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The Majesty of Calmness - William George JORDAN
The Majesty of Calmness - William George JORDAN
- Author: William George JORDAN
- Genre: Philosophy / Psychology / Self-Help
Change your life by changing your thoughts. The Majesty of Calmness is your guide to attracting prosperity, manifesting opportunities, and managing stress—all while discovering the values most precious to you. (Summary by Andrea Fiore)...
The Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
- Author: Bertrand Russell
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
The Problems of Philosophy is one of Bertrand Russell's attempts to create a brief and accessible guide to the problems of philosophy. Focusing on problems he believes will provoke positive and constructive discussion, Russell concentrates on...
The Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
The Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: Philosophy / Ancient
The work consists of ten books, originally separate scrolls, and is understood to be based on notes said to be from his lectures at the Lyceum which were either edited by or dedicated to Aristotle's son, Nicomachus. In many ways this work parallels...
Exotics and Retrospectives - Lafcadio HEARN
Exotics and Retrospectives - Lafcadio HEARN
- Author: Lafcadio HEARN
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Philosophy
Lafcadio Hearn, born 1850 in Greece, went to Japan when he was 40 years old and became a Japanese citizen only 6 years later. His writings about Japan from the beginning of the Meiji era, when the country was just opening to the West, remain among...
Pensées - Blaise PASCAL
Pensées - Blaise PASCAL
- Author: Blaise PASCAL
- Genre: Philosophy / Religion
Pascal's Pensées is widely considered to be a masterpiece, and a landmark in French prose. When commenting on one particular section (Thought #72), Sainte-Beuve praised it as the finest pages in the French language. Will Durant, in his 11-volume,...
The Coming of the Fairies - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Coming of the Fairies - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
After a number of deaths in his close family, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle turned to spiritualism in hope of finding proof of the afterlife. Being open in this way, he wanted to believe that spirits and other supernatural being including fairies were...
She-rab Dong-bu (The Tree of Wisdom) - NAGARJUNA
She-rab Dong-bu (The Tree of Wisdom) - NAGARJUNA
- Author: NAGARJUNA
- Genre: Philosophy / Ancient
The She-rab Dong-bu (Tree of Wisdom) is a metrical translation in Tibetan of a Sanscrit ethical work entitled Prajnya Danda, written by Nagarjuna who flourished in the fourth century of the Buddhist era (about 100 B.C.), The Tibetan version was...
All of Grace - Charles H. Spurgeon
All of Grace - Charles H. Spurgeon
- Author: Charles H. Spurgeon
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
HE WHO SPOKE and wrote this message will be greatly disappointed if it does not lead many to the Lord Jesus. It is sent forth in childlike dependence upon the power of God the Holy Ghost, to use it in the conversion of millions, if so He pleases. No...
The Mind and the Brain - Alfred BINET
The Mind and the Brain - Alfred BINET
- Author: Alfred BINET
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Psychology
The authorized translation of L’âme et le corps, F. Legge, editor “This book is a prolonged effort to establish a distinction between what is called mind and what is called matter. Nothing is more simple than to realise this distinction when you do...
Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion - George Santayana
Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion - George Santayana
- Author: George Santayana
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Philosophy / Religion
Even before the Great War turned the world upside down, Western civilization was being revolutionized at all levels: intellectually, philosophically, artistically. Noted positivist philosopher George Santayana published this volume on the eve of the...
The Book of Life - Upton Sinclair
The Book of Life - Upton Sinclair
- Author: Upton Sinclair
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Psychology
Faith and reason, love and virtue, morality and mortality! In these two short volumes the famous novelist, essayist, and playwright, Upton Sinclair, confided his most prized worldly wisdom for generations to come. His kind and witty personal advice...
Proposed Roads to Freedom - Bertrand Russell
Proposed Roads to Freedom - Bertrand Russell
- Author: Bertrand Russell
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Political Science
Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872 – 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, political activist and Nobel laureate. He led the British "revolt against idealism" in the early 1900s and is considered one of the founders of...
Poetics - Aristotle
Poetics - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Aristotle’s Poetics from the 4th century B.C. aims to give a short study of storytelling. It discusses things like unity of plot, reversal of situation, and character in the context of Greek tragedy, comedy and epic poetry. But it still applies...
