Essays & Short Works
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- Philosophical Essays on Existence
The Enchiridion of Epictetus
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 …
Orthodoxy
Orthodoxy is G. K. Chesterton's profound exploration of faith, reason, and the human experience. Written in a lively and engaging style, thi…
The Strenuous Life
This book is a collection of Theodore Roosevelt’s published commentaries and public addresses on the general theme of the requirements for i…
The Genealogy of Morals
In 1887, with the view of amplifying and completing certain new doctrines which he had merely sketched in Beyond Good and Evil (see especial…
The Joyful Wisdom
"The Joyful Wisdom," written in 1882, just before "Zarathustra," is rightly judged to be one of Nietzsche's best books. …
Newspaper Articles
Explore the sharp wit and keen observations of Mark Twain in this collection of newspaper articles penned between 1862 and 1881. Under his f…
Meditations on First Philosophy
After several years working on a treatise putting forth his mechanistic philosophy and physics, Descartes shelved the project when his conte…
Concerning Christian Liberty
Early in the course of the Reformation (1520) Martin Luther penned a trilogy of foundational documents addressing the Church, the Nobility a…
Select Sermons
Jonathan Edwards was a colonial American Congregational preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans. Edwards "is widely ac…
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. Published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government, it expressed Thorea…
The Sovereignty of God
The Sovereignty of God by Arthur Pink delves into one of the most profound and debated concepts in Christian theology: the sovereignty of Go…
What is Man?
"What Is Man?", published by Mark Twain in 1906, is a dialogue between a young man and an older man jaded to the world. It involve…
The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
"First Clement is one of the oldest Christian documents outside the New Testament canon. The epistle was written by Clement, one of th…
Heretics
"Heretics," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. First published in 1905.
Chesterton had a sense of humor, had a sense …
The History of Standard Oil
The History of the Standard Oil Company is a book written by journalist Ida Tarbell in 1904. It was an exposé of the Standard Oil Com…
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
The Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a shortened and simplified version of Hume's masterpiece A Treatise of Human Nature. It sough…
The Wealth of Nations
The Wealth of Nations is a foundational text in economics, penned by Scottish philosopher Adam Smith during the transformative period of the…
The Prince
This book is a five hundred year old manual for how to run a kingdom or principality. Written in 1513 but not published until 1532, "Th…
Nature
First published anonymously in 1836, Nature marks the beginning both of Emerson’s literary career and the Transcendentalist movement. Asking…
Sadhana, The Realisation of Life
A collection of essays on the Hindu/Buddhist view of humankind's place in the universe. As the author says in his introduction: "in the…