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ReadAphorismen zur Lebensweisheit
Arthur Schopenhauer
Dieses Werk ist ein systematischer Sammelband von Schopenhauers Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit, der 1913 von…
Aristotle
George Grote
This work is a scholarly reconstruction of George Grote’s unfinished magnum opus on Aristotle, presented as…
ReadThe Discoverie of Witchcraft
Reginald Scot
The work is a scholarly re‑edition of Reginald Scot’s 1584 treatise on witchcraft, demonology and magic,…
ReadDer Wille zur Macht: Eine Auslegung alles Geschehens
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Dieses Werk ist Nietzsches Versuch, sein gesamtes philosophisches Gedankengut in einer einzigen,…
ReadLaocoon: An essay upon the limits of painting and poetry. With remarks illustrative of various points in the history of ancient art.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
This work is Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s “Laocoon,” an essay that probes the boundaries between painting and…
ReadThe quest of the historical Jesus: a critical study of its progress from Reimarus to Wrede
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer’s work is a scholarly critique of the “Quest for the Historical Jesus,” tracing the…
Einführung in die moderne Logik. Erster Teil.
Goswin Uphues
Dieses Werk ist ein systematischer Vortrag über Erkenntnistheorie, verfasst von Goswin Uphues, einem…
ReadThe Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1
Emperor of Rome Julian
The volume gathers the surviving speeches, addresses and related writings of Julian, the fourth‑century Roman…
ReadThe Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4 is a posthumous compilation of manuscript…
The Analysis of Mind
Bertrand Russell
The work is a scholarly collection of lectures by Bertrand Russell that seeks to reconcile the materialist…
Maxims and Reflections
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This volume presents Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Prose Maxims in English translation, offering a curated…
ReadJournal 01, 1837-1846 The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 07 (of 20)
Henry David Thoreau
This volume presents the seventh installment of Henry David Thoreau’s extensive diary, covering the years…
ReadThe Logic of Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The work presented here is Hegel’s Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline, the third…
ReadReligio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
Sir Thomas Browne
The volume brings together three of Sir Thomas Browne’s most celebrated writings, Religio Medici, a…
ReadThe Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; the Art of Controversy
Arthur Schopenhauer
The work is a collection of Schopenhauer’s essays on logic, debate and the art of controversy, drawn chiefly…
Orthodoxy
G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy is G. K. Chesterton’s apologetic response to the criticism that his earlier essays in Heretics had…
ReadThe Phantom World; or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c.
Augustin Calmet
The work is a scholarly compilation on demonology, apparitions and the philosophy of spirits, assembled by…
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
John Ruskin
John Ruskin’s The Seven Lamps of Architecture is a concise, essay‑like treatise that grew out of notes he…
ReadLives of alchemystical philosophers To which is added a bibliography of alchemy and hermetic philosophy
Waite, Arthur Edward; Barrett, Francis
The work is a scholarly compilation that updates the 1815 anonymous volume “The Lives of Alchemystical…
The Chinese Classics — Volume 1: Confucian Analects
James Legge
The Chinese Classics, Volume 1 presents James Legge’s nineteenth‑century English rendering of the Analects,…
Symbolic Logic
Lewis Carroll
This work is a systematic treatise on symbolic logic, written by Lewis Carroll and first published in the…
Academica
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The work presented is a scholarly edition of Cicero’s Academica, produced in the late nineteenth century by…
ReadThe provincial letters of Blaise Pascal: A new translation, with historical introduction and notes, by the Rev. Thomas M'Crie
Blaise Pascal
The work is a fresh English rendering of Blaise Pascal’s Provincial Letters, accompanied by a scholarly…
ReadChuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer
Zhuangzi
The book presents a scholarly edition of the writings traditionally attributed to Zhuangzi, the sixth‑century…