Philosophy & Ethics

Latter-Day Pamphlets

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle’s Latter‑Day Pamphlets is a series of polemical essays that confront the social upheavals of…

Les caractères

Jean de La Bruyère

Ce texte est un traité moral qui se veut une réponse aux diverses attentes des lecteurs : certains veulent…

Bergson and His Philosophy

John Alexander Gunn

John Alexander Gunn’s work is a concise, practical guide to Henri Bergson’s philosophy, written in the…

Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays

Thomas Henry Huxley

Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition gathers the later writings of Thomas Henry Huxley,…

A History of Freedom of Thought

J. B. Bury

A History of Freedom of Thought is a scholarly survey that traces the long‑run struggle between authority and…

Thoughts out of Season, Part I

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The work is an introductory essay by an unnamed editor who explains why he has taken on the task of…

The Essays of Adam Smith

Adam Smith

The work presented here is a collection of Adam Smith’s philosophical essays, first issued in 1759 under the…

Studies in Logical Theory

John Dewey

This volume is a collection of eleven scholarly essays produced by faculty and fellows of the University of…

Pascal

John Tulloch

This volume is a scholarly biography of Blaise Pascal, the 17th‑century French mathematician, physicist, and…

Ecce homo, Wie man wird, was man ist

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Dieses Werk ist ein autobiografisches Manifest des deutschen Philosophen Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, das…

El criticón (tomo 1 de 2)

Baltasar Gracián y Morales

El Criticón, primera parte del extenso proyecto de Baltasar Gracián, se presenta como una obra de ficción…

De l'Amour Édition revue et corrigée et précédée d'une étude sur les oeuvres de Stendhal par Sainte-Beuve

Stendhal

Ce texte n’est pas un roman mais une « physiologie » de l’amour, c’est‑à‑dire une description méthodique et…

The History of Philosophy in Islam

T. J. de Boer

The work is a scholarly survey of Islamic philosophy, presented as a “fresh initiation” rather than a…

The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî

Sir Richard Francis Burton

The City of the Sun

Tommaso Campanella

The work is a Renaissance‑era utopian dialogue in which a seasoned traveler, identified only as “Capt.”,…

The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 2

Sir Thomas Browne

The volume presents Sir Thomas Browne’s eclectic investigations into nature, religion and the human…

Seraphita

Honoré de Balzac

The work begins as a personal dedication, a letter from Honoré de Balzac to a patroness in which he explains…

Lay Morals, and Other Papers

Robert Louis Stevenson

Lay Morals, and Other Papers gathers a series of essays and short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, offering…

A handbook of Freethought: containing in condensed and systematized form a vast amount of evidence against the superstitious doctrines of Christianity

This work is a systematic compilation of arguments intended to undermine Christian doctrines, presented as a…

The Book of War: The Military Classic of the Far East The Articles of Suntzu; The Sayings of Wutzu

Sunzi, active 6th century B.C.; Wu, Qi

The Book of War gathers the early Chinese military treatises of Sunzi and Wu, two sixth‑century B.C.

A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare

George MacDonald

George MacDonald’s A Dish of Orts is a collection of essays that treat the imagination as a vital faculty in…

Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds

M. de Fontenelle

The work is a conversational treatise on the possibility of many inhabited worlds, presented as a series of…

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Wassily Kandinsky

The work is a theoretical treatise on art, written by Wassily Kandinsky, a leading figure of the Munich…

The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study

Jean-Marie Guyau

The work is a sociological treatise that sets out to map the future of religion by examining its present…