Philosophy

Aesop's Fables

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Aesop



Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…

The Age of Reason

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Thomas Paine



The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a pamphlet, written by a British and American revolutionary Thoma…

Poetics

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Aristotle



Aristotle’s Poetics from the 4th century B.C. aims to give a short study of storytelling. It discusses things like unity of plot, reversal o…

The Spirit of Laws

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Montesquieu



This audiobook covers Volume 1 (Books I to XIX) of "The Spirit of the Laws" (French: De "l'esprit des lois", also someti…

Pathological Lying, Accusation, and Swindling

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William Healy



This work describes and analyzes several cases of pathological behavior. The interest comes not only from the cases themselves, but also fro…

Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

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Bertrand Russell



Bertrand Russell wrote 'Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy' while imprisoned for protesting Britain's involvement in World War I. Russe…

A Treatise Of Human Nature

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David Hume



This book, published in two volumes called "books" by the author, is a treatment of everything from the origin of our ideas to how…

The World as Will and Idea

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Arthur Schopenhauer



Schopenhauer used the word "will" as a human's most familiar designation for the concept that can also be signified by other words…

Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth

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René Descartes



The Discourse on Method is best known as the source of the famous quotation “cogito ergo sum”, “I think, therefore I am.” …. It is a method …

Gorgias

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Plato



This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time …

The Shining Gateway

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James Allen



Students of the works of James Allen all over the world will welcome with joy another book from his able pen. In this work we find the Proph…

A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau



This work presents Rousseau's belief in the profoundly transformational effects of the development of civilization on human nature, which Ro…

Why Marry?

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Jesse Lynch Williams



Why Marry? is a comedy, which "tells the truth about marriage". We find a family in the throes of proving the morality of marriage…

The Coming of the Fairies

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle



After a number of deaths in his close family, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle turned to spiritualism in hope of finding proof of the afterlife. Being…

Critias

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Plato



This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous …

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

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Patanjali



This is Charles Johnston's translation of and commentary on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Johnston's interpretation of this seminal yogic te…

Spiritual Maxims

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Brother Lawrence



Those who have an experiential predisposition in their faith would do well to read The Conversations and Letters of Brother Lawrence… if the…

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