The Montessori Method - Maria MONTESSORI
The Montessori Method - Maria MONTESSORI
- Author: Maria MONTESSORI
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Psychology
In the early 1900's Dr. Maria Montessori began to reform educational methods with her work the 'Case dei Bambini' in Rome, Italy. Montessori began her work by developing methods to educate mentally retarded children, the method she developed was...
On the Popular Judgment: That may be Right in Theory, but does not Hold Good in the Praxis - Immanuel Kant
On the Popular Judgment: That may be Right in Theory, but does not Hold Good in the Praxis - Immanuel Kant
- Author: Immanuel Kant
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
This tripartite essay – published variously as “On the Popular Judgment” (J. Richardson trans.), “On the Old Saw” (E.B. Ashton trans.), or “On the Common Saying” (both M.J. Gregor and H.B. Nisbet) – Kant takes up the issue of the relation of theory...
Human Sacrifice - John Emerich Edward DALBERG-ACTON
Human Sacrifice - John Emerich Edward DALBERG-ACTON
- Author: John Emerich Edward DALBERG-ACTON
- Genre: History / Philosophy
This was one of Lord Acton's essays, that was in response to the publication of the letters between Sir Robert Peel and Lord Macaulay. Lord Acton hoped to refute the common prejudice that the religious practice of sacrificing human victims was not...
The Quest of the Historical Jesus - Albert SCHWEITZER
The Quest of the Historical Jesus - Albert SCHWEITZER
- Author: Albert SCHWEITZER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Religion
In this book, Schweitzer traces the historical progress of 'Historical Jesus' research, from Hermann Reimarus in the mid 18th century, to William Wrede at the turn of the 20th. Schweitzer showed how Jesus' image had changed with the times and with...
The New Organon Or True Directions Concerning The Interpretation of Nature - Francis Bacon
The New Organon Or True Directions Concerning The Interpretation of Nature - Francis Bacon
- Author: Francis Bacon
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
The Novum Organum is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon published in 1620. The title translates as "new instrument". This is a reference to Aristotle's work Organon, which was his treatise on logic and syllogism. In Novum Organum, Bacon details a...
Book of the Foundations - Saint Teresa of Avila
Book of the Foundations - Saint Teresa of Avila
- Author: Saint Teresa of Avila
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Religion
Essentially the sequel to The Life of St. Teresa, Teresa recounts the foundations of the Discalced Carmelite monasteries in Spain, both for men and women. This book tells of all the triumphs and troubles, and about the many people who helped...
Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy - George Santayana
Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy - George Santayana
- Author: George Santayana
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive essays. He examined John Locke’s sensationalism, British Idealism, the “Theory of Relativity”, Freud’s...
Meditations on First Philosophy - René DESCARTES
Meditations on First Philosophy - René DESCARTES
- Author: René DESCARTES
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
After several years working on a treatise putting forth his mechanistic philosophy and physics, Descartes shelved the project when his contemporary, Galileo, was charged with heresy. That work, The World, was only published after Descartes’ death....
The Enchiridion of Epictetus - EPICTETUS
The Enchiridion of Epictetus - EPICTETUS
- Author: EPICTETUS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Epictetus (Greek: Επίκτητος; c.55–c.135) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. The name given by his parents, if one was given, is not known - the word epiktetos in Greek simply means "acquired." Epictetus spent his youth as a slave in Rome to...
Life's Enthusiasms - David Starr JORDAN
Life's Enthusiasms - David Starr JORDAN
- Author: David Starr JORDAN
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works / Philosophy
The words in this essay on positive thought sing like those in Whitman's "Leaves of Grass." The author praises joyous living and recommends certain routes to its attainment. He explores schooling (public secondary and the university), travel, and...
The Truth About Jesus. Is He a Myth? - M. M. MANGASARIAN
The Truth About Jesus. Is He a Myth? - M. M. MANGASARIAN
- Author: M. M. MANGASARIAN
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Religion
The following work offers in book form the series of studies on the question of the historicity of Jesus, presented from time to time before the Independent Religious Society in Orchestra Hall, Chicago, 1909. No effort has been made to change the...
The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli
- Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
ll Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine writer Niccolò Machiavelli, originally called “De Principatibus” (About Principalities). It was written around 1513, but not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli’s...
The Path of Prosperity - James Allen
The Path of Prosperity - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Self-Help
Summary from The Path of Prosperity:I looked around upon the world, and saw that it was shadowed by sorrow and scorched by the fierce fires of suffering. And I looked for the cause. I looked around, but could not find it; I looked in books, but...
