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How We Think - John Dewey
How We Think - John Dewey
- Author: John Dewey
- Genre: Modern
A book written by an American education philosopher in which he proposed “This scientific attitude of mind might, conceivably, be quite irrelevant to teaching children and youth. But this book also represents the conviction that such is not the...
Pushing to the Front - Orison Swett Marden
Pushing to the Front - Orison Swett Marden
- Author: Orison Swett Marden
- Genre: Psychology / Self-Help / Modern
Published in 1894, this is the first book by the renowned inspirational author, Dr. Orison Swett Marden. Pushing to the Front is the product of many years of hard work, and marks a turning point in the life of Dr. Marden. He rewrote it following an...
Human Nature and Conduct - Part 4 Conclusion - John Dewey
Human Nature and Conduct - Part 4 Conclusion - John Dewey
- Author: John Dewey
- Genre: Early Modern / Modern
John Dewey, an early 20th Century American philosopher, psychologist, educational theorist. This project encompasses Part 4 of 4 of his book Human Nature and Conduct, An Introduction to Social Psychology, published in 1922. Dewey's uses the words...
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
- Author: Bertrand Russell
- Genre: Philosophy / Modern
Bertrand Russell wrote 'Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy' while imprisoned for protesting Britain's involvement in World War I. Russell summarizes the significance of the momentous work of mathematicians in the late nineteenth-century. He...
The Analysis of Mind - Bertrand Russell
The Analysis of Mind - Bertrand Russell
- Author: Bertrand Russell
- Genre: Modern
A neat work on philosophy of mind by the 20th century analytic philosopher Bertrand Russell. (Summary by sidhu177)...
The Genealogy of Morals - Friedrich Nietzsche
The Genealogy of Morals - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Genre: Modern
In 1887, with the view of amplifying and completing certain new doctrines which he had merely sketched in Beyond Good and Evil (see especially Aphorism 260), Nietzsche published The Genealogy of Morals. This work is perhaps the least aphoristic, in...
Talks by Abdul Baha Given in Paris - Abdu’l-Bahá ‘Abbás
Talks by Abdul Baha Given in Paris - Abdu’l-Bahá ‘Abbás
- Author: Abdu’l-Bahá ‘Abbás
- Genre: Modern / Other religions
“Much has already been written of the visit of Abdul Baha, Abbas Effendi, to Europe,” writes Lady Blomfield in her Preface to Paris Talks, “During his stay at Paris at 4, Avenue de Comoens, he gave short “Talks” each morning to those who crowded,...
The Conduct of Life - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Conduct of Life - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Genre: Modern
This is the best of Emerson's later works, qualifying his earlier popular essays, series one and two, with the heavier hand of experience. The Conduct of Life ostensibly is a set of essays about how to live life, but also is an amalgam of what life...
The New Idealism - May Sinclair
The New Idealism - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Modern
The genius of May Sinclair lies in her brilliant bridging of the Victorian and the modern eras, in her determination never to become ossified in an outdated way of thought or of Art. Though a generation older than the famous literati of the postwar...
The Subjection of Women - John Stuart Mill
The Subjection of Women - John Stuart Mill
- Author: John Stuart Mill
- Genre: Modern
The Subjection of Women is the title of an essay written by John Stuart Mill in 1869, possibly jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill, stating an argument in favor of equality between the sexes. It offers both detailed argumentation and...
A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Genre: Modern
This work presents Rousseau's belief in the profoundly transformational effects of the development of civilization on human nature, which Rousseau claims other political philosophers had failed to grasp. Specifically, before the onset of...
A Study in the Psychology of Religious Phenomena - James H. Leuba
A Study in the Psychology of Religious Phenomena - James H. Leuba
- Author: James H. Leuba
- Genre: Psychology / Modern
"The present essay when complete will contain three parts. Of the two parts now published, the first is an analysis of the conversion process; it is divided into six subdivisions, corresponding to the natural phases of the experience: The Sense of...
The Vocation of the Scholar - Johann Gottlieb Fichte
The Vocation of the Scholar - Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Author: Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Modern
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (German: [ˈjoːhan ˈɡɔtliːp ˈfɪçtə]; May 19, 1762 – January 27, 1814) was a German philosopher. He was one of the founding figures of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, which developed from the theoretical and...
Soren Kierkegaard, Various Readings - Various
Soren Kierkegaard, Various Readings - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Religion / Modern
The writings listed here represent books about Soren Kierkegaard. A fragment of his work, On the Dedication to "That Single Individual", has made it to the public domain. Who was Soren Kierkegaard? He was a Danish philosopher and religious author;...
