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Western Philosophy
17 sections71 books1 subcategory
This section contains texts by the most important writers who have defined the philosophy of modern Western society. Texts here discuss ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, and political philosophy. NOTE: most of these are large text files, which may take a while to download on a slow connection.
Subcategories The Writings of Spinoza
George Berkeley
2 books- Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
- A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
Rene Descartes
1 book- Meditations on First Philosophy
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 books- The Transcendalist
- Essays, First Series
- Essays, Second Series
Epictetus
2 books- The Enchiridion
- The Discourses
Epicurus
1 book- Letter to Menoeceus
Thomas Hobbes
No books in this section yet.
David Hume
13 books- Of Superstition and Enthusiasm
- Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion
- Of the Liberty of the Press
- Of Essay Writing
- Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- A Letter from a Gentleman
- Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul
- The Natural History of Religion
- Of Tragedy
- Of the Standard of Taste
- My Own Life
- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Immanuel Kant
7 books- The Critique of Judgement
- The Critique of Practical Reason
- Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
- Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals
- The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
- Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
- The Science of Right
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
1 book- The Monadology
John Stuart Mill
3 books- On Liberty
- Representative Government
- Utilitarianism
Friedrich Nietzsche
2 books- Thus Spake Zarathustra
- The Antichrist
Blaise Pascal
2 books- The Provincial Letters
- Pensees
Plato
24 booksNOTE: These file are in the Plato section under Classics.
- Cratylus
- Charmides, or Temperance
- Critias
- Crito
- Euthydemus
- Euthyphro
- Gorgias
- Ion
- Laches, or Courage
- Laws
- Lysis, or Friendship
- Meno
- Parmenides
- Phaedo
- Phaedrus
- Philebus
- Protagoras
- The Republic The Republic[360 BCE]
- The Seventh Letter
- Sophist
- Statesman
- Symposium
- Theaetetus
- Timaeus
Spinoza
3 books- Ethics
- The Theologico-Political Treatise
- On the Improvement of Understanding
Henry David Thoreau
5 books- A Plea for Captain John Brown
- Slavery in Massachusetts
- Life Without Principle
- Civil Disobedience
- Walden, or Life in the Woods
Mary Wollstonecraft
1 book- Vindication of the Rights of Women
G. W. F. Hegel
1 book- Hegel's Logic (Encyclopaedia, Part One), tr. William Wallace
Western Philosophy
17 sections71 books1 subcategory
This section contains texts by the most important writers who have defined the philosophy of modern Western society. Texts here discuss ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, and political philosophy. NOTE: most of these are large text files, which may take a while to download on a slow connection.
Subcategories The Writings of Spinoza
George Berkeley
2 books- Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
- A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
Rene Descartes
1 book- Meditations on First Philosophy
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 books- The Transcendalist
- Essays, First Series
- Essays, Second Series
Epictetus
2 books- The Enchiridion
- The Discourses
Epicurus
1 book- Letter to Menoeceus
Thomas Hobbes
No books in this section yet.
David Hume
13 books- Of Superstition and Enthusiasm
- Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion
- Of the Liberty of the Press
- Of Essay Writing
- Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- A Letter from a Gentleman
- Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul
- The Natural History of Religion
- Of Tragedy
- Of the Standard of Taste
- My Own Life
- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Immanuel Kant
7 books- The Critique of Judgement
- The Critique of Practical Reason
- Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
- Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals
- The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
- Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
- The Science of Right
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
1 book- The Monadology
John Stuart Mill
3 books- On Liberty
- Representative Government
- Utilitarianism
Friedrich Nietzsche
2 books- Thus Spake Zarathustra
- The Antichrist
Blaise Pascal
2 books- The Provincial Letters
- Pensees
Plato
24 booksNOTE: These file are in the Plato section under Classics.
- Cratylus
- Charmides, or Temperance
- Critias
- Crito
- Euthydemus
- Euthyphro
- Gorgias
- Ion
- Laches, or Courage
- Laws
- Lysis, or Friendship
- Meno
- Parmenides
- Phaedo
- Phaedrus
- Philebus
- Protagoras
- The Republic The Republic[360 BCE]
- The Seventh Letter
- Sophist
- Statesman
- Symposium
- Theaetetus
- Timaeus
Spinoza
3 books- Ethics
- The Theologico-Political Treatise
- On the Improvement of Understanding
Henry David Thoreau
5 books- A Plea for Captain John Brown
- Slavery in Massachusetts
- Life Without Principle
- Civil Disobedience
- Walden, or Life in the Woods
Mary Wollstonecraft
1 book- Vindication of the Rights of Women
G. W. F. Hegel
1 book- Hegel's Logic (Encyclopaedia, Part One), tr. William Wallace
Western Philosophy
17 sections71 books1 subcategory
This section contains texts by the most important writers who have defined the philosophy of modern Western society. Texts here discuss ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, and political philosophy. NOTE: most of these are large text files, which may take a while to download on a slow connection.
Subcategories The Writings of Spinoza
George Berkeley
2 books- Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
- A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
Rene Descartes
1 book- Meditations on First Philosophy
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 books- The Transcendalist
- Essays, First Series
- Essays, Second Series
Epictetus
2 books- The Enchiridion
- The Discourses
Epicurus
1 book- Letter to Menoeceus
Thomas Hobbes
No books in this section yet.
David Hume
13 books- Of Superstition and Enthusiasm
- Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion
- Of the Liberty of the Press
- Of Essay Writing
- Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- A Letter from a Gentleman
- Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul
- The Natural History of Religion
- Of Tragedy
- Of the Standard of Taste
- My Own Life
- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Immanuel Kant
7 books- The Critique of Judgement
- The Critique of Practical Reason
- Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
- Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals
- The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
- Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
- The Science of Right
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
1 book- The Monadology
John Stuart Mill
3 books- On Liberty
- Representative Government
- Utilitarianism
Friedrich Nietzsche
2 books- Thus Spake Zarathustra
- The Antichrist
Blaise Pascal
2 books- The Provincial Letters
- Pensees
Plato
24 booksNOTE: These file are in the Plato section under Classics.
- Cratylus
- Charmides, or Temperance
- Critias
- Crito
- Euthydemus
- Euthyphro
- Gorgias
- Ion
- Laches, or Courage
- Laws
- Lysis, or Friendship
- Meno
- Parmenides
- Phaedo
- Phaedrus
- Philebus
- Protagoras
- The Republic The Republic[360 BCE]
- The Seventh Letter
- Sophist
- Statesman
- Symposium
- Theaetetus
- Timaeus
Spinoza
3 books- Ethics
- The Theologico-Political Treatise
- On the Improvement of Understanding
Henry David Thoreau
5 books- A Plea for Captain John Brown
- Slavery in Massachusetts
- Life Without Principle
- Civil Disobedience
- Walden, or Life in the Woods
Mary Wollstonecraft
1 book- Vindication of the Rights of Women
G. W. F. Hegel
1 book- Hegel's Logic (Encyclopaedia, Part One), tr. William Wallace