Philosophy

About this Collection

What does it mean to be a human? What is the best life to live, and how can we live it? These questions, and the texts which explore them, have long guided humanity in its struggle to understand itself.

See also the extracts, chapters, and introductions in the Philosophy section of the Ideas page.

Members:

• The Advancement of Learning (Sir Francis Bacon)
• The Alchemy of Happiness (Al Ghazali)
• An Autobiography, 2 vols. (1904) (Herbert Spencer)
• An Autobiography, vol. 1 (Herbert Spencer)
• An Autobiography, vol. 2 (Herbert Spencer)
• The Analects (Confucius)
• Aquinas Ethicus: or, the Moral Teaching of St. Thomas, 2 vols. (St. Thomas Aquinas)
• Aquinas Ethicus: or, the Moral Teaching of St. Thomas, vol. 1 (St. Thomas Aquinas)
• Aquinas Ethicus: or, the Moral Teaching of St. Thomas, vol. 2 (St. Thomas Aquinas)
• The Bhagvat-Geeta, or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon (Charles Wilkins)
• BOLL 21: Jeremy Bentham, “The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number” (1830) (Jeremy Bentham)
• BOLL 39: Adam Smith, “Of the Character of Virtue” (1759) (Adam Smith)
• BOLL 47: Wilhelm von Humboldt, “Of the Individual Man” (1792) (Wilhelm von Humboldt)
• BOLL 48: J.S. Mill, “Utilitarianism” (1863) (John Stuart Mill)
• BOLL 51: Percy Bysshe Shelley, “On Liberty” (1810-22) (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
• British Moralists 2 vols. (Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge)
• British Moralists vol. 1 (Jeremy Bentham)
• British Moralists vol. 2 (Thomas Hobbes)
• Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, 3 vols. (Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury)
• Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, vol. 1 (Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury)
• Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, vol. 2 (Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury)
• Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, vol. 3 (Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury)
• The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza, 2 vols. (Benedict de Spinoza)
• The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza, vol 1 (Benedict de Spinoza)
• The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza, vol. 2 (Benedict de Spinoza)