Philosophy

From Plato and Confucius to Kant and Hegel, this CD contains the full text of 221 classic works of philosophy.

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), these books are in plain-text format, organized for easy access.

Table of Contents:

General

• The History of Modern Phlosophy by Richard Falckenberg
• Initiation into Philosophy by Emile Faguet
• Recent Tendencies in Ethics by William Richie Sorley
• The World's Greatest Books, edited by Arhtur Mee and J.A. Hammetter,
• volume 13 Religion and Philosophy
• volume 14 Philosophy and Economics

American

• John Dewey
• Democracy and Education
• Moral Principles in Education
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
• The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Essays, First Series
• Essays, Second Series
• Poems
• Representative Men
• about Emerson
• Sketches from Concord and Appledore by Frank Stearns
• Authors and Friends by Anne Fields (including Emerson, Longfellow, Holmes, Stowe, Whittier, and Tennyson)
• Emerson and Other Essays by John Jay Chapman
• Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• George Fullerton
• Handbook of Ethical Theory
• An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton
• William Dewitt Hyde
• Practical Ethics
• William James
• as a single file in .doc form, with internal links
• in .txt form
• The Meaning of Truth
• Memories and Studies
• A Pluralistic Universe, 1909
• Pragmatism
• Talks to Teachers on Psychology
• Varieties of Religious Experience
• D.L. Murray
• Pragmatism
• Herbert Palmer
• The Nature of Goodness
• Ralph Barton Perry
• An Approach to Philosophy
• The Moral Economy
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Eureka, a Prose Poem
• George Santayana
• The Life of Reason: the Phases of Human Progress (five volumes in one file)
• Winds of Doctrine

British

• General
• The English Utilitarians by Leslie Stephen
• volume 1 (of 3)
• volume 2 (of 3)
• John Abercrombie
• The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings
• Alexander Bain (1818-1903)
• Moral Science, a Compendium of Ethics
• Practical Essays, 1884
• George Berkeley
• An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
• Principles of Human Knowledge
• Three Dialogues
• George Calvert (1803-1889)
• Essays Aesthetical
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Hints Towards the Formation of a More Comprehensive Theory of Life
• Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862-1932)
• The Meaning of Good
• David Hume
• Dialogue Concerning Natural Religion
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
• History of England, volume 1
• Principles of Morals
• Treatise of Human Nature
• about Hume
• Hume by Thomas Henry Huxley
• Vernon Lee (pseudonum of Violet Paget) (1856-1935)
• The Beautiful: an Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics
• John Locke
• An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Two Treatises of Government
• H.L. Mansel
• The Philosophy of the Conditioned
• John Stuart Mill
• Auguste Comte and Positivism, 1865
• Autobiography
• Considerations on Representative Government
• Le Positivisme Anglais: Etude sur Stuart Mill by Hippolyte Taine, 1864, in French
• A System of Logic
• Utilitarianism
• about John Stuart Mill
• Critical Miscellanies by John Morley, volume 3
• essay 2 The Death of Mr. Mill
• essay 3 Mr. Mill's Autobiography
• John Cowper Powys
• The Complex Vision
• Hastings Randall
• Philosophy and Religion
• Frances Reynolds, sister of Joshua Reynolds
• An Enquiry Concenring th Principle of Taste, 1785
• George John Romanes
• Mind, Motion, and Monism
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer by Charles Sotheran
• Herbert Spencer
• Auguste Comte et Herbert Spencer by E de Roberty, 1894, in French
• Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects
• Martin Eden by Jack London (a novel in which the hero enthusastically studies the philosophy of Herbert Spencer)
• The Philosophy of Style
• St. George Stock
• Deductive Logic
• A Guide to Stoicism

Chinese

• Confucianism
• Confucian classics (translated by James Legge)
• Shu King -- Book of Historical Records
• Shih King -- Book of Odes or Poetry
• Hsiao King -- Classic of Filial Piety
• Li Ki -- Book of Rites
• part 1
• part 2
• I Ching -- Book of Changes
• Analects of Confucius
• Filial Respect in Confucius and Socrates -- and the divergence of Western and Chinese Philosophic Traditions
• Taoism (translated by James Legge)
• Tao te Ching and first part of Chuang-tzu
• Second part of Chuang-tzu
• The Tao Teh King or The Tao and Its Characteristics by Lao-Tse
• Sun Tzu on the Art of War, translated by Lionel Giles

Dutch

• Erasmus
• Colloquies volume 1
• A Merry Dialogue
• Two Dialogues
• A Dialogue
• Baruch Spinoza
• as a single file in .doc form, with internal links
• in .txt form
• Ethics
• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• On the Improvement of the Understanding
• Theologico-Political Treatise
• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4

Egyptian

• Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Norman Bentwick
• Kybalion: a Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece by three initiates, 1912

French

• Henri Bergson
• La Philosophie de M. Bergson by Albert Farges, 1912, in French
• Auguste Comte
• Auguste Comte and Positivism, 1865
• Auguste Comte et Herbert Spencer by E de Roberty, 1894, in French
• Rene Descartes
• Discourse on the Method
• Discourse on the Method (second translation)
• Discours de la Methode (in French)
• Principles of Philosophy
• Emile Faguet
• Initiation into Philosophy, translated by Sir Homer Gordon
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Confessions, in English
• Emile, in English
• about Rousseau
• Rousseau by John Morley, volume 1
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Jules Lemaitre

