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Mary Wollstonecraft›A Vindication of the Rights of Men›Full Text

A Vindication of the Rights of Men

A Vindication of the Rights of Men

Mary Wollstonecraft · 1790

1 chapters · 53 pages · Original text

Public domain · Project Gutenberg

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A Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

~112 min · 53 pages

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First published in 1748, this work represents Hume's mature empiricist philosophy — a reworking of ideas from his earlier Treatise of Human Nature.

Hume argues that all knowledge derives from sensory experience and that reason alone cannot establish matters of fact.

Text sourced from Project Gutenberg (public domain).

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