Philosophy & Ethics

The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The work presented here is a posthumous assembly of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche’s unfinished notes for what…

Confessiones

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint

Confessiones sunt opus spirituale sancti Augustini, episcopi Hipponensis, qui vixit inter saecula IV et V.

The symbolism of Freemasonry: Illustrating and explaining its science and philosophy, its legends, myths and symbols

Albert Gallatin Mackey

The work is a scholarly exposition on the role of legend and symbol in Masonic teaching, written by Albert G.

The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims

Arthur Schopenhauer

The work is a collection of Schopenhauer’s reflections on how to conduct one’s life, organized into four…

The Imitation of Christ

à Kempis Thomas

The Imitation of Christ is a devotional treatise that emerged in the early fifteenth‑century Latin literary…

Vom Musikalisch-Schönen Ein Beitrag zur Revision der Ästhetik der Tonkunst

Eduard Hanslick

Dieses Werk ist ein philosophisch‑ästhetisches Traktat, das erstmals 1854 erschien und nun in seiner dritten…

Self Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance

Samuel Smiles

This work is a self‑help guide framed as a series of brief, anecdotal sketches meant to illustrate the…

The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience Discussed and Mr. Cotton's Letter Examined and Answered

Roger Williams

The work is a scholarly compilation that brings together the writings of early Baptist thinkers, focusing on…

La transformación de las razas en América

Agustín Alvarez

El libro es una extensa reflexión histórica y moral sobre la transformación de las razas en América, escrita…

The Arena, Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891

Various

The Arena, Volume 4, No. 22, September 1891, is a periodical anthology that gathers essays on contemporary…

Mind and Motion and Monism

George John Romanes

The work is a posthumous collection of George John Romanes’s philosophical essays on monism, assembled from…

Tragic Sense Of Life

Miguel de Unamuno

The work is an extended philosophical essay in which Miguel de Unamuno opens with a vivid recollection of…

An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine

John Henry Newman

An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine is a scholarly treatise by Cardinal John Henry Newman,…

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

David Hume

David Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals is a systematic philosophical treatise that…

Manifesto of the Communist Party

Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich

The work is a political pamphlet produced in 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as the official platform…

The Temptation of St. Antony; Or, A Revelation of the Soul

Gustave Flaubert

The work is a biographical‑fictional meditation on the life of Saint Antony, the Egyptian hermit of the…

Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1

George Grote

George Grote’s third‑edition work is a scholarly survey of early Greek philosophy, organized into four…

The Book of Tea

Kakuzo Okakura

The Book of Tea is a cultural essay that treats the humble leaf as a gateway to philosophy, history, and…

Human, All-Too-Human: A Book for Free Spirits, Part 2

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Human, All‑Too‑Human: A Book for Free Spirits, Part 2 is Nietzsche’s first sustained foray into philosophy,…

Sibylla: or, The revival of prophecy

C. A. Mace

Sibyll​a or The Revival of Prophecy is a speculative essay that treats the future of scientific thought as a…

History as past ethics; An Introduction to the History of Morals

P. V. N. Myers

This work is a scholarly survey that treats ethics as a branch of history rather than as abstract philosophy.

The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress

George Santayana

The work is a philosophical essay that treats human progress as a moral drama, beginning with a sweeping…

Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin

W. P. Ball

This work is a scholarly essay that tackles a single, contentious question in evolutionary biology: whether…

Sun Tzŭ on the Art of War: The Oldest Military Treatise in the World

active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

This volume presents the seventh part of the 18th‑century French collection “Mémoires concernant l’histoire,…