« 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...
Political Ideals
In dark days, men need a clear faith and a well-grounded hope; and as the outcome of these, the calm courage which takes no account of hardships by the way. The times through...
The Civil Wars
While these things were going forward in Spain, Caius Trebonius, Caesar's lieutenant, who had been left to conduct the assault of Massilia, began to raise a mound, vineae, and...
On The Nature Of Things
On the Nature of Things is an epic didactic poem aiming to explain Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. Lucretius presents the principles of atomism; the nature of the mind...
Emile
Emile is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be the best and most important of all his writings....
Three Dialogues Between Hylas And Philonous In Opposition To Sceptics And Atheists
"Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous" is a book written by George Berkeley in 1713.Three important concepts discussed in the Three Dialogues are perceptual...
The Civil Wars
Caesar, although he was not as yet at open enmity with him, determined neither to aid him by his influence nor openly oppose him on this occasion. But the consuls Lentulus and...
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book For All And None
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None" is a philosophical novel by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885 and...
Ion
In Plato's Ion Socrates discusses with the titular character, a professional rhapsode who also lectures on Homer, the question of whether the rhapsode, a performer of poetry,...
Crito
"Crito" is a dialogue by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato.Plato (424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in...
