Maxims and Reflections

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141939184
Total Pages : 237 pages
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Book Synopsis Maxims and Reflections by : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Download or read book Maxims and Reflections written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) would jot down his passing thoughts on theatre programmes, visiting cards, draft manuscripts and even bills ... Goethe was probably the last true ‘Renaissance Man’. Although employed as a Privy Councillor at the Duke of Weimar’s court, where he helped oversee major mining, road-building and irrigation projects, he also painted, directed plays, carried out research in anatomy, botany and optics – and still found time to produce masterpieces in every literary genre. His fourteen hundred Maxims and Reflections reveal some of his deepest thought on art, ethics, literature and natural science, but also his immediate reactions to books, chance encounters or his administrative work. Although variable in quality, the vast majority have a freshness and immediacy which vividly conjure up Goethe the man. They make an ideal introduction to one of the greatest of European writers.

Collected Maxims and Other Reflections

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199540004
Total Pages : 399 pages
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Book Synopsis Collected Maxims and Other Reflections by : Fran^cois de La Rochefoucauld

Download or read book Collected Maxims and Other Reflections written by Fran^cois de La Rochefoucauld and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-08 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fullest collection of La Rochefoucauld's writings ever published in English, and includes the first complete translation of the Miscellaneous Reflections. A table of alternative maxim numbers and an index of topics help the reader to locate any maxim quickly.

The Maxims (Bilingual Edition: French Text, with a Revised English Translation)

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ISBN 13 : 2957404826
Total Pages : 137 pages
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Book Synopsis The Maxims (Bilingual Edition: French Text, with a Revised English Translation) by : François de La Rochefoucauld

Download or read book The Maxims (Bilingual Edition: French Text, with a Revised English Translation) written by François de La Rochefoucauld and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-02-14 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the French epigrammatic writers, La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) is at once the most widely known and the most distinguished. Voltaire said: "One of the works that most largely contributed to form the taste of the [French] nation, and to diffuse a spirit of justice and precision, is the collection of maxims by François, duc de La Rochefoucauld; though there is scarcely more than one truth running through the book-that 'self-love is the motive of everything'-yet, this thought is presented under so many varied aspects that it is nearly always striking." And Lord Chesterfield, in his letters to his son: "Till you come to know mankind by your own experience, I know no thing nor no man that can in the meantime bring you so well acquainted with them as La Rochefoucauld: his little book of Maxims, which I would advise you to look into, for some moments at least, every day of your life, is, I fear, too like and too exact a picture of human nature. I own it seems to degrade it, but yet my experience does not convince me that it degrades it unjustly." The Maxims were first published in 1665, under the title "Reflections or sentences and moral maxims"; and the edition of 1678, the fifth, from which the text has been used for the present translation, was the last revised by the author and published in his lifetime (with maxims numbered 1 to 504). Maxims which appeared in previous editions and were suppressed by La Rochefoucauld can be found in the second part, entitled "Maxims withdrawn by the author", here numbered 505 to 583. The French original of this bilingual edition was reviewed by Philippe Renaud. The English translation, originally by John William Willis-Bund and James Hain Friswell, has been thoroughly revised by Rebecca Hazell and Philippe Renaud.

Maxims, Characters, and Reflections, Critical, Satyrical, and Moral

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Total Pages : 274 pages
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Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality and Religion

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The Counsels of Wisdom. Or, A Collection of Such Maxims of Solomon as are Most Necessary for the Prudent Conduct of Life

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Book Synopsis The Counsels of Wisdom. Or, A Collection of Such Maxims of Solomon as are Most Necessary for the Prudent Conduct of Life by : Michel Boutauld

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Maxims of La Rochefoucauld

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Total Pages : 228 pages
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Book Synopsis Maxims of La Rochefoucauld by : François duc de La Rochefoucauld

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Moral Maxims

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Total Pages : 220 pages
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Images of History

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190847360
Total Pages : 257 pages
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Book Synopsis Images of History by : Richard Eldridge

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Some Fruits of Solitude

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Total Pages : 190 pages
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Moral Maxims

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Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874138207
Total Pages : 228 pages
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Book Synopsis Moral Maxims by : François duc de La Rochefoucauld

Download or read book Moral Maxims written by François duc de La Rochefoucauld and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In preparing his translation for an English audience, the anonymous translator made many references to English authors in his notes, among them More, Hobbes, Swift, and Milton. While he could also have used a variety of French comments on the duke's maximes as well, he deliberately chose to cater to his English readers by emphasizing English parallels and classical sources. In his introduction, Dr. Primer reviews the translation history of the duke's maxims and finds that some of the main characteristics of this translation were borrowed from the posthumously published French edition prepared by the Sieur Abraham-Nicholas Amelot de la Houssaye, whose presence in this edition is visible from time to time. The anonymous translator of selections from Amelot's edition adopted a more colloquial style than is generally associated with La Rochefoucauld's maxims; he also turns out to be significant not only as a translator but also as a reinterpreter of the central moral issue in the entire book. Most readers, including Jonathan Swift, had taken the duke's position on human nature to be the same as Hobbes's (stressing the human being's selfishness or natural egoism), but the translator/annotator finds that the duke's message is not inconsistent with the more positive view of human nature found in Lord Shaftesbury and in the poetry of Pope."--BOOK JACKET.

Kant on Moral Autonomy

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107004861
Total Pages : 315 pages
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An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution

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Total Pages : 550 pages
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The Form of Practical Knowledge

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674053796
Total Pages : 280 pages
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Maxims and Reflections

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ISBN 13 : 3347632265
Total Pages : 129 pages
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Book Synopsis Maxims and Reflections by : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Minima Moralia

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Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781844670512
Total Pages : 260 pages
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The Persistence of Modernity

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ISBN 13 : 0745694977
Total Pages : 237 pages
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