Passages from the Life of a Philosopher - Charles BABBAGE
Passages from the Life of a Philosopher - Charles BABBAGE
- Author: Charles BABBAGE
- Genre: Mathematics / Philosophy / Technology & Engineering
Some men write their lives to save themselves from ennui, careless of the amount they inflict on their readers. Others write their personal history, lest some kind friend should survive them, and, in showing off his own talent, unwittingly show them...
The Ethics of Belief - William Kingdon CLIFFORD
The Ethics of Belief - William Kingdon CLIFFORD
- Author: William Kingdon CLIFFORD
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Self-Help
This is an essay on decision biases and a critique on prejudices, neatly written and thought provoking. (Summary by sidhu177)...
The Kybalion - The Three INITIATES
The Kybalion - The Three INITIATES
- Author: The Three INITIATES
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy is a 1908 book claiming to be the essence of the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus, published anonymously by a group or person under the pseudonym of "the Three Initiates". (Introduction by Wikipedia)...
Categories - Aristotle
Categories - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Categories (Lat. Categoriae, Greek Κατηγορίαι Katēgoriai) is the first of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon. In Categories Aristotle enumerates all the possible kinds of things that can be the subject or the...
The Monadology - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
The Monadology - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Author: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Science
The Monadology (La Monadologie, 1714) is one of Gottfried Leibniz’s best known works representing his later philosophy. It is a short text which sketches in some 90 paragraphs a metaphysics of simple substances, or monads. What he proposed can be...
Reflections on War and Death - Sigmund Freud
Reflections on War and Death - Sigmund Freud
- Author: Sigmund Freud
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Political Science
Anyone, as Freud tells us in Reflections on War and Death, forced to react against his own impulses may be described as a hypocrite, whether he is conscious of it or not. One might even venture to assert—it is still Freud's argument—that our...
Marius the Epicurean, Volume 1 - Walter Pater
Marius the Epicurean, Volume 1 - Walter Pater
- Author: Walter Pater
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Marius the Epicurean is a philosophical novel written by Walter Pater, published in 1885. In it Pater displays, with fullness and elaboration, his ideal of the aesthetic life, his cult of beauty as opposed to bare asceticism, and his theory of the...
Sadhana, the Realisation of Life - Rabindranath Tagore
Sadhana, the Realisation of Life - Rabindranath Tagore
- Author: Rabindranath Tagore
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, philosopher, visual artist, playwright, composer, and novelist whose work reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He became Asia’s first Nobel laureate when he won the...
The Anti-Federalist Papers - Patrick HENRY
The Anti-Federalist Papers - Patrick HENRY
- Author: Patrick HENRY
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Political Science
During the period of debate over the ratification of the Constitution, numerous independent local speeches and articles were published all across the country. Initially, many of the articles in opposition were written under pseudonyms, such as...
Your Psychic Powers and How to Develop Them - Hereward Carrington
Your Psychic Powers and How to Develop Them - Hereward Carrington
- Author: Hereward Carrington
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Self-Help
Instructions in how to develop your psychic powers including telepathy, clairvoyance, self-projection, reincarnation, and other topics. Seriously. "It must be distinctly understood … that I believe the vast bulk of the material presented in this...
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 “is unquestionably Nietzsche’s opus magnum.” However, he warns the reader that since “the book with the most mysterious, startling, or suggestive title, will always stand the...
Early Greek Philosophy and Other Essays - Friedrich Nietzsche
Early Greek Philosophy and Other Essays - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Genre: Philosophy / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
The 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,...
Modern Magic - Maximilian Schele De Vere
Modern Magic - Maximilian Schele De Vere
- Author: Maximilian Schele De Vere
- Genre: Philosophy / Religion
M. (Maxamilian) Schele de Vere was born in Sweden in 1820 and studied language in Germany before eventually becoming a professor of modern language at the University of Virginia in 1844 where he would teach for more than 50 years. During his time as...
Reincarnation: A Study in Human Evolution - Théophile Pascal
Reincarnation: A Study in Human Evolution - Théophile Pascal
- Author: Théophile Pascal
- Genre: Philosophy / Religion
Dr. Pascal brings us the Theosophic knowledge to reincarnation. He discusses four main topics: 1). The Soul and the Bodies, 2). Reincarnation and the Moral Law, 3). Reincarnation and Science, and 4). Reincarnation and the religious and philosophical...