The essays contained in this volume treat of various subjects. With the exception of perhaps one we must consider all these papers as fragments. Written during the early...
The Way of the Clouds – and of the heart. Striking photos of clouds anticipate each chapter of the text, introducing us to the experiences recounted for us while beautifully...
The Confessions is an autobiographical work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau which initiated modern autobiography. Covering the first fifty-three years of Rousseau's life the book...
In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. Specifically, he...
"The Essays" of Michel de Montaigne are contained in three books and 107 chapters of varying length. Montaigne's stated design in writing, publishing and revising...
"The New Atlantis" is an incomplete utopian novel by Sir Francis Bacon, published in 1627. Francis Bacon (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English...
« One hundred years ago, in 1913, Miguel de Unamuno published a book called The Tragic Sense of Life. It was considered — in his time — to be a masterpiece, an...
"The Physics" of Aristotle is one of the foundational books of Western science and philosophy.As Martin Heidegger once wrote;"The Physics is a lecture in which he...
Gorgias is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC.Plato (424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens,...
"On the Happy Life" is a dialogue written by Seneca the Younger around the year 58 AD. It was intended for his older brother Gallio, to whom Seneca also dedicated...