In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. Specifically, he...
The Essays
"The Essays" of Michel de Montaigne are contained in three books and 107 chapters of varying length. Montaigne's stated design in writing, publishing and revising...
The Dawn Of Day
When Nietzsche called his book The Dawn of Day, he was far from giving it a merely fanciful title to attract the attention of that large section of the public which judges books...
On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
In Civil Disobedience Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such...
On The Generation And Corruption
On Generation and Corruption, also known as On Coming to Be and Passing Away, is a treatise by Aristotle. Like many of his texts, it is both scientific and philosophic (although...
The Confessions
The Confessions is an autobiographical work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau which initiated modern autobiography. Covering the first fifty-three years of Rousseau's life the book...
Of A Happy Life
"On the Happy Life" is a dialogue written by Seneca the Younger around the year 58 AD. It was intended for his older brother Gallio, to whom Seneca also dedicated...
The New Atlantis
"The New Atlantis" is an incomplete utopian novel by Sir Francis Bacon, published in 1627. Francis Bacon (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English...
Doctrine Of The Will
"THE doctrine of the Will is a cardinal doctrine of theology, as well as of mental philosophy. This doctrine, to say the least, is one of the great central points, from which the...
Utopia
"Utopia" is a work of fiction and political philosophy by Thomas More (1478–1535).The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and...
