Philosophy & Ethics

Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic

Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson’s Laughter is a philosophical essay that treats comedy as a living phenomenon rather than a set…

On Love

Stendhal

Stendhal’s On Love opens not with a romantic anecdote but with a series of three prefaces that warn readers…

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam presents the Persian poet‑mathematician’s life and work through a richly…

Novum organum: or, True suggestions for the interpretation of nature

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum is a foundational treatise on scientific method, positioned in the early‑modern…

The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

H. L. Mencken

This work is a scholarly yet accessible survey of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche’s life and thought, compiled by…

Seneca's Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The work is an abstract rather than a literal translation of Seneca’s moral essays, designed to collect the…

The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep and the Instruction of Ke'Gemni The Oldest Books in the World

Ptahhotep; Kagemna

The volume presents the ancient Egyptian wisdom texts known as the Instruction of Ptah‑hotep and the…

Critias

Plato

Plato’s Critias is a fragmentary dialogue that was meant to be the second part of an unfinished trilogy,…

Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus is a satirical, didactic work that masquerades as the “Life and Opinions of…

Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge

Alexander Philip

The work is a philosophical treatise that seeks to ground knowledge in the physical regularities of the…

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics

Various

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858, is a nineteenth‑century periodical that gathers…

The New Society

Walther Rathenau

Walther Rathenau’s The New Society is a polemical treatise that blends personal memoir with a sweeping…

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.

Various

The volume you hold is a nineteenth‑century issue of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, dated October 1843, and…

L. Annaeus Seneca on Benefits

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The work is a philosophical treatise on the giving and receiving of benefits, composed by the Roman Stoic…

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia is an 18th‑century satirical fable that frames a philosophical…

Protagoras

Plato

Plato’s Protagoras is a Socratic dialogue that opens with a bustling Athenian gathering at Callias’s house,…

The Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon

The work before you is Francis Bacon’s The Advancement of Learning, a seventeenth‑century treatise that opens…

An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism With reference to the duty of American females

Catharine Esther Beecher

Catharine Esther Beecher’s “An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism With reference to the duty of American…

At the Deathbed of Darwinism: A Series of Papers

Eberhard Dennert

The work is a scholarly critique of Darwinian natural selection, assembled as a series of papers that were…

Mysticism and its results: Being an inquiry into the uses and abuses of secrecy

John Delafield

Delving into the history of secrecy, John Delafield’s work opens with a sweeping declaration that “THE WORD…

History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2)

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

William Edward Hartpole Lecky’s second volume of History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne is a…

Iamblichus' Life of Pythagoras, or Pythagoric Life Accompanied by Fragments of the Ethical Writings of certain Pythagoreans in the Doric dialect; and a collection of Pythagoric Sentences from Stobaeus and others, which are omitted by Gale in his Opuscula Mythologica, and have not been noticed by any editor

Iamblichus

The work is a scholarly edition that brings together Iamblichus’s “Life of Pythagoras” with fragments of…

Ariel

José Enrique Rodó

El libro se presenta como una reflexión filosófica sobre la juventud, la democracia y la ética social,…

Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy

Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman opens with a sprawling, self‑referential address that frames the play as a…