Philosophy & Ethics

The Five Great Philosophies of Life

William De Witt Hyde

The work is a systematic survey of five major philosophical currents that the author, William De Witt Hyde,…

Physical science in the time of Nero: being a translation of the Quaestiones naturales of Seneca

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Physical science in the time of Nero presents an English translation of Seneca’s Quaestiones Naturales, a…

Theologico-Political Treatise — Part 1

Benedictus de Spinoza

The work is a philosophical‑political essay in which Spinoza launches a sweeping critique of superstition,…

The plurality of the human race

G. Pouchet

The book is a scholarly treatise on the contested question of whether humanity descends from a single origin…

The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine

Various

The Catholic World, Vol. 15 gathers the scholarly essays and reviews that appeared in the magazine between…

Reconstruction in Philosophy

John Dewey

The work is a scholarly lecture‑essay by John Dewey, delivered in early 1919 at the Imperial University of…

Das Stunden-Buch

Rainer Maria Rilke

Das Stunden‑Buch ist ein Gedichtband, in dem Rainer Maria Rilke seine Stimme in einer ununterbrochenen…

Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala

This volume is a scholarly overview of the Talmud, presented as a single, continuous essay that begins by…

The Life of John Ruskin

W. G. Collingwood

The work is a scholarly biography of John Rus‑kin, written by his former pupil William Gershom Collingwood…

The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1

Thomas De Quincey

The volume gathers a heterogeneous assortment of De Quincey’s posthumous essays, selected for “variety and…

Chinese literature: Comprising the Analects of Confucius, the Sayings of Mencius, the Shi-King, the Travels of Fâ-Hien, and the Sorrows of Han

Confucius; Faxian; Mencius

This volume gathers together the core texts of early Chinese thought, Confucius’s Analects, the sayings of…

The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): The Age of Reason

Thomas Paine

The fourth volume of Thomas Paine’s collected writings presents the second part of his controversial work The…

Ingersollia Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches, and Conversations of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative of His Opinions and Beliefs

Robert Green Ingersoll

The volume presents a curated selection of the opinions and beliefs of Colonel Robert G.

Euthydemus

Plato

Plato’s Euthydemus is a Socratic dialogue that doubles as a satirical treatise on early logical theory.

Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia.

R. W. (Richard William); Dante Alighieri Church

The work is a scholarly essay by the Rev. R. W. Church, first published in the mid‑nineteenth century,…

The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam

The volume presents the Sufi‑inspired verses of Omar Khayyam, a Persian polymath whose life is sketched in a…

In Defense of Women

H. L. Mencken

This work is a polemical essay on the “woman question,” written by the journalist‑critic H. L. Mencken.

Eureka: A Prose Poem

Edgar Allan Poe

Eureka: A Prose Poem is an ambitious, single‑voice meditation that treats cosmology as a literary pursuit…

Proposed Roads to Freedom

Bertrand Russell

The work is an extended essay that sets out to trace the intellectual and organisational roots of modern…

The Ethics of Diet A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice of Flesh Eating

Howard Williams

The work is a nineteenth‑century polemic that assembles a “catena” of quotations from classical, medieval and…

History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time

Richard Falckenberg

This work is a scholarly textbook that aims to bridge the gap between exhaustive histories of modern…

Philosophy

Bertrand Russell

The work opens not with a tidy definition but with a deliberate refusal to supply one, signaling that the…

Jenseits von Gut und Böse

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Dieses Werk ist Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsches provokanter Versuch, die bisherige Philosophie zu durchbrechen.

The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones

Isidore Kozminsky

The book presents itself as a scholarly synthesis of modern mineral science and the ancient occult traditions…