After an interval of some months or years, and at Phlius, a town of Peloponnesus, the tale of the last hours of Socrates is narrated to Echecrates and other Phliasians by Phaedo...
On The Gait Of Animals
We have now to consider the parts which are useful to animals for movement in place (locomotion); first, why each part is such as it is and to what end they possess them; and...
The Great Learning
The Great Learning was one of the "Four Books" in Confucianism. The Great Learning had come from a chapter in the Classic of Rites which formed one of the Five Classics....
Ion
The Ion is the shortest, or nearly the shortest, of all the writings which bear the name of Plato, and is not authenticated by any early external testimony. The grace and beauty...
Ethics
The Ethics of Aristotle is one half of a single treatise of which his Politics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in...
The American Crisis
The American Crisis was written as series of pamphlets during the American Revolution period, when colonists needed inspiring works. They were written in a language that the...
An Inquiry Into The Original Of Our Ideas Of Beauty And Virtue
A seminal text of the Scottish Enlightenment, this consists of two treatises exploring our aesthetic and our moral abilities.
On Liberty
One of history's most important political works. Mill declares that "over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign". If you are interested in...
The Tao Te Ching
The Tao Te Ching, Daodejing, Dao De Jing, or Daode jing , also simply referred to as the Laozi, is a Chinese classic text. The text's true authorship and date of composition...
Topics
Our treatise proposes to find a line of inquiry whereby we shall be able to reason from opinions that are generally accepted about every problem propounded to us, and also shall...
