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Works: 305
Authors: 94
Passages: 89,767

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Corpus works: 259
Private works: 46
Private records: 56
Private excerpts: 20,006
Text representations: 223,819
Editions and translations: 849
Languages: 17
Works in French and English: 259
Multilingual works: 259
Tracked concepts: 9
Estimated sentences: 1,456,557
Words: 27,541,029

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Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record

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Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents

Incoming letters, petitions, and administrative records preserve the voices of people who petitioned, informed, or challenged Lincoln. The archive reveals the pressures of a wartime presidency without attributing his correspondents’ words to the president.

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Composition: 1833-1916
Editions / translations: 2026
Languages: English · French
Extent: 19,210 passages · 7,989,852 words

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AcademicaCicero

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Academica

In the surviving fragments of the Academica, Cicero stages the conflict between dogmatic certainty and sceptical inquiry. He asks what criterion can identify a true impression and how action remains possible when secure knowledge is disputed.

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Composition: 45 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 69 passages · 215,055 words

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An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

The Essay examines the origin and composition of ideas, personal identity, and the limits of knowledge.

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Composition: 1689-1700; revised lifetime editions
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 1,114 passages · 257,071 words

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Collected Papers on Analytical PsychologyCarl Gustav Jung

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Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology

These essays by the early Jung trace the emergence of analytical psychology through word association, complexes, dreams, and the therapeutic relationship. Their collection shows a field in formation, still near Freud yet already developing its own distinctions.

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Composition: collected papers, c. 1902-1916
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 508 passages · 156,362 words

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Ethics, English ManifestationBaruch Spinoza

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Ethics, English Manifestation

In the Ethics, Spinoza uses definitions, axioms, and demonstrations to construct an account of God or Nature, mind, affects, and freedom. This English manifestation presents a path in which understanding necessity transforms how passions are lived.

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Composition: composed c. 1661-1675; published in 1677
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 261 passages · 88,568 words

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Ethics, Émile Saisset’s French TranslationBaruch Spinoza

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Ethics, Émile Saisset’s French Translation

Émile Saisset’s translation gives the demonstrative architecture of Spinoza’s Ethics in French. God identified with Nature, mind-body parallelism, analysis of passions, and intellectual blessedness unfold through nineteenth-century terminology.

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Composition: composed c. 1661-1675; published in 1677
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: French · English
Extent: 300 passages · 92,036 words

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Spinoza’s Correspondence: Spinoza-Authored Letters, English ManifestationBaruch Spinoza

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Spinoza’s Correspondence: Spinoza-Authored Letters, English Manifestation

These letters written by Spinoza answer questions about God, infinity, freedom, the Bible, optics, and works in progress. Epistolary form reveals thought adjusted to particular correspondents rather than a continuous treatise.

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Composition: surviving correspondence, 1661-1676
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 114 passages · 34,964 words

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The Law and the WordThomas Troward

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The Law and the Word

Eight author chapters connect causal order, personal expression, wholeness, promise, death and the transfer of anxiety to first causes.

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Composition: published 1917 from pre-1916 author material
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 8 passages · 43,218 words

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Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect, English ManifestationBaruch Spinoza

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Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect, English Manifestation

Spinoza opens this unfinished treatise with a decision about life: leave uncertain goods to seek one capable of producing stable joy. He then examines modes of perception and the method by which understanding forms true ideas.

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Composition: c. 1661, unfinished
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: English · French
Extent: 44 passages · 14,176 words

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Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect, Émile Saisset’s French TranslationBaruch Spinoza

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Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect, Émile Saisset’s French Translation

Émile Saisset translates into French Spinoza’s unfinished inquiry into method, truth, and the highest good. A narrative of intellectual conversion leads toward classification of knowledge and discipline of the adequate idea.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 1661, unfinished
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: French · English
Extent: 46 passages · 15,989 words

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Tusculan DisputationsCicero

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Tusculan Disputations

In five debates held at Tusculum, Cicero examines fear of death, pain, grief, passions, and the sufficiency of virtue. Philosophy becomes argumentative therapy against judgements that enslave the mind.

What you will learn

Composition: 45 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Latin · English · French
Extent: 475 passages · 182,021 words