This Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect etc., which we give you here, kind reader, in its unfinished state, was written by the author many years ago now. He always...

The Symposium is a philosophical text by Plato dated c. 385–370 BC. It depicts a friendly contest of extemporaneous speeches given by a group of notable men attending a...

Areopagitica is among history's most influential and impassioned philosophical defences of the principle of a right to freedom of speech and expression. Today, Areopagitica is...

"Thus Spake Zarathustra" is a literary work composed by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche between August 1881 and May 1885. The work,long and complex, it speaks...

Through dialogue, three philosophers named Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes debate the nature of God's existence. Whether or not these names reference specific philosophers, ancient or...

An anthology of several essays by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The book includes an introduction entitled 'Biographical Sketch' in which fellow...

When the war broke out at Alexandria, Caesar sent to Rhodes, Syria, and Cilicia, for all his fleet; and summoned archers from Crete, and cavalry from Malchus, king of the...

On Generation and Corruption, also known as On Coming to Be and Passing Away, is a treatise by Aristotle. Like many of his texts, it is both scientific and philosophic (although...

A sequel to Pragmatism this book continues and advances ideas surrounding concepts of truth, opinion, belief, statement. 'Truth,' I there say, 'is a property of certain of our...

"Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order (Latin: Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata), usually known as "The Ethics", is a philosophical treatise written by...