Philosophy
- Philosophical Explorations of Faith
- Explorations of Human Nature
- Foundations of Political Philosophy
- Philosophical Essays on Existence
- Philosophical Classics of Antiquity
The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burto…
All Things Are Possible
A passionate exponent of Russian Existentialism, Lev Shestov is little known in the English-speaking world but had an extensive influence on…
The Buddhist Catechism
The simple aim of this little book is to give so succinct and yet comprehensive a digest of Buddhistic history, ethics and philosophy as to …
Posterior Analytics
Posterior Analytics is a foundational work in the field of logic and epistemology by the ancient philosopher Aristotle. As part of his influ…
The Concept of Nature
In The Concept of Nature, Alfred North Whitehead discusses the interrelatedness of time, space, and human perception.The idea of objects as …
The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto is a pivotal political document co-authored by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, first published in 1847. This influen…
The Problems of Philosophy
This 1912 book remains among the most widely-used and well-written introductions to philosophy in English. It was aimed to be an accessible …
Summa Theologica
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–127…
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are in themselves exceedingly brief, less than ten pages of large type in the original. Yet they contain the es…
Letters on England
Voltaire spent his early thirties in England as an exile following the Bastille imprisonment for his satires. With passionate admiration, he…
Common Sense
One of three seminal philosophical works by the twelfth century Japanese Shogun, Yoritomo-Tashi. (From the Preface) He knows how to clothe…
The Life of Jesus Critically Examined
Strauss was an early pioneer in the ongoing 'Quest of the Historical Jesus' movement, and his Life of Jesus is one of the few landmarks in t…
Cosmos
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a Prussian geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of romantic phi…
Religion and Science from Galileo to Bergson
This history of Western philosophy, published in 1920, explores how people have explained the natural world during the last few centuries, w…
Discourse on Metaphysics
This is a relatively short treatise by the highly influential and admired philosopher and polymath Leibniz. It presents his views on metaphy…
Kaushitaki Upanishad
The word Upanishad (upa-ni-shad) consists of, "Upa" means "near;" "ni" means "down;" "shad"…
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are in themselves exceedingly brief, less than ten pages of large type in the original. Yet they contain the es…
Prasna Upanishad
The word Upanishad (upa-ni-shad) consists of, "Upa" means "near;" "ni" means "down;" "shad"…
Six Metaphysical Meditations
These are six meditations by the French philosopher Rene Descartes, best known for his conclusion "Cogito, ergro sum" "I Thin…
A Philosophical Enquiry
Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry is an important treatise in the history of philosophical aesthetics, putting forth a theory of two concepts …