Business
Great American Fraud – Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams
Samuel Hopkins Adams exposes the patent-medicine industry as a business built on fraud and poison, fed by complicit…
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Ethics
Ethics studies moral principles governing human conduct. It investigates questions of right and wrong, virtue and character, moral responsibility, and justice. Major approaches include virtue ethics, deontology, and consequentialism. Ethical inquiry also extends to applied fields such as bioethics, political ethics, and environmental ethics. This category covers both classical moral philosophy and contemporary normative debates.
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Christianity
More Fruits of Solitude – William Penn
William Penn
William Penn's More Fruits of Solitude is a collection of brief Christian moral reflections and maxims on living…
Ancient History
Staat – Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Schleiermacher's German translation of Plato's Republic, edited with commentary by Kirchmann in 1870.
Ancient History
Charmides. Euthyphron. Parmenides – Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Schleiermacher
A German collection of Platonic dialogues in Schleiermacher's translation, spanning ethics, piety, and the difficult Parmenides.
Ancient History
Phaidros. Lysis. Protagoras. Laches – Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Schleiermacher's German edition of four Platonic dialogues: Phaidros, Lysis, Protagoras, and Laches, with an introduction and annotations.
Ethics
Outline of Philosophical Ethics (Grundriss der philosophischen Ethik) – Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Grundriss der philosophischen Ethik is a terse, systematic academic outline of Schleiermacher’s philosophical ethics as reason’s activity in…
Classic Literature
Friedrich Schleiermacher’s philosophiche Sittenlehre – Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Schleiermacher's posthumously assembled philosophical ethics deduces reason's action upon nature, culminating in family, state, church, and free society.
Critical Theory
Outlines of a Critique of Previous Ethical Theory (Grundlinien Einer Kritik der Bisherigen Sittenlehre) – Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Schleiermacher's systematic critique surveys prior moral philosophies, reducing their principles to fundamental oppositions and showing where each fails.
Christianity
Predigten Den Christlichen Hausstand – Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Schleiermacher's nine sermons on the Christian household address marriage, child-rearing, servants, hospitality, and beneficence as practical religious duties.
Christian Theology
The Christian Ethics According to the Principles of the Evangelical Church (Die Christliche Sitte Nach Den Grundsätzen der Evangelischen Kirche) – Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Schleiermacher
A systematic Protestant account of the Christian life, organized around goods, virtues, and duties arising from redemption in…
Education
Pedagogical Writings (Pädagogische Schriften) – Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Schleiermacher's pedagogical writings treat education as a practical art that works on free persons and cannot guarantee fixed…
Classic Literature
The Widow of Otarant (Ot’araant’ k’vrivi) – Ilia Chavchavadze
Ilia Chavchavadze
A Georgian village widow embodies industriousness and moral strength, showing labor as a Christian calling.
Classic Literature
Is He a Man?! (Kac’ia-adamiani?!) – Ilia Chavchavadze
Ilia Chavchavadze
Ilia Chavchavadze's short story indicts serfdom by asking whether a dependent peasant like Kacia is truly human.
Classic Literature
Oeuvres principales – Nicolas Chamfort
Nicolas Chamfort
A French anthology of Chamfort's moralist maxims, philosophical dialogues, and letters exposing the vices hidden beneath refined civilization.
Classic Literature
Maxims and Thoughts (Maximes et pensées) – Nicolas Chamfort
Nicolas Chamfort
Chamfort's Maxims and Thoughts is a collection of sharp aphorisms dissecting vanity, society, and the gap between reputation…