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Bhagavad Gita - Unknown
Bhagavad Gita - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Philosophy / Other religions
The content of the text is a conversation between Krishna and Arjuna taking place on the battlefield of Kurukshetra just prior to the start of a climactic war. Responding to Arjuna's confusion and moral dilemma, Krishna explains to Arjuna his duties...
Magna Moralia - Aristotle
Magna Moralia - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Philosophy
Magna Moralia (Ancient Greek: ΗΟΙΚΩΝ ΜΕΓΑΛΩΝ, English: Great Ethics) discusses topics including friendship, virtue, happiness and God. It is disputed whether Aristotle wrote Magna Moralia. This author concludes that it is absurd to suggest that God...
Apology (version 2) - Plato
Apology (version 2) - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Philosophy
The Apology is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defended himself in 399 BC[2] against the charges of "corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel" ....
Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education - John Dewey
Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education - John Dewey
- Author: John Dewey
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
An important, controversial, and often cited work on public education. Dewey discusses the role of public education in a democracy and the different methods for achieving quality in education. After its initial publication, this book began a...
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...
Your Invisible Power - Genevieve BEHREND
Your Invisible Power - Genevieve BEHREND
- Author: Genevieve BEHREND
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Psychology
Genevieve Behrend was a teacher of Mental Science, a New Thought discipline created by Thomas Troward (1847- 1916). Your Invisible Power, published in 1921, is her first and most famous book. It is a guide to the use of visualization and other...
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - PATANJALI
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - PATANJALI
- Author: PATANJALI
- Genre: Philosophy
Yoga sutras by Patanjali is a seminal work in yoga, this book is more about control of mind and the true goal of yoga. The sutras are extremely brief, and the translation in neat English makes it very easy for people to understand the ancient...
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 2) - Henry David Thoreau
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 2) - Henry David Thoreau
- Author: Henry David Thoreau
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Political Science
ivil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their...
Kindness - Frederick William FABER
Kindness - Frederick William FABER
- Author: Frederick William FABER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Christianity - Other
Father Frederick William Faber was a beloved spiritual writer, preacher, and superior of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in London. An Oxford scholar and Anglican priest since 1839, Faber converted to Roman Catholicism in 1845 following his mentor...
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...
A Dissertation Concerning the Nature of True Virtue - Jonathan EDWARDS
A Dissertation Concerning the Nature of True Virtue - Jonathan EDWARDS
- Author: Jonathan EDWARDS
- Genre: Philosophy
Disproportionately remembered as a hellfire-and-brimstone Puritan preacher on the basis of the excessively-anthologized "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," Jonathan Edwards was a noted philosopher in the field of Aesthetics, or the metaphysics...
A General View of Positivism - Auguste COMTE
A General View of Positivism - Auguste COMTE
- Author: Auguste COMTE
- Genre: History / Philosophy / Science
Auguste Comte was from France and published this book in French in 1844. He made a very great impact on the sciences and claims to have “discovered the principal laws of Sociology." Comte says Reason has become habituated to revolt but that doesn’t...
A Letter Concerning Toleration - John Locke
A Letter Concerning Toleration - John Locke
- Author: John Locke
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke was originally published in 1689. Its initial publication was in Latin, though it was immediately translated into other languages. In this "letter" addressed to an anonymous "Honored Sir" (actually Locke's...
Soul Food - George Douglas WATSON
Soul Food - George Douglas WATSON
- Author: George Douglas WATSON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Religion
A guide for Christians to walk a godly life. Covering various practical and spiritual topics.This project was proof listened by Guero and Laura Victoria....
Timaeus - Plato
Timaeus - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
"Our intention is, that Timaeus, who is the most of an astronomer amongst us, and has made the nature of the universe his special study, should speak first, beginning with the generation of the world and going down to the creation of man..."...
What I Believe - Leo Tolstoy
What I Believe - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Philosophy / Religion
"The inner working of my soul, which I wish to speak of here, was not the result of a methodical investigation of doctrinal theology, or of the actual texts of the gospel; it was a sudden removal of all that hid the true meaning of the Christian...
Considerations on Representative Government - John Stuart Mill
Considerations on Representative Government - John Stuart Mill
- Author: John Stuart Mill
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Philosophy
Mill's volume was published in 1861 as an argument favoring this form of governance. Mill covers what forms of government work best, including when representative government is applicable and when not. He details appropriate functions of...
Democracy in America Vol. I - Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America Vol. I - Alexis de Tocqueville
- Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Philosophy
When Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful observations American society and political system, found in the two volume book he published after his...
Confucian Analects - Confucius 孔子
Confucian Analects - Confucius 孔子
- Author: Confucius 孔子
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
The Analects, or Lunyu (simplified Chinese: 论语; traditional Chinese: 論語; pinyin: Lún Yǔ; literally "Classified/Ordered Sayings"), also known as the Analects of Confucius, are considered a record of the words and acts of the central Chinese thinker...
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 Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 2 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HEGEL
The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 2 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HEGEL
- Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HEGEL
- Genre: Philosophy / Early Modern
Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most important and widely discussed philosophical work. Hegel's first book, it describes the three-stage dialectical life of Spirit. The title can be translated as either The...
Wit and Wisdom of Chesterton - G. K. Chesterton
Wit and Wisdom of Chesterton - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
This little volume, issued as a gift book for lovers of Mr. Chesterton's writings in 1911, is made up from essays to be found in "The Defandant", "Varied Types" and "Tremendous Trifles". These 12 pieces were chosen to giving a peek into the margins...
