Philosophy & Ethics

Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions

Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley’s Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions is a collection of polemical pieces that first…

The Buddha's Path of Virtue: A Translation of the Dhammapada

The Buddha’s Path of Virtue presents a metrical English translation of the Dhammapada, the concise anthology…

Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. II.

Plutarch

The volume presents a scholarly edition of Plutarch’s early ethical essays, assembled from the critical Greek…

Thoughts out of Season, Part I David Strauss, the Confessor and the Writer - Richard Wagner in Bayreuth.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The work is a scholarly edition of Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Thoughts out of Season, Part I: David Strauss, the…

Unconscious Memory

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler’s “Unconscious Memory” is a scholarly work that bridges biology, philosophy, and the history of…

韩非子

Fei Han

Cosmic symbolism: Being a discussion and exposition of some recondite and obscure points in the art of the Kabalists, the mysteries of sound, form and number, and the basic principles of cosmic symbolism

Sepharial

The work opens with a sweeping declaration that the endless chain of books compels the author to address the…

The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879

Various

The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, is a Victorian‑era periodical that gathers a series of scholarly essays…

The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory

George Santayana

This work is a concise synthesis of the ideas George Santayana presented in a series of Harvard lectures on…

The Necessity of Atheism

David Marshall Brooks

The work is a polemical essay that sets out to argue that atheism is not merely a personal preference but an…

The Ghosts, and Other Lectures

Robert Green Ingersoll

Robert G. Ingersoll’s The Ghosts, and Other Lectures is a polemical work of free‑thought that opens with a…

Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning

Edward Carpenter

Edward Carpenter’s work is a scholarly survey of how religious ideas have emerged and transformed, beginning…

The mystery of space: A Study of the Hyperspace Movement in the Light of the Evolution of New Psychic Faculties and an Inquiry Into the Genesis and Essential Nature of Space

Robert T. Browne

Robert T. Browne’s The Mystery of Space is an ambitious scholarly treatise that seeks to fuse rigorous…

The Pleasures of Life

Sir John Lubbock

Sir John Lubbock’s The Pleasures of Life opens with a reflective essay that grew out of a lecture delivered…

On criminal abortion in America

Horatio Robinson Storer

The work is a legal‑historical treatise that sets out to argue that abortion, when deliberately induced and…

The Poetry of Science; or, Studies of the Physical Phenomena of Nature

Robert Hunt

Robert Hunt’s “The Poetry of Science” is a sweeping survey of mid‑nineteenth‑century natural philosophy,…

The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics and Morals of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 1 [of 3]

Benjamin Franklin

The volume is a scholarly compilation of Benjamin Franklin’s philosophical, political and moral writings,…

Transcendentalism in New England: A History

Octavius Brooks Frothingham

Octavius Brooks Frothingham’s Transcendentalism in New England is a scholarly survey that situates the brief…

The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870

Various

The Catholic World, Volume 10 (October 1869 – March 1870) is a nineteenth‑century Catholic periodical that…

蘇洵集

Xun Su

Good Sense

Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 03

Voltaire

This volume is a philosophical dictionary compiled by Voltaire, gathering his reflections on a single,…

A History of Philosophy in Epitome

Albert Schwegler

Albert Schwegler’s A History of Philosophy in Epitome is a compact yet thorough survey of philosophical…

Hume (English Men of Letters Series)

Thomas Henry Huxley

The work is a biographical study of David Hume, the Scottish philosopher, written by Thomas Henry Huxley for…