Philosophy & Ethics

The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth

J. B. Bury

The work is a scholarly investigation into the concept of progress as a driving force of Western…

Lao-tzu, A Study in Chinese Philosophy

Thomas Watters

Thomas Watters’ work is a scholarly survey of Lao‑tzu and his seminal text, the Tao‑te‑ching, presented as a…

The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day

Evelyn Underhill

Evelyn Underhill’s The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To‑day is a scholarly yet practical exploration of…

The Origin of Thought and Speech

M. Moncalm

The work is a philosophical essay that opens with a restless, first‑person meditation on the chaos of daily…

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Henry David Thoreau

The work is a nineteenth‑century travel narrative that begins with an expansive, almost encyclopedic sketch…

Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

The third part of Saint Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica is a systematic theological treatise that begins…

The Sayings of Confucius A New Translation of the Greater Part of the Confucian Analects

Confucius

The volume presents a new translation of the greater part of the Confucian Analects, framed by an extensive…

Rousseau and Romanticism

Irving Babbitt

Irving Babbitt’s “Rousseau and Romanticism” is a scholarly essay that treats the eighteenth‑century…

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12)

Edmund Burke

This volume gathers a series of speeches and pamphlets by Edmund Burke that were originally delivered in the…

Nietzsche and Other Exponents of Individualism

Paul Carus

The work is a scholarly essay that sets out to compare the author’s own “objective” philosophy with the more…

The Stones of Venice, Volume 3 (of 3)

John Ruskin

John Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice concludes its three‑volume survey with a dense, essay‑like examination of…

Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The work is a collection of seven lectures in which Emerson sets out to examine the idea that history and…

The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, Vol. 1 (of 4)

Valmiki

The Yoga‑Vasishtha is presented as the earliest systematic treatise on yoga and speculative philosophy,…

Principios e questões de philosophia politica (Vol. 1 of 2)

António Cândido

O livro apresenta‑se como um tratado de filosofia política que procura fundar a ciência da política em…

Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Aids to Reflection is a dense, didactic work that seeks to shape a “manly…

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An Liu

The Book of Life

Upton Sinclair

The Book of Life presents itself as a practical guide that grew out of the author’s forty‑two years of…

Émile; Or, Concerning Education; Extracts

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The work presented is a selective excerpt from Jean‑Jacques Rousseau’s three‑volume treatise Émile, rendered…

The nature of man: Studies in optimistic philosophy

Elie Metchnikoff

The work is a sweeping synthesis of biology, philosophy and social commentary by Élie Metchnikoff, a leading…

The Categories

Aristotle

Aristotle’s Categories is a systematic treatise on the ways in which things can be spoken about and thought…

The origin of the family, private property, and the state

Friedrich Engels

The work is a scholarly synthesis that brings together the research of 19th‑century thinkers such as Lewis…

Candide, ou l'optimisme

Voltaire

Candide, ou l’Optimisme, est une satire philosophique qui se lance dès le premier chapitre dans le cadre…

The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): The Rights of Man

Thomas Paine

The volume presents Thomas Paine’s “Rights of Man,” the second part of his polemic against Edmund Burke’s…

Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism

Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism is a scholarly yet accessible survey written by D.T.