn't rebellion. According to Žižek, it's the purest form of ideology.

3.82

266

🧠 Continental Philosophy 📖 Critical Theory 🛋️ Lacanian Psychoanalysis

Slavoj Zizek 88%

Your cynicism isn't rebellion. According to Žižek, it's the purest form of ideology.

by Tony Myers 2003

3.82

266 ratings

🧠 Continental Philosophy 📖 Critical Theory 🛋️ Lacanian Psychoanalysis

Lost in Math

by Sabine Hossenfelder • 2018

Theoretical physics is stuck. The culprit isn't bad math, but a fixation on elegant theories.

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⚛️ Theoretical Physics 🤔 Philosophy Of Physics 🎨 Aesthetic Bias In Science

Lost in Math 88%

Theoretical physics is stuck. The culprit isn't bad math, but a fixation on elegant theories.

by Sabine Hossenfelder 2018

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3k+ ratings

⚛️ Theoretical Physics 🤔 Philosophy Of Physics 🎨 Aesthetic Bias In Science

On Quality

by Robert M. Pirsig • 2021

Value isn't a judgment we add to reality. It is reality, and everything else follows.

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387

🏷️ Value Theory ☯️ Nonduality 🌏 Comparative Philosophy

On Quality 88%

Value isn't a judgment we add to reality. It is reality, and everything else follows.

by Robert M. Pirsig 2021

3.64

387 ratings

🏷️ Value Theory ☯️ Nonduality 🌏 Comparative Philosophy

The Philosophy of the Enlightenment

by Ernst Cassirer • 1932

The Enlightenment remade reason: not a storehouse of truths, but a way of discovering them.

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💡 Intellectual History 🌅 Enlightenment Studies 🏛️ Western Philosophy

The Philosophy of the Enlightenment Summary

The Philosophy of the Enlightenment 88%

The Enlightenment remade reason: not a storehouse of truths, but a way of discovering them.

by Ernst Cassirer 1932

4.11

258 ratings

💡 Intellectual History 🌅 Enlightenment Studies 🏛️ Western Philosophy

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

by Wassily Kandinsky • 1912

Abstract painting is not emptiness but a spiritual language more direct than any image.

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🧱 Abstract Art 🎨 Color Theory 🖼️ Art Theory

Concerning the Spiritual in Art 88%

Abstract painting is not emptiness but a spiritual language more direct than any image.

by Wassily Kandinsky 1912

3.83

93k+ ratings

🧱 Abstract Art 🎨 Color Theory 🖼️ Art Theory

The Substance of Style

by Virginia Postrel • 2003

The sensory qualities of things now rival price and performance as economic forces.

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🏗️ Design Economy 🛍️ Consumer Aesthetics ⚙️ Form And Function

The Substance of Style 88%

The sensory qualities of things now rival price and performance as economic forces.

by Virginia Postrel 2003

3.49

527 ratings

🏗️ Design Economy 🛍️ Consumer Aesthetics ⚙️ Form And Function

Principles of Human Knowledge / Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

by George Berkeley • 1988

Tables vanish when you look away, but God keeps watching. A bishop's case against matter.

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📜 Early Modern Philosophy 🇬🇧 British Empiricism 💡 Idealism

Principles of Human Knowledge / Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous Summary

Principles of Human Knowledge / Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous 88%

Tables vanish when you look away, but God keeps watching. A bishop's case against matter.

by George Berkeley 1988

3.83

1k+ ratings

📜 Early Modern Philosophy 🇬🇧 British Empiricism 💡 Idealism

Writing and Difference

by Jacques Derrida • 1967

Structuralism loved the architecture of texts. One philosopher asked where the energy went.

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🏛️ Continental Philosophy 📜 Literary Theory ✍️ Philosophy Of Writing

Writing and Difference 88%

Structuralism loved the architecture of texts. One philosopher asked where the energy went.

by Jacques Derrida 1967

4.00

8k+ ratings

🏛️ Continental Philosophy 📜 Literary Theory ✍️ Philosophy Of Writing

The Posthuman

by Rosi Braidotti • 2013

Humanism promised progress but delivered exclusion. A theory of what we become next.

3.82

949

📚 Critical Theory 🤖 Posthumanism 🐾 Animal Studies

The Posthuman 88%

Humanism promised progress but delivered exclusion. A theory of what we become next.

by Rosi Braidotti 2013

3.82

949 ratings

📚 Critical Theory 🤖 Posthumanism 🐾 Animal Studies

The Problems of Philosophy

by Bertrand Russell • 1912

Your senses are private. Matter is an inference. Timeless universals hold the rest.

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💡 Epistemology 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🏛️ Metaphysics

The Problems of Philosophy 88%

Your senses are private. Matter is an inference. Timeless universals hold the rest.

by Bertrand Russell 1912

3.90

19k+ ratings

💡 Epistemology 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🏛️ Metaphysics

The Wisdom of the Heart

by Henry Miller • 1941

Modern men are half-alive and call it progress. The cure starts when the thinking stops.

4.03

663

📖 Literary Philosophy 📚 Essay Collections 🎨 Creative Process

The Wisdom of the Heart 88%

Modern men are half-alive and call it progress. The cure starts when the thinking stops.

by Henry Miller 1941

4.03

663 ratings

📖 Literary Philosophy 📚 Essay Collections 🎨 Creative Process

Being And Event

by Alain Badiou • 1988

Set theory is the science of being itself, and the One is nowhere in it.

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🏛️ Continental Philosophy 🔍 Ontology 📐 Philosophy Of Mathematics

Being And Event 88%

Set theory is the science of being itself, and the One is nowhere in it.

by Alain Badiou 1988

4.01

1k+ ratings

🏛️ Continental Philosophy 🔍 Ontology 📐 Philosophy Of Mathematics

Dialogism

by Michael Holquist • 1990

All speech answers prior speech, all selves depend on others: the dialogic philosophy of Bakhtin.

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📖 Literary Theory 💬 Philosophy Of Language 👥 Intersubjectivity

Dialogism 88%

All speech answers prior speech, all selves depend on others: the dialogic philosophy of Bakhtin.

by Michael Holquist 1990

4.09

88 ratings

📖 Literary Theory 💬 Philosophy Of Language 👥 Intersubjectivity

A Theory of Justice

by John Rawls • 1971

A thought experiment: pick society's rules without knowing your place in it. Two principles follow.

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14k+

🏛️ Political Philosophy ⚖️ Distributive Justice 📜 Social Contract

A Theory of Justice 88%

A thought experiment: pick society's rules without knowing your place in it. Two principles follow.

by John Rawls 1971

3.95

14k+ ratings

🏛️ Political Philosophy ⚖️ Distributive Justice 📜 Social Contract

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