Philosophy
Pragmatism
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William James
'Pragmatism' contains a series of public lectures held by William James in Boston 1906–7. James provides a popularizing outline of his view …
On Generation and Corruption
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Aristotle
On Generation and Corruption (Ancient Greek: Περὶ γενέσεως καὶ φθορᾶς, Latin: De Generatione et Corruptione, also known as On Coming to Be a…
The Greek View of Life
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Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
“With the Greek civilisation beauty perished from the world. Never again has it been possible for man to believe that harmony is in fact the…
The Hindu Book of Astrology
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Bhakti Seva
”Each person is born in or under one of the twelve signs of the Zodiac and is thus influenced throughout life by the planetary conditions at…
Progress and Poverty
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Henry George
What I have done in this book, if I have correctly solved the great problem I have sought to investigate, is, to unite the truth perceived b…
A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga
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William Walker Atkinson
The Book talks on the internal world of the self. The real nature of the subconscious mind, the way to control it, how ego comes into play a…
The Letters of a Post-Impressionist
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Vincent Van Gogh
“Being the Familiar Correspondence of Vincent Van Gogh ... [Van Gogh's] art was appreciated during his life only by a very few and it is but…
Proposed Roads to Freedom
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872 – 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, political activist and Nobel laureate. …
The Critique of Practical Reason
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Immanuel Kant
The Critique of Practical Reason (Kritik der praktischen Vernunft) is the second of Immanuel Kant's three critiques, first published in 1788…
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…
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…
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…
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…