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Philosophy & Ethics
Kant, Hegel, Aristotle, Plato — the canonical hard reading.
300 WorksDrawn from Project Gutenberg Bookshelf #691
The City of God, Volume I
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint
146,974 downloadsen2014Difficulty 61 (Academic)The origin and development of the moral ideas
Westermarck, Edward
67,785 downloadsen2016Difficulty 61 (Academic)Leviathan
Hobbes, Thomas
42,900 downloadsen2002Difficulty 57 (Graduate)The Prince
Machiavelli, Niccolò
29,532 downloadsen2006Difficulty 63 (Academic)Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
29,327 downloadsen1999Difficulty 57 (Graduate)Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
28,425 downloadsen2001Difficulty 50 (College)Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
Thoreau, Henry David
26,622 downloadsen1995Difficulty 51 (Graduate)The Confessions of St. Augustine
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint
25,581 downloadsen2002Difficulty 42 (College)On Liberty
Mill, John Stuart
20,878 downloadsen2011Difficulty 60 (Graduate)Beyond Good and Evil
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
20,616 downloadsen2003Difficulty 66 (Academic)Second Treatise of Government
Locke, John
20,172 downloadsen2005Difficulty 74 (Expert)Roman Stoicism being lectures on the history of the Stoic philosophy with special reference to its development within the Roman Empire
Arnold, Edward Vernon
18,338 downloadsen2021Difficulty 57 (Graduate)The Republic
Plato
17,277 downloadsen1998Difficulty 62 (Academic)A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes
Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)
17,222 downloadsen2016Difficulty 54 (Graduate)Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
14,325 downloadsen2016Difficulty 57 (Graduate)Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 1 of 2)
Calvin, Jean
13,764 downloadsen2014Difficulty 65 (Academic)The Critique of Pure Reason
Kant, Immanuel
13,762 downloadsen2003Difficulty 62 (Academic)The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
13,695 downloadsen2016Difficulty 67 (Academic)The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks
Vatsyayana
13,597 downloadsen2009Difficulty 51 (Graduate)On War
Clausewitz, Carl von
13,399 downloadsen2006Difficulty 55 (Graduate)The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
13,140 downloadsen1999Difficulty 41 (College)A Pickle for the Knowing Ones
Dexter, Timothy
11,969 downloadsen2013Difficulty 70 (Academic)The Ethics of Aristotle
Aristotle
11,506 downloadsen2005Difficulty 63 (Academic)The Enchiridion
Epictetus
11,202 downloadsen2014Difficulty 53 (Graduate)Pascal's Pensées
Pascal, Blaise
10,750 downloadsen2006Difficulty 63 (Academic)The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2)
James, William
10,647 downloadsen2018Difficulty 57 (Graduate)Symposium
Plato
10,395 downloadsen1999Difficulty 57 (Graduate)The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
10,300 downloadsen2017Difficulty 60 (Graduate)The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
10,232 downloadsen2016Difficulty 63 (Academic)The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
Diogenes Laertius
10,179 downloadsen2018Difficulty 60 (Graduate)Isis unveiled, Volume 2 (of 2), Theology : $b A master-key to the mysteries of ancient and modern science and theology
Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
10,030 downloadsen2025Difficulty 66 (Academic)The Problems of Philosophy
Russell, Bertrand
10,009 downloadsen2004Difficulty 56 (Graduate)Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 — Boethius and Troilus
Chaucer, Geoffrey
9,997 downloadsen2014Difficulty 51 (Graduate)Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 4
Grote, George
9,906 downloadsen2012Difficulty 70 (Academic)Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients
Bacon, Francis
9,765 downloadsen2018Difficulty 49 (College)Plutarch's Morals
Plutarch
9,726 downloadsen2007Difficulty 53 (Graduate)Ethics
Spinoza, Benedictus de
9,506 downloadsen2003Difficulty 56 (Graduate)The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
9,494 downloadsen2016Difficulty 50 (College)Nature
