Philosophy (Bookshelf)
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Philosophy is the discipline concerned with questions of importance to us which we cannot answer through empirical observation. These include how one should live (ethics), what sorts of things exist and what are their essential natures (metaphysics), what counts as genuine knowledge (epistemology), and what are the correct principles of reasoning (logic). The word itself is of Ancient Greek origin: φιλοσοφία (philosophía), a compound of φιλία (philía: love) and σοφία (sophía: wisdom).
—Excerpted from Philosophy on Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
Philosophical works in Project Gutenberg's catalog are listed below in roughly chronological order by subject.
General introductions
- Émile Faguet Initiation into Philosophy
- George S. Fullerton An Introduction to Philosophy
- Ralph Barton Perry The Approach to Philosophy
History of philosophy
- John Marshall A Short History of Greek Philosophy
- St. George William Joseph Stock Guide to Stoicism
- Mary Mills Patrick Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism
- Richard Falckenberg History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time
- George Santayana Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy: Five Essays
- John Alexander Gunn Modern French Philosophy: a Study of the Development Since Comte
The meaning of life
- Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
- Michel de Montaigne Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
- Friedrich Nietzsche Also sprach Zarathustra (original German)
- Friedrich Nietzsche Thus Spake Zarathustra (Common translation)
- Abel J. Jones Rudolph Eucken: a philosophy of life
- David Starr Jordan The Philosophy of Despair
Metaphysics (the nature of reality)
- Plato The Republic (Jowett translation)
- Aristotle The Categories (Edghill translation)
- Immanuel Kant The Critique of Pure Reason (Meiklejohn translation)
- Immanuel Kant Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Erste Fassung 1781) (German)
- Immanuel Kant Kritik der reinen Vernunft Zweite hin und wieder verbesserte Auflage (1787) (German)
- William James A Pluralistic Universe: Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy
- George John Romanes Mind and Motion and Monism
- Bertrand Russell The Problems of Philosophy
- Bertrand Russell Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
- Peter Coffey Ontology or the Theory of Being
Epistemology (theory of knowledge) and philosophy of science
- Plato Theaetetus (Jowett translation)
- René Descartes Discours de la méthode (original French)
- René Descartes Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences (audiobook
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- René Descartes The Selections from the Principles of Philosophy
- George Berkeley A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
- George Berkeley Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
- David Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature
- Benedictus de Spinoza Improvement of the Understanding (Elwes translation)
- Immanuel Kant The Critique of Pure Reason (Meiklejohn translation)
- Immanuel Kant Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Erste Fassung 1781) (original German)
- Immanuel Kant Kritik der reinen Vernunft Zweite hin und wieder verbesserte Auflage (1787) (original German)
- John Stuart Mill Auguste Comte and Positivism
- Bertrand Russell The Problems of Philosophy
- Bertrand Russell Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
- Bertrand Russell Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy
- Alexander Philip Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge
Philosophy of mind and language
- William James A Pluralistic Universe: Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy
- William James Essays in Radical Empiricism
- Bertrand Russell The Analysis of Mind
- Bertrand Russell Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Ogden translation and original German)
Logic and reasoning
- John Stuart Mill A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive 3d ed. (vol. 1 ), 7th ed. (vol. 1 , vol. 2 ), 8th ed.
- W. Stebbing Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic
- Lewis Carroll Symbolic Logic
- Lewis Carroll The Game of Logic
- William Minto Logic, Inductive and Deductive
- St. George William Joseph Stock Deductive Logic
- Carveth Read Logic: Deductive and Inductive
Aesthetics and philosophy of art
- Plato Ion (Jowett translation)
- Plato The Republic (Jowett translation, see especially Book X)
- Aristotle Poetics (Murray and Bywater trans.), Butcher trans. , audio
- M.V. Couisin The True, The Beautiful and The Good
- Friedrich Schiller Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller
- Henri Bergson Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
- Friedrich Nietzsche Die Geburt der Tragödie (original German)
- Friedrich Nietzsche The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms (Ludovici translation)
- Friedrich Nietzsche Homer and Classical Philology (Kennedy translation)
- Dewitt H. Parker The Principles of Aesthetics
Ethics and moral philosophy
- Aristotle Ethics
- Michel de Montaigne Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
- David Hume An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
- Benedictus de Spinoza Ethics (Elwes tranlation) (part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , part 4 , part 5 )
- John Abercrombie The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings
- Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil (Zimmern translation) (audiobook )
- John Stuart Mill Utilitarianism
- Leslie Stephen The English Utilitarians, Volume I
Political philosophy
- Plato Apology (Jowett translation)
- Plato The Republic (Jowett translation)
- Aristotle Politics (Ellis translation)
- Niccolò Machiavelli The Prince (Marriott translation) (audiobook )
- John Locke Second Treatise of Government
- Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx The Communist Manifesto (audiobook )
- Karl Marx Selected Essays (Stenning translation)
- John Stuart Mill On Liberty
- John Stuart Mill Considerations on Representative Government
- John Stuart Mill Essays on some unsettled Questions of Political Economy
- Bertrand Russell Proposed Roads to Freedom
- Bertrand Russell Political Ideals
- Roscoe Pound An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law
Philosophy of education
- Michel de Montaigne Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
- John Dewey Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education
- Bertrand Russell Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays (see "The Place of Science in a Liberal Education")
- John Dewey Moral Principles in Education
Philosophy of religion
- Plato Euthyphro (Jowett translation)
- David Hume Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
- Benedictus de Spinoza Theologico-Political Treatise — Part 1 (Elwes translation) (part 2 , part 3 , part 4 )
- Bertrand Russell Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays (see "Mysticism and Logic" and "A Free Man's Worship")
- Hastings Rashdall Philosophy and Religion: Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge
- Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Philosophical Letters of Frederich Schiller
- Friedrich Nietzsche The Antichrist (Mencken translation)
Philosophy of history
- S.M. Dubnow Jewish History: an essay in the philosophy of history
- G.E. Partridge The Psychology of Nations: A Contribution to the Philosophy of History
Non-western philosophical traditions
- Surendranath Dasgupta A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1
- Kaiten Nukariya The Religion of the Samurai: A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan
Lives and work of individual philosophers
- Thomas Taylor Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato
- R.W. Church English Men of Letters: Bacon
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte Achtundvierzig Briefe von Johann Gottlieb Fichte und seinen Verwandten by Fichte (German)
- John Stuart Mill Autobiography
- George Grote Review of the Work of Mr John Stuart Mill Entitled, 'Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy.'
- John Morley Critical Miscellanies: The Death of Mr. Mill & Mr. Mill's Autobiography
- John Morley English Men of Letters: Burke
- W. Tudor Jones An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy
- John Alexander Gunn Bergson and His Philosophy
- Edouard Louis Emmanuel Julien A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson
- John Morley Critical Miscellanies: August Comte
