Philosophy

A Treatise of Human Nature

David Hume

David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature begins with a declaration of purpose: the author intends to lay a new…

Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism is a philosophical treatise that opens with a sweeping survey of the…

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…

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…

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…

Considerations on Representative Government

John Stuart Mill

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

Theaetetus

Plato

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

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…

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…

Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic

Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson’s Laughter is a philosophical essay that treats comedy as a living phenomenon rather than a set…

Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge

Alexander Philip

The work is a philosophical treatise that seeks to ground knowledge in the physical regularities of the…

Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller

The work is a systematic treatise on aesthetics, in which Friedrich Schiller sets out to define the…

Euthyphro

Plato

Plato’s Euthyphro is a short Socratic dialogue that opens on the porch of the King Archon, where Socrates,…

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

David Hume

David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical work that treats the question of God…

The Analysis of Mind

Bertrand Russell

The work is a scholarly collection of lectures by Bertrand Russell that seeks to reconcile the materialist…

Symbolic Logic

Lewis Carroll

This work is a systematic treatise on symbolic logic, written by Lewis Carroll and first published in the…

Autobiography

John Stuart Mill

This work is the autobiographical sketch of John Stuart Mill, the eminent 19th‑century English philosopher,…

Ontology, or the Theory of Being

P. Coffey

The work is a scholarly textbook on general metaphysics presented from a Scholastic perspective.

Ion

Plato

Plato’s Ion is a brief Socratic dialogue that opens with Socrates greeting the celebrated rhapsode Ion, fresh…

Logic: Deductive and Inductive

Carveth Read

Carveth Read’s Logic: Deductive and Inductive is a scholarly survey of logical theory as it stood in the…

Essays in Radical Empiricism

William James

The volume gathers the essays William James originally intended for a separate work on “radical empiricism,”…

Aristotle on the art of poetry

Aristotle

This work is a scholarly translation of Aristotle’s surviving first book of the Poetics, the ancient treatise…

Discours de la méthode

René Descartes

Ce texte est une introduction monumentale à la pensée de René Descartes, placée dans le contexte historique…

Moral Principles in Education

John Dewey

John Dewey’s Moral Principles in Education is a systematic treatise that opens by confronting the uneasy…