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Could you please recommend some books that compile essays/prose written before 1950 by famous philosophers like Hume, Sartre, Voltaire, and others?

Can you recommend to me some books that compile essays or prose on different topics (e.g., freedom, free will, enlightenment) written by famous philosophers like Hume, Sartre, Voltaire, and others? Essays that were written before the 20th century. I…
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Copy of "Mit Heidegger gegen Heidegger denken" by Jurgen Habermas available?

I am looking for a copy of the essay "Mit Heidegger gegen Heidegger denken" by Jurgen Habermas, in the Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung (FAZ), 1953. Sort of hard to come by, especially as the FAZ does not have its archives open so far back. Would…
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Analytically, what is the difference between the essay questions: "What does it mean to argue that X?", and "Is it the case that X?"

I'm trying to work out the best way to approach this (3rd year undergraduate) essay titled in the form "What does it mean to argue that X?", and I'm having difficulty expressing a case for what it means to argue something as opposed to just…