Philosophy Books

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

David Hume

David Hume, an eminent Scottish philosopher, historian, and essayist, explores the nature and foundation of Morals in this book, which was written as a popular summary of Book III in A Treatise of Hum..

Mastery of Self for Wealth, Power, Success

Frank C. Haddock

This book brings to a close that portion of MASTERY OF SELF, which deals with the art of Success-Magnetism.  Acquiring magnetism is a constructive effort. It is a building process. You are rearin..

An analysis of religious belief

John Russell Amberley

If some of the advanced thinkers of the day find that Viscount Amberly—as evinced in some of the later chapters of this volume—had not in all respects evolved in the line of Free-thought so far as the..

The Kashf al-mahjúb - The oldest Persian treatise on Súfiism

Hujviri

The Kashf al-Maḥjúb, which belongs to the later years of the author’s life, and, partly at any rate, to the period of his residence in Lahore, was written in reply to certain questions addressed to hi..

Minor Dialogues, Together With the Dialogue on Clemency

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

According to the preface written by AUBREY STEWART, Seneca’s place of exile, which he seems to have found peculiarly uncomfortable, although he remarks that there are people who live there f..

Roman Stoicism

E. Vernon Arnold

The view taken in this book corresponds generally to that taken by the writers named. Shortly expressed, it regards Stoicism as the bridge between ancient and modern philosophical thought; a position ..

An Almond for a Parrot - Being a reply to Martin Mar-Prelate

John Petheram

The internal evidence in favour of Nash, as the author of the Almond for a Parrot, is very strong; and cannot but appear to any one who is conversant with his “Christ’s Tears over Jerusalem,” a work c..

A Body of Divinity, Vol. 4 (of 4)

Thomas Ridgley

A Body of Divinity, Vol. 4 (of 4)Wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are explained and defended, being the substance of several lectures on the Assembly's Larger Catechism..