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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft

A major early feminist philosophical work on education, reason, moral equality, citizenship, and social reform. Open academic source: Online Library...

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An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

Jeremy Bentham

Bentham's foundational statement of utility, ethics, punishment, legislation, and the rational design of institutions. Open academic source: Online L...

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Essays Moral, Political, Literary

David Hume; edited by Eugene F. Miller

Hume's essays on politics, liberty, commerce, government, taste, history, religion, and moral philosophy. Open academic source: Online Library of Lib...

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Hegel's Philosophy of Right

G. W. F. Hegel; translated by S. W. Dyde

Hegel's systematic treatment of right, civil society, ethical life, law, property, family, and the modern state. Open academic source: Internet Archi...

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Kant's Principles of Politics, including Perpetual Peace

Immanuel Kant; translated by William Hastie

Kant's political writings on right, progress, cosmopolitan history, international order, and perpetual peace. Open academic source: Online Library of...

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Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay

Immanuel Kant; translated by Mary Campbell Smith

A compact edition of Kant's famous essay on peace, republican constitutions, federation, and international law. Open academic source: Online Library...

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche; edited by Bill Chapko

Nietzsche's philosophical-literary work presented for advanced reading in ethics, self-overcoming, culture, and modernity. Imported from the Praxis l...

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Leveraging Social Cohesion for Development Outcomes

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series

An actual open working paper on social cohesion, development outcomes, and institutional trust. Source: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository / Policy...

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