Philosophy
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.
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Plato (429-347 BC) | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) | Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) |
See also the extracts, chapters, and introductions in the Philosophy section of the Ideas page.
- The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 10 (Lectures and Biographical Sketches) (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
- The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 12 (Natural History of Intellect and Other Papers) (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
- The Works of Epictetus. Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books (Thomas Wentworth Higginson)
- The Works of Jeremy Bentham, vol. 8 (John Bowring)
- The Works of Voltaire, Vol. III (Philosophical Dictionary Part 1) (William F. Fleming)
- The Works of Voltaire, Vol. IV (Philosophical Dictionary Part 2) (William F. Fleming)
- The Works of Voltaire, Vol. V (Philosophical Dictionary Part 3) (William F. Fleming)
- The Works of Voltaire, Vol. VI (Philosophical Dictionary Part 4) (William F. Fleming)