German

• Rudolf Eucken
• An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy by W. Tudor Jones
• Ludwig Feuerbach
• Feuerbach: the Roots of the Socialist Philosophy by Frederick Engels
• Johann Gottlieb Fichte
• Versuch Einer Kritik Aller Offenbarung
• Ernst Haeckel
• Monism as Connecting Religion and Science, 1892
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Phaenomenologie des Geists, 1807, in German
• Rede zum Schuljaresabschluss, in German, short
• Wissenschaft der Logik, in German
• part 1
• part 2
• Immanuel Kant
• in English, in a single file in .doc form, with internal links
• in .txt form
• Critique of Pure Reason, in English
• The Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, 1785
• Kritik der Reinen Vernunft, first edition, 1781, in German
• Kritik der Reinen Vernunft, second edition, 1787, in German
• The Metaphysical Element of Ethics
• Leibniz
• La Monadologie, in French
• Theodicy, essays on the goodness of God, the freedom of man, and the origin of Evil, edited by Austin Farrer
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• in English, in a single file in .doc form, with internal links
• in German, in a single file in .doc form, with internal links
• in .txt form
• The Antichrist
• Beyond Good and Evil (Jenseits von Gut und Bose)
• in German
• in English
• The Birth of Tragedy (Die Geburt der Tragoedie), in German
• The Case of Wagner
• Goetzen-Daemmerung, in German
• Homer and Classical Philology
• Human All Too Human (Menschliches, Allzumenschliches), in German
• On the Future of Our Educational Institutions
• Thoughts Out of Season, Part One
• Thus Spake Zarathustra
• We Philologists
• Arthur Schopenauer
• The Essays of Schopenauer, translated by T. Bailey Saunders
• as a single file in .doc form, with internal links
• in .txt form
• The Art of Controversy
• The Art of Literature
• Counsels and Maxims
• On Authorship etc.
• On Human Nature
• Religion: a Dialogue
• Studies in Pessimism
• The Wisdom of Life

Greek

• General
• The Best of the World's Classics, volume 1 Greece edited by Henry Cabot Lodge
• Christianity and Greek Philosophy by B.f. Cocker
• A Short History of Greek Philosophy by John Marshall
• Aristotle
• The Athenian Constitution
• The Categories, Translated by E. M. Edghill
• Ethics
• The Poetics, Translated by S.H. Butcher
• A Treatise on Government translated by William Ellis
• The Mid-Wife's Vade-Mecum from the Works of Aristotle
• Sextus Empirus
• Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Mary Mills Patrick, 1899
• Epictetus
• Golden Sayings of Epictetus
• Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion
• Longinus
• On the Sublime
• Plato,
• translated to English by Benjamin Jowett
• as a single file in .doc form, with internal links
• in .txt form
• Alcibiades I
• Apology
• Charmides (and preface to the collection)
• Cratylus
• Critias
• Crito
• Euthyphro
• Euthydemus
• Gorgias
• Ion
• Laches
• Laws
• Lesser Hippias
• Lysis
• Menexus
• Meno
• Parmenides
• Phaedo
• Phaedrus
• Philebus
• Protagoras
• Republic
• Sophist
• Statesman
• Symposium
• Theaetetus
• Timaeus
• by unknown imitators of Plato
• Alcibiades II
• Eryxias
• translated by Henry Cary
• Apology, Crito, and Phaedo
• about Plato
• Plato and Platonism by Walter Pater
• Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato by Thomas Taylor
• Socrates
• The Memorable Thoughts of Socreates by Xenophon, translated by Edard Bysshe

Indian

• A History of Indian Philosophy by Surendranath Dosgupta

Italian

• St. Thomas Aquinas
• Summa Theologica, translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
• in .txt form
• Part 1
• Part 2 first part
• Part 2 second part
• Part 3
• in .doc form, with internal links
• Croce
• Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce, translated by Douglas Ainslie
• Machiavelli
• The Prince by Machiavelli, translated by W.K. Marriott
• Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius by Niccolo Machiavelli
• Machiavelli, volume 1
• The Art of War, translated by Peter Whitehouse, 1560
• The Prince, translated by Edward Dacred, 1640

Persian

• Avicenna
• Avicenne by Le Baron Carra de Vaux, in French

Roman

• St. Augustine
• The City of God, translated by Marcus Dods
• Marcus Aurelius
• Meditations
• The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
• Boethius (480-525 AD)
• The Consolation of Philosophy (in English and Latin)
• The Consolation of Philosopohy translated by H.R. James, 1897
• Cicero
• On Friendship and Old Age
• Seneca
• Apocolocyntosis

Spanish

• Moses Maimonides (1135-1204)
• The Guide for the Perplexed, translated by M. Fiedlander
• in .txt form
• in .doc form, with internal links
• Ibn Tufail (AKA Avenpace) (?-1138)
• The Improvement of Human Resason, exhibited in the life of Hai Ebn Yokhdan, translated by Simon Ockley, 1708