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  1. Adam Smith by James Anson Farrer (HTML at McMaster)

  2. A Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics by George Berkeley (in Ireland)

  3. A Free Man's Worship by Bertrand Russell (HTML at Drew)

  4. A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke, trans. by William Popple (HTML at utm.edu)

  5. A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh by David Hume (HTML at utm.edu)

  6. Alexandria and Her Schools by Charles Kingsley (Gutenberg text)

  7. A Little Book of Eternal Wisdom by Henry Suso (HTML at CCEL)

  8. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
    1. HTML in Australia
    2. text at Wiretap

  9. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (6th edition) by John Locke (HTML at Columbia)

  10. An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision (4th edition) by George Berkeley (HTML at York)

  11. A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Edouard Le Roy, trans. by Vincent Benson (Gutenberg text)

  12. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (HTML at Texas)

  13. A Theologico-Political Treatise by Benedict de Spinoza, trans. by R. H. M. Elwes (HTML with commentary at erols.com)

  14. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley (text at English Server)

  15. A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (HTML at McMaster)

  16. Autobiography by John Stuart Mill
    1. text at McMaster
    2. HTML in Australia

  17. Basic Writings: Proslogium; Monologium; Gaunilon's on Behalf of the Fool; Cur Deus Homo by Saint Anselm, trans. by Sidney Norton Deane and James Gardiner Vose (HTML at CCEL)

  18. Characteristics by Thomas Carlyle (HTML at BiblioBytes)

  19. Characters of Virtues and Vices by Joseph Hall (HTML at Oregon)

  20. Charmides by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett
    1. HTML at Internet Classics
    2. Gutenberg text

  21. Charmides by Plato, trans. by Walter Rangeley Maitland Lamb (HTML at Perseus)

  22. Confessions (modernized, with commentary) by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, trans. by Claud Field (HTML at Fordham)

  23. Cratylus by Plato, trans. by Harold North Fowler (HTML at Perseus)

  24. Cratylus by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett
    1. HTML at Internet Classics
    2. Gutenberg text

  25. Crito by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett
    1. HTML with commentary at uoregon.edu
    2. Gutenberg text

  26. Crito by Plato, trans. by Harold North Fowler (HTML at Perseus)

  27. De Dialectica by Saint Augustine, trans. by Jim Marchand (HTML with commentary at Penn)

  28. Discourse on the Method by René Descartes, trans. by Elizabeth Haldane (HTML at utm.edu)

  29. Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason by René Descartes, trans. by John Veitch (text at Wiretap)

  30. Do It! Let's Get Off Our Buts (revised edition) by Peter McWilliams (HTML at mcwilliams.com)

  31. Early Greek Philosophy (based on the 3rd edition, 1920) by John Burnet (HTML at Evansville)

  32. Elements of Intellectual Philosophy by Hubbard Winslow (page images at MOA)

  33. Elements of Logic by Henry Philip Tappan (page images at MOA)

  34. The Intuitions of the Mind Inductively Investigated by James McCosh (page images at MOA)

  35. Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James (text at Wiretap)

  36. Ethica Thomistica: The Moral Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas (revised edition) by Ralph M. McInerny (HTML at Notre Dame)

  37. Eudemian Ethics by Aristotle (HTML at Perseus)

  38. Euthydemus by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett
    1. HTML at Internet Classics
    2. Gutenberg text

  39. Euthydemus by Plato, trans. by Walter Rangeley Maitland Lamb (HTML at Perseus)

  40. Euthyphro by Plato, trans. by Harold North Fowler (HTML at Perseus)

  41. Euthyphro by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett
    1. HTML at Internet Classics
    2. Gutenberg text

  42. First Principles by Herbert Spencer (HTML at McMaster; 1 MB)

  43. Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant, trans. by Thomas Abbott (test in Sweden)

  44. Geometry No Friend to Infidelity by James Jurin (in Ireland)

  45. Giordano Bruno: The Forgotten Philosopher by John J Kessler (HTML at infidels.org)

  46. Gorgias by Plato, trans. by Walter Rangeley Maitland Lamb (HTML at Perseus)

  47. Gorgias by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett
    1. HTML at Internet Classics
    2. Gutenberg text

  48. Historia Calamitatum: The Story of My Misfortunes by Peter Abelard, trans. by Henry Adams Bellows (HTML at Fordham)

  49. I Learn by Gora (HTML at aracnet.com)

  50. Kant's System of Perspectives by Stephen Palmquist (HTML in Hong Kong)

  51. Laches by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett
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    2. Gutenberg text

  52. Laches by Plato, trans. by Walter Rangeley Maitland Lamb (HTML at Perseus)

  53. Laws by Plato, trans. by Robert Gregg Bury (HTML at Perseus)

  54. Laws by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett
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    2. Gutenberg text

