We live in an era rife with cultural conflict. The 21st century is by no means free of wars, terrorism, riots, famine, nor epidemics. We may attempt to solve the challenges of our times by uniting the humanistic disciplines of philosophy, science, and technology. Our modern reality requires a fundamental understanding of the problems beleaguering our existence. Science and literature are key tools for gaining this insight. The wisdom accumulated throughout the centuries by scientists, philosophers, and writers is a solid foundation on which modern man can build the future. Our ability to learn from those who have come before is precisely what led Protagoras to declare that "Man is the measure of all things." The 33 works in this book possess foundational importance and continue to influence our modern world. The reader of these texts is well-positioned to understand causes and plot new paths away from the problems that plague us.
Contents:
Edwin A. Abbott. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Aristotle. Ethics
Aristotle. Poetics
Dale Breckenridge Carnegie. The Art of Public Speaking
Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Eugenics and Other Evils
Gilbert Keith Chesterton. What's Wrong With The World
René Descartes. Discourse on the Method
Epictetus. The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
The Meditations Of The Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Sigmund Freud. Dream Psychology
Hermann Hesse. Siddhartha
David Hume. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching
Confucius. Analects
Swami Abhedananda. Five Lectures On Reincarnation
The Song Celestial, Or Bhagavad-Gita (From the Mahabharata)
David Herbert Lawrence. Fantasia of the Unconscious
Niccolò Machiavelli. The Art of War
Niccolò Machiavelli. The Prince
Benedictus de Spinoza. The Ethics
John Mill. On Liberty
John Mill. Utilitarianism
Prentice Mulford. Thoughts are Things
Thomas More. Utopia
Friedrich Nietzsche. Thus Spake Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche. Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche. The Antichrist
J. Allanson Picton. Pantheism
Plato. The Republic
Plato. The Apology Of Socrates
Plato. Symposium
Sun Tzu. The Art of War
Vatsyayana. The Kama Sutra
Voltaire. Candide
H. G. Wells. A Modern Utopia
Frances Bacon. The New Atlantis
