Philosophy

Poverty of Philosophy by Karl Marx 400 kb (pdf format)

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels (1848)

The Initiate by Wanda Castillo (The Truth of Life) 105.4 kb

Zadig (The book of fate) 239 kb (pdf format)
(1747) is a famous novel written by Enlightenment by philosopher Voltaire. It tells the story of Zadig, a philosopher in ancient Babylonia. The book presents human life as in the hands of a destiny beyond human control. It is a story of religious and metaphysical orthodoxy.


Perception And Illusion: Historical Perspectives
Author(s): Nicholas J. wade
Publisher: New York : Springer, 2005.
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0-387-22722-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-387-22722-1
Summary:
Book Description
This volume traces the history of thinking about perception from its early philosophical roots to the modern laboratory. Some of the questions it considers have been asked since antiquity - Is what we see the truth? Are everyones perceptual experiences the same? What is the nature of infants perception? What kinds of mistakes are made in perceiving? Can perceptual experience be communicated to others? The author sets the groundwork with an explanation of the five senses and how science has come to observe them. He also explores the idea of perceptual error which becomes the lens through which the study of perception is viewed. This examination of perception is described in chapters devoted to historical periods from the Greeks to the present time following themes of adaptation and how the senses are linked to an intricately organized brain which not only helps us perceive what is necessary for survival, but also creates links from the patterns of sensory stimulation to language and thought. Click to download

Kedar Joshi born Dec. 31 1979 to a Hindu (Brahmin) family, in Mumbai, India where he lived till the age of 15 years of age when moved to Pune and lived until March 2004 he went to Cambridge, England, where he currently lives and works. As a philosopher and writer whose works are collectively entitled Superultramodern Science and Philosophy. Notable works comprise the NSTP (Non – Spatial Thinking Process) theory and the UQV (Ultimate Questioner’s Vanity) theory. He initiated Superultramodern Scientific Institution (SSI) , also known as British Superultramodern Scientific Institution (BSSI), at Cambridge, UK.

Founder & President- Superultramodern Scientific Institution
St John’s Innovation Centre
Cowley Road Cambridge CB4 0WS
http://www.bssi.org.uk


Joshi Collection

The Superultramodern Quotations by Kedar Joshi -principles of superultramodern science and philosophy 58.3 kb

The UQV - Ultimate Questioner by Kedar Joshi -The UQV theory is a metaphysical theory that the universe is the consequence of the ultimate questioner 108.1 kb

The NSTP Theory by Kedar Joshi - (Non - Spatial Thinking Process)


Plato (428/427 BC – 348/347 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, the second of the great trio of ancient Greeks –Socrates, Plato, originally named Aristocles, and Aristotle– who between them laid the philosophical foundations of Western culture. Plato was also a mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world. Plato is widely believed to have been a student of Socrates and to have been deeply influenced by his teacher's unjust death.

Plato's brilliance as a writer and thinker can be witnessed by reading his Socratic dialogues. Some of the dialogues, letters, and other works that are ascribed to him are considered spurious. Plato is thought to have lectured at the Academy, although the pedagogical function of his dialogues, if any, is not known with certainty. They have historically been used to teach philosophy, logic, rhetoric, mathematics, and other subjects about which he wrote.

Plato Collection

Apology by Plato / published -400

Meno by Plato / published -400

Symposium by Plato / published -400

Crito by Plato / published -400

Phaedo by Plato / published -400

Statesman by Plato / published -400

Euthyphro by Plato / published -400

Timaeus by Plato / published -400

Critias by Plato / published -400

Parmenides by Plato / published -400

Gorgias by Plato / published -400

Charmides by Plato / published -400

Ion by Plato / (poetry) published -400

Protagoras by Plato / published -400

Theaetetus by Plato / published -400

Euthydemus by Plato / (Early Socratic Dialogs)published -400

Laches by Plato / published -400


Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862; born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, and philosopher who is best known for Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.

Thoreau’s books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.

He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending the abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau’s philosophy of nonviolent resistance influenced the political thoughts and actions of such later figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas K. Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Some anarchists claim Thoreau as an inspiration. Though Civil Disobedience calls for improving rather than abolishing government — “I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government” — the direction of this improvement aims at anarchism: “‘That government is best which governs not at all;’ and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.”