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
9,318 downloadsen2009Difficulty 46 (College)A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 1 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes
Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)
9,252 downloadsen2016Difficulty 56 (Graduate)Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
9,159 downloadsen2005Difficulty 57 (Graduate)The Communist Manifesto
Marx, Karl & Engels, Friedrich
8,963 downloadsen2005Difficulty 68 (Academic)The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
James, William
8,656 downloadsen1996Difficulty 60 (Graduate)The decline of the West : $b Volume 1, Form and actuality
Spengler, Oswald
8,604 downloadsen2023Difficulty 56 (Graduate)Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 2
Grote, George
8,584 downloadsen2012Difficulty 60 (Graduate)The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
8,567 downloadsen2017Difficulty 57 (Graduate)On the Nature of Things
Lucretius Carus, Titus
8,527 downloadsen1997Difficulty 58 (Graduate)An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2
Locke, John
8,355 downloadsen2004Difficulty 59 (Graduate)Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre
De Cleyre, Voltairine
8,333 downloadsen2013Difficulty 48 (College)The Republic of Plato
Plato
8,195 downloadsen2017Difficulty 61 (Academic)The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4 The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
8,157 downloadsen2018Difficulty 61 (Academic)Æsthetic as science of expression and general linguistic
Croce, Benedetto
7,843 downloadsen2017Difficulty 88 (Specialist)The Prophet
Gibran, Kahlil
7,790 downloadsen2019Difficulty 36 (High School)The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Origen
7,555 downloadsen2023Difficulty 61 (Academic)Demonology and Devil-lore
Conway, Moncure Daniel
7,240 downloadsen2012Difficulty 81 (Specialist)The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)
Clement, of Alexandria, Saint
7,217 downloadsen2023Difficulty 56 (Graduate)A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'
Smith, Norman Kemp
7,173 downloadsen2013Difficulty 65 (Academic)Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay
Kant, Immanuel
7,044 downloadsen2016Difficulty 57 (Graduate)The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Blake, William
6,981 downloadsen2014Difficulty 43 (College)The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742
Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
6,884 downloadsen2017Difficulty 53 (Graduate)The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1
Julian, Emperor of Rome
6,844 downloadsen2015Difficulty 60 (Graduate)Dante and the early astronomers
Orr, M. A. (Mary Acworth)
6,836 downloadsen2021Difficulty 52 (Graduate)Aristotle
Grote, George
6,816 downloadsen2014Difficulty 60 (Graduate)Phaedrus
Plato
6,784 downloadsen1999Difficulty 58 (Graduate)Isis unveiled, Volume 1 (of 2), Science : $b A master-key to mysteries of ancient and modern science and theology
Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
6,708 downloadsen2022Difficulty 64 (Academic)Siddhartha
Hesse, Hermann
6,705 downloadsen2001Difficulty 46 (College)Psychology of the Unconscious A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido. A Contribution to the History of the Evolution of Thought
Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav)
6,649 downloadsen2021Difficulty 78 (Expert)The Antichrist
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
6,623 downloadsen2006Difficulty 61 (Academic)The Mediaeval Mind (Volume 2 of 2) A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages
Taylor, Henry Osborn
6,616 downloadsen2013Difficulty 50 (College)An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Hume, David
6,567 downloadsen2006Difficulty 69 (Academic)Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences
Descartes, René
6,540 downloadsen1993Difficulty 83 (Specialist)Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 3
Grote, George
6,525 downloadsen2012Difficulty 67 (Academic)Primitive culture, vol. 1 (of 2) : $b Researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, language, art, and custom
Tylor, Edward B. (Edward Burnett)
