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The Consolation of Philosophy - Anicius Manlius Severinus BOETHIUS
The Consolation of Philosophy - Anicius Manlius Severinus BOETHIUS
- Author: Anicius Manlius Severinus BOETHIUS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year 524 AD. It has been described as the single most important and influential work in the West in medieval and early Renaissance...
Girl Scout Collection - Various
Girl Scout Collection - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
These articles, pamphlets, and stories relating to the Girls Scouts of America touch on the history, activities, ideals, and traditions of this remarkable girls' organization. Though some of the articles appear redundant, they were selected to...
The Essence of Christianity - Ludwig FEUERBACH
The Essence of Christianity - Ludwig FEUERBACH
- Author: Ludwig FEUERBACH
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Religion
Taking issue with Hegel's sense that God, as Logos, is somehow central to all that is, Feuerbach explores his own notion that Christianity, as religion, grew quite naturally from ordinary human observation. Only upon deeper, systematic reflection...
Thoughts on Art and Life - Leonardo DA VINCI
Thoughts on Art and Life - Leonardo DA VINCI
- Author: Leonardo DA VINCI
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Philosophy / Memoirs
This is a compilation of the thoughts on art, science and life of Leonardo da Vinci, translated by Maurice Baring and edited by Lewis Einstein. - Summary by A. Gramour...
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
- Author: Henry David Thoreau
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Philosophy
Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s life for two years, two months, and two days around the shores of Walden Pond. Walden is neither a novel nor a...
Crime: Its Cause and Treatment - Clarence DARROW
Crime: Its Cause and Treatment - Clarence DARROW
- Author: Clarence DARROW
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Psychology
Clarence Darrow was an American lawyer. He remains notable for his wit and agnosticism, which marked him as one of the most famous American lawyers and civil libertarians.In this book, Darrow expands on his lifelong contention that psychological,...
Perpetual Peace: A Philosophic Essay (Hastie Translation) - Immanuel Kant
Perpetual Peace: A Philosophic Essay (Hastie Translation) - Immanuel Kant
- Author: Immanuel Kant
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
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...
The World as Will and Idea Volume 1 - Arthur SCHOPENHAUER
The World as Will and Idea Volume 1 - Arthur SCHOPENHAUER
- Author: Arthur SCHOPENHAUER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Schopenhauer used the word "will" as a human's most familiar designation for the concept that can also be signified by other words such as "desire," "striving," "wanting," "effort," and "urging." Schopenhauer's philosophy holds that all nature,...
The Posthumous Essays of John Churton Collins - John Churton COLLINS
The Posthumous Essays of John Churton Collins - John Churton COLLINS
- Author: John Churton COLLINS
- Genre: Philosophy / Religion
John Churton Collins was a literary critic who lived from 1848-1908. In 1904 John Collins became professor of English literature at Birmingham University (United Kingdom). He writes about the lives of English and German authors beginning with...
Some Problems of Philosophy - William James
Some Problems of Philosophy - William James
- Author: William James
- Genre: Philosophy
For several years before his death Professor William James cherished the purpose of stating his views on certain problems of metaphysics in a book addressed particularly to readers of philosophy. He began the actual writing of this 'introductory...
A Defence of Idealism - May Sinclair
A Defence of Idealism - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
The philosophy of Idealism, revived in eighteenth-century Europe by George Berkeley, argued against philosophical materialism by maintaining that Reality is a creation of the Mind. Despite its flourishing under the leadership of Hegel, Fichte,...
Eleven Theses on Feuerbach - Karl MARX
Eleven Theses on Feuerbach - Karl MARX
- Author: Karl MARX
- Genre: Philosophy / Political Science
The “Theses on Feuerbach” are eleven short philosophical notes written by Karl Marx in 1845. They outline a critique of the ideas of Marx’s fellow Young Hegelian philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach. The theses form a basis for the activism emphasised by...
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman - Philip STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman - Philip STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
- Author: Philip STANHOPE 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Philosophy
Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, was at one time Ambassador to the Hague, negotiated the second Treaty of Vienna, was a founding governor of London’s Foundling Hospital, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and Secretary of State. Having no legitimate...
