The oldest questions, still open — free, beautifully formatted editions of the philosophers and the scriptures. Plato and the Stoics, Aquinas and Kant, Nietzsche and William James, alongside the sacred books of the world’s religions and the mystics who read them closest.
Religion & SpiritualityThe Bible, the Koran and the Upanishads; Aquinas, Luther and Thérèse of Lisieux; Chesterton arguing with Ingersoll.PhilosophyPlato and the Stoics, Kant and Hume, Nietzsche and William James — the Western canon from the Academy to the twentieth century.Ethics & the Conduct of LifeSmiles and Marden, Ruskin and Lubbock, Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees and Sidgwick’s Methods of Ethics — how to live, as moralists have argued it.Mysticism, Theosophy & Free ThoughtSwedenborg and Evelyn Underhill, James Allen and the New Thought writers, Ingersoll and Remsburg — the seekers and the sceptics.Religions of the WorldThe Gospel of Buddha and the sayings of Confucius, Hughes on Islam and Kohler on Jewish theology, Tagore’s Sadhana — faiths and sacred books beyond Christianity.