6,403 downloadsen2023Difficulty 74 (Expert)The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2
Charnock, Stephen
6,352 downloadsen2016Difficulty 60 (Graduate)As a man thinketh
Allen, James
6,343 downloadsen2003Difficulty 61 (Academic)The Dabistán, or School of manners, Volume 2 (of 3) translated from the original Persian, with notes and illustrations
Unknown
6,325 downloadsen2020Difficulty 69 (Academic)Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
6,240 downloadsen2005Difficulty 53 (Graduate)The Consolation of Philosophy
Boethius
6,226 downloadsen2004Difficulty 48 (College)History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2)
Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
6,179 downloadsen2012Difficulty 69 (Academic)The Poetics of Aristotle
Aristotle
6,061 downloadsen1999Difficulty 56 (Graduate)The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
5,957 downloadsen2004Difficulty 63 (Academic)A Treatise of Human Nature
Hume, David
5,930 downloadsen2003Difficulty 58 (Graduate)The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
James, William
5,912 downloadsen2008Difficulty 53 (Graduate)Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1
Grote, George
5,904 downloadsen2012Difficulty 67 (Academic)The Greek Philosophers, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Benn, Alfred William
5,887 downloadsen2018Difficulty 96 (Quantum Electrodynamics)Phaedo
Plato
5,821 downloadsen1999Difficulty 50 (College)日知錄
Gu, Yanwu
5,729 downloadszh2008Apology
Plato
5,640 downloadsen1999Difficulty 54 (Graduate)Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education
Dewey, John
5,639 downloadsen1997Difficulty 63 (Academic)The principles of science : $b a treatise on logic and scientific method
Jevons, William Stanley
5,636 downloadsen2024Difficulty 64 (Academic)Revelations of Divine Love
Julian, of Norwich
5,476 downloadsen2016Difficulty 58 (Graduate)Giordano Bruno
McIntyre, J. Lewis (James Lewis)
5,396 downloadsen2014Difficulty 58 (Graduate)Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 2 of 2)
Calvin, Jean
5,377 downloadsen2021Difficulty 61 (Academic)The Anatomy of Melancholy
Burton, Robert
5,373 downloadsen2004Difficulty 59 (Graduate)The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 09 of 12)
Frazer, James George
5,350 downloadsen2013Difficulty 52 (Graduate)De Officiis
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
5,325 downloadsen2014Difficulty 63 (Academic)Utilitarianism
Mill, John Stuart
5,304 downloadsen2004Difficulty 72 (Expert)Early Greek philosophy
Burnet, John
5,293 downloadsen2022Difficulty 52 (Graduate)Confessiones
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint
5,283 downloadsla2010The social contract & discourses
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
5,274 downloadsen2014Difficulty 61 (Academic)Hours with the Mystics: A Contribution to the History of Religious Opinion
Vaughan, Robert Alfred
5,248 downloadsen2022Difficulty 54 (Graduate)Democracy in America — Volume 2
Tocqueville, Alexis de
5,174 downloadsen2006Difficulty 67 (Academic)The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
5,173 downloadsen2016Difficulty 61 (Academic)The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)
Origen
5,156 downloadsen2023Difficulty 58 (Graduate)Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
5,123 downloadsen2005Difficulty 54 (Graduate)The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gîtâ (from the Mahâbhârata) Being a discourse between Arjuna, Prince of India, and the Supreme Being under the form of Krishna
Unknown
5,102 downloadsen2000Difficulty 47 (College)Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
5,083 downloadsen2011Difficulty 63 (Academic)The Grand Inquisitor
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
5,063 downloadsen2005Difficulty 50 (College)Physico-theology : $b Or, a demonstration of the being and attributes of God, from His works of creation
Derham, W. (William)
5,058 downloadsen2025Difficulty 50 (College)Gorgias
Plato
5,013 downloadsen1999Difficulty 56 (Graduate)How We Think
Dewey, John
4,969 downloadsen2011Difficulty 57 (Graduate)Goethe's Theory of Colours
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
4,947 downloadsen2015Difficulty 68 (Academic)Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
Kant, Immanuel
4,939 downloadsen2004Difficulty 73 (Expert)The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3)
Schopenhauer, Arthur
4,919 downloadsen2011Difficulty 65 (Academic)Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical Exposition
Dewey, John
4,911 downloadsen2012Difficulty 73 (Expert)The History of Freedom, and Other Essays
Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
4,906 downloadsen2010Difficulty 60 (Graduate)On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature: Two Essays (revised edition)
Schopenhauer, Arthur
4,891 downloadsen2016Difficulty 66 (Academic)Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint
4,836 downloadsen2014Difficulty 64 (Academic)The guide for the perplexed
Maimonides, Moses
4,806 downloadsen2024Difficulty 71 (Expert)The Man of Genius
Lombroso, Cesare
4,781 downloadsen2015Difficulty 61 (Academic)The history of magic : $b including a clear and precise exposition of its procedure, its rites and its mysteries
Lévi, Éliphas
4,751 downloadsen2023Difficulty 69 (Academic)The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions
Read, Carveth
4,741 downloadsen2014Difficulty 59 (Graduate)Emile
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
4,736 downloadsen2004Difficulty 45 (College)The Fable of the Bees; Or, Private Vices, Public Benefits
Mandeville, Bernard
4,736 downloadsen2018Difficulty 68 (Academic)Kant's Critique of Judgement
Kant, Immanuel
4,735 downloadsen2015Difficulty 58 (Graduate)On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Thoreau, Henry David
4,733 downloadsen1993Difficulty 53 (Graduate)What Is Art?
Tolstoy, Leo, graf
4,700 downloadsen2021Difficulty 54 (Graduate)The quest of the historical Jesus : $b a critical study of its progress from Reimarus to Wrede
Schweitzer, Albert
4,685 downloadsen2014Difficulty 58 (Graduate)A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I
De Morgan, Augustus
4,668 downloadsen2007Difficulty 55 (Graduate)The Dawn of Day
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
4,650 downloadsen2012Difficulty 61 (Academic)Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin
Butler, Samuel
4,646 downloadsen2007Difficulty 57 (Graduate)Utopia
More, Thomas, Saint
4,644 downloadsen2000Difficulty 60 (Graduate)Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
James, William
4,641 downloadsen2004Difficulty 54 (Graduate)Dhammapada, a Collection of Verses; Being One of the Canonical Books of the Buddhists
Unknown
4,605 downloadsen1999Difficulty 45 (College)On Love
Stendhal
4,581 downloadsen2016Difficulty 57 (Graduate)The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism
Schopenhauer, Arthur
4,571 downloadsen2004Difficulty 55 (Graduate)Galen: On the Natural Faculties
Galen
4,555 downloadsen2013Difficulty 65 (Academic)The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life
Schopenhauer, Arthur
4,531 downloadsen2004Difficulty 63 (Academic)Considerations on Representative Government
Mill, John Stuart
4,456 downloadsen2004Difficulty 64 (Academic)Etiquette
Post, Emily
4,422 downloadsen2004Difficulty 55 (Graduate)Journal 01, 1837-1846 The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 07 (of 20)
Thoreau, Henry David
4,422 downloadsen2018Difficulty 68 (Academic)Minor Dialogues, Together With the Dialogue on Clemency
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
4,403 downloadsen2021Difficulty 55 (Graduate)Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul
Frazer, James George
4,391 downloadsen2004Difficulty 59 (Graduate)What Nietzsche Taught
Wright, Willard Huntington
4,381 downloadsen2016Difficulty 61 (Academic)The Churches and Modern Thought An inquiry into the grounds of unbelief and an appeal for candour
Phelips, Vivian
4,374 downloadsen2014Difficulty 58 (Graduate)Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
La Rochefoucauld, François duc de
4,368 downloadsen2005Difficulty 54 (Graduate)The Works of George Berkeley. Vol. 1 of 4: Philosophical Works, 1705-21
Berkeley, George
4,349 downloadsen2012Difficulty 65 (Academic)Lucifer: A Theosophical Magazine. Volume I. September 1887-February 1888.
