Philosophy & Ethics

The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The work is Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols, the sixteenth volume of his Complete Works,…

Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is a philosophical essay that opens with a lyrical meditation on the relationship between humanity and…

Apology

Plato

Plato’s Apology presents the recorded defence of Socrates at his trial in Athens, framed as a three‑part…

The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject.

Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle’s The Sceptical Chymist is a seventeenth‑century scientific tract that reads more like a series…

The Communist Manifesto

Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich

The Communist Manifesto is a political pamphlet that sets out the theory and aims of the communist movement…

Ethics

Benedictus de Spinoza

Spinoza’s Ethics is a philosophical treatise that proceeds with the rigor of a geometric proof.

The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield

The Legacy of Greece is a scholarly collection of essays that treats the whole of Greek civilization as a…

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2

John Locke

This work is John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, the first volume of his 1690 treatise on…

The Approach to Philosophy

Ralph Barton Perry

The Approach to Philosophy is a scholarly essay that treats poetry as a vehicle for philosophical insight.

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature

William James

The work is a scholarly series of twenty lectures that treat religion as a psychological phenomenon rather…

Creative Evolution

Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson’s Creative Evolution is a philosophical treatise that treats evolution not as a mere biological…

The decline of the West: Volume 1, Form and actuality

Oswald Spengler

The work is Oswald Spengler’s first volume of The Decline of the West, subtitled “Form and Reality.” It opens…

On the Nature of Things

Titus Lucretius Carus

The work is a didactic poem that sets out a systematic exploration of the mind‑soul relationship, beginning…

Libro della divina dottrina: Dialogo della divina provvidenza

Catherine, of Siena, Saint

Il Libro della divina dottrina è un dialogo mistico in cui la santa Caterina da Siena espone, con tono…

A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory

Albert Taylor Bledsoe

Albert Taylor Bledsoe’s work is a systematic philosophical treatise that sets out to defend the glory of an…

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II

Augustus De Morgan

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II gathers a miscellany of 19th‑century scientific polemics, ranging from…

Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler’s work is a scholarly survey of the development of evolutionary thought, concentrating on the…

Homer's Odyssey A Commentary

Denton Jaques Snider

Snider’s work is a scholarly commentary that treats Homer’s Odyssey as a two‑part composition, the…

Utopia

More, Thomas, Saint

Thomas More’s Utopia is a sixteenth‑century political satire that begins with a detailed portrait of the…

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8

Elbert Hubbard

The volume presents a sweeping, fictionalized portrait of the early life of Marcus Aurelius, framed as a…

The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The work is an autobiographical memoir by the eighteenth‑century French philosopher Jean‑Jacques Rousseau,…

Nationalismus

Rabindranath Tagore

Dieses Werk ist ein essayistischer Beitrag Rabindranath Tagores zum Thema Nationalismus, verfasst in den…

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle’s Past and Present is a sweeping historical essay that opens with a vivid, almost theatrical…

The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Origen

This volume presents the second half of Origen’s extensive apologetic work, composed at the request of…