Philosophy & Ethics

On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature: Two Essays (revised edition)

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer’s “On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature”…

The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 3 of 3)

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer’s third volume of The World as Will and Idea is a systematic philosophical treatise that…

Socialism: Positive and Negative

Robert Rives La Monte

Robert Rives La Monte’s Socialism: Positive and Negative is a modest collection of essays that blends…

The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy

H. P. Blavatsky

The Secret Doctrine, Volume 2 of 4, is Helena Petrovna Blavatsky’s expansive synthesis of science, religion,…

The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy

H. P. Blavatsky

The Secret Doctrine, Volume 1 of 4, is Helena Petrovna Blavatsky’s ambitious attempt to synthesize the hidden…

The Mediaeval Mind (Volume 2 of 2) A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages

Henry Osborn Taylor

The Diamond Sutra (Chin-Kang-Ching) or Prajna-Paramita

Unknown

The Diamond Sutra, or Prajna‑Paramita, is a Mahāyāna Buddhist treatise traditionally ascribed to the…

On the Sublime

active 1st century Longinus

Longinus On the Sublime is a scholarly treatise on rhetoric that opens with a meticulous front matter: a…

Machiavelli, Volume I

Niccolò Machiavelli

The work opens with a vivid self‑portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli as a country dweller, describing a day spent…

The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

Francis Bacon

The work is a collection of essays by Francis Bacon, presented here as “The Essays or Counsels, Civil and…

History of scientific ideas

William Whewell

William Whewell’s History of Scientific Ideas is a scholarly survey that treats the development of science as…

Meno

Plato

Plato’s Meno is a Socratic dialogue that launches with a terse exchange: Meno asks whether virtue can be…

What Is Man? and Other Essays

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s What Is Man? and Other Essays is a collection of philosophical dialogues that probe the nature…

A treatise of the cohabitacyon of the faithfull with the vnfaithfull. Whereunto is added. A sermon made of the confessing of Christe and his gospell, and of the denyinge of the same.

Vermigli, Pietro Martire; Bullinger, Heinrich

This work is a polemical theological treatise, jointly attributed to Pietro Martire Vermigli and Heinrich…

What Nietzsche Taught

Willard Huntington Wright

What What Nietzsche Taught offers a systematic overview of Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy, aimed at readers…

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett’s How to Live on 24 Hours a Day is a self‑help treatise that treats time as the most valuable…

Thought-Forms

Besant, Annie; Leadbeater, C. W.

Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater present this concise study of “thought‑forms,” a subject that sits at the…

Human, All-Too-Human: A Book for Free Spirits, Part 1 Complete Works, Volume Six

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Human, All‑Too‑Human is Nietzsche’s first foray into the aphoristic “free‑spirit” genre, a radical shift from…

Friedrich Nietzsche

Georg Brandes

This work is a scholarly biography of Friedrich Nietzsche written by Georg Brandes, a German‑born literary…

The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1

This volume presents the Vedanta‑Sutras together with the commentary of Śaṅkarācārya, the foundational text…

Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates

Plato

This volume presents three of Plato’s most celebrated dialogues, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo, which together…

Lucifer: A Theosophical Magazine. Volume I. September 1887-February 1888.

Various

Lucifer: A Theosophical Magazine, Volume I (September 1887 – February 1888) is a periodical devoted to the…

The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics)

Confucius

The Analects presents the sayings and dialogues of Confucius as they were recorded by his disciples, offering…

王陽明全集

Yangming Wang