Philosophy Books

The Sayings of Confucius

Confucius

Confucius 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 ..

A History of Freedom of Thought

J. B. Bury

IT is a common saying that thought is free. A man can never be hindered from thinking whatever he chooses so long as he conceals what he thinks. The working of his mind is limited only by the bounds o..

Le Kama soutra

Vatsyayana

Les principes sur le juste et l'injuste sont les mêmes en tout temps et en tout lieu, ils constituent la morale absolue; mais les principes sur les moeurs varient avec les âges et les pays. Depuis la ..

Pantheisticon

John Toland

Pantheisticon: or, the Form Of Celebrating the Socratic-Society.Divided into Three Parts.Which Contain,I. The Morals and Axioms of the Pantheists; or the Brotherhood.II. Their Deity and Philosophy.III..

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

George Berkeley

What I here make public has, after a long and scrupulous inquiry, seemed to me evidently true and not unuseful to be known--particularly to those who are tainted with Scepticism, or want a demonstrati..

The Ethics of the Dust

John Ruskin

The Ethics of the Dust is a collection of  lectures, were really given, in substance, at a girls' school (far in the country); which, in the course of various experiments on the possibility of in..

Where No Fear Was - A Book About Fear

Arthur Christopher Benson

There surely may come a time for each of us, if we have lived with any animation or interest, if we have had any constant or even fitful desire to penetrate and grasp the significance of the strange a..

The Idea of Progress - An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth

J. B. Bury

We may believe in the doctrine of Progress or we may not, but in either case it is a matter of interest to examine the origins and trace the history of what is now, even should it ultimately prove to ..