Philosophy & Ethics

A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This work is Rousseau’s prize‑winning philosophical essay that sets out to answer the Academy of Dijon’s…

Sesame and Lilies

John Ruskin

John Ruskin’s “Sesame and Lilies” is a self‑selected compilation of essays and lectures written in the…

Montaigne et François Bacon

Pierre Villey

Ce volume est une étude critique qui s’attache à la question de l’influence réciproque entre Michel de…

Ontology, or the Theory of Being

P. Coffey

The work is a scholarly textbook on general metaphysics presented from a Scholastic perspective.

Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica, Part I‑II (Pars Prima Secundae) is a systematic theological treatise that…

Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England

John Milton

This work is John Milton’s 1644 parliamentary address defending the freedom to print without prior licensing.

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

The Economist

Xenophon

The work is a single‑chapter dialogue in which the Athenian philosopher Socrates, accompanied by his young…

The game of life and how to play it

Florence Scovel Shinn

Florence Scovel Shinn’s The Game of Life and How to Play It is a self‑help work that blends New Thought…

An analysis of religious belief

John Russell Amberley

This work is a scholarly survey of world religions presented as a single volume of the Viscount Amberley’s…

Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado

Various

The volume is a curated anthology assembled by philosophy faculty at the University of Colorado, intended as…

Thoughts Out of Season, Part II

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The volume collects the second and third essays of Nietzsche’s Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen, written in the…

Ion

Plato

Plato’s Ion is a brief Socratic dialogue that opens with Socrates greeting the celebrated rhapsode Ion, fresh…

Ethics

Dewey, John; Tufts, James Hayden

The work is a systematic textbook of moral philosophy, co‑authored by John Dewey and James Hayden Tufts, that…

The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874

Various

The Catholic World, Vol. 19 (April–September 1874) is a scholarly periodical that gathers essays on Catholic…

Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Henri Frédéric Amiel

Amél’s Journal Intime is a privately kept diary of the Swiss thinker Henri‑Frédéric Amél, published…

Logic: Deductive and Inductive

Carveth Read

Carveth Read’s Logic: Deductive and Inductive is a scholarly survey of logical theory as it stood in the…

A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier

Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly; Garnier, Robert

The work is a moral‑philosophical treatise that opens with a sweeping meditation on the human condition.

A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 1 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes

J. M. Robertson

This work is a scholarly survey of the development of freethought from antiquity through the early…

呻吟語

Kun Lü

Alchemy: Ancient and Modern Being a Brief Account of the Alchemistic Doctrines, and Their Relations, to Mysticism on the One Hand, and to Recent Discoveries in Physical Science on the Other Hand; Together with Some Particulars Regarding the Lives and Teachings of the Most Noted Alchemists

H. Stanley Redgrove

This work is a scholarly survey that seeks to bridge the mystical doctrines of historic alchemy with the…

Essays in Zen Buddhism: First series

Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

The work is a scholarly collection of essays by D.T. Suzuki, originally appearing in The Eastern Buddhist and…

The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes

Robert Green Ingersoll

Six metaphysical meditations $b Wherein it is proved that there is a God and that mans mind is really distinct from his body

René Descartes

Six metaphysical meditations is a philosophical treatise in which René Descartes sets out, with the rigor of…