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Philosophy.

Plato’s dialogues and Aristotle’s ethics, politics and poetics in Greek beside English, Epictetus, Diogenes Laertius and the essays of Plutarch’s Moralia; then Kierkegaard and Nietzsche: faith, despair, the death of God and the revaluation of all values.

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131 works

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The Republic · Πολιτεία
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishPaul Shorey
Euthyphro · Εὐθύφρων
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishHarold North Fowler
Apology · Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishHarold North Fowler
Crito · Κρίτων
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishHarold North Fowler
Phaedo · Φαίδων
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishHarold North Fowler
Cratylus · Κρατύλος
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishHarold North Fowler
Theaetetus · Θεαίτητος
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishHarold North Fowler
Sophist · Σοφιστής
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishHarold North Fowler
Statesman · Πολιτικός
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishHarold North Fowler
Parmenides · Παρμενίδης
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishHarold North Fowler
Philebus · Φίληβος
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishHarold North Fowler
Symposium · Συμπόσιον
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWalter Rangeley Maitland Lamb
Phaedrus · Φαῖδρος
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishHarold North Fowler
Alcibiades I · Ἀλκιβιάδης αʹ
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWalter Rangeley Maitland Lamb
Alcibiades II · Ἀλκιβιάδης βʹ
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWalter Rangeley Maitland Lamb
Hipparchus · Ἵππαρχος
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWalter Rangeley Maitland Lamb
Lovers · Ἐρασταί
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWalter Rangeley Maitland Lamb
Theages · Θεάγης
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWalter Rangeley Maitland Lamb
Charmides · Χαρμίδης
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWalter Rangeley Maitland Lamb
Laches · Λάχης
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWalter Rangeley Maitland Lamb
Lysis · Λύσις
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWalter Rangeley Maitland Lamb
Euthydemus · Εὐθύδημος
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWalter Rangeley Maitland Lamb
Protagoras · Πρωταγόρας
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWalter Rangeley Maitland Lamb
Gorgias · Γοργίας
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWalter Rangeley Maitland Lamb
Meno · Μένων
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWalter Rangeley Maitland Lamb
Greater Hippias · Ἱππίας μείζων
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishHarold North Fowler
Lesser Hippias · Ἱππίας ἐλάττων
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishHarold North Fowler
Ion · Ἴων
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWilliam Rangeley Maitland Lamb
Menexenus · Μενέξενος
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishRobert Gregg Bury
Cleitophon · Κλειτοφῶν
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishRobert Gregg Bury
Timaeus · Τίμαιος
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishRobert Gregg Bury
Critias · Κριτίας
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishRobert Gregg Bury
Minos · Μίνως
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWalter Rangeley Maitland Lamb
Laws · Νόμοι
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishRobert Gregg Bury
Epinomis · Ἐπινομίς
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWalter Rangeley Maitland Lamb
Letters · Ἐπιστολαί
Plato
- Ancient Greek + EnglishR. G. Bury
Nicomachean Ethics · Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια
Aristotle
- Ancient Greek + EnglishHarris Rackham
Eudemian Ethics · Ἠθικὰ Εὐδήμεια
Aristotle
- Ancient Greek + EnglishHarris Rackham
Politics · Πολιτικά
Aristotle
- Ancient Greek + EnglishHarris Rackham
Poetics · Περὶ ποιητικῆς
Aristotle
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWilliam Hamilton Fyfe
Rhetoric · Ῥητορική
Aristotle
- Ancient Greek + EnglishJohn Henry Freese
Metaphysics · Τὰ Μετὰ τὰ Φυσικά
Aristotle
- Ancient Greek + EnglishHugh Tredennick
Economics · Οἰκονομικά
Aristotle
- Ancient Greek + EnglishGeorge Cyril Armstrong
Discourses · Ἀρριανοῦ τῶν Ἐπικτήτου Διατριβῶν
Epictetus
- Ancient Greek + EnglishThomas Wentworth Higginson
Handbook · Ἐγχειρίδιον
Epictetus
- Ancient Greek + EnglishGeorge Long
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers · Βίοι καὶ γνῶμαι τῶν ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ εὐδοκιμησάντων
Diogenes Laertius
- Ancient Greek + EnglishR. D. Hicks
Diapsalmata · from Either/Or
Søren Kierkegaard
- EnglishLee M. Hollander
In Vino Veritas · from Stages on Life’s Way
Søren Kierkegaard
- EnglishLee M. Hollander
Fear and Trembling · selections
Søren Kierkegaard
- EnglishLee M. Hollander
Preparation for a Christian Life · from Practice in Christianity
Søren Kierkegaard
- EnglishLee M. Hollander
The Present Moment · from The Instant
Søren Kierkegaard
- EnglishLee M. Hollander
The Antichrist
Friedrich Nietzsche
- EnglishH. L. Mencken