Various
4,345 downloadsen2019Difficulty 51 (Graduate)Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der bloßen Vernunft Text der Ausgabe 1793, mit Beifügung der Abweichungen der Ausgabe 1794
Kant, Immanuel
4,318 downloadsde2017The City of God, Volume II
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint
4,283 downloadsen2014Difficulty 51 (Graduate)Laws
Plato
4,264 downloadsen1999Difficulty 60 (Graduate)The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Proverbs
Horton, Robert F. (Robert Forman)
4,264 downloadsen2013Difficulty 54 (Graduate)Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
4,243 downloadsde2005The Journal of Leo Tolstoi (First Volume—1895-1899)
Tolstoy, Leo, graf
4,243 downloadsen2014Difficulty 50 (College)An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
Newman, John Henry
4,179 downloadsen2011Difficulty 59 (Graduate)Studies in the History and Method of Science, vol. 1 (of 2)
Unknown
4,123 downloadsen2014Difficulty 57 (Graduate)The Theistic Conception of the World An Essay in Opposition to Certain Tendencies of Modern Thought
Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)
4,112 downloadsen2014Difficulty 62 (Academic)Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. II.
Plutarch
4,109 downloadsen2020Difficulty 58 (Graduate)Politics: A Treatise on Government
Aristotle
4,101 downloadsen2004Difficulty 55 (Graduate)A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
Wollstonecraft, Mary
4,074 downloadsen2002Difficulty 66 (Academic)The Discoverie of Witchcraft
Scot, Reginald
4,064 downloadsen2019Difficulty 54 (Graduate)India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge
Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
4,040 downloadsen2007Difficulty 61 (Academic)The Joyful Wisdom ("La Gaya Scienza")
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
4,003 downloadsen2016Difficulty 55 (Graduate)The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
3,950 downloadsen2015Difficulty 54 (Graduate)Essays of Schopenhauer
Schopenhauer, Arthur
3,946 downloadsen2004Difficulty 62 (Academic)The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 3 (of 4) Hegel's Aesthetik
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
3,944 downloadsen2017Difficulty 64 (Academic)Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
3,943 downloadsen2018Difficulty 54 (Graduate)On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
Carlyle, Thomas
3,934 downloadsen1997Difficulty 50 (College)The life of Friedrich Nietzsche
Halévy, Daniel
3,911 downloadsen2016Difficulty 53 (Graduate)The Ethics of Diet A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice of Flesh Eating
Williams, Howard
3,892 downloadsen2017Difficulty 67 (Academic)What's Wrong with the World
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
3,889 downloadsen1999Difficulty 51 (Graduate)The Book of the Damned
Fort, Charles
3,875 downloadsen2007Difficulty 59 (Graduate)The symbolism of Freemasonry : $b Illustrating and explaining its science and philosophy, its legends, myths and symbols
Mackey, Albert Gallatin
3,868 downloadsen2004Difficulty 65 (Academic)The Critique of Practical Reason
Kant, Immanuel
3,832 downloadsen2004Difficulty 72 (Expert)Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume 1
Burton, John Hill
3,825 downloadsen2013Difficulty 63 (Academic)The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims
Schopenhauer, Arthur
3,808 downloadsen2004Difficulty 54 (Graduate)The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
Unknown
3,780 downloadsen2007Difficulty 53 (Graduate)Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions; Together with Death's Duel
Donne, John
3,764 downloadsen2007Difficulty 64 (Academic)Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos : $b or Quadripartite, being four books of the influence of the stars ... with a preface, explanatory notes, and an appendix containing extracts from the Almagest of Ptolemy and the whole of his Centiloquy, together with a short notice of Mr. Ranger's zodiacal planisphere and an explanatory plate
Ptolemy
3,762 downloadsen2023Difficulty 59 (Graduate)The Catholic World, Vol. 26, October, 1877, to March, 1878
Various
3,760 downloadsen2019Difficulty 68 (Academic)Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy
Russell, Bertrand
3,754 downloadsen2011Difficulty 62 (Academic)The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics
Laozi
