Philosophy
Aesop's Fables, Volume 03 (Fables 51-75)
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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 (version 2)
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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 (Volume 1)
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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 – A Study in Forensic Psychology
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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, Volume 1
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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 Volume 1
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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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man (version 3)
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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…