Philosophy Books
The Improvement of Human Reason
Ibn TufailThe Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan is an Islamic philosophical work written by Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Tufail al-Qasi.Author's Preface:When Mr. Pococke first ..
The Principles of Philosophy
René DescartesPrinciples of Philosophy is a book by René Descartes. In essence it is a synthesis of the Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy It was written in Latin, published in 1644 and dedicat..
Thoughts I Met on the Highway
Ralph Waldo TrineThoughts I Met on the Highway is a philosophical work by Ralph Waldo Trine, an American philosopher, author, and teacher. He wrote many books on the New Thought movement...
On the Popular Judgment
Immanuel KantGerman philosopher Immanuel Kant's philosophical work On the Popular Judgment is a tripartite essay – published variously as “On the Popular Judgment” (J. Richardson trans.), “On the Old Saw..
De Lof der Zotheid
Desiderius ErasmusDe Lof der Zotheid is a Dutch essay translated into English as The Praise of Folly written by Dutch philosopher and Christian humanist Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus...
The Approach to Philosophy
Ralph Barton PerryIn an essay on "The Problem of Philosophy at the Present Time," Professor Edward Caird says that "philosophy is not a first venture into a new field of thought, but the rethinking of a secular and rel..
Philosophical Letters of Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich SchillerThe reason passes, like the heart, through certain epochs and transitions, but its development is not so often portrayed. Men seem to have been satisfied with unfolding the passions in their extremes,..
The Sayings of Confucius
ConfuciusConfucius was a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Spring and Autumn period. The philosophy of Confucius, also known as Confucianism, emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness ..