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The Sayings of Confucius - Confucius 孔子
The Sayings of Confucius - Confucius 孔子
- Author: Confucius 孔子
- Genre: Ancient
Promoting virtues such as filial devotion, compassion, loyalty, and propriety, these dialogues between the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius and his disciples comprise the crux of Confucianism. (Summary by Andrea L). A Chinese version is...
On the Nature of Things (Watson translation) - Titus Lucretius Carus
On the Nature of Things (Watson translation) - Titus Lucretius Carus
- Author: Titus Lucretius Carus
- Genre: Poetry / Ancient / Life Sciences
Written in the first century b.C., On the Nature of Things (in Latin, De Rerum Natura) is a poem in six books that aims at explaining the Epicurean philosophy to the Roman audience. Among digressions about the importance of philosophy in men's life...
Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure - Liezi
Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure - Liezi
- Author: Liezi
- Genre: Philosophy / Ancient
At the Court of Liang at the period of Yang Chu, about 300 B.C., the philosophers were treated as guests of the reigning king, who reserved for them lodging and maintenance, and encouraged all who had any pretence to the pursuit of truth and wisdom....
Economics - Aristotle
Economics - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: Business & Economics / Ancient
Economics (Greek: ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΑ; Latin: Oeconomica) may not have been written by Aristotle. The author provides examples of methods used by the state to raise money including debt, currency devaluation, commodity controls, tariffs, sales tax, fines,...
The Kama Sutra - Mallanaga Vatsyayana
The Kama Sutra - Mallanaga Vatsyayana
- Author: Mallanaga Vatsyayana
- Genre: Erotica / Ancient
The Kama Sutra, or Aphorisms on Love, has survived at least 1400 years as a dominant text on sexual relations between men and women. Vatsyayana claimed to have written the Kama Sutra while a religious student, “in contemplation of the Deity” - but...
Marius the Epicurean, Volume 2 - Walter Pater
Marius the Epicurean, Volume 2 - Walter Pater
- Author: Walter Pater
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Ancient
The conclusion of Pater's historico-philosophical novel about a young Roman nobleman's search for purpose and meaning. Set in the time of Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, the book traces its title character's encounters with the stoicism of...
On the Ends of Good and Evil - Marcus Tullius Cicero
On the Ends of Good and Evil - Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Genre: Ancient
On the Ends of Good and Evil (Latin: DE FINIBUS BONORUM ET MALORUM) discusses Skeptic, Epicurean, Stoic, Peripatetic and Academic views on the good life. Written by Marcus Tullius Cicero. Translated by Harris Rackham. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)...
The Life of Apollonius of Tyana - Flavius Philostratus
The Life of Apollonius of Tyana - Flavius Philostratus
- Author: Flavius Philostratus
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Ancient / Other religions
Apollonius of Tyana (ca. 40-120 AD) was a Greek Pythagorean philosopher and teacher. He hailed from the town of Tyana in the Roman province of Cappadocia in Asia Minor. His date of birth is a matter of conjecture as some say he was roughly a...
Isha Upanishad - Unknown
Isha Upanishad - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Ancient
The word Upanishad (upa-ni-shad) consists of, "Upa" means "near;" "ni" means "down;" "shad" means "to sit." Thus, Upanishad is to sit down near the teacher to discuss, learn, practice, and experience. There are some 200 or more Upanishads. Some are...
Philebus - Plato
Philebus - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Ancient
Philebus (ΦΙΛΗΒΟΣ) discusses pleasure, wisdom, soul and God. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)...
Cratylus - Plato
Cratylus - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Writing & Linguistics / Ancient
Cratylus (ΚΡΑΤΥΛΟΣ) discusses whether things have names by mere convention or have true names which can only be correctly applied to the object named and may have originated from God. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)...
Charmides - Plato
Charmides - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Ancient
Charmides (Χαρμίδης) discusses the virtue of temperance. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)...
Katha Upanishad - Unknown
Katha Upanishad - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Ancient
The word Upanishad (upa-ni-shad) consists of, "Upa" means "near;" "ni" means "down;" "shad" means "to sit." Thus, Upanishad is to sit down near the teacher to discuss, learn, practice, and experience. There are some 200 or more Upanishads. Some are...
Maitrayana Upanishad - Unknown
Maitrayana Upanishad - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Ancient
The word Upanishad (upa-ni-shad) consists of, "Upa" means "near;" "ni" means "down;" "shad" means "to sit." Thus, Upanishad is to sit down near the teacher to discuss, learn, practice, and experience. There are some 200 or more Upanishads. Some are...
Apocrypha - Plato
Apocrypha - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Ancient
It is not generally agreed whether Plato was the author of any of these books. I. Hippias Major (or Greater Hippias)II. Second Alcibiades (or On Praying)III. TheagesIV. The Rivals (or Rival Lovers)V. HipparchusVI. MinosVII. Clitopho (or...
Apology - Plato
Apology - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Ancient / Other religions
The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully defended himself in 399 BC against the charges of "corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other...
Ion - Plato
Ion - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Ancient
In Plato's ION, Socrates questions Ion, whether he should really claim laud and glory for his 'rhapsodic' recitals of Homer's poetry. —Description by Simon-Peter Zak...
The Symposium - Plato
The Symposium - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Ancient
The Symposium (Ancient Greek: Συμπόσιον) is a philosophical book written by Plato sometime after 385 BCE. On one level the book deals with the genealogy, nature and purpose of love, on another level the book deals with the topic of knowledge,...
Kaushitaki Upanishad - Unknown
Kaushitaki Upanishad - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Ancient
The word Upanishad (upa-ni-shad) consists of, "Upa" means "near;" "ni" means "down;" "shad" means "to sit." Thus, Upanishad is to sit down near the teacher to discuss, learn, practice, and experience. There are some 200 or more Upanishads. Some are...
The City of God - Saint Augustine of Hippo
The City of God - Saint Augustine of Hippo
- Author: Saint Augustine of Hippo
- Genre: Religion / Ancient / Christianity - Other
Rome having been stormed and sacked by the Goths under Alaric their king, the worshippers of false gods, or pagans, as we commonly call them, made an attempt to attribute this calamity to the Christian religion, and began to blaspheme the true God...
Prior Analytics - Aristotle
Prior Analytics - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: Ancient
Prior Analytics is the third of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon ("Instrument"). In Prior Analytics Aristotle conducts a formal study of arguments. In logic an argument is a series of true or false...
Lesser Hippias - Plato
Lesser Hippias - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Ancient
This work may not be by Plato, or his entirely, but Jowett has offered his sublime translation, and seems to lean towards including it in the canon. Socrates tempted by irony to deflate the pretentious know-it-all Hippias, an arrogant polymath,...
Laches - Plato
Laches - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Ancient
Laches (Λάχης) discusses examples of courage including weapons masters, soldiers who stand firm in battle, ferocious animals and the wise person who endures evils. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad - Unknown
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Ancient
The word Upanishad (upa-ni-shad) consists of, "Upa" means "near;" "ni" means "down;" "shad" means "to sit." Thus, Upanishad is to sit down near the teacher to discuss, learn, practice, and experience. There are some 200 or more Upanishads. Some are...
Vairagya Shatakam - BHARTṚHARI
Vairagya Shatakam - BHARTṚHARI
- Author: BHARTṚHARI
- Genre: Poetry / Philosophy / Ancient
Vairagya Shatakam is one of the best books that gives the true picture of Renunciation. The book talks on how a common man gets lured by the endless desires which when satisfied fetches him nothing but the desires again. It concludes saying how...
The Morals (Moralia), Book 1 - Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
The Morals (Moralia), Book 1 - Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
- Author: Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
- Genre: Self-Help / Essays / Ancient
The Moralia (or The morals or Matters relating to customs and mores) is a work by the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea. It is a collection of 78 essays and transcribed speeches that give an insight into Roman and Greek life. Extremely...
Posterior Analytics - Aristotle
Posterior Analytics - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Ancient
Posterior Analytics is the fourth of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon ("Instrument"). Posterior Analytics deals with demonstration, definition, and scientific knowledge. Demonstration is distinguished as a...
Theaetetus - Plato
Theaetetus - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Ancient
Theaetetus (Ancient Greek: Θεαίτητος) discusses concepts including perception, true judgment and knowledge. Socrates compares the human mind to a piece of wax and is critical of lawyers who seek only to persuade. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)...
