Philosophy & Ethics

The Book of the Damned

Charles Fort

The work is an expansive philosophical treatise that uses the language of science to interrogate the very…

The Dabistán, or School of manners, Volume 2 (of 3) translated from the original Persian, with notes and illustrations

The Dabistán, or School of Manners, Volume 2 is a scholarly translation of a Persian treatise that surveys…

Usury: A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View

Calvin Elliott

Calvin Elliott’s Usury offers a systematic, scripturally grounded argument against the practice of charging…

A Manual of Moral Philosophy

Andrew P. Peabody

Andrew P. Peabody’s Manual of Moral Philosophy is a systematic treatise that sets out to examine the…

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics

The volume opens with a concise biography of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, tracing his birth in Stuttgart,…

The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844

Charles Darwin

The work is a scholarly compilation of two early essays by Charles Darwin, written in 1842 and 1844, that lay…

Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol. 2 of 2)

John Morley

The work is a scholarly edition of John Morley’s “Diderot and the Encyclopædists,” volume two of a two‑part…

Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy

Bertrand Russell

The work is a series of six lectures delivered by Bertrand Russell in Boston in the spring of 1914, in which…

Leibnitz' Monadologie Deutsch mit einer Abhandlung über Leibnitz' und Herbart's Theorieen des wirklichen Geschehens

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von

Dieses Werk ist eine deutsche Übersetzung von Leibniz’ berühmter „Monadologie“ samt einer ausführlichen…

The Poetics of Aristotle

Aristotle

Aristotle’s Poetics is a systematic treatise on the nature and function of poetry, organized as a series of…

As a man thinketh

James Allen

The work is a philosophical treatise on the conduct of life, framed within the New Thought tradition.

Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay

Immanuel Kant

Perpetual Peace is Immanuel Kant’s philosophical essay, first published in 1795 and presented here in a…

India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge

F. Max Müller

This work is a complete edition of the lectures Max Friedrich Mueller delivered at Cambridge, presented in…

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions; Together with Death's Duel

John Donne

The work is a sprawling autobiographical meditation that blends personal history with theological reflection.

A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education

James Gall

James Gall’s work is a systematic treatise that seeks to turn education into a true science.

Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

Bertrand Russell

Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays is a collection of Bertrand Russell’s shorter writings on mathematics,…

Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

John Dewey

Democracy and Education is a systematic philosophical treatise that frames education as the essential conduit…

The principles of science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method

William Stanley Jevons

The work is a scholarly treatise that seeks to unite formal logic with the practice of scientific inquiry.

How We Think

John Dewey

John Dewey’s How We Think is a systematic treatise on educational psychology that opens with a candid…

Humanistic Nursing

Paterson, Josephine G.; Zderad, Loretta T.

Humanistic Nursing is a scholarly work that presents the authors’ own theory of nursing as a means of…

Manhood of Humanity.

Alfred Korzybski

Manhood of Humanity is a philosophical‑scientific treatise that sets out to define what it means to be human.

The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society: A Poem, with Philosophical Notes

Erasmus Darwin

The work is an ambitious poetic‑philosophical treatise that blends epic verse with scholarly commentary.

A Treatise of Human Nature

David Hume

David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature begins with a declaration of purpose: the author intends to lay a new…

Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism is a philosophical treatise that opens with a sweeping survey of the…