Thoreau Collection

On the Duty of Civil Disobediance by Thoreau, Henry David Published: 1849 (pdf format)

Walden by Henry David Thoreau 258 kb (zip file)

Excursions by Henry David Thoreau 168 kb (zip file)

A Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau 26 kb (zip file)
Read to the citizens of Concord, Massachusetts on Sunday evening, October thirtieth, eighteen fifty-nine

Walking by Henry David Thoreau 32 kb (zip file)

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau 269 kb (zip file)

Wild Apples by Henry David Thoreau 27 kb (zip file)


Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) , a Prussian-born philologist and philosopher, produced critiques of religion, morality, contemporary culture, and philosophy. These works centered on what he viewed as fundamental questions regarding the life-affirming and life-denying qualities of different attitudes and beliefs. Nietzsche's works feature unique, free-form stylization – combined with a wide philosophical breadth – through the use of analyses, etymologies, punning, parables, paradoxes, aphorisms, and contradictions, employed to demonstrate the inadequacies of normative modes of thought. Nietzsche's contemporaries largely overlooked him during his short yet productive working life, which ended with a mental collapse in 1889. But he received recognition during the first half of the 20th century in German, French, and British intellectual circles, gaining notoriety when the Nazi Party appropriated him as a forerunner. By the second half of the 20th century he had become regarded as a highly significant and influential figure in modern philosophy.

Nietzsche Collection

Beyond Good and Evil by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1886. Nietzsche attacks past philosophers for their alleged lack of critical sense and their blind acceptance of Christian premises in their consideration of morality. The work moves into the realm "beyond good and evil" in the sense of leaving behind the traditional morality which Nietzsche subjects to a destructive critique in favour of what he regards as an affirmative approach that fearlessly confronts the perspectival nature of knowledge and the perilous condition of the modern individual.

On The Genealogy Of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche 64 kb (pdf format)

Genealogy Of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche 77 kb (pdf format)

Genealogy Of Morals, Third Essayby Friedrich Nietzsche 112 kb (pdf format)

Birth Of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche 198 kb (pdf format)

Thoughts Out Of Season 1by Friedrich Nietzsche 428 kb (pdf format)

Thus Spake Zarathustraby Friedrich Nietzsche 805 kb (pdf format)

Use And Abuse Of History For Life by Friedrich Nietzsche 131 kb (pdf format)

Beyond Good And Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche 134 kb (pdf format)



Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 [O.S. August 28"> – November 20, 1910 [O.S. November 7">) was a Russian novelist, writer, essayist, philosopher, Christian anarchist, pacifist, educational reformer, vegetarian, moral thinker and an influential member of the Tolstoy family.

Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina; in their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realistic fiction. As a moral philosopher he was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through his work The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.


Tolstoy Collection:

Twenty three tales by Leo Tolstoy

Tales of army life by Leo Tolstoy

Recollections and essays by Leo Tolstoy

Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at ha… by Leo Tolstoy

Kingdom of god is within you by Leo Tolstoy

Forged Coupon and other stories by Leo Tolstoy

Confession by Leo Tolstoy

Exiled to Siberia by Leo Tolstoy

Kreutzer Sonata and other stories by Leo Tolstoy

A Letter To A Hindu by Leo Tolstoy

Childhood by Leo Tolstoy


Anna Karenina, Complete Works 1-8

Anna Karenina, part 1 by Leo Tolstoy

Anna karenina, part 2 by Leo Tolstoy

Anna karenina, part 3 by Leo Tolstoy

Anna karenina, part 4 by Leo Tolstoy

Anna karenina, part 5 by Leo Tolstoy

Anna karenina, part 6 by Leo Tolstoy

Anna karenina, part 7 by Leo Tolstoy

Anna karenina, part 8 by Leo Tolstoy


or Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Complete parts) Considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century


War And Peace, Complete Works
(Books 1-15 Then Epilogues 1 & 2)

War and peace, book 1

War and peace, book 2

War and peace, book 3

War and Peace, book 4

War and peace, book 5

War and peace, book 6

War and peace, book 7

War and peace, book 8

War and peace, book 9

War and peace, book 10

War and peace, book 11

War and peace, book 12

War and peace, book 13

War and peace, book 14

War and peace, book 15

War and peace, epilogue 1

War and peace, epilogue 2


OR War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 1865 (complete books 1-15 no epilogue)


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