The Book of Lieh-Tzu - Liezi
The Book of Lieh-Tzu - Liezi
- Author: Liezi
- Genre: Ancient
Although Lieh Tzu's work has evidently passed through the hands of many editors and gathered numerous accretions, there remains a considerable nucleus which in all probability was committed to writing by Lieh Tzu's immediate disciples, and is...
Statesman - Plato
Statesman - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Ancient
Statesman (Ancient Greek: Πολιτικός) discusses God's role in maintaining the universe and describes the statesman as a good shepherd who promotes intermarriage between the orderly and courageous. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)...
Musings of a Chinese Mystic: Selections from the Philosophy of Chuang Tzu - Lionel GILES
Musings of a Chinese Mystic: Selections from the Philosophy of Chuang Tzu - Lionel GILES
- Author: Lionel GILES
- Genre: Ancient
If Lao Tzu then had revolted against the growing artificiality of life in his day, a return to nature must have seemed doubly imperative to his disciple Chuang Tzu, who flourished more than a couple of centuries later, when the bugbear of...
The Book of Good Counsels - From the Sanskrit of the "Hitopadesa" - Sir Edwin ARNOLD
The Book of Good Counsels - From the Sanskrit of the "Hitopadesa" - Sir Edwin ARNOLD
- Author: Sir Edwin ARNOLD
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Ancient
The term ‘Hitopadesha’ is a combination of two Sanskrit terms, ‘Hita’ (welfare/ benefit) and ‘Upadesha’ (counsel). As the term suggests, The Hitopadesha is a collection of tales that gives good counsel. Hitopadesa was presumably written by Narayan...
Elements of Theology - PROCLUS
Elements of Theology - PROCLUS
- Author: PROCLUS
- Genre: Religion / Ancient
The Elements of Theology (ΣΤΟΙΧΕΙΩΣΙΣ ΘΕΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ) was written by the Greek Neoplatonist philosopher Proclus (ΠΡΟΚΛΟΣ) and translated by Thomas Taylor who named his youngest son Thomas Proclus Taylor. This book consists of 211 propositions, each...
The Republic - Plato
The Republic - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Ancient
The Republic is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, written in approximately 380 BC. It is one of the most influential works of philosophy and political theory, and arguably Plato's best known work. In it, Socrates and various other Athenians and...
The Sayings of Lao Tzu - Lao TZU
The Sayings of Lao Tzu - Lao TZU
- Author: Lao TZU
- Genre: Ancient
Lao-Tzu, also known as Laozi was a Chinese philosopher believed to have lived in the 6th century BCE and is credited with writing the Tao-Te-Ching which centers around the idea that the way of virtue lies in simplicity and a recognition of a...
Taittriyaka Upanishad - Unknown
Taittriyaka Upanishad - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Ancient
The word Upanishad (upa-ni-shad) consists of, "Upa" means "near;" "ni" means "down;" "shad" means "to sit." Thus, Upanishad is to sit down near the teacher to discuss, learn, practice, and experience. There are some 200 or more Upanishads. Some are...
Moral Letters, Vol. II - Lucius Annaeus SENECA
Moral Letters, Vol. II - Lucius Annaeus SENECA
- Author: Lucius Annaeus SENECA
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Ancient
This is the second volume of the Letters, Epistles LXVI-XCII. Among the personalities of the early Roman Empire there are few who offer to the readers of to-day such dramatic interest as does Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the author of the Epistles. These...
Prasna Upanishad - Unknown
Prasna Upanishad - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Ancient
The word Upanishad (upa-ni-shad) consists of, "Upa" means "near;" "ni" means "down;" "shad" means "to sit." Thus, Upanishad is to sit down near the teacher to discuss, learn, practice, and experience. There are some 200 or more Upanishads. Some are...
Kena Upanishad - Unknown
Kena Upanishad - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Ancient
The word Upanishad (upa-ni-shad) consists of, "Upa" means "near;" "ni" means "down;" "shad" means "to sit." Thus, Upanishad is to sit down near the teacher to discuss, learn, practice, and experience. There are some 200 or more Upanishads. Some are...
Ancient Greek Philosopher-Scientists - Various
Ancient Greek Philosopher-Scientists - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Ancient
The Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, that is, the philosopher-scientists who lived before or contemporaneously to Socrates, were the first men in the Western world to establish a line of inquiry regarding the natural phenomena that rejected the...