An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense - Thomas REID
An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense - Thomas REID
- Author: Thomas REID
- Genre: Modern
"That excellent book by Thomas Reid, the Inquiry into the Human Mind (first edition, 1764; 6th edition, 1810), as a negative proof of the Kantian truths, affords us a very thorough conviction of the inadequacy of the senses to produce the objective...
The Philosophy of Logical Atomism - Bertrand Russell
The Philosophy of Logical Atomism - Bertrand Russell
- Author: Bertrand Russell
- Genre: Philosophy / Modern
'The Philosophy of Logical Atomism' is a series of lectures by Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) that touches on numerous topics, including the nature of propositions, the relations of propositions to facts and of different types of words to the...
Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays - Bertrand Russell
Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays - Bertrand Russell
- Author: Bertrand Russell
- Genre: Philosophy / Modern
This anthology collects a number of fascinating strands of Bertrand Russell's thought. "Mathematics and the Metaphysicians" details the impact of the 1900 World Congress of Philosophers on Russell's development and the hope that new methods in...
The Brilliant Proof (Burhäne Lämé) in reply to an attack upon the Bahai Revelation by Peter Z. Easton - Mírzá Abu’l-Fadl GULPÁYGÁNÍ
The Brilliant Proof (Burhäne Lämé) in reply to an attack upon the Bahai Revelation by Peter Z. Easton - Mírzá Abu’l-Fadl GULPÁYGÁNÍ
- Author: Mírzá Abu’l-Fadl GULPÁYGÁNÍ
- Genre: Modern / Other religions
“In these days,” writes the renowned Bahá’í scholar, Mírzá Abu’l-Fadl, “which are the latter days of 1911, A. D. and the early days of 1330 A. H., I have seen a curious article which astonished me. What did I see? I find that one of the missionaries...
The Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
- Author: Bertrand Russell
- Genre: Modern
This 1912 book remains among the most widely-used and well-written introductions to philosophy in English. It was aimed to be an accessible introduction to philosophy for the average shopkeeper in England in 1912. Despite its accessibility It has...
Your Mind and How to Use It - William Walker Atkinson
Your Mind and How to Use It - William Walker Atkinson
- Author: William Walker Atkinson
- Genre: Modern
William Walker Atkinson was one of the most prominent contributors to the literature of the New Thought movement, a non-denomination spiritual philosophy which developed in the late Nineteenth Century. Although he achieved eminence in a number of...
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Version 2) - Ludwig WITTGENSTEIN
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Version 2) - Ludwig WITTGENSTEIN
- Author: Ludwig WITTGENSTEIN
- Genre: Modern
The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the only book published by Ludwig Wittgenstein. Any summary would frankly do the work an injustice - the interested reader is directed to Wittgenstein's preface and to the introduction of Wittgenstein's teacher,...
Our Knowledge of the External World: As a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
Our Knowledge of the External World: As a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
- Author: Bertrand Russell
- Genre: Philosophy / Modern
Bertrand Russell gave the Lowell Lectures in March and April of 1914; these lectures produced 'Our Knowledge of the External World'. Russell attempts to analyze the relationship of the crude data of our senses to the notions of physics such as...
The World as Will and Idea, Vol. 3 of 3 - Arthur SCHOPENHAUER
The World as Will and Idea, Vol. 3 of 3 - Arthur SCHOPENHAUER
- Author: Arthur SCHOPENHAUER
- Genre: Modern
In this work, Schopenhauer explains his fundamental idea that at the root of the reality we see around us is a Will that eternally, insatiably seeks to be satisfied. Each human Subject observes the Objects around her from the perspective of that...
The Discovery Of The Future - H. G. Wells
The Discovery Of The Future - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Modern
The Discovery of the Future is a 1902 philosophical lecture by H. G. Wells that argues for the knowability of the future. It was originally delivered to the Royal Institution on January 24, 1902. Wells begins by distinguishing between "two divergent...
The World As Will and Idea, Vol. 1 of 3 - Arthur SCHOPENHAUER
The World As Will and Idea, Vol. 1 of 3 - Arthur SCHOPENHAUER
- Author: Arthur SCHOPENHAUER
- Genre: Philosophy / Modern
In this work, Schopenhauer explains his fundamental idea that at the root of the reality we see around us is a Will that eternally, insatiably seeks to be satisfied. Each human Subject observes the Objects around her from the perspective of that...
Explanation of Catholic Morals - Rev. John H. STAPLETON
Explanation of Catholic Morals - Rev. John H. STAPLETON
- Author: Rev. John H. STAPLETON
- Genre: Modern
A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals. The ten commandments, vice and virtue from the Catholic perspective. The contents of this volume appeared originally in The Catholic Transcript, of Hartford, Connecticut, in weekly...
