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All Things Are Possible - Lev SHESTOV
All Things Are Possible - Lev SHESTOV
- Author: Lev SHESTOV
- Genre: Modern
A passionate exponent of Russian Existentialism, Lev Shestov is little known in the English-speaking world but had an extensive influence on philosophy and literature in the first half of the 20th century, his influence imprinting thinkers and...
Mistakes of Moses - Robert G. Ingersoll
Mistakes of Moses - Robert G. Ingersoll
- Author: Robert G. Ingersoll
- Genre: Modern / Christianity - Commentary
Robert G. Ingersoll was an extremely popular humanist orator in the late nineteenth century, and he wrote Mistakes of Moses after many bootlegged versions of his speeches had been published and circulated. In Mistakes of Moses, through a close,...
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book III - John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book III - John Locke
- Author: John Locke
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Writing & Linguistics / Modern
This is the third book of John Locke's Essay on Human Understanding. Book I was Neither Principles Nor Ideas Are Innate. Book II was Of Ideas and Book III is Of Words. Locke is writing about the ideas we have in our minds and the things they are to...
Essays Before a Sonata - Charles IVES
Essays Before a Sonata - Charles IVES
- Author: Charles IVES
- Genre: Modern
Some philosophical studies in relation to the ideas of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne. Although the sonata is not explicitly referenced in this text, the ideas of these philosophers were attempted to be integrated into Ives' famous 'Piano Sonata No. 2...
As a Man Thinketh (version 3) - James Allen
As a Man Thinketh (version 3) - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: Modern
The burgeoning conflict between science and organized religion in the Nineteenth Century had many cultural offshoots, one of the most significant of which was the New Thought movement. New Thought exponents sought to reconcile the principles of...
Ecce Homo - Friedrich Nietzsche
Ecce Homo - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's autobiography, Ecce Homo, was the last prose work that he wrote before his illness in 1889. Coming at the end of an extraordinarily productive year in which he had produced The Twilight of the Idols and The...
On Propositions: What They Are and How They Mean - Bertrand Russell
On Propositions: What They Are and How They Mean - Bertrand Russell
- Author: Bertrand Russell
- Genre: Modern
In this piece, Bertrand Russell offers an account of propositions. This essay has been widely regarded as a turning point in Russell's thought: fresh from his prison sentence, during which he read numerous works of psychology, he now rejects the...
The Path to Prosperity (version 2) - James Allen
The Path to Prosperity (version 2) - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: Modern
James Allen (1864 - 1912) was a philosopher and a pioneer of New Thought movement. His works have formed the basis of much of the curriculum used today by many motivational and self-help groups,His first book, which published in 1901, was From...
The Logic of Hegel - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HEGEL
The Logic of Hegel - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HEGEL
- Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HEGEL
- Genre: Modern
This is the William Wallace translation of the first part of Hegel's Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences on logic. This is an outline of Hegel's logical system that he would use and elaborate on during his lectures, it is a shorter version of...
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (version 2) (includes annotations) - Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (version 2) (includes annotations) - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Genre: Religious Fiction / Philosophy / Modern
The modern British philosopher, Anthony M. Ludovici, said that this text βis unquestionably Nietzscheβs opus magnum.β However, he warns the reader that since βthe book with the most mysterious, startling, or suggestive title, will always stand the...
The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women - Edward CARPENTER
The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women - Edward CARPENTER
- Author: Edward CARPENTER
- Genre: Modern
Written in 1908 by socialist critic and gay rights activist Edward Carpenter, The Intermediate Sex is a thoughtful, humanizing, and frequently utopian treatise on homosexuality that defies some of the period's more stultifying notions about human...
Philosophical Essays - Bertrand Russell
Philosophical Essays - Bertrand Russell
- Author: Bertrand Russell
- Genre: Modern
Six out of seven essays appearing here were reprinted from other publications; indeed, this 1910 collection went out of print, so that two of the essays occurring here were reprinted in Russell's 1917 "Mysticism and Logic, and Other Essays"....
The Poverty of Philosophy - Karl MARX
The Poverty of Philosophy - Karl MARX
- Author: Karl MARX
- Genre: Business & Economics / Modern
This work is a scathing criticism of the economic and philosophical arguments of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's The Philosophy of Poverty. (Summary by TriciaG)...
The Destination Of Man - Johann Gottlieb Fichte
The Destination Of Man - Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Author: Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Genre: Psychology / Modern / Christianity - Other
Johanne Fichte published The Destination of Man (Die Bestimmung des Menschen) in 1799. It was translated into English in 1846 by Jane Sinnett and then again in 1848 by William Smith. Fichte says his book is designed to "raise [the reader] from the...
Fear and Trembling (selections) - Soren KIERKEGAARD
Fear and Trembling (selections) - Soren KIERKEGAARD
- Author: Soren KIERKEGAARD
- Genre: Literary Criticism / Modern / Christianity - Commentary
"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 there on a mountain which I shall show thee. Genesis 22:1" Soren Kierkegaard wondered how Abraham made the movement...
Ontology, or the Theory of Being - Peter Coffey
Ontology, or the Theory of Being - Peter Coffey
- Author: Peter Coffey
- Genre: Modern
The book is an introduction to metaphysics and Thomistic Ontology. - Summary by shreyasethi...
