Philosophy

Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Thus Spake Zarathustra is Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche’s philosophical treatise, framed as the posthumous…

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

The work is a historical‑political treatise that traces the life of Niccolò Machiavelli against the turbulent…

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil is a work of philosophical ethics written in German by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, here…

Second Treatise of Government

John Locke

John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government is a foundational work of political philosophy that argues against…

On Liberty

John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty is a philosophical treatise that begins with a deeply personal dedication to…

The Republic

Plato

Plato’s Republic is a foundational work of classical literature that also functions as an early treatise on…

The Critique of Pure Reason

Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason is a systematic investigation into the limits and powers of human…

The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle

Aristotle

The Nicomachean Ethics is Aristotle’s systematic exploration of moral philosophy, presented as a companion to…

The Problems of Philosophy

Bertrand Russell

The work is a systematic exploration of fundamental philosophical problems, beginning with a close‑reading of…

A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)

John Stuart Mill

This work is a systematic treatise on logic that seeks to bring together the scattered fragments of the…

Apology

Plato

Plato’s Apology presents the recorded defence of Socrates at his trial in Athens, framed as a three‑part…

The Communist Manifesto

Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich

The Communist Manifesto is a political pamphlet that sets out the theory and aims of the communist movement…

Ethics

Benedictus de Spinoza

Spinoza’s Ethics is a philosophical treatise that proceeds with the rigor of a geometric proof.

The Approach to Philosophy

Ralph Barton Perry

The Approach to Philosophy is a scholarly essay that treats poetry as a vehicle for philosophical insight.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

David Hume

David Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding begins with a sweeping comparison of two kinds of…

The English Utilitarians, Volume 1 (of 3)

Leslie Stephen

The work is a scholarly survey of the English Utilitarian school, written by Leslie Stephen as a follow‑up to…

The Antichrist

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche’s The Antichrist is a polemical work of philosophy that attacks Christianity as a…

The Case of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The volume gathers two of Nietzsche’s polemical essays that confront the myth of a simple personal quarrel…

Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences

René Descartes

René Descartes’s Discourse on the Method is a philosophical memoir in which the author sets out, from the…

The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings

John Abercrombie

John Abercrombie’s The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings is a systematic treatise that follows his earlier…

Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy

Bertrand Russell

The work is a series of six lectures delivered by Bertrand Russell in Boston in the spring of 1914, in which…

The Poetics of Aristotle

Aristotle

Aristotle’s Poetics is a systematic treatise on the nature and function of poetry, organized as a series of…

Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

Bertrand Russell

Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays is a collection of Bertrand Russell’s shorter writings on mathematics,…

Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

John Dewey

Democracy and Education is a systematic philosophical treatise that frames education as the essential conduit…