Essays in Radical Empiricism - William James
Essays in Radical Empiricism - William James
- Author: William James
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Psychology
William James (1842 – 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the philosophies of...
Anticipations - H. G. Wells
Anticipations - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Philosophy / Political Science / Psychology
Wells considered this book one of his most important, a natural follow-up to such works as his Man of the Year Million and The Time Machine. His goal was to get people to think and act in new ways. The book starts with a look at how humans get along...
American Philosophy Collection Vol. 1 - Various
American Philosophy Collection Vol. 1 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Philosophy
This collection of articles in early 20th Century American philosophy focuses on the topics of realism, experience, and ideas, with particular attention to the pragmatic naturalism of John Dewey. In tracks 1-5, Dewey responds to critics of his...
Omens and Superstitions of Southern India - Edgar THURSTON
Omens and Superstitions of Southern India - Edgar THURSTON
- Author: Edgar THURSTON
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
This book deals mainly with some aspects of what may be termed the psychical life of the inhabitants of the Madras Presidency, and the Native States of Travancore and Cochin.(Summary by Edgar Thurston)...
The Madman: His Parables And Poems and The Forerunner: His Parables And Poems - Kahlil Gibran
The Madman: His Parables And Poems and The Forerunner: His Parables And Poems - Kahlil Gibran
- Author: Kahlil Gibran
- Genre: Philosophy
Two short books by the Lebanese-American writer, poet, and mystic. Reflections on existence and life, purpose and meaning. His most famous work is The Prophet (1923). The Madman, Part 1: Introduction; God; My Friend; The Scarecrow; The...
Essay on the Creative Imagination - Théodule-Armand RIBOT
Essay on the Creative Imagination - Théodule-Armand RIBOT
- Author: Théodule-Armand RIBOT
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Psychology
"It is quite generally recognized that psychology has remained in the semi-mythological, semi-scholastic period longer than most attempts at scientific formulization. For a long time it has been the "spook science" per se, and the imagination, now...
The Joyful Wisdom (or: The Gay Science) - Friedrich Nietzsche
The Joyful Wisdom (or: The Gay Science) - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
"The Joyful Wisdom," written in 1882, just before "Zarathustra," is rightly judged to be one of Nietzsche's best books. Here the essentially grave and masculine face of the poet-philosopher is seen to light up and suddenly break into a delightful...
The Persian Hidden Words - BAHÁ'U'LLÁH
The Persian Hidden Words - BAHÁ'U'LLÁH
- Author: BAHÁ'U'LLÁH
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Religion
Kalimát-i-Maknúnih (کلمات مکنونه) or The Hidden Words is a book written in Baghdad around 1857 by Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith. This work is written partly in Arabic and partly in Persian. The Hidden Words is written in the form of a...
The Privilege of Pain - Caroline Kane Mills EVERETT
The Privilege of Pain - Caroline Kane Mills EVERETT
- Author: Caroline Kane Mills EVERETT
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Philosophy
We have seen that as mankind rises in the scale of civilization the body becomes increasingly less important. Nevertheless, I wish it to be clearly understood, that I do not maintain that it is preferable to be ill than well, but only that each...
The Way of Peace - James Allen
The Way of Peace - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Religion
The Way of Peace is your guide to the power of meditation; self and truth; the acquirement of spiritual power; the realization of selfless love; entering into the infinite; saints, sages, and saviors; the law of service; and the realization of...
The Sikh Religion: its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 6 - Max Arthur Macauliffe
The Sikh Religion: its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 6 - Max Arthur Macauliffe
- Author: Max Arthur Macauliffe
- Genre: Family & Relationships / Philosophy
This is one of the first (and still one of the few) comprehensive books about the Sikh religion in the English language. Macauliffe had extensive access to manuscripts of the Sikh sacred writings (the Granth), as well as support from Sikh scholars...
The Age of Reason (version 2) - Thomas PAINE
The Age of Reason (version 2) - Thomas PAINE
- Author: Thomas PAINE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Political Science
The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a pamphlet, written by a British and American revolutionary Thomas Paine. The Age of Reason challenges institutionalized religion and challenges the legitimacy of the Bible,...
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book II - John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book II - John Locke
- Author: John Locke
- Genre: Education / Philosophy / Psychology
John Locke wrote four essays on human (or humane) understanding. Here are a few quotes from the book: "I see no reason to believe, that the soul thinks before the senses have furnished it with ideas to think on. The dreams of sleeping men are, as I...
Poor Richard's Almanack - Benjamin FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack - Benjamin FRANKLIN
- Author: Benjamin FRANKLIN
- Genre: Philosophy / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
A brief biographical sketch of Franklin's life, followed by a collection (published in 1899) of 670 aphorisms, apothegms, or proverbs - short, pithy, instructive sayings - that were scattered throughout the pages of his Poor Richard's Almanack over...
Religion and Science from Galileo to Bergson - John Charlton HARDWICK
Religion and Science from Galileo to Bergson - John Charlton HARDWICK
- Author: John Charlton HARDWICK
- Genre: Philosophy
This history of Western philosophy, published in 1920, explores the ways mankind has explained the natural world during the last few centuries, whether by spiritual interpretation or through advances in science. From the Preface: "The chapters which...
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...
The Symposium (version 2) (dramatic reading) - Plato
The Symposium (version 2) (dramatic reading) - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Dramatic Readings / Philosophy
In one of Plato's more accessible works, Apollodorus tells a friend about a drinking party (or symposium) attended by many of intellectuals of late 5th century Athens. The men are one their second night of celebration for Agathon's victory at the...
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...
