"The Essays" of Michel de Montaigne are contained in three books and 107 chapters of varying length. Montaigne's stated design in writing, publishing and revising...
The New Atlantis
"The New Atlantis" is an incomplete utopian novel by Sir Francis Bacon, published in 1627. Francis Bacon (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English...
Tragic Sense Of Life: Premium Ebook
« One hundred years ago, in 1913, Miguel de Unamuno published a book called The Tragic Sense of Life. It was considered — in his time — to be a masterpiece, an...
Physics
"The Physics" of Aristotle is one of the foundational books of Western science and philosophy.As Martin Heidegger once wrote;"The Physics is a lecture in which he...
Gorgias
Gorgias is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC.Plato (424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens,...
Of A Happy Life
"On the Happy Life" is a dialogue written by Seneca the Younger around the year 58 AD. It was intended for his older brother Gallio, to whom Seneca also dedicated...
Of Peace Of Mind
De Tranquillitate Animi is a philosophical treatise about the relation between happiness and peace of mind.
Political Ideals
In dark days, men need a clear faith and a well-grounded hope; and as the outcome of these, the calm courage which takes no account of hardships by the way. The times through...
On The Nature Of Things
On the Nature of Things is an epic didactic poem aiming to explain Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. Lucretius presents the principles of atomism; the nature of the mind...
Emile
Emile is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be the best and most important of all his writings....
