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Description: This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism includes the text of his 1868 speech to the British House of Commons defending the use of capital punishment in cases of aggravated murder. The speech is significant both because its topic remains timely and because its arguments illustrate the applicability of the principle of utility to questions of large-scale social policy.
Description: Benedict de Spinoza's writings laid the groundwork for the 18th century Enlightenment and for modern Biblical criticism. By virtue of his magnum opus, The Ethics, Spinoza is considered one of Western philosophy's definitive ethicists
Supplemental catalog subcollection information: American Libraries Collection; Historical Literature
Description: This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
Description: The Sumerians were a non-Semitic, non-Indo-European people who flourished in southern Babylonia from the beginning of the fourth to the end of the third millennium B. C. During this long stretch of time the Sumerians, whose racial and linguistic affiliations are still unclassifiable, represented the dominant cultural group of the entire Near East.
Sermons anglais ; Sermons, English ; Film/Fiche is presented as orginally captured.
Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitme...
Supplemental catalog subcollection information: Canadian Libraries Collection; Canadian University Library Collection; Candian History; Each volume has also special t.p.; wanting in v. 1; Includes bibliographical references; v. 1. A summary view of the author's life. Instauration, pt. 1: De augmentis scientiarum. Supplements to De augmentis scientiarum: The new Atlantis. A specimen of the history of Great Britain. Lives; or, Civil characters of Julius Caesar, Augustus Ca...
Description: Includes bibliography
Description: Added title: Philosophy, its history and development
Description: Vol. 1. Ancient philosophy.- Vol. 2. Modern philosophy
Description: Buddhism is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha (Pali/Sanskrit the awakened one). The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th centuries BCE. He is recognized by Buddhists as an awakened or enlightened teacher who shared his insights to help sentient beings end su...
Supplemental catalog subcollection information: Canadian Libraries Collection; Canadian University Library Collection; Candian History
Description: SOME People are subject to a certain delicacy of passion, which makes them extremely sensible to all the accidents of life, and gives them a lively joy upon every prosperous event,as well as a piercing grief, when they meet with misfortunes and adversity. Favours and good offices easily engage their friendship; while the smallest injury provokes their resentment. Any honour or mark of distinction elevates them above measure; but they are as sensibly touched ...