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• Alchemists
• Hermetic philosophers
• Philosophers, Ancient
• Platonists
• Pre-Socratic philosophers
• Women philosophers

• Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969
• Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486-1535
• Althusser, Louis, 1918-1990
• Anaxagoras
• Anaximander
• Anaximenes, of Miletus
• Apollonius, of Tyana
• Aristotle
• Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
• Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624
• Baader, Franz von, 1765-1841
• Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
• Badiou, Alain
• Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, 1814-1876
• Barfield, Owen, 1898-1997
• Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007
• Bauman, Zygmunt, 1925-2017
• Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986
• Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
• Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832
• Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941
• Bruno, Giordano, 1548-1600
• Butler, Judith, 1956-
• Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881
• Cavell, Stanley, 1926-2018
• Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936
• Chomsky, Noam
• Cobbe, Frances Power, 1822-1904
• Comte, Auguste, 1798-1857
• Cudworth, Ralph, 1617-1688
• Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995
• Derrida, Jacques
• Dewey, John, 1859-1952
• Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881
• Eckhart, Meister, -1327
• Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758
• Engels, Friedrich, 1820-1895
• Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536
• Eucken, Rudolf, 1846-1926
• Fiske, John, 1842-1901
• Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
• Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642
• Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch, 1872-1949
• Hamilton, William, Sir, 1788-1856
• Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831
• Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976
• Hermogenes, the Heretic, active 175-205
• Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679
• Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d', 1723-1789
• Hume, David, 1711-1776
• Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938
• Illich, Ivan, 1926-2002
• James, William, 1842-1910
• Krishnamurti, U. G. (Uppaluri Gopala)
• La Mettrie, Julien Offray de, 1709-1751
• Langbehn, Julius, 1851-1907
• Latour, Bruno
• Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716
• Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519
• Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781
• Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316
• Locke, John, 1632-1704
• Longinus, Cassius, approximately 213-273
• Lucretius Carus, Titus
• Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919
• Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, 121-180
• Marx, Karl, 1818-1883
• Mazzini, Giuseppe, 1805-1872
• McLuhan, Marshall, 1911-1980
• Melissus, Samius
• Michelstaedter, Carlo, 1887-1910
• Mill, Harriet Hardy Taylor, 1807-1858
• Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873
• More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535
• Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990
• Natorp, Paul, 1854-1924
• Nicholas, of Cusa, Cardinal, 1401-1464
• Nicolaus, of Damascus
• Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900
• Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
• Paracelsus, 1493-1541
• Parmenides
• Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
• Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914
• Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494
• Pythagoras
• Ramsay, Chevalier (Andrew Michael), 1686-1743
• Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892
• Ritter, Friedrich, 1886-1934
• Rorty, Richard
• Russell, Walter, 1871-1963
• Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980
• Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775-1854
• Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805
• Schleiermacher, Friedrich, 1768-1834
• Scholem, Gershom, 1897-1982
• Sen, Keshub Chunder, 1838-1884
• Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
• Simmel, Georg, 1858-1918
• Smith, Adam, 1723-1790
• Socrates
• Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903
• Spengler, Oswald, 1880-1936
• Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677
• Steiner, Rudolf, 1861-1925
• Stirner, Max, 1806-1856
• Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941
• Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
• Themistius
• Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947
• Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951
• Zeno, of Elea

• Lists of philosophers

• The March of Philosophy (New York: Dial Press, 1934), by Henry Alpern (page images at HathiTrust)
• The March of Philosophy (New York: Dial Press, 1934), by Henry Alpern (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1926), by Will Durant
  • 6th printing: page images at HathiTrust
  • 14th printing: multiple formats at archive.org

• Les Philosophes Belges (in French) (partial serial archives)

• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Philosophers, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Theosophic Correspondence Between Louis Claude de Saint-Martin (The "Unknown Philosopher") and Kirchberger, Baron de Liebistorf, by Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin and Nicolas Antoine Kirchberger, trans. by Edward Burton Penny (HTML at TUP)

• The Philosophes (translated by 7 writers into English, with notes; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), by Charles Palissot de Montenoy, ed. by Jessica Mary Goodman and Olivier Ferret (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. by Edward N. Zalta (HTML at Stanford)

• A Few Days in Athens: Being the Translation of a Greek Manuscript Discovered in Herculaneum (Boston: J. P. Mendum, 1850), by Frances Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Persian and Chinese Letters: Being the Lettres Persanes by Charles Louis, Baron de Montesquieu, Translated and Introduced by John Davidson; and The Citizen of the World, by Oliver Goldsmith (Washington and London: M. Walter Dunne, 1901), by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu and Oliver Goldsmith, trans. by John Davidson, contrib. by Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Praxis of Alain Badiou (2006), ed. by Paul Ashton, A. J. Bartlett, and Justin Clemens (PDF with commentary at re-press.org)