  55. Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man by Friedrich Schiller (HTML at Fordham)

  56. Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned About Life in School -- But Didn't by Peter McWilliams (HTML at mcwilliams.com)

  57. Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy by Friedrich Engels (text files at Colorado)

  58. Man a Machine by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, trans. by Gertrude Carman Bussey (HTML with notes at Santa Fe Institute)

  59. Man Into Superman by Robert C. W. Ettinger (illustrated HTML at cryonics.org)

  60. Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes, trans. by Elizabeth Haldane (HTML at utm.edu)

  61. Meditations on the First Philosophy by René Descartes, trans. by John Veitch (HTML at wright.edu)

  62. Meno by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett
    1. HTML at Internet Classics
    2. Gutenberg text

  63. Meno by Plato, trans. by Walter Rangeley Maitland Lamb (HTML at Perseus)

  64. Metaphysics by Aristotle, trans. by Hugh Tredennick (HTML at Perseus)

  65. Metaphysics by Aristotle, trans. by W. D. Ross (HTML at Internet Classics)

  66. New Platonism and Alchemy by Alexander Wilder (HTML at theosophy-nw.org)

  67. Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, trans. by Harris Rackham (HTML at Perseus)

  68. Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, trans. by W. D. Ross
    1. HTML at Internet Classics
    2. HTML with chapter headings at nothingistic.org
    3. PDF at McMaster

  69. Of the Conduct of the Understanding by John Locke (HTML at Columbia)

  70. On Being and Essence by Saint Thomas Aquinas, trans. by Robert T. Miller (HTML at Fordham)

  71. On Contradiction by Mao Tse-Tung (HTML at marxists.org)

  72. On Generation and Corruption by Aristotle, trans. by H. H. Joachim (HTML at Internet Classics)

  73. On Practice by Mao Tse-Tung (HTML at marxists.org)

  74. On the Eternity of the World by Saint Thomas Aquinas, trans. by Robert T. Miller (HTML at Fordham)

  75. On the Improvement of the Understanding by Benedict de Spinoza, trans. by R. H. M. Elwes
    1. HTML at Santa Fe Institute
    2. HTML with commentary at erols.com
    3. Gutenberg text

  76. On the Soul by Aristotle, trans. by J. A. Smith (HTML at Internet Classics)

  77. On Youth and Old Age, On Life and Death, On Breathing by Aristotle, trans. by G. R. T. Ross (HTML at Internet Classics)

  78. Oration on the Dignity of Man by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (HTML at Santa Fe)

  79. Parmenides by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett
    1. HTML at Internet Classics
    2. Gutenberg text

  80. Pensées by Blaise Pascal, trans. by W. F. Trotter
    1. HTML at CCEL
    2. text in Canada

  81. Phaedo by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett
    1. HTML at Internet Classics
    2. Gutenberg text

  82. Phaedo by Plato, trans. by Harold North Fowler (HTML at Perseus)

  83. Phaedrus by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett
    1. HTML at Internet Classics
    2. Gutenberg text

  84. Philebus by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett
    1. HTML at Internet Classics
    2. Gutenberg text

  85. Philosophical Musings by Sam Vaknin (HTML at GeoCities)

  86. Philosophy as Absolute Science by Ephraim Langdon Frothingham (page images at MOA)

  87. Plato and Platonism by Walter Pater (Golden Gale archive format)

  88. Posterior Analytics by Aristotle, trans. by G. R. G. Mure (HTML at Internet Classics)

  89. Pragmatism: A New Name For Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James (HTML at Brock)

  90. Prior Analytics by Aristotle, trans. by A. J. Jenkinson (HTML at Internet Classics)

  91. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant, trans. by Paul Carus (HTML at utm.edu)

  92. Protagoras by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett
    1. HTML at Internet Classics
    2. Gutenberg text

  93. Protagoras by Plato, trans. by Walter Rangeley Maitland Lamb (HTML at Perseus)

  94. Rational Cosmology by Laurens P. Hickok (page images at MOA)

  95. Rhetoric by Aristotle, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (HTML at Internet Classics)

  96. Rhetoric by Aristotle, trans. by John Henry Freese (HTML at Perseus)

  97. Scholasticism by Joseph Rickaby (HTML at Notre Dame)

  98. Selected Works and Commentary. by David Hume (HTML Hume Archives)

  99. Sophist by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett
    1. HTML at Internet Classics
    2. Gutenberg text

  100. Sophist by Plato, trans. by Harold North Fowler (HTML at Perseus)

  101. St. Thomas Aquinas and Medieval Philosophy by Daniel Joseph Kennedy (HTML at Notre Dame)

  102. Symposium by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett
    1. HTML at Internet Classics
    2. Gutenberg text

  103. The Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon, ed. by Hartmut Krech
    1. HTML at Oregon
    2. text in Germany

