Philosophy
184 books
*Non-fiction
557
David Hume - Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
The Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a shortened and simplified version of Hume's masterpiece A Treatise of Human Nature. It sought to reach a wider audience, and to dispel some of the virulent criticism...
5 hours 54 minutes
*Non-fiction
466
Immanuel Kant - Perpetual Peace: A Philosophic Essay (Hastie Translation)
This essay, written in 1795, puts forth a plan for a lasting peace between nations and peoples. Kant puts forth necessary means to any peace, and argues that nations can be brought into federation with one another...
2 hours 11 minutes
*Non-fiction
483
Immanuel Kant - On the Popular Judgment: That may be Right in Theory, but does not Hold Good in the Praxis
This tripartite essay – published variously as “On the Popular Judgment” (J. Richardson trans.), “On the Old Saw” (E.B. Ashton trans.), or “On the Common Saying” (both M.J. Gregor and H.B. Nisbet) – Kant takes up the...
2 hours 12 minutes
*Non-fiction
572
Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America Vol. I
When Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful observations American society and political system, found in the two volume...
17 hours 49 minutes