• Beyond the Snow: Being a History of Trim's Adventures in Nordlichtschein (Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1873), by P. Fishe Reed (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lives of Alchemystical Philosophers (London: G. Redway, 1888), by Arthur Edward Waite
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• New Platonism and Alchemy, by Alexander Wilder (HTML at theosophy-nw.org)
• Porphyrii De Philosophia ex Oraculis Haurienda: Librorum Reliquiae (main text in Greek, commentary in Latin; Springer, 1856), by Porphyry, ed. by Gustav Wolff
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The First Philosophers of Greece: An Edition and Translation of the Remaining Fragments of the Pre-Socratic Philosophers, Together With a Translation of the More Important Accounts of Their Opinions Contained in the Early Epitomes of Their Works (in English with some Greek passages; London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1898), by Arthur Fairbanks (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Vinyl Theory (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, c2020), by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
  • HTML and Epub with commentary at Lever Press
  • HTML and PDF at JSTOR
• Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas (open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Hent de Vries, trans. by Geoffrey A. Hale (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno, by Martin Paul Eve (PDF and Epub with commentary at SpringerNature Link)

• Cornelius Agrippa, Occult Philosopher (London: William Rider and Son, 1921), by Lewis Spence (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cornelius Agrippa: The Life of Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Doctor and Knight, Commonly known as a Magician (2 volumes; London: Chapman and Hall, 1856), by Henry Morley
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Althusser and the Renewal of Marxist Social Theory (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Robert Paul Resch (HTML at UC Press)

• The First Philosophers of Greece: An Edition and Translation of the Remaining Fragments of the Pre-Socratic Philosophers, Together With a Translation of the More Important Accounts of Their Opinions Contained in the Early Epitomes of Their Works (in English with some Greek passages; London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1898), by Arthur Fairbanks (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology (New York: Columbia University Press, 1960), by Charles H. Kahn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The First Philosophers of Greece: An Edition and Translation of the Remaining Fragments of the Pre-Socratic Philosophers, Together With a Translation of the More Important Accounts of Their Opinions Contained in the Early Epitomes of Their Works (in English with some Greek passages; London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1898), by Arthur Fairbanks (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The First Philosophers of Greece: An Edition and Translation of the Remaining Fragments of the Pre-Socratic Philosophers, Together With a Translation of the More Important Accounts of Their Opinions Contained in the Early Epitomes of Their Works (in English with some Greek passages; London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1898), by Arthur Fairbanks (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Apollonius of Tyana (1901), by G. R. S. Mead
  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Apollonius of Tyana: A Study of His Life and Times (London: Grant Richards, 1908), by F. W. Groves Campbell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, by Philostratus the Athenian, trans. by F. C. Conybeare
  • HTML with commentary at livius.org
  • HTML with commentary at chrestos.com
• The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, the Epistles of Apollonius and the Treatise of Eusebius (2 volumes, 1912), by Philostratus the Athenian, trans. by F. C. Conybeare, contrib. by Apollonius, of Tyana and Eusebius of Caesarea (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Aristotle (second edition, with additions; London: J. Murray, 1880), by George Grote, ed. by Alexander Bain and George Croom Robertson (Gutenberg text)
• Aristotle's Researches in Natural Science (London: West, Newman and Co., 1912), by Thomas East Lones (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Die Methode der Aristotelischen Forschung, in Ihrem Zusammenhang mit den Philosophischen Grundprincipien des Aristoteles (in German; Berlin: Weidmann, 1872), by Rudolf Eucken
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Gallica
• Die Syllogistik des Aristoteles (3 volumes in 1; in German; Tubingen: H. Laupp, 1896-1900), by Heinrich Maier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Guide to Aristotle (Ten Cent Pocket Series #39; Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Co., c1923), by Will Durant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quid Aristoteles de Loco Senserit (dissertation in Latin; Paris: F. Alcan, 1889), by Henri Bergson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three Conceptions of Mind: Their Bearing on the Denaturalization of the Mind in History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1926), by Alejandro A. Jascalevich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fathers of Biology (London: Percival and Co., 1890), by Charles McRae (Gutenberg text)
• Plato's Doctrine Respecting the Rotation of the Earth, and Aristotle's Comment Upon That Doctrine (London: J. Murray, 1860), by George Grote (Gutenberg text)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Philosophers, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Augustine, by James J. O'Donnell (HTML at Georgetown)
• Confessions, by Saint Augustine of Hippo, trans. by Albert C. Outler (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• Confessions, by Saint Augustine of Hippo, ed. by James J. O'Donnell (HTML at Georgetown)
• Confessions, by Saint Augustine of Hippo, trans. by E. B. Pusey
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• Saint Augustin, by Louis Bertrand, trans. by Vincent O'Sullivan (Gutenberg text)
• A Third Testament: A Modern Pilgrim Explores the Spiritual Wanderings of Augustine, Blake, Pascal, Tolstoy, Bonhoeffer, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky, by Malcolm Muggeridge (multiple formats with commentary at plough.com)
• Three Conceptions of Mind: Their Bearing on the Denaturalization of the Mind in History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1926), by Alejandro A. Jascalevich (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jacob Behmen: An Appreciation, by Alexander Whyte (Gutenberg text)
• Jacob Boehme: His Life and Teaching, or, Studies in Theosophy (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1885), by H. Martensen, trans. by Thomas Rhys Evans (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Three Famous Mystics (Philadelphia: David McKay Co., ca. 1940), by Arthur Edward Waite and William P. Swainson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, and Co., 1891), by Jakob Böhme, ed. by Franz Hartmann (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

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