"On the Shortness of Life" is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, to his friend Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoic...
Statesman
The Statesman (also known by its Latin title, Politicus) is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato.The text depicts a conversation among Socrates, the mathematician Theodorus,...
The Civil Wars
Julius Caesar, holding the election as dictator, was himself appointed consul with Publius Servilius; for this was the year in which it was permitted by the laws that he should be...
The Antichrist.
"The Antichrist" is a philosophical book by Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1895. In this work, Christianity (Religion of Peace) is despised by Nietzsche. in...
The Twilight Of The Idols: How To Philosophize With The Hammer
Nietzsche criticizes German culture of the day as unsophisticated, decadent and nihilistic, and shoots some disapproving arrows at key French, British, and Italian cultural...
The Will To Power: An Attempted Transvaluation Of All Values
What I am now going to relate is the history of the next two centuries. I shall describe what will happen, what must necessarily happen: the triumph of Nihilism. This history can...
The Great Learning
What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence. The point where to rest being known, the...
Enchiridion
The little book by Epictetus called Enchiridion or “manual” has played a disproportionately large role in the rise of modern attitudes and modern philosophy. As soon...
On Liberty
Discussed and debated from time immemorial, the concept of personal liberty went without codification until the 1859 publication of On Liberty. John Stuart Mill's complete and...
Philebus
The Philebus is a Socratic dialogue written in the 4th century BC by Plato. Besides Socrates (the main speaker) the other interlocutors are Philebus and Protarchus. Philebus, who...