Perpetual Peace, A Philosophic Essay (Trueblood Translation) - Immanuel Kant
Perpetual Peace, A Philosophic Essay (Trueblood Translation) - Immanuel Kant
- Author: Immanuel Kant
- Genre: Political Science / Modern
This essay, written in 1795, puts forth a plan for a lasting peace between nations and peoples. Kant puts forth necessary means to any peace, and argues that nations can be brought into federation with one another without loss of sovereignty. In one...
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits, Part I - Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits, Part I - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Genre: Modern
"Human, all-too-Human, is the monument of a crisis. It is entitled: 'A book for free spirits,' and almost every line in it represents a victory—in its pages I freed myself from everything foreign to my real nature. Idealism is foreign to me: the...
Varieties of Religious Experience - William James
Varieties of Religious Experience - William James
- Author: William James
- Genre: Psychology / Modern / Christianity - Other
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by the Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James that comprises his edited Gifford Lectures on "Natural Theology" delivered at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland...
Bushido: The Soul of Japan - Inazō NITOBE
Bushido: The Soul of Japan - Inazō NITOBE
- Author: Inazō NITOBE
- Genre: Modern
Bushido: The Soul of Japan written by Inazo Nitobe was one of the first books on samurai ethics that was originally written in English for a Western audience, and has been subsequently translated into many other languages (also Japanese). Nitobe...
Creative Unity - Rabindranath Tagore
Creative Unity - Rabindranath Tagore
- Author: Rabindranath Tagore
- Genre: Memoirs / Modern
Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore talks of the many things he feels is necessary for creativity through joy of unity, he covers many topics like the creative ideal, makes comparisons of creativity between the east and the west, the spirit of freedom and...
Catholic and Anti-Catholic History - Various
Catholic and Anti-Catholic History - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Modern / Christianity - Other
G.K. Chesterton and James Walsh join Hilaire Belloc in an energetic rollout of the means by which history becomes propaganda, to the damage, not only to truth, but to the human soul. (Summary by Jan Baker)...
The Moral Equivalent of War - William James
The Moral Equivalent of War - William James
- Author: William James
- Genre: Psychology / Modern
The Moral Equivalent of War, the last public utterance of William James, is significant as expressing the opinions of a practical psychologist on a question of growing popular interest. For the past fifteen years the movement for promoting...
A Philosophical Enquiry - Edmund BURKE
A Philosophical Enquiry - Edmund BURKE
- Author: Edmund BURKE
- Genre: Modern
Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry is an important treatise in the history of philosophical aesthetics, putting forth a theory of two concepts of central, perennial importance to the field of aesthetics, namely, the beautiful and the sublime. Written...
The Soul of Man - Oscar Wilde
The Soul of Man - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Political Science / Modern
“(T)he past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.” Published originally as “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” this is not so much a work of sober political analysis; rather it can...
Anthropology - Immanuel Kant
Anthropology - Immanuel Kant
- Author: Immanuel Kant
- Genre: Modern
Immanuel Kant gave a series of lectures on anthropology 1772-1773, 1795-1796 at the University of Königsberg, which was founded in 1544. His lectures dealt with recognizing the internal and external in man, cognition, sensuousness, the five senses,...
The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today - Evelyn UNDERHILL
The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today - Evelyn UNDERHILL
- Author: Evelyn UNDERHILL
- Genre: Modern
Underhill emphasizes the practical, here-and-now nature of spiritual life. She argues that spirituality is a genuine and abiding human fact, and that any complete description of human life must find room for the spiritual factor, and for the...
The Priest and His Disciples (Shaw Translation) - Hyakuzō KURATA
The Priest and His Disciples (Shaw Translation) - Hyakuzō KURATA
- Author: Hyakuzō KURATA
- Genre: Drama / Modern / Other religions
At the age of twenty-six (at the height of the Great War in Europe), the religious pilgrim and maverick Kurata Hyakuzō wrote a profoundly philosophical play called "The Priest & His Disciples" ("Shukke to sono deshi"). This stage play is based...
Culture and Anarchy - Matthew Arnold
Culture and Anarchy - Matthew Arnold
- Author: Matthew Arnold
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Modern
Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869. The preface was added in 1875. Arnold's famous piece of writing on culture established his High...
The World as Will and Idea, Vol. 2 of 3 - Arthur SCHOPENHAUER
The World as Will and Idea, Vol. 2 of 3 - Arthur SCHOPENHAUER
- Author: Arthur SCHOPENHAUER
- Genre: Philosophy / Modern
In this work, Schopenhauer explains his fundamental idea that at the root of the reality we see around us is a Will that eternally, insatiably seeks to be satisfied. Each human Subject observes the Objects around her from the perspective of that...