Philosophy & Ethics

The Map of Life Conduct and Character

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

The work is a philosophical treatise on the conduct of life and the formation of character, written by…

The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Clement, of Alexandria, Saint

This volume gathers the three principal works of Titus Flavius Clement, head of the second‑century…

The English Utilitarians, Volume 2 (of 3) James Mill

Leslie Stephen

The work is a scholarly biography that situates James Mill within the broader sweep of English…

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

David Hume

David Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding begins with a sweeping comparison of two kinds of…

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

The Subjection of Women

John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women is a philosophical essay that tackles the entrenched belief that…

The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2)

William James

The work is a scholarly treatise on psychology written by William James in 1890, intended originally for his…

The English Utilitarians, Volume 1 (of 3)

Leslie Stephen

The work is a scholarly survey of the English Utilitarian school, written by Leslie Stephen as a follow‑up to…

A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity.

William Wilberforce

Wilberforce’s work is a polemical treatise aimed at the middle‑ and upper‑class Christians of…

Dante and the early astronomers

M. A. Orr

Dante and the Early Astronomers is a scholarly study that intertwines the history of ancient and medieval…

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha is a philosophical novel that weaves together the spiritual traditions of Buddhism, Hindu…

Revelations of Divine Love

of Norwich Julian

Revelations of Divine Love is a devotional work that records a series of mystical visions experienced by a…

Isis unveiled, Volume 1 (of 2), Science: A master-key to mysteries of ancient and modern science and theology

H. P. Blavatsky

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1 is a sprawling work of nineteenth‑century theosophical scholarship by Helena Petrovna…

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

William Blake

The work is a sprawling visionary essay that treats heaven and hell as complementary forces rather than fixed…

The Antichrist

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche’s The Antichrist is a polemical work of philosophy that attacks Christianity as a…

Psychology of the Unconscious A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido. A Contribution to the History of the Evolution of Thought

C. G. Jung

The work is a scholarly exposition of Carl Gustav Jung’s early attempts to map the unconscious, focusing on…

The Case of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The volume gathers two of Nietzsche’s polemical essays that confront the myth of a simple personal quarrel…

Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences

René Descartes

René Descartes’s Discourse on the Method is a philosophical memoir in which the author sets out, from the…

The Life Radiant

Lilian Whiting

The Life Radiant is a work of New Thought that frames everyday experience as a spiritual drama, inviting…

The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings

John Abercrombie

John Abercrombie’s The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings is a systematic treatise that follows his earlier…

Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922

George Adam Smith

George Adam Smith’s work is a scholarly lecture series originally delivered under the Baird Trust in Glasgow…

Primitive culture, vol. 1 (of 2): Researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, language, art, and custom

Edward B. Tylor

Edward Burnett Tylor’s Primitive Culture is a scholarly survey that expands the scope of his earlier…

A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy

Isaac Husik

Isaac Husik’s A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy is a scholarly survey that sets out to fill a…

The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps

Alfred Binet

Alfred Binet’s The Mind and the Brain is a scholarly treatise that seeks a clear demarcation between the…