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Concerning Principles of Morals David Hume
Emerson's Essays Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ethics Aristotle
Republic Plato
Thoreau, Emerson, and Transcendentalism
Walden Henry David Thoreau
The Worldly Philosophers Robert Louis Heilbroner
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