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Classical Philosophy
The Internet Classics Archive.
Hosted by MIT, this is a virtual library of classical philosophy
and literature.
Stoicism.
Good introductory article.
Epictetus'
Manual.
Marcus
Aurelius' Meditations
Epicurus and Epicurean
Philosophy. Contains works by Epicurus and a number of other
Hellenistic and Roman philosophers, plus a few modern
commentaries.
Twentieth Century
Ludwig
Wittgenstein. Good collection of biographical pieces,
quotations and Wittgenstein-related papers. Levinas.
Nice old fellow who turned the study of ethics on its head.
Camus.
Stranger and stranger ...
Postmodern
Thought - if that's not a contradiction in terms.
Political Philosophy
Works by Plato ...
The
Republic
The
Laws
The
Statesman
Aristotle's
Politics
Scholasticism.
Contains links to Aquinas and all those other wacky, wacky
guys.
Hobbes - LeviathanStrangely enough, after three
courses teaching Hobbes, I'm actually starting to enjoy
reading him!
Wollestonecraft's
"Vindication of the Rights of Woman". First real feminist
tract, and a great piece of writing.
Burke
Not bad for a Conservative, I suppose.
Mill's "On
Liberty"
The Marx and Engels
Archive Just about everything they wrote.
Resources on Antonio
Gramsci. Just so that you can drop the name into political
arguments.
Critiques of
Libertarianism Tears the libertarian right to shreds.
Cornelius
Castoriadis Comprehensive site on one of the foremost
non-Marxist Socialists.
The Noam Chomsky Archive
His politics, not his linguistics.
Hinduism and Buddhism
Indian
Philosophy. Nice introductory essay by Ron Turner (no
relation).
Tantrik
Texts. The best place to start for Hindu Tantra. Also contains
extensive links for Hinduism, Buddhism, Yoga etc.
The Yoga
Sutras of Patanjali.
The
Bhagavad Gita. Edwin Arnold's verse translation.
Buddhist
Studies WWW Virtual Library
Tricycle Hub. "Glossy"
Buddhist webzine - highly recommended.
Access to Insight.
Collection of Theravada Buddhist texts
The
Diamond Sutra
The Lotus
Sutra
Sufism and other Islamic Philosophy
Ibn Arabi Society. A
kind of Islamic Neo-Platonist, Ibn al Arabi is dense, but worth
reading carefully.
Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi. "Come, come, whoever
you are ..."
Rubaiyat
of Omar Khayyam.The Fitzgerald translation - not the most
accurate or esoteric, but damn fine poetry!
Sufi
Websites. Extensive list.
Al-Ghazzali's
The Alchemy of Happiness
Chinese Philosophy
Confucius
The I Ching
/ Yi Jing. Legge's translation.
Mencius
Sun
Tzu's The Art of War.
Han
Fei Tzu. Makes Macchiavelli look like a soggy liberal.
Lieh Tzu /
Lie Zi. Translated by Lionel Giles.
The Taoism
Information Page. General information, and a comprehensive
selection of Taoist texts, including links to translations of the
Tao Te
Ching / Dao De Jing.
Chad Hansen's Chinese
Philosophy Pages. Some interesting papers on Daoism as
philosophy of language and the "Asian values" controversy, plus
texts and links.
African, Afro-Carribean, Afro-American thought
African
Philosophy Resources.
Vodoun
Culture. Excellent site devoted to Haitian Vodoun (Voodoo).
Mambo Racine
Sans Bout. Another Voodoo page, with a good basic
introduction.
Mary Ann Clark. Essays
on Santeria, postmodernism, cyberspace and other subjects, and a
good set of links.
Philosophers' Home Pages
These days there are hundreds of homepages of philosophers on the web; this is just a small selection. For a more comprehensive list, see David Chalmers' People with online papers in philosophy.
David
Chalmers. Some good, and very readable papers, mainly on
philosophy of consciousness, plus some humorous articles.
David
Sobel. Some good papers on well-being and rationality.
Patricia Greenspan. Moral philosophy, especially with regard to
emotions. Has some good essays aimed at a general audience, as well
as more "academic" papers.
J.
Wesley Robbins. Interesting work relating philosophy of
religion and cognitive science, marred only by a truly horrendous
colour-scheme. That's what happens when people write webpages with
MS FrontPage!
Marvin Minsky.
Cognitive science, artificial intelligence etc..
John
Searle. Philosophy of mind (anti-)AI etc..
Delia
Graff. Philosophy of language (I like this woman - she writes
in LaTeX and has her papers in gzipped PostScript format, though
there are PDF versions for the proles as well).
Miscellaneous
The Stanford
Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
Live Journal
Philosophy Community
Lively debate with a mixture of academic and amateur philosophers.
Sacred Texts. An
encyclopaedic collection of religious, philosophical, scientific
and occult texts.
Bene
Gesserit sayings from "Museum Arrakeen" Many a true word said
in fiction...
Hyperdiscordia.
Mind-boggling Discordian site. fnord.
Philosophical
Humour. If you get all the jokes on this site, you're a real
philosopher.