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Plato (Πλάτων) - Statesman

Statesman (Ancient Greek: Πολιτικός) discusses God's role in maintaining the universe and describes the statesman as a good shepherd who promotes intermarriage between the orderly and courageous. (Summary by Geoffrey...

Geoffrey Edwards 2 hours 33 minutes

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Sophist

Sophist (Ancient Greek: Σοφιστής) discusses being and not-being while drawing a distinction between the philosopher and the sophist. — Summary by Geoffrey Edwards

Geoffrey Edwards 2 hours 39 minutes

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William Q. Judge - Ocean of Theosophy

Judge wrote this book because he saw a need for a book about Theosophy that everyone could understand. Discussed are after-death states, reincarnation, karma, the pitfalls of pseudo-occultism, the 7 natures of man,...

KirksVoice 5 hours 32 minutes

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Theaetetus

Theaetetus (Ancient Greek: Θεαίτητος) discusses concepts including perception, true judgment and knowledge. Socrates compares the human mind to a piece of wax and is critical of lawyers who seek only to persuade....

Geoffrey Edwards 3 hours 31 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Parmenides

Parmenides (Ancient Greek: ΠΑΡΜΕΝΙΔΗΣ) recounts a meeting between Socrates, Zeno and Parmenides. Topics discussed include universals, plurality and the One. — Summary by Geoffrey Edwards

Geoffrey Edwards 2 hours 13 minutes

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Aristotle - Eudemian Ethics

Eudemian Ethics (Greek: ΗΘΙΚΩΝ ΕΥΔΗΜΙΩΝ Latin: ETHICA EUDEMIA) discusses topics including virtue, friendship, happiness and God. It is believed to have been written before Nicomachean Ethics and to be named after...

Geoffrey Edwards 4 hours 7 minutes

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On the Nature of Things (Leonard translation)

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Titus Lucretius Carus - On the Nature of Things (Leonard translation)

On the Nature of Things, written in the first century BCE by Titus Lucretius Carus, is one of the principle expositions on Epicurean philosophy and science to have survived from antiquity. Far from being a dry...

Daniel Vimont 10 hours 32 minutes

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Aristotle - Posterior Analytics

Posterior Analytics is the fourth of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon («Instrument»). Posterior Analytics deals with demonstration, definition, and scientific knowledge....

Geoffrey Edwards 4 hours 22 minutes

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Erotica

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Mallanaga Vatsyayana - Kama Sutra

The Kama Sutra, or Aphorisms on Love, has survived at least 1400 years as a dominant text on sexual relations between men and women. Vatsyayana claimed to have written the Kama Sutra while a religious student, “in...

Mark F. Smith 6 hours 16 minutes

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Aristotle - Prior Analytics

Prior Analytics is the third of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon («Instrument»). In Prior Analytics Aristotle conducts a formal study of arguments. In logic an argument...

Geoffrey Edwards 7 hours 48 minutes

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Poetry

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Bhartṛhari - Vairagya Shatakam

Vairagya Shatakam is one of the best books that gives the true picture of Renunciation. The book talks on how a common man gets lured by the endless desires which when satisfied fetches him nothing but the desires...

Uday Sagar 1 hour 52 minutes

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Philosophy

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Aristotle - Parva Naturalia

<p?Parva Naturalia [the «short treatises on nature» (a conventional Latin title first used by Giles of Rome)] is a collection of books by Aristotle, which discuss natural phenomena involving the body and the soul....

Geoffrey Edwards 4 hours 28 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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