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De officiis Cicero · 1465 · 423p · ≈ 14h · Demanding The most extraordinary and influential treatise ever written on political ethics. Though composed in late 44 B.C., it is relevant and applicable even today. Cicero has outlined all the aspects which aspiring politicians need to know and follow for an honorable career. He believes that justice, intelligence, nobility of character, and decorum are characteristics which guarantee success not only in… Shares: Ancient Ethics, Ethics, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

Theophrasti Characteres Theophrastus · 1628 · ★ 3.0 · 114p · ≈ 3h · Demanding "This volume collects important examples of Greek literary portraiture.". "The Characters of Theophrastus consists of thirty fictional sketches of men who are each dominated by a single fault, such as arrogance, boorishness, or superstition. Unassuming in style, his character sketches nonetheless bear resemblance to the vivid figures of the period's New Comedy. The Hellenistic poet Herodas wrote… Shares: Ancient Ethics, Greek literature, Early works to 1800, Poetry

History of European morals William Edward Hartpole Lecky · 1869 · 286p · ≈ 9h · Challenging History of ethics. Shares: Ancient Ethics, Ethics, Philosophy

Πρωταγόρας Plato · 1828 · ★ 3.9 · 120p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Με τη λογοτεχνία αιώνων, είναι αναπόφευκτο ότι κάποιοι θα πέσουν στα σκαλιά. Κυνηγάμε έργα δημόσιου τομέα και τα αποκαθιστούμε για να μην χαθούν στον κόσμο. Ποιοι είμαστε; Είμαστε η Cairn Press. Το υπόβαθρό μας είναι στο σχέδιο, τις εκδόσεις, την τυπογραφία και την τεχνολογία. Αυτές οι δεξιότητες τροφοδοτούν την αποστολή μας να δημιουργήσουμε τα υψηλότερης ποιότητας ηλεκτρονικά βιβλία δημόσιου… Shares: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle · 1558 · ★ 3.8 · 165p · ≈ 5h · Demanding An detailed examination of what the best life might be for human beings. In order to anwer this question, Aristotle finds he also has to examine what virtue itself is and all of the various virtues that might make up the best life. Shares: Ancient Ethics, Ethics, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

Historia Alexandri Magni Quintus Curtius Rufus · 1481 · ★ 4.2 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Demanding The Roman historian's account of the conquests of Alexander the Great is one of the primary sources of our knowledge of the Macedonian conquest and its leader. Shares: Latin American literature, Greek literature, Early works to 1800, Biography & Memoir

Cyropaedia Xenophon · 1527 · ★ 3.9 · 305p · ≈ 10h · Demanding Xenophon of Athens (circa 430 – 354 B.C.) was a Greek poet, historian, soldier and philosopher who lived at a time of momentous events in Ancient Greek history. Although he was recognized as a great writer and poet in his lifetime, Xenophon’s involvement with Spartan politics and fighting led to his exile from Athens, and his association with Socrates probably did not help. His short treatise on… Shares: Greek literature, Early works to 1800, Philosophy, Poetry

De caelo Aristotle · 1545 · 147p · ≈ 4h · Demanding Page one of Aristotle's ''On the Heavens'', from an edition published in 1837 Shares: Ancient Philosophy, Early works to 1800, Science, Philosophy

Meditations Marcus Aurelius · 1626 · ★ 4.3 · 214p · ≈ 7h · Demanding Meditations is a collection of personal reflections and notes by the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (reigned 161 to 180 AD), offering a profound look into the philosophy of Stoicism. It was never intended for publication, making it a raw and intimate self-help manual for the emperor during his campaigns and rule. The central theme revolves around living a good, rational, and virtuous life in… Shares: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

Mythe et pensée chez les Grecs Jean-Pierre Vernant · 1965 · 428p · ≈ 14h · Moderate When Jean-Pierre Vernant first published Myth and Thought among the Greeks in 1965, it transformed the field of ancient Greek scholarship, calling forth a new way to think about Greek myth and thought. In eighteen essays--three of which, along with a new preface, are translated into English for the first time--Vernant freed the subject of ancient Greece from its philological chains and reread the… Shares: Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy

Γοργίας Plato · 1827 · ★ 3.9 · 134p · ≈ 4h · Challenging There is a well-known saying that the whole of Western Philosophy is footnotes of Plato. This is because his writings have set the schema that philosophy can be said to have followed ever since. Following under the teachings of Socrates, Plato's works are among the world's greatest literature. In the Gorgias, as in nearly all the other dialogues of Plato, we are made aware that formal logic has… Shares: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

Gli eroici furori Giordano Bruno · 1887 · 136p · ≈ 4h · Challenging The second part of The Heroic Enthusiasts which I am now sending to the press is on the same subject as the first, namely the struggles of the soul in its upward progress towards purification and freedom, and the author makes use of lower things to picture and suggest the higher. It is interesting to note that in the first part of The Heroic Enthusiasts (page 122), Bruno makes a distinct allusion… Shares: Ethics, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

Imagines Philostratus the Athenian · 1637 · 429p · ≈ 14h · Demanding An imago (plural: imagines or imagoes) is the last (or adult) stage of development of an insect. Shares: Greek literature, Early works to 1800

De rerum natura Titus Lucretius Carus · 1486 · ★ 4.0 · 311p · ≈ 10h · Demanding This is regarded as a seminal text of Epicurean science and philosophy. Epicurians discarded both the idea of immortality and the superstitious worship of wilful gods for a life of serene contentment in the available pleasures of nature. Lucretius (c100-c55BC), in elucidating this belief, steers the reader through an extraordinary breadth of subject matter, ranging from the indestructibility of… Shares: Ancient Philosophy, Early works to 1800, Science, Philosophy

An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue Francis Hutcheson · 1725 · ★ 5.0 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Demanding "The Inquiry was written as a critical response to the work of Bernard Mandeville and as a defense of the ideas of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury. It consists of two treatises exploring our aesthetic and our moral abilities. The first treatise argues that human beings possess a natural internal sense of beauty, whereas the second focuses on the "moral sense" that enables us to… Shares: Ethics, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

The common sense of science Jacob Bronowski · 1951 · 154p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Discusses science as a characteristic part of human activity and as an effort to render the world predictable. Shares: Science, Philosophy

Tragoediae Seneca the Younger · 1513 · 348p · ≈ 11h · Demanding v.1. Hercules furens. Troades. Medea. Hippolytus. Oedipus -- v.2. Agamemnon. Thyestes. Hercules Oetaeus. Phoenissae. Octavia. Shares: Ancient Philosophy, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

Φαίδων Plato · 1713 · ★ 4.1 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Demanding 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 the 'beloved disciple.' The Dialogue necessarily takes the form of a narrative, because Socrates has to be described acting as well as speaking. The minutest particulars of the event are interesting to distant friends,… Shares: Ancient Philosophy, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

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