Philosophy & Ethics

Kant's Critique of Judgement

Immanuel Kant

Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos: or Quadripartite, being four books of the influence of the stars ... with a preface, explanatory notes, and an appendix containing extracts from the Almagest of Ptolemy and the whole of his Centiloquy, together with a short notice of Mr. Ranger's zodiacal planisphere and an explanatory plate

Ptolemy

Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos, presented here as a newly translated “Quadripartite” of four books, is a systematic…

Considerations on Representative Government

John Stuart Mill

This work is a systematic treatise on the nature and limits of representative government, written by John…

The cult of incompetence

Émile Faguet

The work is a polemical study of modern democracy, written by Émile Faguet and framed as a critique of the…

The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics

Laozi

The work presents itself as a collection of aphoristic teachings attributed to Laozi, the legendary founder…

Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources

W. A. Clouston

The volume is a curated anthology of aphorisms that draws chiefly from Eastern literary traditions, though it…

The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America

Thomas Jefferson

The work is the United States Declaration of Independence, authored by Thomas Jefferson and catalogued under…

An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition

George Sharswood

George Sharswood’s An Essay on Professional Ethics (Second Edition, 1860) is a scholarly treatise that grew…

Modern Spiritualism

Uriah Smith

Uriah Smith’s Modern Spiritualism is a polemical study that opens with a sweeping appraisal of the movement’s…

Utopia

More, Thomas, Saint

Der Text ist ein frühneuzeitliches Werk über das ideale Staatswesen, das Thomas Morus – ein angesehener…

Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)

John Morley

John Morley’s two‑volume work is a scholarly biography that seeks to fill the gap left by earlier,…

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 09 of 12)

James George Frazer

James George Frazer’s The Golden Bough is a scholarly survey of the rites, myths and superstitions that…

Theaetetus

Plato

Plato’s Theaetetus is a middle‑period dialogue that unfolds as a philosophical investigation into the nature…

The Joyful Wisdom ("La Gaya Scienza")

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The Joyful Wisdom, written in 1882 just before Nietzsche’s famous Zarathustra, is a philosophical work that…

A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes

J. M. Robertson

Robert J. M. Robertson’s Short History of Freethought is a sweeping scholarly survey that traces the…

Essays — First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays, First Series is a collection of Ralph Wallace Emerson’s early American essays, first published in the…

The Golden Age Cook Book

Henrietta Latham Dwight

The Golden Age Cook Book is a nineteenth‑century vegetarian manual that begins with a series of biblical…

Philosophumena; or, The refutation of all heresies, Volume I

Antipope Hippolytus

The work presented here is a scholarly edition of Philosophumena, a thirteenth‑century treatise traditionally…

Timaeus

Plato

Plato’s Timaeus is a philosophical dialogue that ventures into the realm of cosmology, blending abstract…

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

George Grote

Spirit and Music

H. Ernest Hunt

This work is a philosophical treatise that treats music as a fundamental element of human existence rather…

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12)

Edmund Burke

This volume gathers the later, often unpublished, writings of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, whose career…

The Idea of God in Early Religions

F. B. Jevons

The work is a scholarly investigation of religion that treats the notion of God as an inner, psychological…

The City of God, Volume II

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint

The work is a theological treatise that continues Augustine’s famous contrast between the earthly “City of…