Philosophy books

The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

William James

The work is a collection of philosophical essays by William James, beginning with a fervent appeal to “be not…

The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The work is Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols, the sixteenth volume of his Complete Works,…

The Approach to Philosophy

Ralph Barton Perry

The Approach to Philosophy is a scholarly essay that treats poetry as a vehicle for philosophical insight.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics

The volume opens with a concise biography of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, tracing his birth in Stuttgart,…

Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

Bertrand Russell

Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays is a collection of Bertrand Russell’s shorter writings on mathematics,…

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…

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…

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…

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer’s third volume of The World as Will and Idea is a systematic philosophical treatise that…

What Nietzsche Taught

Willard Huntington Wright

What What Nietzsche Taught offers a systematic overview of Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy, aimed at readers…

The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 2 of 3)

Arthur Schopenhauer

Hegel's Philosophy of Mind

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Betrachtungen über die Grundlagen der Philosophie

René Descartes

The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, with the Hymn of Cleanthes

Epictetus

The Joyful Wisdom ("La Gaya Scienza") Complete Works, Volume Ten

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit

Arthur Schopenhauer

Der Wille zur Macht: Eine Auslegung alles Geschehens

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Selections from the Writings of Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard

The Dance of Life

Havelock Ellis

The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Religion, a Dialogue, Etc.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy

Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

Plutarch

The philosophy of life, and philosophy of language, in a course of lectures

Friedrich von Schlegel

Æsthetic as science of expression and general linguistic

Benedetto Croce