3,712 downloadsen1995Difficulty 44 (College)The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America
Jefferson, Thomas
3,704 downloadsen1971Difficulty 67 (Academic)The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12)
Burke, Edmund
3,701 downloadsen2005Difficulty 62 (Academic)Human, All-Too-Human: A Book for Free Spirits, Part 2
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
3,641 downloadsen2011Difficulty 59 (Graduate)Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Pike, Albert
3,636 downloadsen2006Difficulty 56 (Graduate)Theaetetus
Plato
3,614 downloadsen1999Difficulty 61 (Academic)An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
Hume, David
3,561 downloadsen2003Difficulty 68 (Academic)Anarchism
Eltzbacher, Paul
3,554 downloadsen2011Difficulty 56 (Graduate)The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
3,554 downloadsen2016Difficulty 62 (Academic)The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 3 of 3)
Schopenhauer, Arthur
3,528 downloadsen2012Difficulty 65 (Academic)The Methods of Ethics
Sidgwick, Henry
3,521 downloadsen2014Difficulty 58 (Graduate)Timaeus
Plato
3,502 downloadsen1998Difficulty 60 (Graduate)Seneca's Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
3,501 downloadsen2017Difficulty 57 (Graduate)The Subjection of Women
Mill, John Stuart
3,485 downloadsen2008Difficulty 70 (Academic)Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods
Plotinus
3,471 downloadsen2013Difficulty 54 (Graduate)The Kybalion A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
Three Initiates
3,471 downloadsen2004Difficulty 58 (Graduate)Essays — First Series
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
3,452 downloadsen2001Difficulty 53 (Graduate)The Imitation of Christ
Thomas, à Kempis
3,447 downloadsen1999Difficulty 53 (Graduate)Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Kant, Immanuel
3,440 downloadsen2016Difficulty 64 (Academic)Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume 1 (of 3)
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
3,416 downloadsen2016Difficulty 57 (Graduate)The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844
Darwin, Charles
3,399 downloadsen2007Difficulty 56 (Graduate)Self Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance
Smiles, Samuel
3,360 downloadsen1997Difficulty 80 (Expert)On the Sublime
Longinus, active 1st century
3,348 downloadsen2006Difficulty 52 (Graduate)History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2)
Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
3,341 downloadsen2012Difficulty 71 (Expert)Art Principles with Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter
Govett, Ernest
3,337 downloadsen2011Difficulty 58 (Graduate)Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol. 2 of 2)
Morley, John
3,300 downloadsen2007Difficulty 58 (Graduate)The Approach to Philosophy
Perry, Ralph Barton
3,285 downloadsen2008Difficulty 57 (Graduate)Tragic Sense Of Life
Unamuno, Miguel de
3,284 downloadsen2005Difficulty 66 (Academic)Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts
Silberer, Herbert
3,275 downloadsen2009Difficulty 50 (College)Human, All-Too-Human: A Book for Free Spirits, Part 1 Complete Works, Volume Six
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
3,266 downloadsen2016Difficulty 64 (Academic)The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress
Santayana, George
3,264 downloadsen2005Difficulty 61 (Academic)Chaucer's Translation of Boethius's "De Consolatione Philosophiae"
Boethius
3,263 downloadsen2013Difficulty 51 (Graduate)The Ego and His Own
Stirner, Max
3,254 downloadsen2010Difficulty 55 (Graduate)The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin
Newman, John Henry
3,251 downloadsen2008Difficulty 65 (Academic)Esprit des lois livres I à V, précédés d'une introduction de l'éditeur
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de
3,244 downloadsfr2008The Book of Tea
Okakura, Kakuzo
3,228 downloadsen1997Difficulty 52 (Graduate)Principia Ethica
Moore, G. E. (George Edward)
3,224 downloadsen2016Difficulty 61 (Academic)Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)
Morley, John
3,223 downloadsen2004Difficulty 72 (Expert)Sibylla : $b or, The revival of prophecy
Mace, C. A. (Cecil Alec)
3,212 downloadsen2025Difficulty 58 (Graduate)Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius
Machiavelli, Niccolò
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