Philosophy
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (First Edition)
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Adam Smith
"How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortunes of other…
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 02
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H. G. Wells
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
On War (Volume 1)
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Carl Von Clausewitz
A classic work on military strategy by a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars. The author's style is dialectical: he makes two strong but opposing…
The Warlord of Mars (version 2)
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
In this third installment of the adventures of John Carter on Mars, our hero labors under sentence of death (for having returned from the la…
Vegetarianism and Occultism
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C. W. Leadbeater
How does occultism regard vegetarianism? It regards it very favorably, and that for many reasons. These reasons may be divided into two clas…
The Ethics
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Benedict De Spinoza
The Ethics is a philosophical book written by Baruch Spinoza. It was written in Latin. Although it was published posthumously in 1677, it is…
Zum ewigen Frieden. Ein philosophischer Entwurf
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Immanuel Kant
In der Abhandlung „Zum ewigen Frieden" wendet Kant die Grundsätze seiner Moralphilosophie auf die Beziehungen zwischen Staaten an.…
On the Heavens
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Aristotle
On the Heavens (Greek: Περί ουρανού, Latin: De Caelo or De Caelo et Mundo) is Aristotle's chief cosmological treatise. In it Aristotle argue…
Phaedrus
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Plato
“For there is no light of justice or temperance, or any of the higher ideas which are precious to souls, in the earthly copies of them: they…
On Liberty
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John Stuart Mill
Published in 1859, On Liberty details Mill's view that individuals should be left wholly free to engage in any activity, thought or belief t…
Leviathan (Books III and IV)
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Thomas Hobbes
In Books 3 and 4 of Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes elaborates on the political philosophy set forth in the first two books, by considering the nat…
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
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Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. Published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government, it expressed Thorea…
Euthyphro
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Plato
Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaimed authority on matters of piety and the …
Utilitarianism
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill's book Utilitarianism is one of the most influential and widely-read philosophical defenses of utilitarianism in ethics. Th…
Orthodoxy (Version 2)
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G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy is a book that has become a classic of Christian apologetics. In the book's preface Chesterton states the purpose is to "atte…
Über die Weiber
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Arthur Schopenhauer
In diesem vielzitierten Essay aus dem Jahre 1851 ist Schopenhauers generell herablassende Einstellung zu Frauen zusammengefaßt. Frauen…
The Rosicrucian Mysteries
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Max Heindel
A primer for those interested in the basic philosophy, beliefs & secrets of the Rosicrucians. (Summary by Kirk Ziegler)
Aesop's Fables, Volume 02 (Fables 26-50)
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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…