Philosophy & Ethics

Sexueele Zeden in Woord en Beeld: Liefde en Zinnelijkheid

D. Ph. van Vloten Elderinck

Dit werk is een encyclopedisch overzicht van de menselijke seksuele beleving, waarin de auteur Vloten…

Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 2 of 2)

Jean Calvin

This work is the second volume of Jean Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion, a systematic…

Progress and History

This work is a scholarly survey of the concept of progress as it has unfolded through Western history.

The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit

Ralph Waldo Trine

The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit is a New Thought treatise that opens with a sweeping argument about the…

The Grand Inquisitor

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Grand Inquisitor is a dramatic episode taken from Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s final novel, The Brothers…

Early Greek philosophy

John Burnet

John Burnet’s Early Greek Philosophy is a scholarly survey of the thinkers who laid the foundations of…

The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality

Rudolf Schmid

Rudolf Schmid’s work is a scholarly attempt to untangle the tangled debates that have followed Darwin’s…

Eugenics and Other Evils

G. K. Chesterton

The work is a polemical essay by G. K. Chesterton that attacks the doctrine of eugenics as a modern “science…

Hours with the Mystics: A Contribution to the History of Religious Opinion

Robert Alfred Vaughan

Hours with the Mystics is a scholarly survey of the development of mystic thought, assembled after many years…

Esprit des lois livres I à V, précédés d'une introduction de l'éditeur

Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de

Ce volume rassemble les cinq livres de l’« Esprit des lois », chef‑d’œuvre de Montesquieu, précédés d’une…

Democracy in America — Volume 2

Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville’s second volume of Democracy in America is a systematic study of how the principle of…

The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Origen

This volume gathers three of Origen’s most influential works, De Principiis, his letter to Africanus, and the…

The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gîtâ (from the Mahâbhârata) Being a discourse between Arjuna, Prince of India, and the Supreme Being under the form of Krishna

The Song Celestial, or Bhagavad‑Gîtâ, is a Sanskrit poem embedded in the sixth “Bhishma” Parva of the…

Physico-theology: Or, a demonstration of the being and attributes of God, from His works of creation

W. Derham

Physico‑theology is a work of natural theology in which William Derham, a canon of Windsor and Fellow of the…

The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism

Arthur Schopenhauer

The work is a curated selection from Arthur Schopenhauer’s Parerga, assembled under a title that does not…

Gorgias

Plato

Plato’s Gorgias is a philosophical dialogue that pits Socrates against three prominent Athenian figures,…

Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Human, All Too Human is a philosophical essay collection in which Friedrich Nietzsche turns his restless mind…

Of Natural and Supernatural Things Also of the first Tincture, Root, and Spirit of Metals and Minerals, how the same are Conceived, Generated, Brought forth, Changed, and Augmented.

Basilius Valentinus

The work is a sprawling alchemical treatise in which Basilius Valentinus sets out to explain how the visible…

Demonology and Devil-lore

Moncure Daniel Conway

The work is a scholarly survey of demonology that begins with a vivid legend of three friars attempting to…

日知錄

Yanwu Gu

Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 4

George Grote

Natural Law in the Spiritual World

Henry Drummond

The work is a philosophical treatise that seeks to bridge the apparently hostile realms of science and…

Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 5 Miscellaneous Later Essays

F. Max Müller

The work is a scholarly essay collection by Friedrich Max Müller, a German thinker whose interests span…

The guide for the perplexed

Moses Maimonides

The work is a scholarly edition of Moses Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed, presented in English…