Philosophy and Epistemology eBooks
Lysis or friendship
Philosophy and Epistemology, by Plato.Lysis is a dialogue of Plato which discusses the nature of friendship. It is generally classified as an early dialogue. The main characters are Socrates, the boys Lysis and Menexenus who are friends, as well as Hippothales, who is in unrequited love with Lysis and therefore, after the initial conversation, hides himself behind the surrounding listeners. Socrates proposes four possible notions...
Man's Search for Meaning
Philosophy and Epistemology, by Victor FranklThe classic work on meaning in life by a Holocaust survivor
Menexenus
Philosophy and Epistemology, by Plato.The Menexenus is a Socratic dialogue of Plato, traditionally included in the seventh tetralogy along with the Greater and Lesser Hippias and the Ion. The characters are Socrates and Menexenus, who is not to be confused with Socrates\' son Menexenus. The Menexenus of Plato\'s dialogue appears also in his Lysis and the Phaedo. In the Lysis, he is identified as the "son of Demophon" (207b)\r\nThe...
Metamorphosis
Philosophy and Epistemology, by Franz Kafka,The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes termed The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a...
Mysticism and logic
Philosophy and Epistemology, by Bertrand Russel.Metaphysics, or the attempt to conceive the world as a whole by means of thought, has been developed, from the first, by the union and conflict of two very different human impulses, the one urging men towards mysticism, the other urging them towards science. Some men have achieved greatness through one of these impulses alone, others through the other alone: in Hume, for example, the scientific...
Nightmares of Eminent Persons
Philosophy and Epistemology, by Bertrand RussellStories by the eminent philosopher
Notes from the Underground
Philosophy and Epistemology, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. "I am a sick man. ... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased. However, I know...
Oracles of Nostradamus
Philosophy and Epistemology, by NostradamusThe ancient and renowned predictions
Parmenides
Philosophy and Epistemology, by Plato.The Parmenides is, quite possibly, the most enigmatic of Plato's dialogues. The dialogue recounts an almost certainly fictitious conversation between a venerable Parmenides (the Eleatic Monist) and a youthful Socrates, followed by a dizzying array of interconnected arguments presented by Parmenides to a young and compliant interlocutor named “Aristotle” (not the philosopher, but rather a man...
Phaedo
Philosophy and Epistemology, by Plato.The Phaedo is one of the most widely read dialogues written by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. It claims to recount the events and conversations that occurred on the day that Plato’s teacher, Socrates (469-399 B.C.E.), was put to death by the state of Athens. It is the final episode in the series of dialogues recounting Socrates’ trial and death. The earlier Euthyphro dialogue...
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