Philosophy & Ethics

The History of Freedom, and Other Essays

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

The work is a curated anthology of Lord Acton’s essays, drawn from a range of nineteenth‑century periodicals…

Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles

B. F. Cocker

The work is a theological‑historical treatise that sets out to show how divine reason and innate human…

Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

Immanuel Kant

Kant’s Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics is a compact yet pivotal work that serves as a distilled guide…

Apologia Diffidentis

O. M. Dalton

Apologia Diffidentis is an introspective memoir that frames the experience of chronic shyness as a kind of…

Science and the Infinite; or, Through a Window in the Blank Wall

Sydney T. Klein

Sydney T. Klein’s Science and the Infinite; or, Through a Window in the Blank Wall is a philosophical…

Einstein's Theories of Relativity and Gravitation A selection of material from the essays submitted in the competition for the Eugene Higgins prize of $5,000

J. Malcolm Bird

This volume is a curated collection of essays that emerged from the Eugene Higgins prize competition, a…

A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'

Norman Kemp Smith

Norman Kemp Smith’s work is a scholarly commentary that combines exposition with criticism of Kant’s Critique…

The Kybalion A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

Three Initiates

The work presents itself as a concise exposition of the Hermetic teachings attributed to the legendary Hermes…

Life and Matter: A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's "Riddle of the Universe"

Sir Oliver Lodge

Oliver Lodge’s work is a polemical essay that confronts Ernst Haeckel’s popular monistic doctrine, “The…

An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires

Alexander Pope

This volume gathers Alexander Pope’s “Essay on Man,” his “Moral Essays,” and his “Satires,” a three‑part…

Die Theorie des Romans: Ein geschichtsphilosophischer Versuch über die Formen der großen Epik

György Lukács

Der Text ist ein philosophisch‑historisches Essay, in dem György Lukács die Formen der großen Epik im…

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

Isaac Newton

Hoc volumine, a Isaaco Newton, philosophia naturalis in mathematicam redacta, primum tractatum de mechanica…

The Augsburg Confession The confession of faith, which was submitted to His Imperial Majesty Charles V at the diet of Augsburg in the year 1530

Philipp Melanchthon

The Augsburg Confession, authored by Philipp Melanchthon, is a systematic statement of Lutheran doctrine…

Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius

Niccolò Machiavelli

War and the Weird

Phillips, Forbes; Hopkins, R. Thurston

War and the Weird is a hybrid of war memoir and speculative essay that uses the First‑World War as a…

Bushido, the Soul of Japan

Inazo Nitobe

In Bushido, the Soul of Japan Inazo Nitobe offers a concise, comparative study of the samurai’s moral code,…

The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin

John Henry Newman

The work is a series of nine discourses in which John Henry Newman, a Catholic priest and later cardinal,…

Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume 1 (of 3)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

This work is the first volume of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s three‑part “History of Philosophy,” drawn…

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

The work is a political treatise that sets out, in a systematic fashion, the various forms of government and…

Stories from Aulus Gellius Being Selections And Adaptations From The Noctes Atticae

Aulus Gellius

Hic liber est collectio, aliquantulum adaptata, fabulæ breves ex Noctibus Atticis Aulii Gelli, edita a R. G.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus

American Anti-Slavery Society

The Anti‑Slavery Examiner, Omnibus gathers the fiery pamphlets and speeches of the American Anti‑Slavery…

Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts

Herbert Silberer

Herbert Silberer’s work is a scholarly exploration that treats the symbols of alchemy, Rosicrucian tradition,…

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

Albert Pike

Albert Pike’s Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry is a doctrinal manual…

The Memorabilia

Xenophon

The Memorabilia is Xenophon’s four‑book recollection of Socrates, presented as a series of dialogues and…