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Aristotle (Man Through The Ages Series) by Alexei Losev; Aza Takho-Godi

In Ancient Greece there was no philosopher with a more encyclopedic scope than Aristotle (384-322 BC). He was a man who always looked first and foremost for the meaning of reality and formulated the truths he discovered as broadly and … Continue reading

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The World Of Man In The World Of Nature by I. Laptev

A book addressing various philosophical, political, social and economic aspects of nature, ecology,  and human world and their interaction. Translated from the Russian by Peter Tempest Designed by Vyacheslav Chemetsov Many thanks to Daniel Baker for the original scans. Get … Continue reading

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Unaddressed Letters, Art And Social Life by G. Plekhanov

A collection of works of the Russian revolutionary, philosopher and Marxist theoretician G. Plekhanov.   Translated from the Russian by G. Fineberg. Many thanks to Daniel Baker for the original scans. Note: There is some warping of the text, but … Continue reading

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The Nature Of Science by V. Ilyin; A. Kalinkin

The nature of science, its conditioning factors, and its boundaries with everyday experience, mythology, art, morality, and religion are explored in this volume. The authors, Viktor Ilyin and Anatoli Kalinkin, investigate the criteria that define scientificity, tracing the origin of … Continue reading

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Lomonosov’s Philosophy by G. Vasetsky

  Lomonosov has greatly contributed to the development of advanced philosophical conceptions. Advocates of idealism and theology still attempt to distort the materialist essence of his worldview, trying to present it as entirely religious. Soviet philosophers have demonstrated that Lomonosov … Continue reading

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Studies In Psychology – The Collective And The Individual by A. V. Petrovsky

Marx points out that true research is detailed truth. It is research—both theoretical and experimental—which reproduces the process being studied under deliberately changed conditions, that makes it possible to discover the truth. This book is devoted to solving this task … Continue reading

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Classical Islamic Philosophy by Taufic Ibrahim; Arthur Sagadeev

This is a wide-ranging survey of the classical Moslem philosophy, covering such of its schools as kalam, Eastern peripateticism and speculative Sufism. This is one of the world’s first attempts to examine these schools as an integral area of thought. … Continue reading

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Some recent acquisitions part 8

Many, many thanks to Takshila Education Society for sponsoring the purchase of these books. 100+ more to come

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Art And Society

A collection of articles on art, art theory, aesthetics, and its implications for society from a Soviet perspective. Many thanks to Daniel Baker for the original scans. Get the book here. or here Contents The Humanism of Soviet Art. By … Continue reading

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Fundamentos De La Teoria De Los Numeros por I. M. Vinográdov

El libro que proponemos, «Fundamentos de la teoría de los números», a diferencia de otras obras de J. M. Vinográdov, es un manual de texto destinado a los estudiantes de las facultades de matemáticas de las universidades. Es difícil encontrar … Continue reading

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