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The Originals: Classic Readings in Western Philosophy

Jeff McLaughlin

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Read the great philosophers in their own words. This reader gathers original texts by Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Mill and more, arranged by topic and in historical order.

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