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
- EnglishThomas Common
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
- EnglishHelen Zimmern
On the Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche
- EnglishHorace B. Samuel
On the Education of Children · De liberis educandis
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishSimon Ford, rev. William W. Goodwin
How the Young Man Should Study Poetry · Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishSimon Ford, rev. William W. Goodwin
On Listening to Lectures · De recta ratione audiendi
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishThomas Hoy, rev. William W. Goodwin
How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend · Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrank Cole Babbitt
How a Man May Become Aware of His Progress in Virtue · Quomodo quis suos in virtute sentiat profectus
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrank Cole Babbitt
How to Profit by One’s Enemies · De capienda ex inimicis utilitate
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishJohn Hartcliffe, rev. William W. Goodwin
On Having Many Friends · De amicorum multitudine
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrank Cole Babbitt
On Chance · De fortuna
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrank Cole Babbitt
Virtue and Vice · De virtute et vitio
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrank Cole Babbitt
Letter of Condolence to Apollonius · Consolatio ad Apollonium
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishMatthew Morgan, rev. William W. Goodwin
Advice About Keeping Well · De tuenda sanitate praecepta
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishMatthew Poole, rev. William W. Goodwin
Advice to Bride and Groom · Conjugalia praecepta
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrank Cole Babbitt
The Dinner of the Seven Wise Men · Septem sapientium convivium
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishRoger Davis, rev. William W. Goodwin
On Superstition · De superstitione
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWilliam Baxter, rev. William W. Goodwin
Sayings of Kings and Commanders · Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrank Cole Babbitt
Sayings of Spartans · Apophthegmata Laconica
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrank Cole Babbitt
The Ancient Customs of the Spartans · Instituta Laconica
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrank Cole Babbitt
Sayings of Spartan Women · Lacaenarum apophthegmata
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrank Cole Babbitt
Bravery of Women · Mulierum virtutes
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishIsaac Chauncy, rev. William W. Goodwin
The Roman Questions · Quaestiones Romanae
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishIsaac Chauncy, rev. William W. Goodwin
The Greek Questions · Quaestiones Graecae
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishIsaac Chauncy, rev. William W. Goodwin
Greek and Roman Parallel Stories · Parallela minora
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishJohn Oswald, rev. William W. Goodwin
On the Fortune of the Romans · De fortuna Romanorum
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrank Cole Babbitt
On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander · De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishJohn Phillips, rev. William W. Goodwin
On the Glory of the Athenians · De gloria Atheniensium
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrank Cole Babbitt
On Isis and Osiris · De Iside et Osiride
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWilliam Baxter, rev. William W. Goodwin
The E at Delphi · De E apud Delphos
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishR. Kippax, rev. William W. Goodwin
The Oracles at Delphi No Longer Given in Verse · De Pythiae oraculis
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrank Cole Babbitt
The Obsolescence of Oracles · De defectu oraculorum
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishRobert Midgley, rev. William W. Goodwin
Can Virtue Be Taught? · An virtus doceri possit
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishJohn Patrick, rev. William W. Goodwin
On Moral Virtue · De virtute morali
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishMatthew Morgan, rev. William W. Goodwin
On the Control of Anger · De cohibenda ira
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWilliam Clark Helmbold
On Tranquillity of Mind · De tranquillitate animi
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishMatthew Morgan, rev. William W. Goodwin
On Brotherly Love · De fraterno amore
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWilliam Clark Helmbold
On Affection for Offspring · De amore prolis
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWilliam Clark Helmbold
Whether Vice Be Sufficient to Cause Unhappiness · An vitiositas ad infelicitatem sufficiat
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWilliam Clark Helmbold
Whether the Affections of the Soul Are Worse than Those of the Body · Animine an corporis affectiones sint peiores
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishSamuel White, rev. William W. Goodwin
On Talkativeness · De garrulitate
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWilliam Clark Helmbold
On Being a Busybody · De curiositate
