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Substance (Philosophy)

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• Substance (Philosophy) -- Early works to 1800
• Essentialism (Philosophy)
• Immaterialism (Philosophy)

• Substance theory

• Ideas About Substance (originally published 1969; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Albert L. Hammond (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• On Being and Essence, by Saint Thomas Aquinas, trans. by Robert T. Miller (HTML at Fordham)

• The Fountain of Life (Fons Vitae) (specially abridged edition; New York: Philosophical Library, 1962), by Ibn Gabirol, trans. by Harry E. Wedeck (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision (4th edition), by George Berkeley (HTML at York)
• An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision (1732 and 1709 editions), by George Berkeley (multiple formats in Ireland)
• An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision, by George Berkeley (Gutenberg text)
• The Theory of Vision, Vindicated and Explained (Cambridge and London: Macmillan, 1860), by George Berkeley, ed. by H. V. H. Cowell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), by Travis Workman
  • multiple formats with commentary at Luminos
  • PDF files at JSTOR

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Documentarity: Evidence, Ontology, and Inscription (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2019), by Ronald E. Day (HTML with commentary at MIT Press)
• Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics (Melbourne: Re.press, 2009), by Graham Harman (PDF at re-press.org)
• The Mathematics of Novelty: Badiou's Minimalist Metaphysics (2008), by Sam Gillespie (PDF with commentary at re-press.org)
• Nietzsche: Naturalism and Interpretation (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by Christoph Cox (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Kant, Ontology, and the A Priori (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1968), by Moltke S. Gram (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018), by Calvin L. Warren
  • PDF at Open Emory
  • multiple formats via Figshare
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2013), by Timothy Morton (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• La Chaîne des Harmonies: La Spirale et l'Enchaînement des Harmonies (in French: Paris: Bibliothèque Chacornac, 1910), by Paul Flambart (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• On Being and Essence, by Saint Thomas Aquinas, trans. by Robert T. Miller (HTML at Fordham)
• Understanding Reality: A Commonsense Theory of the Original Cause (without appendices), by Stefan Hlatky and Philip Booth (HTML with commentary in the UK)
• The World and the Individual: Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Aberdeen (2 volumes; New York and London: Macmillan, 1901), by Josiah Royce
  • first series (The Fourt Historical Conceptions of Being): multiple formats at archive.org
  • second series (Nature, Man and the Moral Order): multiple formats at archive.org
• Metaphysics: or, The Philosophy of Consciousness, Phenomenal and Real (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1860), by Henry Longueville Mansel (page images at Google)
• Sophist, by Plato, trans. by Harold North Fowler (HTML at Perseus)
• Sophist, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
• Philosophy and Christianity: A Series of Lectures Delivered in New York, in 1882, on the Eliy Foundation of the Union Theological Seminary (New York: R. Carter and Bros., 1883), by George Sylvester Morris (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Philosophy of Person: Solidarity and Cultural Creativity (Polish philosophical studies, I; Washington: Paideia Press and the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1994), ed. by Józef Tischner, J. M. Yciski, and George F. McLean (multiple formats at Google)
• Private and Public Social Inventions in Modern Societies (Washington: Paideia Press and the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1994), ed. by Leon Dyczewski, John Kromkowski, and Paul Peachey (multiple formats at Google)

• The Fountain of Life (Fons Vitae) (specially abridged edition; New York: Philosophical Library, 1962), by Ibn Gabirol, trans. by Harry E. Wedeck (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Parmenides, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)

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

• The Secret of the Katha Upanishad, by Swami Krishnananda (HTML and PDF at Divine Life Society)

• Kategorienlehre (in German; Leipzig: H. Haacke, 1896), by Eduard von Hartmann
  • page images at Gallica
  • page images at HathiTrust

• How Change Happens (Oxford, UK et al.: Oxford University Press, c2016), by Duncan Green (PDF with commentary at how-change-happens.com)

• Principles and Persons: An Ethical Interpretation of Existentialism (originally published 1967; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Frederick A. Olafson (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Phenomenology and Existentialism (originally published 1967; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), ed. by Edward N. Lee and Maurice Mandelbaum (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Existential Marxism in Postwar France: From Sartre to Althusser, by Mark Poster (frame-dependent HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Foucault, Marxism, and History: Mode of Production Versus Mode of Information, by Mark Poster (frame-dependent HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Meditations on First Philosophy (translation c2012), by René Descartes, trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)

• Dante's Aesthetics of Being (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1999), by Warren Ginsberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Species in Denial (originally published 2003; revised online edition ca. 2009), by Jeremy Griffith, contrib. by Charles Birch (HTML and PDF with commentary at humancondition.com)
• Beyond the Human Condition (originally published 1991; online edition ca. 2012), by Jeremy Griffith, contrib. by Tim Macartney-Snape (HTML and PDF with commentary at humancondition.com)
• Free: The End of the Human Condition (originally published 1988; online edition first published 2003), by Jeremy Griffith (HTML and PDF with commentary at humancondition.com)
• Debating Humanity: Towards a Philosophical Sociology (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017), by Daniel Chernilo (PDF and HTML with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
• Death of the PostHuman ("Essays on Extinction v1"; Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2014), by Claire Colebrook (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Human Dignity: Values and Justice, ed. by Miloslav Bednár (multiple formats at Google)
• The Place of the Person in Social Life, ed. by Paul Peachey, John Kromkowski, and George F. McLean (PDF at crvp.org)
• Speculative Anthropologie, vom Christlich-Philosophischen Standpuncte Dargestellt (in German; Munich: J. J. Lentner, 1870), by Karl Werner (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Praise of Copying, by Marcus Boon (PDF with commentary at Harvard)
• Person and Society, ed. by George F. McLean and Hugo Meynell (PDF at crvp.org)

• Elements of Spiritual Philosophy: Being an Exposition of Interior Principles, Written by Spirits of the Sixth Circle, R. P. Ambler, Medium (Springfield, MA: R. P. Ambler, 1852), by R. P. Ambler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Religion of the Future: or, Outlines of Spiritual Philosophy (Boston: Arena Publishing Company, 1894), by Samuel Weil (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Spirit in Crisis, by Henk Oosterink (HTML at theosophy-nw.org)

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