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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Literature Resource Center
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world, supplemented by the scholarly materials of the Scribner Writers Series and Twayne's World Authors Series (which includes a volume on Aristotle).
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Center for the Study of the Great Ideas
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