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWilliam Clark Helmbold
On Love of Wealth · De cupiditate divitiarum
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishJohn Patrick, rev. William W. Goodwin
On Compliancy · De vitioso pudore
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishThomas Hoy, rev. William W. Goodwin
On Envy and Hate · De invidia et odio
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishP. Lancaster, rev. William W. Goodwin
On Praising Oneself Inoffensively · De se ipsum citra invidiam laudando
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishP. Lancaster, rev. William W. Goodwin
On the Delays of the Divine Vengeance · De sera numinis vindicta
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishJohn Philips, rev. William W. Goodwin
On Fate · De fato
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishA. G., rev. William W. Goodwin
On the Sign of Socrates · De genio Socratis
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishThomas Creech, rev. William W. Goodwin
On Exile · De exilio
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishJohn Patrick, rev. William W. Goodwin
Consolation to His Wife · Consolatio ad uxorem
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishThomas Creech, rev. William W. Goodwin
Table-Talk · Quaestiones convivales
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishThomas Creech, rev. William W. Goodwin
The Dialogue on Love · Amatorius
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishJohn Philips, rev. William W. Goodwin
Love Stories · Amatoriae narrationes
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishHarold North Fowler
That a Philosopher Ought to Converse Especially with Men in Power · Maxime cum principibus philosopho esse disserendum
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishHarold North Fowler
To an Uneducated Ruler · Ad principem ineruditum
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishHarold North Fowler
Whether an Old Man Should Engage in Public Affairs · An seni respublica gerenda sit
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishHarold North Fowler
Precepts of Statecraft · Praecepta gerendae reipublicae
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishSamuel White, rev. William W. Goodwin
On Monarchy, Democracy and Oligarchy · De unius in republica dominatione, populari statu, et paucorum imperio
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishHarold North Fowler
That We Ought Not to Borrow · De vitando aere alieno
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishHarold North Fowler
Lives of the Ten Orators · Vitae decem oratorum
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishCharles Barcroft, rev. William W. Goodwin
A Comparison of Aristophanes and Menander · Comparationis Aristophanis et Menandri compendium
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWilliam Baxter, rev. William W. Goodwin
On the Malice of Herodotus · De Herodoti malignitate
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishA. G., rev. William W. Goodwin
Causes of Natural Phenomena · Quaestiones naturales
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishR. Brown, rev. William W. Goodwin
On the Face Which Appears in the Orb of the Moon · De facie quae in orbe lunae apparet
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishA. G., rev. William W. Goodwin
On the Principle of Cold · De primo frigido
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishF. Fetherston, rev. William W. Goodwin
Whether Fire or Water Is More Useful · Aquane an ignis sit utilior
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishF. Fetherston, rev. William W. Goodwin
On the Cleverness of Animals · De sollertia animalium
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishJohn Philips, rev. William W. Goodwin
Beasts Are Rational · Bruta animalia ratione uti
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishSir A. J., rev. William W. Goodwin
Platonic Questions · Platonicae quaestiones
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishR. Brown, rev. William W. Goodwin
On Stoic Self-Contradictions · De Stoicorum repugnantiis
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishE. Smith, rev. William W. Goodwin
The Stoics Talk More Paradoxically than the Poets · Compendium argumenti Stoicos absurdiora poetis dicere
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWilliam Baxter, rev. William W. Goodwin
Against the Stoics on Common Conceptions · De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishSamuel White, rev. William W. Goodwin
That Epicurus Actually Makes a Pleasant Life Impossible · Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWilliam Baxter, rev. William W. Goodwin
Reply to Colotes · Adversus Colotem
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishA. G., rev. William W. Goodwin
Is “Live Unknown” a Wise Precept? · An recte dictum sit latenter esse vivendum
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishCharles Whitaker, rev. William W. Goodwin
On the Eating of Flesh · De esu carnium
Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWilliam Baxter, rev. William W. Goodwin
On Music · Περὶ μουσικῆς
Pseudo-Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishJohn Philips, rev. William W. Goodwin
Opinions of the Philosophers · Περὶ τῶν ἀρεσκόντων φιλοσόφοις
Pseudo-Plutarch
- Ancient Greek + EnglishJohn Dowell, rev. William W. Goodwin

