For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page.
Mikhail Bakunin, God and the State (1871).
René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy (1641).
Fyodor Dostoyevsky “The Grand Inquisitor”, excerpted from The Brothers Karamazov (1880).
William James, “What Makes a Life Significant?” (1900).
Immanuel Kant, “Duties towards the Body in Respect of Sexual Impulse” [1775-1780].
Robert Nozick, “The Tale of the Slave”, from Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974). [HTML]
Michael Oakeshott, “A Place of Learning” (1982).
William Paley, “The Watch and the Watchmaker” (1802).
Richard Wagner, “Art and Revolution” (1849).