Six Radical Thinkers: Bentham, J.S. Mill, Cobden, Carlyle, Mazzini, T.H. Green - John MacCunn
Six Radical Thinkers: Bentham, J.S. Mill, Cobden, Carlyle, Mazzini, T.H. Green - John MacCunn
- Author: John MacCunn
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern
A radical is a person who holds extreme or unconventional convictions and who advocates fundamental political, economic, or social reforms. In this volume, the Scottish philosopher, John MacCunn, presents the life and thought of Jeremy Bentham, John...
The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism - Bertrand Russell
The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism - Bertrand Russell
- Author: Bertrand Russell
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Political Science / Modern
This book records Bertrand Russell's impressions of the new regime after a 1920 visit to Russia following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, including his meetings with Lenin, Trostky, and Gorky. It includes a chapter that was authored by Dora Black,...
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book IV - John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book IV - John Locke
- Author: John Locke
- Genre: Education / Writing & Linguistics / Modern
This is the fourth book of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding. His book deals with knowledge and probability. He asks how far knowledge can go, if there are universal propositions, what are judgment and probability and deals with...
The Book of Tea (Version 2) - KakuzΕ OKAKURA
The Book of Tea (Version 2) - KakuzΕ OKAKURA
- Author: KakuzΕ OKAKURA
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Modern
The Book of Tea is as much about philosophy, religion and art as it is about a drink made with dried leaves in boiling water. It traces the development of tea into teaism. The authorβs first paragraph summarizes the whole book: βTea began as a...
Essays of Schopenhauer - Arthur SCHOPENHAUER
Essays of Schopenhauer - Arthur SCHOPENHAUER
- Author: Arthur SCHOPENHAUER
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Modern
Schopenhauer is considered to be one of the most influential philosophers of all times. Many of his ideas and quotes have been quoted largely and have now become almost commonplace. The essays in this collection are a proof of his breakthrough...
Thomas Hobbes - Alfred Edward Taylor
Thomas Hobbes - Alfred Edward Taylor
- Author: Alfred Edward Taylor
- Genre: Philosophy / Modern
This work is a look at the life and ideas of Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher of the seventeenth century. The most important ideas are found in his famous work Leviathan. Taylor looks at such concepts of Hobbes as the contract, naturalism,...
Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure, and Other Essays - Edward CARPENTER
Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure, and Other Essays - Edward CARPENTER
- Author: Edward CARPENTER
- Genre: Modern
This publication, by English utopian socialist Edward Carpenter, describes civilisation as a sort of disease with which humanity is afflicted. Alongside this influential publication (originally published in 1889), are compiled other essays: Modern...
Christian Science - Mark Twain
Christian Science - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Modern / Christianity - Other
Christian Science is a 1907 collection of essays Mark Twain wrote about Christian Science, beginning with an article that was published in Cosmopolitan in 1899. Although Twain was interested in mental healing and the ideas behind Christian Science,...
Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays (Version 2) - Friedrich Nietzsche
Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays (Version 2) - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Genre: Modern
βThe essays contained in this volume treat of various subjects. With the exception of perhaps one we must consider all these papers as fragments. Written during the early Seventies, and intended mostly as prefaces, they are extremely interesting,...
The Nature and Authority of Conscience - Rufus Jones
The Nature and Authority of Conscience - Rufus Jones
- Author: Rufus Jones
- Genre: Modern / Christianity - Commentary
Rufus Matthew Jones (January 25, 1863 β June 16, 1948) was an American religious leader, writer, magazine editor, philosopher, and college professor. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Haverford Emergency Unit (a precursor to the...
History of Modern Philosophy - Alfred William Benn
History of Modern Philosophy - Alfred William Benn
- Author: Alfred William Benn
- Genre: Modern
This book is a brief, but cogent discussion of Western philosophy-- from Francis Bacon and Giordano Bruno through Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, Hume, Berkeley and Kant, the German idealists and Hegel, and ending with such nineteenth century...
The Service - Henry David Thoreau
The Service - Henry David Thoreau
- Author: Henry David Thoreau
- Genre: Modern
An essay in three parts written in July 1840. "Human life is his topic, and he views it with an Oriental scope of thought, in which distinctions of Time and Space are lost in the wide prospect of Eternity and Immortality." (from the Introductory...
The General Principle of Relativity: In Its Philosophical and Historical Aspect - Herbert Wildon Carr
The General Principle of Relativity: In Its Philosophical and Historical Aspect - Herbert Wildon Carr
- Author: Herbert Wildon Carr
- Genre: Modern / Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
The main purpose of this book is to show the historical relations of the new principle to the old philosophical problems and to the classical theories of space and time. - Summary by Adapted from the Preface...
The Problem of Truth - Herbert Wildon Carr
The Problem of Truth - Herbert Wildon Carr
- Author: Herbert Wildon Carr
- Genre: Modern
A problem of philosophy is completely different from a problem of science. In science we accept our subject-matter as it is presented in unanalysed experience; in philosophy we examine the first principles and ultimate questions that concern...