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Meno
Meno (; , Ménōn) is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 385 BC, but set at an earlier date around 402 BC. Meno begins the dialogue by asking Socrates whether virtue (in , aretē) can be taught, acquired by practice, or comes by nature. In order to determine whether virtue is teachable or not, Socrates tells Meno that they first need to determine what virtue is. When the characters speak of virtue, or aretē, they refer to virtue in general, rather than particular virtues, such as justice or temperance. The first part of the work showcases Socratic dialectical style; Meno, unable to adequ
Meditations on First Philosophy
philosophy book by Descartes
Theaetetus
Socratic dialogue by Plato
Materialism and Empirio-criticism
1909 essay by Lenin
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
book by John Locke
Sophist
book by Plato
Nyāya Sūtras
Sanskrit text of the Nyaya school of Hindu philosophy
Enneads
The Enneads (; ), fully The Six Enneads, is the collection of writings of the philosopher Plotinus, edited and compiled by his student Porphyry (270). Plotinus was a student of Ammonius Saccas, and together they were founders of Neoplatonism. His work, through Augustine of Hippo, the Cappadocian Fathers, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and several subsequent Christian and Muslim thinkers, has greatly influenced Western and Near-Eastern thought.
Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding
philosophical treatise by David Hume
Pramāṇa
Pramana (; IAST: Pramāṇam) literally means "proof" and "means of knowledge". One of the core concepts in Indian epistemology, pramanas are one or more reliable and valid means by which human beings gain accurate, true knowledge. The focus of pramana is how correct knowledge can be acquired, how one knows, how one does not know, and to what extent knowledge pertinent about someone or something can be acquired.
The Varieties of Religious Experience
essay by William James
The Skeptic's Dictionary
non-fiction work by Robert Todd Carroll
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
1710 philosophical work by George Berkeley
Lettre sur les aveugles à l'usage de ceux qui voient
essay by Denis Diderot
Two Dogmas of Empiricism
1951 philosophy article by Willard Van Orman Quine
Philosophical Fragments
1844 essay by Søren Kierkegaard
The Course in Positive Philosophy
book by Auguste Comte
Foundations of the Science of Knowledge
book by Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments
essay by Søren Kierkegaard
Fooled by Randomness
non-fiction work by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Logic of Sense
book by Gilles Deleuze
The Will to Believe
1896 lecture by William James