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List of publications in philosophy
Dialogues of Plato
- Author: Plato
- Publication data: 427 BC – c. 347 BC; The Collected Dialogues of Plato (Bollingen Series LXXI), edited by Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns, 1961.
- Online version: plato-dialogues.org
- Description: These classic dialogues are sometime considered to be the beginning of philosophy. The dialog had impact in various other ares. Plato's Republic deals with political philosophy (presented, stylistically, via the concept of a Utopia), ethics, and his theory of universals (the 'forms')--among other things.
- Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Influence, Introduction
Four Books
- Author: Mencius, Zisi , Confucius, Zeng Zi
- Publication data: 371 BC – c. 289 BC ??
- Online version: English translations by Charles Muller: Great Learning; Analects; Doctrine of the Mean; Mencius
- Description: The Four Books, or the Four Classics, are the Chinese classic texts selected by Zhu Xi in the Song dynasty to serve as an introduction to Chinese philosophy and Confucianism. They are:
- Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Influence, Introduction
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Author: Thomas Samuel Kuhn.
- Publication data: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd Ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.
- Online version: Summary of book by the author
- Description: This book is a pivotal point in philosophy of science, as it talks about paradigm shifts.
- Importance: Breakthrough, Impact
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