Philosophy & Ethics

Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity

Robert Patterson

Robert Patterson’s work is a polemical survey that turns the usual apologetic tables on their head,…

The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; On Human Nature

Arthur Schopenhauer

The volume gathers a selection of Schopenhauer’s essays taken from the chapters “Zur Ethik” and “Zur…

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man

Patañjali

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali present a compact philosophical system, spanning fewer than ten pages of…

Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft

Walter Scott

Walter Scott’s Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft is a nonfiction work that gathers a series of epistolary…

Without Prejudice

Israel Zangwill

Without Prejudice is an essay‑like work by Israel Zangwill that launches itself in a single, feverish vision.

The Secrets of the Self (Asrar-i Khudi) — A Philosophical Poem

Sir Muhammad Iqbal

The Asrár‑i Khudí is a philosophical poem first issued in Lahore in 1915 by Sir Muhammad Iqbal, a Muslim…

Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume 1

John Hill Burton

John Hill Burton’s “Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume 1” is a scholarly biography that weaves…

Parmenides

Plato

Plato’s dialogue Parmenides is a philosophic encounter that brings together Socrates, the Eleatic thinkers…

The Journal of Leo Tolstoi (First Volume—1895-1899)

Leo Tolstoy

The first volume of Leo Tolstoy’s journal, covering the years 1895‑1899, presents the writer’s reflective…

Treatises on Friendship and Old Age

Marcus Tullius Cicero

This volume gathers two of Cicero’s most celebrated philosophical essays, the treatise on Old Age and the…

Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants

Camille Flammarion

Camille Flammarion’s Mysterious Psychic Forces is a nonfiction account of late‑19th‑ and early‑20th‑century…

The Life of Jesus Critically Examined (4th ed.)

David Friedrich Strauss

The Life of Jesus Critically Examined is a scholarly work of theological history first issued in 1835, in…

The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Religion, a Dialogue, Etc.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The volume gathers a selection of Schopenhauer’s later essays, drawn from the collection he titled Parerga…

What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government

P.-J. Proudhon

What you hold in your hands is a dense philosophical treatise that sets out, from the outset, a systematic…

The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

The Note‑Books of Samuel Butler are not a conventional narrative but a sprawling, self‑made archive of the…

Man a Machine

Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Man a Machine is the 1748 French work of Julien Offray de La Mettrie, a physician‑philosopher whose life…

The republic of Cicero Translated from the Latin; and Accompanied With a Critical and Historical Introduction.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The work is a nineteenth‑century English translation of Marcus Tullius Cicero’s political treatise, presented…

A Christian Directory, Part 1: Christian Ethics

Richard Baxter

The work is a collected edition of the practical theological writings of Richard Baxter, the…

Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius

Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

The work is a collection of personal reflections by Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher,…

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy

The volume opens with a scholarly overview of the Apocrypha, tracing the term’s Greek origin and its shifting…

The Place of Animals in Human Thought

Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington Martinengo-Cesaresco

The book is a scholarly survey that treats animals as subjects of religious, mythic, and philosophical…

The Case of Wagner Complete Works, Volume 8

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The volume presents Friedrich Nietzsche’s polemical essays on Richard Wagner, assembled as part of the “Case…

On the Genesis of Species

St. George Jackson Mivart

On the Genesis of Species is a scholarly treatise by St George Jackson Mivart that sets out to examine the…

The Apology

Xenophon

Xenophon’s Apology is a first‑person account of Socrates’ reflections on his trial and impending execution,…