Philosophy
- Philosophical Explorations of Faith
- Explorations of Human Nature
- Foundations of Political Philosophy
- Philosophical Essays on Existence
- Philosophical Classics of Antiquity
A Theologico-Political Treatise
Written by the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza, the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus or Theologico-Political Treatise was one of the most con…
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
Bertrand Russell wrote 'Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy' while imprisoned for protesting Britain's involvement in World War I. Russe…
The New Atlantis
In 1623, Francis Bacon expressed his aspirations and ideas in New Atlantis. Released in 1627, this was his creation of an ideal land where p…
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are in themselves exceedingly brief, less than ten pages of large type in the original. Yet they contain the es…
The Symposium
The Symposium (Ancient Greek: Συμπόσιον) is a philosophical book written by Plato sometime after 385 BCE. On one level the book deals with t…
The New Organon
The Novum Organum is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon published in 1620. The title translates as "new instrument". This is a …
Proposed Roads to Freedom
Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872 – 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, political activist and Nobel laureate. …
The Problems of Philosophy
This 1912 book remains among the most widely-used and well-written introductions to philosophy in English. It was aimed to be an accessible …
Utopia
This book is all about the fictional country called Utopia. It is a country with an ‘ideal’ form of communism, in which everything really do…
The Concept of Nature
In The Concept of Nature, Alfred North Whitehead discusses the interrelatedness of time, space, and human perception.The idea of objects as …
A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind
This work presents Rousseau's belief in the profoundly transformational effects of the development of civilization on human nature, which Ro…
Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll
Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll presents a compelling collection of thought-provoking lectures from one of the most influential orators of t…
The Book of Life
Faith and reason, love and virtue, morality and mortality! In these two short volumes the famous novelist, essayist, and playwright, Upton S…
The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant
Born in Scotland, Alexander Dunlop Lindsay was a teacher of philosophy at a number of universities in England in the early 1900s. This brief…
The Monadology
The Monadology (La Monadologie, 1714) is one of Gottfried Leibniz’s best known works representing his later philosophy. It is a short text w…
Letters on England
Voltaire spent his early thirties in England as an exile following the Bastille imprisonment for his satires. With passionate admiration, he…
The Quest of the Historical Jesus
In this book, Schweitzer traces the historical progress of 'Historical Jesus' research, from Hermann Reimarus in the mid 18th century, to Wi…
The Buddhist Catechism
The simple aim of this little book is to give so succinct and yet comprehensive a digest of Buddhistic history, ethics and philosophy as to …
Fear and Trembling
"And God tempted Abraham and said unto him: take Isaac, thine only son, whom thou lovest and go to the land Moriah and sacrifice him th…
On the Shortness of Life
De Brevitate Vitae (English: On the Shortness of Life) is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, sometime a…