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Pragmatism

William James · English

James’s accessible lectures on truth, belief, experience, pluralism, religion, and practical consequences.

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A System of Logic

John Stuart Mill · English

Mill’s major work on induction, scientific method, reasoning, evidence, and social science.

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The New Atlantis

Francis Bacon · English

Bacon’s utopian fiction of Salomon’s House, knowledge, experiment, science, travel, and social order.

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Heretics

G. K. Chesterton · English

A witty essay collection attacking fashionable certainties in literature, politics, religion, and modern intellectual life.

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Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill · English

A classic defense of utility, happiness, moral judgment, liberty, and social ethics.

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Essays of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon · English

A public-domain classic of practical wisdom, politics, learning, and human conduct, presented in a clean BooksWhale reading edition.

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Mozi · English

An English edition of the Mohist classic on universal care, merit, frugality, and social order.

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Walden

Henry David Thoreau · English

Thoreau’s experiment in simple living, attention, nature, labor, solitude, and moral independence.

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