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Eighty-one chapters consider the Dao, virtue, desire, government, humility, and the strength of yielding in an independent English translation.

John Morley considers when compromise protects social cooperation and when it weakens intellectual honesty, conviction, and the pursuit of truth.

Richard Jefferies turns solitary encounters with the English landscape into an intense meditation on consciousness, desire, time, and spiritual freedom.

John Dewey examines inquiry as an experimental activity, connecting logical ideas with practical problems and the reconstruction of experience.

Twelve philosophical essays examine pure experience, consciousness, relations, and the possibility of a world shared by different minds.

John Dewey reconsiders inherited philosophical problems through modern science, changing social conditions, practical inquiry, and democratic experience.

James contrasts monism and pluralism through lectures on experience, consciousness, Hegel, Fechner, and Bergson.

Lubbock considers happiness through friendship, books, travel, nature, art, work, and the deliberate use of everyday time.

William James reflects on scientists, education, human energy and peace in essays combining personal recollection with psychological inquiry.

Essays on law, power, statecraft, political authority, and the incentives that govern rulers and officials.

An English rendering of Wang Guowei’s poetics of artistic experience.

Wang Yangming’s conversations and letters on conscience, knowledge, action, self-cultivation, and moral practice.

A Neo-Confucian anthology on self-cultivation, learning, moral discipline, and the ordering of everyday conduct.

Public-domain classic by Mencius: Mencius, a Chinese philosophy first published in -300.

A foundational collection of sayings on learning, humaneness, ritual, leadership, character, and the conduct of an educated person.

Writings of a Wei-Jin thinker on music, freedom, self-cultivation, friendship, and refusal.

A foundational transcendentalist essay on nature, spirit, perception, and self-reliant thought.

A major poetic meditation on human nature, providence, reason, order, and moral limitation.

A meditative prose classic on burial, mortality, memory, antiquity, and the fragile ambition of human fame.

A Victorian synthesis of philosophy, science, evolution, knowledge, and social thought.

American transcendentalist essays on self-culture, independence, moral courage, nature, society, and individual thought.

Bacon’s utopian vision of science, research, experiment, knowledge, and an organized society of learning.

Nitobe’s influential English account of samurai ethics, honor, courage, loyalty, and moral education.

A key pragmatist text on truth, experience, belief, verification, reality, and philosophical method.