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A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences

A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences

René Descartes

René Descartes’s A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason and the Discovery of Truth in the…

Cover of The Dabistán, or School of manners, Volume 1 (of 3)
 translated from the original Persian, with notes and illustrations

The Dabistán, or School of manners, Volume 1 (of 3) translated from the original Persian, with notes and illustrations

A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion

A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion

Epictetus

This volume presents a selection from the Discourses of Epictetus together with the Encheiridion, a work that…

Cover of The Theosophical Path Illustrated Monthly Volume 1, July-December, 1911

The Theosophical Path Illustrated Monthly Volume 1, July-December, 1911

Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller

Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller

The work is a systematic treatise on aesthetics, in which Friedrich Schiller sets out to define the…

Euthyphro

Euthyphro

Plato

Plato’s Euthyphro is a short Socratic dialogue that opens on the porch of the King Archon, where Socrates,…

Orthodoxy

Orthodoxy

G. K. Chesterton

The book is an apologetic essay in which G. K. Chesterton frames his defense of Christianity as a response to…

Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary

Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary

Voltaire

Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary presents itself as a compendium of concise essays on a wide range of…

The Works of George Berkeley. Vol. 1 of 4: Philosophical Works, 1705-21

The Works of George Berkeley. Vol. 1 of 4: Philosophical Works, 1705-21

George Berkeley

The volume presents the first of four carefully edited collections of George Berkeley’s philosophical…

The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 2 of 3)

The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 2 of 3)

Arthur Schopenhauer

The work is a dense philosophical treatise that positions itself as the second volume of a three‑part system…

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Three Things

Elinor Glyn

Three Things is a modestly sized essay collection in which Elinor Glyn sets out what she believes to be the…

Cover of "The Kingdom of God Is Within You"
 Christianity Not as a Mystic Religion but as a New Theory of Life

"The Kingdom of God Is Within You" Christianity Not as a Mystic Religion but as a New Theory of Life

Leo Tolstoy

The work is a polemical treatise in which Tol‑Tolstoy, the celebrated novelist, turns his formidable…

Hegel's Philosophy of Mind

Hegel's Philosophy of Mind

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The work presented is a translation of the final section of Hegel’s encyclopaedic “Philosophy of Mind,”…

Miracles and Supernatural Religion

Miracles and Supernatural Religion

James Morris Whiton

James Morris Whiton’s Miracles and Supernatural Religion is a scholarly survey of how nineteenth‑century…

The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Proverbs

The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Proverbs

Robert F. Horton

Cover of The Kabbalah: Its Doctrines, Development, and Literature

The Kabbalah: Its Doctrines, Development, and Literature

Christian D. Ginsburg

The work is a scholarly survey of Kabbalistic doctrine, tracing its legendary origins from angelic…

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

David Hume

David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical work that treats the question of God…

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 A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities

Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities

McHugh, John A. (John Ambrose); Callan, Charles J.

The work presents itself as a systematic, comprehensive treatise on Catholic Moral Theology, aiming to…

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Heretics

G. K. Chesterton

Heretics is a collection of essays in which G. K. Chesterton, the prolific early‑20th‑century English writer,…

Cover of Job and Solomon: Or, The Wisdom of the Old Testament

Job and Solomon: Or, The Wisdom of the Old Testament

T. K. Cheyne

The work is a scholarly guide to the wisdom books of the Old Testament, focusing especially on Job, Proverbs,…

The Basis of Morality

The Basis of Morality

Arthur Schopenhauer

The work is an English translation of Arthur Schopenhauer’s philosophical essay The Basis of Morality, first…

Character

Character

Samuel Smiles

Samuel Smiles’s Character is a moral‑philosophical treatise that opens with a sweeping affirmation of the…

Cover of The religion of Plutarch: A pagan creed of apostolic times

The religion of Plutarch: A pagan creed of apostolic times

John Oakesmith

The work is a scholarly essay by John Oakesmith that revisits his earlier privately‑circulated volume on…

Cover of Galen: On the Natural Faculties

Galen: On the Natural Faculties

Galen

The work is a scholarly translation of Galen’s treatise on the natural faculties, rendered from the Greek…