Philosophy
Vom glückseligen Leben
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Veröffentlicht 1867. Eine stoische Anleitung zum Leben. Knapp und gut geschrieben.(Summary by redaer)
Sadhana, the Realisation of Life
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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, philosopher, visual artist, playwright, composer, and novelist whose work reshaped Bengali literatur…
Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy
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George Santayana
Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive…
Has a Frog a Soul?
Read by Carl Manchester
Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Huxley, known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his championing and development of Darwinism, was perhaps the most important Victorian biolog…
Selected Essays
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Voltairine De Cleyre
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, "the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced.&…
The Ethics of Belief
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William Kingdon Clifford
This is an essay on decision biases and a critique on prejudices, neatly written and thought provoking. (Summary by sidhu177)
The Monadology
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
The Monadology (La Monadologie, 1714) is one of Gottfried Leibniz’s best known works representing his later philosophy. It is a short text w…
Pep
Read by J A Carter
William C. Hunter
Colonel William Crosbie Hunter was a businessman and self-help writer who was moderately popular in the early 20th century. His books set fo…
Art and Morality
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Stuart Mason
“Who can help laughing when an ordinary journalist seriously proposes to limit the subject-matter at the disposal of the artist?”“We are dom…
The Prussian Officer
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D. H. Lawrence
The collection of short stories - of which The Prussian Officer is one - was Lawrence’s first such book. A German officer and his orderly ar…
Fables de La Fontaine
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Jean de la Fontaine
Les Fables de La Fontaine constituent la principale œuvre poétique du classicisme, et l'un des plus grands chefs d'œuvre de la litt&e…
Human Nature And Conduct
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John Dewey
John Dewey, an early 20th Century American philosopher, psychologist, educational theorist saw Social Psychology as much a physical science …
Fables de La Fontaine
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Jean de la Fontaine
Toujours observateur des comportements humains, Jean de La Fontaine ne cesse de les mettre en scène dans ces 16 fables, tantôt …
The Song Against Songs
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G. K. Chesterton
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Song Against Songs by G. K. Chesterton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Octobe…
The Riddle of the Universe
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Ernst Haeckel
The Riddle of the Universe is the philosophical work of Ernst Haeckel, eminent biologist, in which he explores the meaning of life, the natu…
Auguste Comte and Positivism
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John Stuart Mill
Part 1 lays out the framework for Positivism as originated in France by Auguste Comte in his Cours de Philosophie Positive. Mill examines th…
Six Characters in Search of an Author
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Luigi Pirandello
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore) is the most famous and celebrated play by the Italian writer Luigi …
Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll
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Robert G. Ingersoll
A second volume of lectures by the most famous orator of the 19th century. Ingersoll was a tireless crusader for the dignity of humanity, an…