Elementary Theosophy - L. W. ROGERS
Elementary Theosophy - L. W. ROGERS
- Author: L. W. ROGERS
- Genre: Philosophy
This book provides the basics of Theosophy and perhaps the beginning of a life long journey. Theosophy comes from the ancient wisdom that man and nature are as inseparable from the universe as the universe is inseparable from man and nature. It is a...
Self and Self-management: Essays about Existing - Arnold Bennett
Self and Self-management: Essays about Existing - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Satire / Essays & Short Works / Philosophy
Bennett's essays always provide food for thought and bring a wry smile to the lips. Human nature, it appears, changes little over the ages, and Bennett, as always, stands the test of time, though in the case of some of the essays in this eclectic...
A Theologico-Political Treatise - Benedict de SPINOZA
A Theologico-Political Treatise - Benedict de SPINOZA
- Author: Benedict de SPINOZA
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Political Science
Written by the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza, the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus or Theologico-Political Treatise was one of the most controversial texts of the early modern period. It was a preemptive defense of Spinoza's later work, Ethics,...
Above Life's Turmoil - James Allen
Above Life's Turmoil - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Self-Help
The turmoil of the world we cannot avoid, but the disturbances of mind we can overcome. The duties and difficulties of life claim our attention, but we can rise above all anxiety concerning them. Surrounded by noise, we can yet have a quiet mind;...
Studies in Pessimism - Arthur SCHOPENHAUER
Studies in Pessimism - Arthur SCHOPENHAUER
- Author: Arthur SCHOPENHAUER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Arthur Schopenhauer, an early 19th century philosopher, made significant contributions to metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics. His work also informed theories of evolution and psychology, largely through his theory of the will to power – a concept...
Selections from the Principles of Philosophy - René DESCARTES
Selections from the Principles of Philosophy - René DESCARTES
- Author: René DESCARTES
- Genre: Philosophy
The Principles of Philosophy, originally published in Latin in 1644, and translated to French in 1647, sets forth the principles of nature--the Laws of Physics--as Descartes viewed them. The book provides a systematic statement of natural philosophy...
The Ego and His Own - Max STIRNER
The Ego and His Own - Max STIRNER
- Author: Max STIRNER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
In this book, his most famous, Max Stirner presents a philosophical case for a radical egoism that shuns the socially-oriented outlooks of both "establishment" ideologies and of revolutionaries in favor of an extreme individualism. The book is most...
Totem and Taboo - Sigmund Freud
Totem and Taboo - Sigmund Freud
- Author: Sigmund Freud
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Psychology
Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics is a book by Sigmund Freud published in German in 1913 under the title Totem und Tabu: Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker. It is a...
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - Anonymous
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz was edited in 1616 in Strasbourg (annexed by France in 1681). It is the third of the original manifestos of the mysterious "Fraternity of the Rose Cross" (Rosicrucians). NOTE: It was translated into...
The Life of Reason volume 1 - George Santayana
The Life of Reason volume 1 - George Santayana
- Author: George Santayana
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
The Life of Reason, subtitled "the Phases of Human Progress", is a book published in five volumes from 1905 to 1906, by Spanish-born American philosopher George Santayana (1863-1952). It consists of Reason in Common Sense, Reason in Society, Reason...
On the Laws - Marcus Tullius Cicero
On the Laws - Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
On the Laws (Latin: De Legibus) was written shortly after Cicero's "On the Commonwealth" during the last years of the Roman Republic. The three surviving books (out of an original six), in order, expound on Cicero's beliefs in Natural Law, recast...
De Profundis (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
De Profundis (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Philosophy
This is a letter written from prison in 1897 by Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas, in which he recounts how he came to be in prison and charts his spiritual development. (summary by AdamH)NOTE: ."Transcribed from the 1913 Methuen & Co. edition...
Pep: Poise, Efficiency, Peace - William C. HUNTER
Pep: Poise, Efficiency, Peace - William C. HUNTER
- Author: William C. HUNTER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Self-Help
Colonel William Crosbie Hunter was a businessman and self-help writer who was moderately popular in the early 20th century. His books set forth his personal philosophy on health, happiness, human relations, and success in the business world. Pep,...
