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This is a list of the most famous philosophical and religious texts.
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Ancient Egyptian religion
text | introduction | link |
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𓂋𓏤𓈒𓈒𓈒𓏌𓏤𓉐𓂋𓏏𓂻𓅓𓉔𓂋𓅱𓇳𓏤
rw n(y)w prt m hrw(w) |
English https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Papyrus_of_Ani |
Ancient Greek religion
text | introduction | link |
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Οδύσσεια
Odýsseia |
The Odyssey recounts the return home of the hero Ulysses after the Trojan War, written by Homer. | multiple languages https://el.wikisource.org/wiki/%CE%9F%CE%B4%CF%8D%CF%83%CF%83%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1 |
Ἰλιάς
Iliás |
The poem describes the events of the tenth and final year of the siege of Troy by the Greeks, written by Homer. | multiple languages https://el.wikisource.org/wiki/%CE%99%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%AC%CF%82 |
Θεογονία
Theogoníā |
A poem by Hesiod that describes the origin of the gods of Greek mythology as they were born and formed in human perception, following the first observations with the Earth (Gaia), the rivers, the vast sea, the shining stars and the vast sky above from everything. | multiple languages https://el.wikisource.org/wiki/%CE%98%CE%B5%CE%BF%CE%B3%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%AF%CE%B1 |
Ancient Iranian religion
text | introduction | link |
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شاهنامه
Šāhnāme |
Persian, Arabic, English https://fa.wikisource.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%87 |
Ancient Mesopotamian religion
text | introduction | link |
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(Epic of Gilgamesh) | Epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia, regarded as the earliest surviving notable literature. It is a collection of legends and includes, among others, the famous myth of the Sumerian Flood. | Hebrew, English, Portuguese https://he.wikisource.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%98%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94:%D7%A2%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%92%D7%9C%D7%92%D7%9E%D7%A9 |
Ancient Roman religion
text | introduction | link |
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Metamorphoseon libri | multiple languages https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Metamorphoses_(Ovidius) | |
Fasti | Latin https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Fasti |
Aztec religion
text | introduction | link |
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Chilám Balám |
English https://www.holybooks.com/book-chilam-balam-chumayel/ | |
Popol Vuh | Spanish, Russian https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Popol_Vuh |
Baháʼí Faith
text | introduction | link |
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الكتاب الأقدس
al-Kitāb al-Aqdas |
English https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/kitab-i-aqdas/ |
Buddhism
text | introduction | link |
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वज्रच्छेदिकाप्रज्ञापारमितासूत्र
Vajracchedikāprajñāpāramitāsūtra |
multiple languages https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Vajracchedik%C4%81_Praj%C3%B1%C4%81p%C4%81ramit%C4%81_S%C5%ABtra
Tibetan https://tibetan.works/etext/reader.php?collection=kangyur&index=18 | |
प्रज्ञापारमिताहृदय
Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya |
multiple languages https://sa.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9E%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%AF |
Chinese Folk Religion
text | introduction | link |
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山海經
Shǎn Hǎi Jīng |
Chinese https://ctext.org/shan-hai-jing | |
拾遺記
Shí Yí Jì |
Chinese https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E6%8B%BE%E9%81%BA%E8%A8%98 | |
封神演義
Fēng Shén Yǎnyì |
Chinese https://ctext.org/fengshen-yanyi | |
西遊記
Xī Yóu Jì |
Chinese https://ctext.org/xiyouji |
Chinese Legalism
text | introduction | link |
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韓非子
Hánfēi Zǐ |
Chinese https://ctext.org/hanfeizi | |
商君書
Shāng Jūn Shū |
Chinese, English https://ctext.org/shang-jun-shu | |
申不害
Shēn Búhài |
Chinese, English https://ctext.org/shen-bu-hai | |
慎子
Shèn Zǐ |
Chinese https://ctext.org/shenzi |
Chinese Syncretism
link | introduction | text |
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呂氏春秋
Lǚshì Chūnqīu |
Chinese https://ctext.org/lv-shi-chun-qiu | |
淮南子
Huáinán Zǐ |
Chinese https://ctext.org/huainanzi |
Christianity
text | introduction | link |
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ביבליה
Biblia |
multiple languages https://www.bible.com/languages
multiple languages https://christos-c.com/bible/ English, Chinese https://bible.org/article/net-bible-download |
Daoism
text | introduction | link |
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道德經
Dàodé Jīng |
Chinese, English https://ctext.org/dao-de-jing | |
莊子
Zhuāng Zǐ |
Chinese, English https://ctext.org/zhuangzi | |
列子
Liè Zǐ |
Chinese https://ctext.org/liezi |
