Paine's years of study and reflection on the role of religion in society culminated with this, his final work.

The most accurate and informative English translation ever produced of this epochal philosophical text.

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This text is a classic of French post-structuralist scholarship and is widely recommended on humanities courses across a variety of disciplines.

These two camps seemed deadlocked until Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason endeavored to show that the most accurate theory of reality would be one that combined relevant aspects of each position, yet transcended both to arrive at a ...

Covering such issues as the aims of science, the role it plays in our civilization, the moral responsibiliby of the scientist, the function of a university, and the choice between reason and revolution, this book defends science and ...

This volume presents it and three short essays that illuminate it in new translations by Allen Wood and George di Giovanni, with an introduction by Robert Merrihew Adams that locates it in its historical and philosophical context.

In Candide, Voltaire threw down an audacious challenge to the complacent philosophical views of his time, mercilessly mocking those that earned his scorn - from kings, priests and warmongers to publishers, journalists and scientists - to ...