Philosophy & Ethics

Beyond the pleasure principle

Sigmund Freud

Beyond the Pleasure Principle is a scholarly treatise in which Freud expands his psycho‑analytic theory by…

The Well of Saint Clare

Anatole France

Anatole France’s The Well of Saint Clare is a collection of short stories rendered from French into English,…

An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent

John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman’s An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent is a philosophical treatise that sets out to…

Society and solitude: Twelve chapters

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The work is an extended essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that probes the paradox of solitude and society through…

A serious proposal to the Ladies, for the advancement of their true and greatest interest (In Two Parts)

Mary Astell

Mary Astell’s work is a polemical treatise that frames itself as a “serious proposal” to women, urging them…

Habits and men, with remnants of record touching the makers of both

Dr. Doran

The work is a sprawling essay on manners, dress, and the moral habits of both sexes, framed as a series of…

A Critical Analysis of Patriotism As an Ethical Concept A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy May 1, 1918

Clarence Reidenbach

Clarence Reidenbach’s dissertation, submitted to Yale’s graduate faculty in 1918, is a scholarly treatise…

China, Japan and the U.S.A. Present-Day Conditions in the Far East and Their Bearing on the Washington Conference

John Dewey

The work is a contemporary diplomatic report by John Dewey, a scholar of international affairs, that examines…

Recent Developments in European Thought

The work is a scholarly survey of Western intellectual life from the aftermath of the 1870 Franco‑Prussian…

The Commonwealth of Oceana

James Harrington

The Commonwealth of Oceana is a seventeenth‑century political treatise that begins with an extensive…

The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Clement, of Alexandria, Saint

A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism

Joel Elias Spingarn

This work is a scholarly essay that traces the evolution of literary criticism from the Italian Renaissance…

Ideas of Good and Evil

W. B. Yeats

This work is an essay‑like meditation by William Butler Yeats on the nature of “popular poetry” and its…

Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 2 With a Memoir and Index

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The volume is a mixed‑genre compilation assembled by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, whose “Critical,…

A Treatise on Good Works

Martin Luther

This treatise is Martin Luther’s systematic response to the controversy surrounding his doctrine of…

Animals' Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress

Henry S. Salt

The work is a scholarly treatise on the evolution of animal‑rights thought, written by Henry S.

Meditationes de prima philosophia

René Descartes

Meditationes de prima philosophia sunt tractatus philosophicus, in quo René Descartes quaerit demonstratio de…

The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 3 (of 4) Hegel's Aesthetik

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The work is a scholarly treatise that maps the systematic relationship between the various art‑forms and…

Prolegomena to the Study of Hegel's Philosophy, and Especially of His Logic

William Wallace

The work is a scholarly supplement to William Wallace’s second‑edition translation of Hegel’s Logic,…

The Praise of Folly

Desiderius Erasmus

The work is a satirical essay in which Erasmus adopts the persona of Folly herself, delivering a mock‑sermon…

Keely and His Discoveries: Aerial Navigation

Mrs. Bloomfield H. Moore

The work is a nineteenth‑century treatise that chronicles the life, experiments, and philosophical ideas of…

世說新語

Yiqing Liu

The Greek Philosophers, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Alfred William Benn

The Philosophy of Disenchantment

Edgar Saltus

The work is a sweeping survey of pessimistic thought, tracing its roots from the optimistic chorus of ancient…