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Areopagitica John Milton · 1644 · ★ 3.8 · 73p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Areopagitica: A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England is John Milton's famous tract against censorship. Published in 1644, Areopagitica is named after a speech by Isocrates, a fifth century BC Athenian orator. The work is counted as one of the most influential and inspired defenses of the right to freedom of expression in history. It is also a personal issue… Shares Liberty, Politics, Philosophy, Nonfiction

Kant; a collection of critical essays Robert Paul Wolff · 1967 · ★ 3.5 · 415p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares Essays, Philosophy with this book.

Pedagogia do Oprimido Paulo Freire · 1967 · ★ 4.3 · 186p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "The methodology of the late Paulo Freire, once considered such a threat to the established order that he was "invited" to leave his native Brazil, has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's work has taken on especial urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of permanent underclass among the underprivileged and… Shares Freedom, Liberty, Essays, Philosophy

Two Treatises on Government John Locke · 1689 · ★ 4.5 · 422p · ≈ 14h · Challenging The “Two Treatises of Government” is about the former false principles and foundation of sir Robert Filmer and his followers. They are detected and overthrown. The latter is an essay concerning the true original extent and end of civil government.Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a… Shares Liberty, Politics, Essays, Philosophy

On Liberty John Stuart Mill · 1859 · ★ 4.0 Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Shares Utilitarianism, Liberty, Politics, Philosophy

Essays, first series Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1876 · ★ 5.0 · 376p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, "was a great writer who turned the essay into a form all his own." His celebrated essays--the twelve published in Essays: First Series (1841) and eight in Essays: Second Series (1844)--are here presented for the first time in an authoritative one-volume edition, which incorporates all the changes and corrections Emerson made after their initial… Shares Essays, Philosophy, Nonfiction

Philosophy and living Olaf Stapledon · 1935 · ★ 3.4 Shares Philosophy with this book.

Escape, and other essays Arthur Christopher Benson · 1915 · ★ 5.0 · 302p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Essays with this book.

And Even Now Sir Max Beerbohm · 1920 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Essays with this book.

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Hausblätter F. W. Hackländer · 1855 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Shares Essays with this book.

The thread of gold Arthur Christopher Benson · 1905 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares Essays with this book.

Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion George Bernard Shaw · 1900 · 58p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Shares Essays with this book.

Yet again Sir Max Beerbohm · 1909 · 86p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Shares Essays with this book.

Feeling is the Secret Neville Goddard · 2004 · ★ 4.4 · 44p · ≈ 1h · Light Your thoughts shape your life, create your reality, and ultimately limit or expand your true potential. This book describes how our thoughts and feelings affect who we become and what we achieve. When we have the power to change them, we gain the power to change our circumstances, our health, and our life's purpose. "The world, and all within it, is man's conditioned consciousness objectified.… Shares Philosophy, Nonfiction

Among the Free Margaret Peterson Haddix · 2006 · ★ 4.2 · 201p · ≈ 6h · Moderate When thirteen-year-old Luke Garner unwittingly sets off a rebellion which sweeps the country and ousts the Population Police from power, he quickly realizes that the new regime is corrupt and he may hold the only key to true freedom. Shares Freedom, Liberty

Illustrations of universal progress Herbert Spencer · 1864 · 451p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Shares Essays, Philosophy with this book.

A rap on race Margaret Mead · 1971 · ★ 4.0 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate (*From the introduction*) On August 25, 1970, anthropologist Margaret Mead and writer James Baldwin met for the first time to have three recorded conversations, totaling more than seven hours of tape that, once transcribed, would compose the book, *A Rap on Race* (1971). The Mead and Baldwin Book is an amazing account documenting the meeting of two of the twentieth century's paradigmatic thinkers… Shares Politics, Essays, Philosophy, Nonfiction

Leviathan Thomas Hobbes · 1651 · ★ 3.7 · 299p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, from 1651, is one of the first and most influential arguments towards social contract. Written in the midst of the English Civil War, it concerns the structure of government and society and argues for strong central governance and the rule of an absolute sovereign as the way to avoid civil war and chaos. Shares Politics, Essays, Philosophy, Nonfiction

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