Philosophy & Ethics

Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking

William James

The work is a series of public lectures delivered by William James in the early twentieth‑century, first at…

A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive

John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill’s A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive is a nineteenth‑century treatise that seeks…

The history of magic: Including a Clear and Precise Exposition of Its Procedure, Its Rites and Its Mysteries

Éliphas Lévi

The work is a nineteenth‑century historical survey of occult theory, written by Alphonse Louis Constant under…

Zoölogische Philosophie Of beschouwingen over de Natuurlijke Historie der dieren etc.

Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck

Dit werk is een uitgebreide filosofische verhandeling over de natuurlijke geschiedenis van dieren, geschreven…

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

The work is an extended essay in which Henry David Thoreau launches his argument for a government that…

What Is Art?

Leo Tolstoy

The work is a philosophical essay that tackles the tangled relationship between art, morality, and truth.

Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul

James George Frazer

This volume is the concluding section of James George Frazer’s monumental comparative study of myth, magic…

Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant’s Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals is a systematic treatise that begins by…

The social contract & discourses

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The work is a scholarly edition that gathers Rousseau’s most influential political writings, culminating in…

Reincarnation and the Law of Karma A Study of the Old-New World-Doctrine of Rebirth, and Spiritual Cause and Effect

William Walker Atkinson

This work is a scholarly survey of the doctrine of reincarnation, or metempsychosis, presented as a study of…

The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura

Apuleius

This volume presents the two surviving speeches of Apuleius of Madaura – the Apologia, his celebrated defense…

Dhammapada, a Collection of Verses; Being One of the Canonical Books of the Buddhists

The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The work is a dense philosophical treatise that extends Nietzsche’s “will‑to‑power” beyond the familiar moral…

The Anatomy of Melancholy

Robert Burton

The work is a seventeenth‑century encyclopaedia of melancholy, presented in three “Partitions” that catalogue…

The Dawn of Day

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The work is an early‑mid‑nineteenth‑century philosophical essay in which Nietzsche declares his intent to…

Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Dieses Werk ist ein philosophisches Manifest, das in Form einer dramatisierten Rede des Propheten Zarathustra…

Reincarnation: A Study in Human Evolution

Théophile Pascal

The work is a scholarly treatise on reincarnation written by Théophile Pascal, a French naval doctor turned…

The Simple Life

Charles Wagner

The work opens with a vivid tableau of modern bustle: callers bearing gifts, tradesmen burdened with parcels,…

The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3)

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer’s three‑volume masterwork, The World as Will and Idea, opens with a series of prefatory…

Minor Dialogues, Together With the Dialogue on Clemency

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The work is a collection of Seneca’s shorter philosophical letters, grouped under the heading “Minor…

Emile

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The work is an early‑modern essay on education, written by Jean‑Jacques Rousseau as a series of “scattered…

Etiquette

Emily Post

Emily Post’s Etiquette is a comprehensive treatise that opens with a sweeping meditation on the relationship…

Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 1 of 2)

Jean Calvin

The work is a nineteenth‑century English edition of Jean Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion, the…

The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life

Arthur Schopenhauer

The work is a collection of aphorisms that sets out a practical philosophy of happiness, beginning with a…