  104. Theaetetus by Plato, trans. by Harold North Fowler (HTML at Perseus)

  105. Theaetetus by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett
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    2. Gutenberg text

  106. The Analyst: A Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician by George Berkeley (in Ireland)

  107. The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. by H. L. Mencken (HTML at macromind.org)

  108. The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, trans. by W. V. Cooper (HTML at Virginia)

  109. The Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant (text in Sweden)

  110. The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant, trans. by Thomas Abbott (text in Sweden)

  111. The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, trans. by J. M. D. Meiklejohn (text in Sweden)

  112. The Discourses by Epictetus (HTML at Internet Classics)

  113. The Enchiridion by Epictetus (HTML at utm.edu)

  114. The English Utilitarians by Leslie Stephen
    1. volume 1: HTML at McMaster
    2. volume 2: HTML at McMaster
    3. volume 3: HTML at McMaster

  115. The Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza, trans. by R. H. M. Elwes (HTML with commentary at erols.com)

  116. The Evolving Mind by Ben Goertzel (HTML at goertzel.org)

  117. The Genesis of a Humanist Manifesto by Edwin H. Wilson (HTML at infidels.org)

  118. The Gift of Fire by Richard Mitchell
    1. HTML at AOL
    2. multiple formats in Australia

  119. The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, with the Hymn of Cleanthus by Epictetus (Gutenberg text)

  120. The Hidden Life: Hagiographic Essays, Meditations, Spiritual Texts by Edith Stein (HTML in Austria)

  121. The Human Intellect: With an Introduction Upon Psychology and the Soul by Noah Porter (page images at MOA)

  122. The Logic of Hegel (or, the "Shorter Logic") by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, trans. by William Wallace (HTML in Australia)

  123. The Lowell Lectures on the Ascent of Man by Henry Drummond (HTML at CCEL)

  124. The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, trans. by George Long (HTML at Internet Classics)

  125. The Monadology by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, trans. by Robert Latta (text in Sweden)

  126. The Monadology by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, trans. by George Montgomery (HTML at utm.edu)

  127. Theosophic Correspondence Between Louis Claude de Saint-Martin (The "Unknown Philosopher") and Kirchberger, Baron de Liebistorf by Louis Claude de Saint-Martin and Nicolas Antoine Kirchberger, trans. by Edward Burton Penny (HTML at TUP)

  128. The Philosophy of Humanism (eighth edition, 1997) by Corliss Lamont (PDF at corliss-lamont.org)

  129. The Philosophy of Law: An Exposition of the Fundamental Principles of Jurisprudence as the Science of Right by Immanuel Kant (text files in Sweden)

  130. The Problem of Human Destiny: or, The End of Providence in the World and Man by Orville Dewey (page images at MOA)

  131. The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell (HTML at voyageronline.net)

  132. The Rationale of Reward by Jeremy Bentham (HTML at Texas)

  133. The Republic of Plato (1901 Collier edition) by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett
    1. HTML at Virginia
    2. text at Wiretap

  134. The Republic by Plato, trans. by Paul Shorey (HTML at Perseus)

  135. The Republic (based on the 1892 edition; includes translator's full commentary) by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)

  136. The Republic (based on the 1892 edition) by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (HTML with commentary at Internet Classics)

  137. The Revealing Word: A Dictionary of Metaphysical Terms by Charles Fillmore (HTML at websyte.com)

  138. The Revival of Scholastic Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century by Joseph Louis Perrier (HTML at Notre Dame)

  139. The Sciences of Nature Versus the Science of Man by Noah Porter (page images at MOA)

  140. The Scottish Philosophy by James McCosh (HTML at utm.edu)

  141. The Six Enneads by Plotinus, trans. by Stephen MacKenna and B. S. Page (HTML at Internet Classics)

  142. The Tree of Philosophy (third edition) by Stephen Palmquist (HTML in Hong Kong)

  143. The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske (Gutenberg text)

  144. The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali by Patanjali, trans. by William Quan Judge and James Henderson Connelly (HTML at TUP)

  145. Thoughts by Blaise Pascal, trans. by W. F. Trotter (HTML at Fordham)

  146. Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by George Berkeley, ed. by James Fieser (HTML at utm.edu)

  147. Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. by Thomas Common
    1. text at eserver.org
    2. Gutenberg text

  148. Timaeus by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett
    1. HTML at Internet Classics
    2. Gutenberg text

  149. U.G. Krishnamurti: A Life by Mahesh Bhatt (HTML at well.com)

  150. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary (1924 edition of selected entries) by Voltaire, trans. by H. I. Woolf (HTML at Hanover)
  151. What Is Thought? by James Hutchinson Stirling (Golden Gale archive format)

  152. Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard: Religion, Individuality and Philosophical Method by Charles L. Creegan (HTML at ncwc.edu)