Philosophy
184 books
*Non-fiction
457
Rabindranath Tagore - Sadhana, The Realisation of Life, version 2
A collection of essays on the Hindu/Buddhist view of humankind's place in the universe. As the author says in his introduction: «in these papers, it may be hoped, western readers will have an opportunity of coming...
3 hours 52 minutes
*Non-fiction
441
Francis Bacon - New Organon Or True Directions Concerning The Interpretation of Nature
The Novum Organum is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon published in 1620. The title translates as «new instrument». This is a reference to Aristotle's work Organon, which was his treatise on logic and syllogism....
8 hours 30 minutes
Poetry
586
Friedrich Nietzsche - Joyful Wisdom (or: The Gay Science)
«The Joyful Wisdom,» written in 1882, just before «Zarathustra,» is rightly judged to be one of Nietzsche's best books. Here the essentially grave and masculine face of the poet-philosopher is seen to light up and...
12 hours 38 minutes
*Non-fiction
537
Théodule-Armand Ribot - Essay on the Creative Imagination
«It is quite generally recognized that psychology has remained in the semi-mythological, semi-scholastic period longer than most attempts at scientific formulization. For a long time it has been the „spook science“...
8 hours 33 minutes
*Non-fiction
563
George Berkeley - Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Commonly called «Treatise» when referring to Berkeley's works) is a 1710 work by the Irish Empiricist philosopher George Berkeley. This book largely seeks to...
4 hours 10 minutes
