Philosophy
The Constitution of Athens
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Aristotle
The Constitution of Athens (Greek: Ἀθηναίων πολιτεία) was written by Aristotle or his student. The text was lost until discovered in the lat…
Aesop's Fables, Volume 07 (Fables 151-175)
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Aesop
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…
Zadig or the Book of Fate
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Voltaire
Zadig, ou La Destinée, ("Zadig, or The Book of Fate") (1747) is a famous novel written by the French Enlightenment philosop…
The World As Will and Idea, Vol. 1 of 3
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Arthur Schopenhauer
In this work, Schopenhauer explains his fundamental idea that at the root of the reality we see around us is a Will that eternally, insatiab…
Thoughts are Things (Version 2)
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Prentice Mulford
Prentice Mulford was also instrumental in the founding of the popular philosophy, New Thought, along with other notable writers including Ra…
Ancient Greek Philosopher-Scientists
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Varioustranslated Bywilliam Ellery Leonard and Varioustranslated By William Ellery Leonard
The Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, that is, the philosopher-scientists who lived before or contemporaneously to Socrates, were the first m…
On the Laws
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
On the Laws (Latin: De Legibus) was written shortly after Cicero's "On the Commonwealth" during the last years of the Roman Republ…
An Introduction to Metaphysics
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Henri Bergson
An Introduction to Metaphysics (Introduction a la Metaphysique) is a 1903 essay by Henri Bergson that explores the concept of reality. For B…
Aesop's Fables, Volume 06 (Fables 126-150)
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Aesop
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…
The Conquest of Bread
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Peter Kropotkin
In this work, Kropotkin points out what he considers to be the fallacies of the economic systems of feudalism and capitalism, and how he bel…
Aesop's Fables, Volume 09 (Fables 201-225)
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Aesop
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the only book-length philosophical work published by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein during h…
Aesop's Fables, Volume 08 (Fables 176-200)
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Aesop
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…
Eudemian Ethics
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Aristotle
Eudemian Ethics (Greek: ΗΘΙΚΩΝ ΕΥΔΗΜΙΩΝ Latin: ETHICA EUDEMIA) discusses topics including virtue, friendship, happiness and God. It is belie…
Ein verbummelter Student
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Gustav Sack
"Ein verbummelter Student" ist ein autobiographisch geprägtes Werk von Gustav Sack (1885-1916), einem heute fast vergessenen,…
On Union with God
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Blessed Albert The Great
Surely the most deeply-rooted need of the human soul, its purest aspiration, is for the closest possible union with God. As one turns over t…
A Theologico-Political Treatise
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Benedict De Spinoza
Written by the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza, the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus or Theologico-Political Treatise was one of the most con…