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March 14, 2022

The City of the Sun (Tommaso Campanella)

The City of the Sun (Latin: Civitas Solis) is a philosophical work by the Dominican friar Thomas Campanella, written in Italian in 1602, shortly after Campanella’s imprisonment for heresy and sedition. A Latin version was written in 1613-1614 and published in Frankfurt in 1623. Synopsis The book is presented as

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November 27, 2021

The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast (Giordano Bruno)

Giordano Bruno (January or February 1548 – February 17, 1600) was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, cosmological theorist and hermetic occultist. Beginning in 1593, Bruno was tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition on charges of denying several fundamental Catholic doctrines, including eternal damnation, the Trinity, the divinity

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November 5, 2021

Gospel of Nicodemus

The Gospel of Nicodemus is an apocryphal Gospel believed to be derived from an original Jewish work written by Nicodemus, who is mentioned in the Gospel of John as a companion of Jesus. Content The main body of the Gospel of Nicodemus is divided into two parts. The first (chapters

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October 26, 2021

Act of Apostles

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October 12, 2021

Ecclesiastes – Qohelet

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October 10, 2021

On Writing Well (William Knowlton Zinsser)

“On Writing Well” is the book that came from a course taught by William Zinsser at Yale University, and has been praised for its wise advice, clarity, and warmth of style. This is a book for anyone who wants to learn to write or feels the need to write, no

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October 9, 2021

On the tranquility of the mind (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – AD 65), usually known as Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and playwright of the post-Augustan age of Latin literature. De Tranquillitate Animi (The tranquility of the soul) is a Latin work of the philosopher in the form of a

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September 19, 2021

No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam (Reza Aslam)

“No god but God” is a text written by Iranian-American Muslim scholar Reza Aslan. The book describes the history of Islam and argues for a liberal interpretation of the religion. He blames Western imperialism and the misinterpretations of Islamic law by past scholars for the current controversies within Islam, questioning

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January 14, 2021

Meditations on First Philosophy (René Descartes)

Metaphysical Meditations, is a treatise by Descartes in which he wants to demonstrate the existence of GOD and the immortality of the Soul (and in fact in Latin the full title is: Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in qua Dei existentia et animæ immortalitas demonstratur). Published for the first time in

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January 10, 2021

The Prince (Niccolò Macchiavelli)

A book from which anyone interested in history and political philosophy should refer in order to receive an overview of the political system of that time and consider its similarities with many ways of governing countries today. Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was

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September 22, 2020