Free philosophy books to read online

The texts the field still argues from — ethics, metaphysics and political philosophy, complete and free to read.

Free philosophy classics to read online

Public-domain titles you can read in full on Writro, no purchase needed.

• The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare — Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
• Meditations — Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
• The Confessions of St. Augustine — Augustine, of Hippo, Saint
• The City of God, Volume I — Augustine, of Hippo, Saint
• Ecce Homo: Complete Works, Volume Seventeen — Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
• A Pickle for the Knowing Ones — Dexter, Timothy
• Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre — De Cleyre, Voltairine
• Plutarch's Morals — Plutarch
• Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 — Boethius and Troilus — Chaucer, Geoffrey
• Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus — Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
• The Consolation of Philosophy — Boethius
• Cicero's Tusculan Disputations: Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth — Cicero, Marcus Tullius
• Symposium — Plato
• Phaedrus — Plato
• Apology — Plato
• Phaedo — Plato
• The Picture of Dorian Gray — Wilde, Oscar
• On the Nature of Things — Lucretius Carus, Titus
• The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete — Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
• Utopia — More, Thomas, Saint
• The Enchiridion — Epictetus
• The Prince — Machiavelli, Niccolò
• Main currents in American thought : $b An interpretation of American literature from the beginnings to 1920 — Parrington, Vernon Louis
• The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism — Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
• Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients — Bacon, Francis
• The Republic of Plato — Plato
• The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 — Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
• Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None — Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
• Beyond Good and Evil — Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
• Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience — Thoreau, Henry David
• Leviathan — Hobbes, Thomas
• On Liberty — Mill, John Stuart
• The Republic — Plato
• The Crown of Wild Olive: also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing — Ruskin, John
• Second Treatise of Government — Locke, John
• Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical Exposition — Dewey, John
• The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy — James, William
• The Critique of Pure Reason — Kant, Immanuel
• Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus — Wittgenstein, Ludwig
• Ethics — Spinoza, Benedictus de
• Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson — Emerson, Ralph Waldo
• The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle — Aristotle
• A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive — Mill, John Stuart
• The Genealogy of Morals: The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. — Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
• On War — Clausewitz, Carl von
• As a man thinketh — Allen, James
• The Poetics of Aristotle — Aristotle
• Pascal's Pensées — Pascal, Blaise
• Past and Present: Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. — Carlyle, Thomas
• The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist: Complete Works, Volume Sixteen — Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
• The Communist Manifesto — Marx, Karl
• The Prophet — Gibran, Kahlil
• An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1: MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 — Locke, John
• A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I — De Morgan, Augustus
• Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 — Hubbard, Elbert
• The Consolation of Philosophy — Boethius
• Nature — Emerson, Ralph Waldo
• A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) — Mill, John Stuart
• The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) — Schopenhauer, Arthur
• Siddhartha — Hesse, Hermann

Philosophy in Hindi

From Writro's editorial list of the Hindi titles India is reading.

• श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता (Shrimad Bhagavad Gita) — Vedvyas
• रामचरितमानस (Ramcharitmanas) — Goswami Tulsidas
• कबीर के दोहे (Kabir Ke Dohe) — Kabir
• विनय पत्रिका (Vinay Patrika) — Tulsidas
• मेरा मुझमें कुछ नहीं (Mera Mujhme Kuch Nahin) — Osho
• संभोग से समाधि की ओर (Sambhog Se Samadhi Ki Aur) — Osho
• जीने की कला (Jeene Ki Kala) — Osho
• ध्यान सूत्र (Dhyan Sutra) — Osho
• अष्टावक्र महागीता (Ashtavakra Mahageeta) — Osho
• पतंजलि योग सूत्र (Patanjali Yog Sutra) — Patanjali

Indian publishers known for philosophy

• Seagull Books — Kolkata