Philosophy

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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, 1910
• Aristotle -- Ethics
• Marcus Aurelius -- Discourses
• Francis Bacon -- Advancement of Learning
• George Berkeley -- Principles of Human Knowledge
• Rene Descartes -- Discourse on Method
• Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Nature
• Epictetus -- Discourses and Encheiridion

American

• John Dewey
• Democracy and 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 James
• 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
• George Santayana
• The Life of Reason: the Phases of Human Progress (five volumes in one file)
• Winds of Doctrine

British

• 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
• 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
• John Locke
• An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Two Treatises of Government
• John Stuart Mill
• Auguste Comte and Positivism, 1865
• Le Positivisme Anglais: Etude sur Stuart Mill by Hippolyte Taine, 1864, in French
• 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
• Frances Reynolds, sister of Joshua Reynolds
• An Enquiry Concenring th Principle of Taste, 1785
• 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)
• 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
• 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 of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences
• 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
• 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
• Critique of Pure Reason, in English
• Kritik der Reinen Vernunft, first edition, 1781, in German
• Kritik der Reinen Vernunft, second edition, 1787, in German
• Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
• 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
• 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
• Goetzen-Daemmerung, in German
• Homer and Classical Philology
• Human All Too Human (Menschliches, Allzumenschliches), in German
• Thoughts Out of Season, Part One
• Thus Spake Zarathustra
• We Philologists
• Arthur Schopenauer
• The Essays of Schopenauer, translated by T. Bailey Saunders
• 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
• A Short History of Greek Philosophy by John Marshall
• Aristotle
• 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
• 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
• Part 1
• Part 2 first part
• Part 2 second part
• Part 3
• 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

Roman

• 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

• Ibn Tufail (AKA Avenpace) (?-1138)
• The Improvement of Human Resason, exhibited in the life of Hai Ebn Yokhdan, translated by Simon Ockley, 1708