A book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society, which he had already identified in his...

Rousseau first exposes in this work his conception of a human state of nature, presented as a philosophical fiction, and of human perfectibility, an early idea of progress. He...

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume, a revision of an earlier effort, A Treatise of Human Nature. This book has...

The book consists of lectures delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston in November and December, 1906, and in January, 1907, at Columbia University, in New York. The pragmatic...

Nietzsche found in classical Athenian tragedy an art form that transcended the pessimism and nihilism of a fundamentally meaningless world. The Greek spectators, by looking into...

The book presents the concept of representative government, the ideal form of government. Mill suggests that representative bodies such as parliaments and senates are best suited...

The Athenian court has found Socrates guilty and sentenced him to death. While he is waiting to be executed, his friend, Crito, comes to the prison to persuade him to escape and...

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, known as Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – AD 65), is the author of ‘On the Shortness of Life (c. 49 AD).’ In it, Seneca draws insight from different...

The Gita is talk between prince Arjuna and his and charioteer Krishna. At the start of the Dharma Yudhha (righteous war) between the Pandavas and Kauravas, Arjuna is filled with...

This Hindi language edition of the Bhagavad Gita is a talk between prince Arjuna and his and charioteer Krishna. At the start of a war between the Pandavas and Kauravas, Arjuna is...