Philosophy
184 books
Philosophy
542
David Hume - Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
In Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, philosopher David Hume examines whether belief in God can be rational. The work takes the form of a debate between three characters: Cleanthes, who argues that the existence...
4 hours 2 minutes
*Non-fiction
522
John Stuart Mill - Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy
This is Mill’s first work on economics. It foreshadows his Political Economy which was the standard Anglo-American Economics textbook of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mill’s economic theory moved from free...
5 hours 29 minutes
*Non-fiction
528
George Santayana - Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy
Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive essays. He examined John Locke’s sensationalism, British Idealism, the...
2 hours 56 minutes
*Non-fiction
434
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin - Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution
In the heat of the failed 1905 revolution in Russia, Lenin here contrasts the precision of the Bolshevik political program and tactics with various inconsistent and servile factions within the Russian...
6 hours 30 minutes
*Non-fiction
571
Karl Marx - Capital: a critical analysis of capitalist production, Vol 1
Capital, Volume I is the first of three volumes in Karl Marx’s monumental work, Das Kapital, and the only volume to be published during his lifetime, in 1867. Marx’s aim in Capital, Volume I is to uncover and...
37 hours 16 minutes