Philosophy
- Philosophical Explorations of Faith
- Explorations of Human Nature
- Foundations of Political Philosophy
- Philosophical Essays on Existence
- Philosophical Classics of Antiquity
On the Heavens
On the Heavens (Greek: Περί ουρανού, Latin: De Caelo or De Caelo et Mundo) is Aristotle's chief cosmological treatise. In it Aristotle argue…
El viajero y su sombra
Primer volumen de recopilación de 408 opiniones y sentencias del célebre filósofo alemán en el que expone las pr…
Short Nonfiction Collection
Explore a diverse array of thought-provoking essays and reports in this engaging collection of short nonfiction works. Curated by dedicated …
Offences Against One's Self
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He was a political radical and a leading theor…
Of the Injustice of Counterfeiting Books
This essay of Kant’s on copyright argues that the unlicensed copying of books cannot possibly be permissible, due to the fact that it assume…
Louis Lambert
Louis Lambert is an 1832 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Études philosop…
The Arabic Hidden Words
Kalimát-i-Maknúnih or The Hidden Words is a book written in Baghdad around 1857 by Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of t…
Ancient Greek Philosopher-Scientists
The Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, that is, the philosopher-scientists who lived before or contemporaneously to Socrates, were the first m…
El libro del té
Si los libros tienen personalidad propia, sin duda este es un volumen sereno y sabio. Esta obra amable, concebida como un acercamiento entre…
Bacon
This investigation of Bacon the scholar and man of letters begins with a look at the early days and progresses to his relationships with Que…
Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure
At the Court of Liang at the period of Yang Chu, about 300 B.C., the philosophers were treated as guests of the reigning king, who reserved …
Human Nature and Conduct
John Dewey, an early 20th Century American philosopher, psychologist, educational theorist, saw Social Psychology as much a physical science…
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…
Has a Frog a Soul?
Thomas Huxley, known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his championing and development of Darwinism, was perhaps the most important Victorian biolog…
The Riddle of the Universe
The Riddle of the Universe is the philosophical work of Ernst Haeckel, eminent biologist, in which he explores the meaning of life, the natu…
Der Wahrheitpfad
Das Dhammapada ist eine Anthologie von Aussprüchen des Buddha. Dabei sind die Verse so ausgewählt, dass sie den Kern der Lehre des…
Feeling and Imagination in Art, Science, and Technology
Instructor: Prof. Irving Singer
This course is a seminar on creativity in art, science, and technology. We discuss how these pursuits are j…
Magna Moralia
Magna Moralia, often translated as Great Ethics, is a profound exploration of ethical philosophy attributed to Aristotle, though its authors…
Lo perecedero
Hace algún tiempo me paseaba yo por una florida campiña estival, en compañía de un amigo taciturno y de un joven…
Götzendämmerung
Diese kleine Schrift ist eine grosse Kriegserklärung; und was das Aushorchen von Götzen anbetrifft, so sind es dies Mal keine Zeit…