Philosophy
184 books
*Non-fiction
505
John Dewey - Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education
An important, controversial, and often cited work on public education. Dewey discusses the role of public education in a democracy and the different methods for achieving quality in education. After its initial...
16 hours 20 minutes
*Non-fiction
509
John Stuart Mill - Auguste Comte and Positivism
Part 1 lays out the framework for Positivism as originated in France by Auguste Comte in his Cours de Philosophie Positive. Mill examines the tenets of Comte's movement and alerts us to defects. Part 2 concerns all...
5 hours 47 minutes
Poetry
438
Omar Khayyám - Quatrains of Omar Khayyam of Nishapur
In 1906, Eben Francis Thompson,scholar and poet, published a limited edition of his translation of the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam. This edition contains 878 quatrains, and represents the most extensive translation of...
4 hours 17 minutes
Poetry
488
Omar Khayyám - Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Le Gallienne)
Richard le Gallienne was an English poet and critic, who, although unfamiliar with the Persian language, had a profound interest in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. In 1897 he published a collection of 211 quatrains,...
1 hour 14 minutes