William James Pragmatism Assistant

Answers questions on the Analects of Confucius, sayings on learning, virtue and government, quoting James Legge's English translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.

Answers questions on Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan: the state of nature, the social contract and sovereign power, quoting the 1651 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Plato's Republic: justice, the ideal city and the allegory of the cave, quoting Benjamin Jowett's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.

Answers questions on Machiavelli's The Prince, on gaining and keeping power, quoting W. K. Marriott's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Marx and Engels's Communist Manifesto: class struggle, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, and the measures it proposes, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the section.

Answers questions on Einstein's popular account of relativity: simultaneity, the Lorentz transformation, space-time and gravitation, quoting Robert W. Lawson's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the section.

Answers questions on Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class: conspicuous consumption, conspicuous leisure and pecuniary emulation, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Wallace Wattles's The Science of Getting Rich: thinking in a certain way, gratitude and creative rather than competitive action, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.