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Selections from the Writings of Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard

This volume gathers excerpts from the most representative works of Søren Kierkegaard, the Danish thinker…

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 Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter

Art 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

The Ego and His Own

Max Stirner

The work is a scholarly edition of Max Stirner’s seminal treatise on individualist egoism, presented here…

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Chaucer's Translation of Boethius's "De Consolatione Philosophiae"

Boethius

This volume presents Geoffrey Chaucer’s Middle‑English prose rendering of Boethius’s De Consolatione…

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The 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…

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Early 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…

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The life of Friedrich Nietzsche

Daniel Halévy

The work is a scholarly essay by Daniel Halévy that treats Friedrich Nietzsche not as a systematic…

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The 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

Anarchism

Paul Eltzbacher

The work is a scholarly survey of anarchist thought compiled by Paul Eltzbacher, whose own chapters are…

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Time 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

Hebrew Literature

This volume presents a sweeping survey of Hebrew literature beyond the biblical canon, beginning with a bold…

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A 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…

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Science 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…

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Plotinos: 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…

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Scripture texts illustrated by general literature

Francis Jacox

This work is a theological essay that weaves together biblical narratives, historic sermons, and literary…

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The 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

Autobiography

John Stuart Mill

This work is the autobiographical sketch of John Stuart Mill, the eminent 19th‑century English philosopher,…

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El 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…

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The Methods of Ethics

Henry Sidgwick

The work is a systematic inquiry into the ways we form moral judgments, presented as a deliberately neutral…

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Human 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

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

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

東度記

active 17th century Qingxidaoren

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 Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province

Summa 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…