Sophistical Elenchi - Aristotle
Sophistical Elenchi - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Science
The Sophistical Elenchi is the sixth of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon ("Instrument"). In the Sophistical Elenchi Aristotle identifies 13 falacies. Verbal Fallacies are: Accent or Emphasis; Amphibology;...
The Prince (Version 3) - Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince (Version 3) - Niccolò Machiavelli
- Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Genre: Philosophy / Political Science
The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus...
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man (version 3) - PATANJALI
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man (version 3) - PATANJALI
- Author: PATANJALI
- Genre: Philosophy
This is Charles Johnston's translation of and commentary on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Johnston's interpretation of this seminal yogic text focuses on "the birth of the spiritual from the psychical man." - Summary by Maggie Russell...
Alcibiades I - Plato
Alcibiades I - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
As Jowett relates in his brilliant introduction, 95% of Plato's writing is certain and his reputation rests soundly on this foundation. The Alcibiades 1 appears to be a short work by Plato with only two characters: Socrates and Alcibiades. This...
The Art of Controversy (or: The Art of Being Right) - Arthur SCHOPENHAUER
The Art of Controversy (or: The Art of Being Right) - Arthur SCHOPENHAUER
- Author: Arthur SCHOPENHAUER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Self-Help
The Art of Controversy (or The Art of Being Right) (Die Kunst, Recht zu Behalten) is a short treatise written in 1831 by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer in which he presents thirty-eight methods of gaining an unfair advantage in a debate...
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...
The Journal of John Woolman - John WOOLMAN
The Journal of John Woolman - John WOOLMAN
- Author: John WOOLMAN
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Philosophy
John Woolman was born at Northampton, N. J., in 1720, and died at York, England, in 1772. He was the child of Quaker parents, and from his youth was a zealous member of the Society of Friends. His “Journal,” published in 1774, describes his way of...
Parva Naturalia - Aristotle
Parva Naturalia - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: Philosophy / Ancient
I - On Sensation and the Sensible II - On Memory and Recollection III - On Sleeping and Waking IV - On Dreams V - On Prophecy in Sleep VI - On Longevity and Shortness of Life VII - On Youth and Old Age, Life and Death VIII - On Respiration ( Summary...
Principia Ethica - George Edward MOORE
Principia Ethica - George Edward MOORE
- Author: George Edward MOORE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
George Edward Moore, usually known as G. E. Moore, (1873 – 1958) was a distinguished and influential English philosopher. He was, with Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and (before them) Gottlob Frege, one of the founders of the analytic...
Tusculan Disputations - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Tusculan Disputations - Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Genre: Philosophy / Ancient
Tusculan Disputations (Latin: TUSCULANARUM DISPUTATIONUM) is divided into five books which discuss death, pain, grief, perturbations and virtue. At issue is whether wise people can always be happy regardless of the apparent evil that fortune throws...
Of the Shortness of Life - Lucius Annaeus SENECA
Of the Shortness of Life - Lucius Annaeus SENECA
- Author: Lucius Annaeus SENECA
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Seneca the Younger wrote the moral essay "De Brevitate Vitae" — "On the Shortness of Life" — to his friend Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoic principles on the nature of time, namely that men waste much of it in meaningless pursuits....
Has a Frog a Soul? - Thomas Henry Huxley
Has a Frog a Soul? - Thomas Henry Huxley
- Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Philosophy
Thomas Huxley, known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his championing and development of Darwinism, was perhaps the most important Victorian biologist after Darwin himself. This speech to the Metaphysical Society in 1870 is one of Huxley’s best known texts...
Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Philosophy
Nature is a short essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson published anonymously in 1836. It is in this essay that the foundation of transcendentalism is put forth, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. Recent advances in...
Vegetarianism and Occultism - C. W. Leadbeater
Vegetarianism and Occultism - C. W. Leadbeater
- Author: C. W. Leadbeater
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Religion
How does occultism regard vegetarianism? It regards it very favorably, and that for many reasons. These reasons may be divided into two classes: those which are ordinary and physical, and those which are occult or hidden. Let us see in detail why a...
