Category Archives: Philosophy
The Quintessence of Ibsenism
Author(s): George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw, a playwright with a few bones to pick...
The Works Of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 4
Author(s): Robert G. Ingersoll Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, one of the greatest orators of the...
Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Author(s): Mary Wollstonecraft Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of...
Katha Upanishad
Author(s): Unknown The word Upanishad (upa-ni-shad) consists of, “Upa” means “near;” “ni” means “down;” “shad”...
Laches
Author(s): Plato (Πλάτων) Laches (Λάχης) discusses examples of courage including weapons masters, soldiers who stand...
The Madman: His Parables And Poems and The Forerunner: His Parables And Poems
Author(s): Kahlil Gibran Two short books by the Lebanese-American writer, poet, and mystic. Reflections on...
The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women
Author(s): Edward Carpenter Written in 1908 by socialist critic and gay rights activist Edward Carpenter,...
Six Radical Thinkers: Bentham, J.S. Mill, Cobden, Carlyle, Mazzini, T.H. Green
Author(s): John MacCunn A radical is a person who holds extreme or unconventional convictions and...
The Lives of the Ancient Philosophers
Author(s): François Fénelon François Fénelon became a priest in 1675, Archbishop of Paris in 1679,...
The Tao Teh King
Author(s): Lao Tzu Lao-Tze’s Tao Teh King illuminates The Tao: a guiding principle of the...
The Sayings of Lao Tzu
Author(s): Lao Tzu Lao-Tzu, also known as Laozi was a Chinese philosopher believed to have...
The Prophet (version 5)
Author(s): Kahlil Gibran The Prophet is the best known work of Khalil Gibran, also known...
Some Problems of Philosophy
When William James set out to write an accessible entry point to metaphysics in 1909,...
The Poverty of Philosophy
Author(s): Karl Marx This work is a scathing criticism of the economic and philosophical arguments...
Isha Upanishad
Standing as one of the most concise yet profoundly impactful poetic treatises in ancient philosophical...
The World As Will and Idea, Vol. 1 of 3
Author(s): Arthur Schopenhauer In this work, Schopenhauer explains his fundamental idea that at the root...
The Vocation of the Scholar
Author(s): Johann Gottlieb Fichte Johann Gottlieb Fichte (German: [ˈjoːhan ˈɡɔtliːp ˈfɪçtə]; May 19, 1762 –...
The Praise of Folly
When Desiderius Erasmus composed a playful encomium to mock human absurdities while staying at Sir...
The Maine Woods
Author(s): Henry David Thoreau On August 31, 1846, twenty-nine-year-old Henry David Thoreau left his cabin...
The Kingdom of Happiness
Author(s): Jiddu Krishnamurti The first publication of talks given by Jiddu Krishnamurti, a uniquely original...
The Mystics of Islam
Author(s): Reynold A. Nicholson Exploring Islamic mysticism, specifically Sufism, this book aims to provide an...
Kena Upanishad
Author(s): Unknown The word Upanishad (upa-ni-shad) consists of, “Upa” means “near;” “ni” means “down;” “shad”...
The Logic of Hegel
Author(s): Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel This is the William Wallace translation of the first part...
The Riddle of the Universe
Author(s): Ernst Haeckel The Riddle of the Universe is the philosophical work of Ernst Haeckel,...
The Privilege of Pain
Author(s): Caroline Kane Mills Everett We have seen that as mankind rises in the scale...
Walden
Author(s): Henry David Thoreau Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction...
The Prince
Author(s): Niccolò Machiavelli ll Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine writer...
The New Organon Or True Directions Concerning The Interpretation of Nature
When Francis Bacon published his revolutionary treatise in 1620, he aimed to dismantle nearly two...
The Genealogy of Morals
Author(s): Friedrich Nietzsche In 1887, with the view of amplifying and completing certain new doctrines...
Thoughts are Things (Version 2)
Author(s): Prentice Mulford Prentice Mulford was also instrumental in the founding of the popular philosophy,...