Philosophy.

The Republic · Πολιτεία

Euthyphro · Εὐθύφρων

Apology · Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους

Crito · Κρίτων

Phaedo · Φαίδων

Cratylus · Κρατύλος

Theaetetus · Θεαίτητος

Sophist · Σοφιστής

Statesman · Πολιτικός

Parmenides · Παρμενίδης

Philebus · Φίληβος

Symposium · Συμπόσιον

Phaedrus · Φαῖδρος

Alcibiades I · Ἀλκιβιάδης αʹ

Alcibiades II · Ἀλκιβιάδης βʹ

Hipparchus · Ἵππαρχος

Lovers · Ἐρασταί

Theages · Θεάγης

Charmides · Χαρμίδης

Laches · Λάχης

Lysis · Λύσις

Euthydemus · Εὐθύδημος

Protagoras · Πρωταγόρας

Gorgias · Γοργίας

Meno · Μένων

Greater Hippias · Ἱππίας μείζων

Lesser Hippias · Ἱππίας ἐλάττων

Ion · Ἴων

Menexenus · Μενέξενος

Cleitophon · Κλειτοφῶν

Timaeus · Τίμαιος

Critias · Κριτίας

Minos · Μίνως

Laws · Νόμοι

Epinomis · Ἐπινομίς

Letters · Ἐπιστολαί

Nicomachean Ethics · Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια

Eudemian Ethics · Ἠθικὰ Εὐδήμεια

Politics · Πολιτικά

Poetics · Περὶ ποιητικῆς

Rhetoric · Ῥητορική

Metaphysics · Τὰ Μετὰ τὰ Φυσικά

Economics · Οἰκονομικά

Discourses · Ἀρριανοῦ τῶν Ἐπικτήτου Διατριβῶν

Handbook · Ἐγχειρίδιον

Lives of the Eminent Philosophers · Βίοι καὶ γνῶμαι τῶν ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ εὐδοκιμησάντων

Diapsalmata · from Either/Or

In Vino Veritas · from Stages on Life’s Way

Fear and Trembling · selections

Preparation for a Christian Life · from Practice in Christianity

The Present Moment · from The Instant

The Antichrist

Thus Spake Zarathustra

Beyond Good and Evil

On the Genealogy of Morals

On the Education of Children · De liberis educandis

How the Young Man Should Study Poetry · Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat

On Listening to Lectures · De recta ratione audiendi

How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend · Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur

How a Man May Become Aware of His Progress in Virtue · Quomodo quis suos in virtute sentiat profectus

How to Profit by One’s Enemies · De capienda ex inimicis utilitate

On Having Many Friends · De amicorum multitudine

On Chance · De fortuna

Virtue and Vice · De virtute et vitio

Letter of Condolence to Apollonius · Consolatio ad Apollonium

Advice About Keeping Well · De tuenda sanitate praecepta

Advice to Bride and Groom · Conjugalia praecepta

The Dinner of the Seven Wise Men · Septem sapientium convivium

On Superstition · De superstitione

Sayings of Kings and Commanders · Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata

Sayings of Spartans · Apophthegmata Laconica

The Ancient Customs of the Spartans · Instituta Laconica

Sayings of Spartan Women · Lacaenarum apophthegmata

Bravery of Women · Mulierum virtutes

The Roman Questions · Quaestiones Romanae

The Greek Questions · Quaestiones Graecae

Greek and Roman Parallel Stories · Parallela minora

On the Fortune of the Romans · De fortuna Romanorum

On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander · De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute