Philosophy
- Philosophical Explorations of Faith
- Explorations of Human Nature
- Foundations of Political Philosophy
- Philosophical Essays on Existence
- Philosophical Classics of Antiquity
Essays
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …
Religio Medici and Hydriotaphia
Religio Medici (The Religion of a Doctor) sets out Sir Thomas Browne's spiritual testament as well as being an early psychological self-port…
Capital: a critical analysis of capitalist production
Capital, Volume I is the first of three volumes in Karl Marx’s monumental work, Das Kapital, and the only volume to be published during his …
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…
God, the Invisible King
In God, the Invisible King, H. G. Wells presents a thought-provoking exploration of his personal conception of God, distinct from traditiona…
Perpetual Peace
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…
The Spirit of Laws
This audiobook covers Volume 1 (Books I to XIX) of "The Spirit of the Laws" (French: De "l'esprit des lois", also someti…
The Song Celestial
This work is a unique rendering of the Bagavad Gita by a well known poet. It is faithful to the text and yet does not read like a translatio…
Statesman
Statesman is a philosophical dialogue by Plato that explores the nature of leadership and governance. Through a conversation between Socrati…
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Commonly called "Treatise" when referring to Berkeley's works) is a 1710 …
Siddhartha
A major preoccupation of Hesse in writing Siddhartha was to cure his "sickness with life" (Lebenskrankheit) by immersing himself i…
Philosophical Essays
Six out of seven essays appearing here were reprinted from other publications; indeed, this 1910 collection went out of print, so that two o…
The Vocation of the Scholar
The Vocation of the Scholar presents a series of profound lectures by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, a pivotal figure in German idealism. Delivered…
The Phenomenology of Mind
Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most important and widely discussed philosophical work. Hegel's fi…
Areopagitica
The noblest and most extensive defense of freedom of the press in English. Although Milton was sufficiently practical to serve as a censor o…
Selections from the Principles of Philosophy
The Principles of Philosophy, originally published in Latin in 1644, and translated to French in 1647, sets forth the principles of nature--…
Philebus
Philebus is a philosophical dialogue by Plato that delves into the nature of pleasure and wisdom, exploring their roles in the good life. Se…
Prior Analytics
Prior Analytics is the third of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon ("Instrument"). In Prio…
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 …
In Vino Veritas
In Vino Veritas is one section of Kierkegaard's Stages on Life's Way, originally published in 1845. In a conscious reference to Plato's Symp…