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Plato's Theaetetus: What Is Knowledge?
Apr 19, 2025·20 min read
Plato's Theaetetus tests three definitions of knowledge: perception, true belief, and justified belief. Examines why each account ultimately falls short.
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Plato's Phaedo: Philosophy as Preparation for Death
Apr 12, 2025·19 min read
Examines Plato's profound dialogue on the immortality of the soul, the nature of death, and why philosophers should welcome rather than fear their mortality.
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Locke's Two Treatises of Government
Apr 5, 2025·22 min read
Locke's Two Treatises argues for natural rights and government by consent. Covers property, limited authority, revolution, and its influence on liberal thought.
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Hume's Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
Mar 29, 2025·19 min read
Hume's Enquiry argues that moral judgment rests on sentiment rather than reason alone. Covers virtue, utility, sympathy, and his account of human goodness.
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Hobbes' Leviathan: The Monster That Keeps Us Safe
Mar 22, 2025·19 min read
Examines Hobbes' major theory of political authority, exploring why we need an absolute sovereign to escape the war of all against all.
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Heidegger's Being and Time: Waking Up to Your Own Existence
Mar 15, 2025·19 min read
Examines Heidegger's major analysis of human existence, exploring how concepts like Dasein, authenticity, and being-toward-death can transform how we live.
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Aristotle's Politics: The Art of Living Together
Mar 8, 2025·20 min read
Aristotle's Politics asks what makes a community flourish. Covers citizenship, constitutions, virtue, political animals, and the purpose of the polis.
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Sartre's Existentialism Is a Humanism
Mar 1, 2025·18 min read
Sartre's Existentialism Is a Humanism defends freedom and responsibility. Covers existence before essence, choice, anguish, and common objections.
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Rousseau's Social Contract: How We Became Slaves
Feb 22, 2025·16 min read
Rousseau's Social Contract asks when political authority is legitimate. Covers freedom, the general will, sovereignty, law, and civic participation.
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Mill's Utilitarianism
Feb 15, 2025·14 min read
Covers John Stuart Mill's major ethical system that measures right action by its consequences.
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Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Feb 8, 2025·20 min read
Covers Kant's major ethical framework, explaining how the categorical imperative works and why treating humanity as an end remains essential for moral life.
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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Feb 1, 2025·20 min read
Covers Aristotle's masterwork on virtue, character, and human flourishing, and why it remains among the most practical philosophies ever written.
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