Online Philosophical Texts

The Philosophy Index features a library of philosophical texts that are available for online reading. Feel free to use them as a reference for research, or to print them for reading later.

Aristotle

• The Categories
• Poetics
• Politics

St. Augustine

• Confessions of St. Augustine

Francis Bacon

• The Advancement of Learning
• The Essays
• New Atlantis

George Berkeley

• Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous, In Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists

Albert Camus

• The Myth of Sisyphus

Baron D’Holbach

• The System of Nature

René Descartes

• Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences
• Meditations on First Philosophy

Thomas Hobbes

• Leviathan

David Hume

• Dialogs Concerning Natural Religion
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
• An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
• Treatise on Human Nature

William James

• A Pluralistic Universe
• Pragmatism

Franz Kafka

• Metamorphasis

Immanuel Kant

• The Critique of Pure Reason
• The Critique of Practical Reason
The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
• Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

Lao Tzu

• Tao Te Ching

John Locke

• Two Treatises of Civil Government

Karl Marx

• The Communist Manifesto

John Stuart Mill

• Considerations on Representative Government
• Utilitarianism

St. Thomas More

• Utopia

Friedrich Nietzsche

• Beyond Good and Evil
• Homer and Classical Philology
• Thoughts out of Season (Part 1)
• Thus Spake Zarathurstra

Plato

• Apology
• Charmides
• Critias
• Crito
• Euthyphro
  
• Gorgias
  
• Laws
  
• Meno
  
• Parmenides
  
• Phaedo
  
• Phaedrus
  
• Protagoras
  
• The Republic
  
• The Symposium
  
• Theaetetus
  
• Timaeus
  

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Emile

Baruch Spinoza

• Ethics

Henry David Thoreau

• Civil Disobedience
• Walden

Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

 

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