Philosophy Books

Academica

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Since the work of Davies appeared in 1725, no English scholar has edited the Academica. In Germany the last edition with explanatory notes is that of Goerenz, published in 1810. To the poverty and unt..

First Oration of Cicero Against Catiline

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Catiline or Catilinarian Orations are a set of speeches to the Roman Senate given by Marcus Tullius Cicero, one of the year's consuls, accusing a senator, Lucius Sergius Catilina, of leading a plo..

History of Famous Orators

Marcus Tullius Cicero

As the following Rhetorical Pieces have never appeared before in the English language, I thought a Translation of them would be no unacceptable offering to the Public. The character of the Author (Mar..

De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The De Amicitia, inscribed, like the De Senectute, to Atticus, was probably written early in the year 44 B.C., during Cicero's retirement, after the death of Julius Caesar and before the conflict with..

Sunday Under Three Heads

Charles Dickens

Sunday Under Three Heads is a book by Charles Dickens. There are few things from which I derive greater pleasure, than walking through some of the principal streets of London on a fine Sunday, in summ..

The Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle

The Nicomachean Ethics is the name normally given to Aristotle's best-known work on ethics. The work, which plays a pre-eminent role in defining Aristotelian ethics, consists of ten books, originally ..

Politics - A Treatise on Government

Aristotle

Politics is a work of political philosophy by Aristotle, a 4th-century BC Greek philosopher. The end of the Nicomachean Ethics declared that the inquiry into ethics necessarily follows into politics, ..

The Categories

Aristotle

The Categories is a text from Aristotle's Organon that enumerates all the possible kinds of things that can be the subject or the predicate of a proposition. They are "perhaps the single most heavily ..