Philosophy
The Social Contract
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract outlines Rousseau's views on political justice, explaining how a just and legitimate state is to be founded, organized a…
The Nicomachean Ethics
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Aristotle
The work consists of ten books, originally separate scrolls, and is understood to be based on notes said to be from his lectures at the Lyce…
The Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
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Immanuel Kant
The Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, also known as The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals or Foundations of the Meta…
Der Tolle Mensch
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Friedrich Nietzsche
“Der tolle Mensch” ist der Aphorismus 125 aus dem dritten Buch der “Fröhlichen Wissenschaft” und befaßt sich mit dem Thema “Gott …
The Kingdom of God is within you
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Leo Tolstoy
The title of the book comes from Luke 17:21. It is a non-fiction work of the famous Russian author Leo Tolstoy. He wrote it after many years…
The Kybalion
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The Three Initiates
The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy is a 1908 book claiming to be the essence of the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus, published anonymously b…
The Twilight of the Idols
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Of The Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche says in Ecce Homo: “If anyone should desire to obtain a rapid sketch of how everything before my tim…
Leviathan (Books I and II)
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Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan, is a book written in 1651…
Heretics
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G. K. Chesterton
The Author Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere "rollicki…
Ecce Homo
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Friedrich Nietzsche
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's autobiography, Ecce Homo, was the last prose work that he wrote before his illness in 1889. Coming at …
Stoicism
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St. George William Joseph Stock
This short book is part of the Philosophies Ancient and Modern series, which attempts to make Western philosophy more accessible to the gene…
Reflections on War and Death
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Sigmund Freud
Anyone, as Freud tells us in Reflections on War and Death, forced to react against his own impulses may be described as a hypocrite, whether…
Democracy in America Vol. I
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Alexis De Tocqueville
When Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful …
Of the Shortness of Life
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Seneca the Younger wrote the moral essay "De Brevitate Vitae" — "On the Shortness of Life" — to his friend Paulinus. The…
Kitab Adab al-Dunya w'al-Din (The Ethics of Religion and of this World)
Read by Youssef Safiljil (Dr. Fighter)
Abu al-Hasan Ali Ibn Muhammad Ibn Habib al-Mawardi
Al-Mawardi (Alboacen) was one of the famous Islamic authors and jurists. He was a well-known man in the “Abbassid” empire—a mature thinker w…
Meditations on First Philosophy
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René Descartes
After several years working on a treatise putting forth his mechanistic philosophy and physics, Descartes shelved the project when his conte…
The Prince (Version 3)
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Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavel…
The Joyful Wisdom (or: The Gay Science)
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Friedrich Nietzsche
"The Joyful Wisdom," written in 1882, just before "Zarathustra," is rightly judged to be one of Nietzsche's best books. …
Two Treatises of Civil Government
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John Locke
The Two Treatises of Civil Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise is a…