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ReadSelections from the Writings of Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
This volume gathers excerpts from the most representative works of Søren Kierkegaard, the Danish thinker…
ReadArt Principles with Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter
Ernest Govett
Ernest Govett’s Art Principles with Special Reference to Painting is a scholarly treatise that opens with a…
The Ego and His Own
Max Stirner
The work is a scholarly edition of Max Stirner’s seminal treatise on individualist egoism, presented here…
ReadChaucer's Translation of Boethius's "De Consolatione Philosophiae"
Boethius
This volume presents Geoffrey Chaucer’s Middle‑English prose rendering of Boethius’s De Consolatione…
ReadThe Fable of the Bees; Or, Private Vices, Public Benefits
Bernard Mandeville
Bernard Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees is an eighteenth‑century moral treatise that frames its argument…
ReadEarly Greek Philosophy & Other Essays Collected Works, Volume Two
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The volume gathers a series of Nietzsche’s early‑seventies essays, most of which were originally drafted as…
ReadThe life of Friedrich Nietzsche
Daniel Halévy
The work is a scholarly essay by Daniel Halévy that treats Friedrich Nietzsche not as a systematic…
ReadThe Dance of Life
Havelock Ellis
The work is a reflective essay on philosophy, ethics and the conduct of life, presented as a series of “arts”…
Anarchism
Paul Eltzbacher
The work is a scholarly survey of anarchist thought compiled by Paul Eltzbacher, whose own chapters are…
ReadTime and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness
Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson’s Time and Free Will is a philosophical essay first published in 1889, presented here in an…
Hebrew Literature
This volume presents a sweeping survey of Hebrew literature beyond the biblical canon, beginning with a bold…
ReadA Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Karl Marx
Karl Marx’s A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy is a scholarly work that revisits and expands…
ReadScience and the modern world
Alfred North Whitehead
The work is a philosophical survey of how scientific ideas have reshaped Western culture over the past three…
ReadPlotinos: Complete Works, v. 4 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods
Plotinus
The work presents a systematic examination of the nature of happiness, beginning with a series of tightly…
ReadScripture texts illustrated by general literature
Francis Jacox
This work is a theological essay that weaves together biblical narratives, historic sermons, and literary…
ReadThe Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science, Science and Method
Henri Poincaré
Henri Poincaré’s The Foundations of Science is a systematic exploration of how mathematics, physics and…
Autobiography
John Stuart Mill
This work is the autobiographical sketch of John Stuart Mill, the eminent 19th‑century English philosopher,…
ReadEl Hombre Mediocre: Ensayo de psicologia y moral
José Ingenieros
El Hombre Mediocre es un ensayo de psicología y moral que se presenta como una serie de estudios y…
ReadThe Methods of Ethics
Henry Sidgwick
The work is a systematic inquiry into the ways we form moral judgments, presented as a deliberately neutral…
ReadHuman Nature and Conduct: An introduction to social psychology
John Dewey
Human Nature and Conduct is a scholarly treatise that grew out of three public lectures John Dewey delivered…
The Meaning of Truth
William James
The work is a systematic philosophical treatise that sets out William James’s pragmatic account of truth.
The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; The Art of Literature
Arthur Schopenhauer
The volume gathers a series of Schopenhauer’s essays on literature, assembled from his original German…
東度記
active 17th century Qingxidaoren
ReadSumma Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
The work is the second half of the second part of Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica, a systematic theological…