Philosophy & Ethics

Laws

Plato

Plato’s Laws is a sprawling philosophical dialogue that takes the form of a long conversation among three…

Genuine Mediumship; or, The Invisible Powers

William Walker Atkinson

William Walker Atkinson’s Genuine Mediumship; or, The Invisible Powers is a systematic treatise on occult and…

Daemonologie.

King of England James I

James I’s Daemonologie is a polemical treatise that sets out, in three structured books, a systematic…

Theism or Atheism: The Great Alternative

Chapman Cohen

The work is a polemical treatise that sets out to examine the dispute between theism and atheism as a single…

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

François duc de La Rochefoucauld

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims is a collection of concise, aphoristic statements by François du…

Essays of Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

The volume gathers the assorted essays of Arthur Schopenhauer, the German philosopher whose reputation rests…

De Officiis

Marcus Tullius Cicero

De Officiis is Cicero’s final philosophical treatise, composed in the turbulent years after Caesar’s…

Il Comento alla Divina Commedia, e gli altri scritti intorno a Dante, vol. 1

Giovanni Boccaccio

Il volume è una raccolta di commenti e scritti di Giovanni Boccaccio dedicati a Dante Alighieri, con…

Creative Unity

Rabindranath Tagore

Creative Unity is a philosophical essay that weaves together Hindu thought, especially the Upanishadic…

De Lof der Zotheid

Desiderius Erasmus

De Lof der Zotheid, beter bekend als Moriae Encomium, is Erasmus’ satirische lofzang op de dwaasheid, een…

The Conquest of Bread

Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz

The work is a political‑philosophical treatise that sets out an anarchist‑communist vision of a society…

Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 2

George Grote

George Grote’s third‑edition volume presents a scholarly survey of Plato’s dialogues that feature Socrates…

Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870

John Ruskin

The work is a series of university lectures delivered by John Ruskin in the Michaelmas term of 1870, later…

Philosophy of Osteopathy

A. T. Still

Andrew Taylor Still’s Philosophy of Osteopathy is a polemical treatise that opens with a candid confession of…

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle’s On Heroes, Hero‑Worship, and the Heroic in History is a series of lectures that treat “Great…

The Critique of Practical Reason

Immanuel Kant

The work is Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason, a philosophical treatise that sets out to…

Goethe's Theory of Colours

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Goethe’s Theory of Colours is a scholarly treatise that opens with a formal dedication and a translator’s…

History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2)

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

William Edward Hartpole Lecky’s work is a scholarly survey of European moral development from the reign of…

Politics: A Treatise on Government

Aristotle

The work is Aristotle’s second treatise, following his Ethics, and it opens by linking moral character to the…

What's Wrong with the World

G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton’s What’s Wrong with the World is a polemical essay on social problems, launched with a…

Education and the Higher Life

John Lancaster Spalding

John Lancaster Spalding’s Education and the Higher Life is a philosophical treatise that opens with a…

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

Mary Wollstonecraft

This work is a polemical treatise by Mary Wollstonecraft, the eighteenth‑century British writer whose life…

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Montaigne and Shakspere

J. M. Robertson

The work is a scholarly essay that investigates the intellectual relationship between William Shakespeare and…