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Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian — Friedrich Schiller

Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian

Friedrich Schiller

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 431 pages

This collection of essays brings together French, German and Italian writers, among them Montaigne, Kant, Schiller, Lessing, Renan and Mazzini. They consider happiness, death, education, friendship, books, aesthetics and moral philosophy. It offers a varied introduction to European literary and philosophical thought.

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Contents

  1. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS
  2. CONTENTS
  3. THAT WE SHOULD NOT JUDGE OF OUR HAPPINESSE UNTILL AFTER OUR DEATH
  4. THAT TO PHILOSOPHISE IS TO LEARNE HOW TO DIE
  5. OF THE INSTITUTION AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN; TO THE LADIE DIANA OF FOIX, COUNTESSE OF GURSON
  6. OF FRIENDSHIP
  7. OF BOOKS
  8. MONTAIGNE
  9. INTRODUCTORY NOTE
  10. MONTAIGNE
  11. WHAT IS A CLASSIC?
  12. THE POETRY OF THE CELTIC RACES
  13. INTRODUCTORY NOTE
  14. THE POETRY OF THE CELTIC RACES
  15. THE EDUCATION OF THE HUMAN RACE
  16. INTRODUCTORY NOTE
  17. THE EDUCATION OF THE HUMAN RACE
  18. LETTERS UPON THE AESTHETIC EDUCATION OF MAN
  19. INTRODUCTORY NOTE
  20. FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSIC OF MORALS
  21. INTRODUCTORY NOTE
  22. PREFACE
  23. FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSIC OF MORALS
  24. SECOND SECTION
  25. THIRD SECTION
  26. BYRON AND GOETHE
  27. BYRON AND GOETHE
  28. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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