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🔍 (Meu coração divide entre o Discurso do Método e O Príncipe ).

The collection begins with the foundations of Western civilization. Volumes dedicated to and Aristotle remain some of the best-selling in the series. The Plato volume, for instance, famously includes the Apology of Socrates , Crito , and the Republic , while the Aristotle volume navigates through Politics , Ethics , and Metaphysics .

Lançada originalmente pela Editora Abril Cultural nos anos 1970 e posteriormente reeditada pela Nova Cultural, a coleção se propôs a uma tarefa ambiciosa: traduzir e comentar as obras essenciais da filosofia ocidental em uma linguagem acessível, sem perder o rigor acadêmico.

For Brazilian intellectuals of the 70s and 80s, were a rite of passage. During the military dictatorship, owning a volume of Karl Marx or Nietzsche was an act of quiet rebellion. The collection provided the ideological ammunition for the re-democratization movement.