Empiricism
text | introduction | link |
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | The view that all concepts originate in experience, all concepts are about or applicable to things that can be experienced, or that all rationally acceptable beliefs or propositions are justifiable or knowable only through experience. This definition accords with the derivation of the term empiricism from the ancient Greek word empeiria, “experience.” Written by Thomas Aquinas. | English, French https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Essay_Concerning_Human_Understanding |
A Treatise of Human Nature | The Treatise is a classic statement of philosophical empiricism, scepticism, and naturalism. Hume defends a sentimentalist account of morality, arguing that ethics is based on sentiment and the passions rather than reason, and famously declaring that "reason is, and ought only to be the slave to the passions". | English, French https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Treatise_of_Human_Nature |
Epicureanism
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Κύριαι Δόξαι
Kūriai Dóxai |
The basic principles of Epicurus philosophy | Greek, French https://el.wikisource.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CF%8D%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%B9_%CE%94%CF%8C%CE%BE%CE%B1%CE%B9 |
Hinduism
text | introduction | link |
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रामायण
Rāmāyaṇa |
Sanskrit, Engish https://readramayana.org/ | |
महाभारतम्
Mahābhāratam |
multiple languages https://sa.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D | |
पुराण
Purāṇa |
Sanskrit https://sa.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A3%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D |
Islam
text | introduction | link |
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القرآن
al-Qurʾān |
multiple languages https://github.com/mirfatif/NoorUlHuda
multiple languages https://mp3quran.net/ multiple languages https://quran.com/ multiple languages http://qurandownload.com/ Arabic, English https://corpus.quran.com/ |
text | introduction | link |
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صحيح البخاري
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī |
Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, English https://sunnah.com/bukhari | |
صحيح مسلم
Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim |
Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, English https://sunnah.com/muslim | |
جامع الترمذي
Jamiʽ at-Tirmidhi |
Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, English https://sunnah.com/tirmidhi | |
سنن أبي داود
Sunan Abī Dāwūd |
Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, English https://sunnah.com/abudawud | |
السنن الصغرى
al-Sunan al-Ṣughrā |
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سُنن ابن ماجه
Sunan Ibn Mājah |
text | introduction | link |
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ٱلْكَافِي
al-Kāfī |
Arabic, English https://www.hubeali.com/online-books/online-english-books/ | |
مَنْ لَا يَحْضُرُه ٱلْفَقِيه
Man lā Yaḥḍuruhu al-Faqīh |
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تَهْذِيب ٱلَأَحْكَام فِي شَرْح ٱلْمُقْنِعَه
Tahdhib al-Ahkam fi Sharh al-Muqni'ah |
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ٱلِٱسْتِبْصَار فِيمَا ٱخْتَلَف مِن ٱلْأَخْبَار
al-Istibsar fi-ma ikhtalafa min al-Akhbar |
text | introduction | link |
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الجامع الصحيح
al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaḥīḥ |
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ترتيب المسند
Tartib al-Musnad |
Jainism
text | introduction | link |
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षट्खण्डागम
Ṣaṭkhaṅḍāgama |
Judaism
text | introduction | link |
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תָּנָ״ךְ
Tānāḵ |
Hebrew, English https://www.sefaria.org/texts/Tanakh
Hebrew https://mechon-mamre.org/i/t/t0.htm English https://jps.org/download-the-tanakh-1917-translation/ English https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0.htm English https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/63255/jewish/The-Bible-with-Rashi.htm | |
תַּלְמוּד
Talmūḏ |
Hebrew, English https://www.sefaria.org/texts/Talmud |
Kantianism
text | introduction | link |
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Critik der reinen Vernunft | multiple languages https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Critik_der_reinen_Vernunft_(1781) |
Machiavellianism
text | introduction | link |
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Il Principe | multiple languages https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Il_Principe |
Mohism
text | introduction | link |
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墨子
Mò Zǐ |
Chinese, English https://ctext.org/mozi |
Old Norse religion
text | introduction | link |
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Sæmundar Edda | multiple languages https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poetic_Edda | |
Snorra Edda | multiple languages https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prose_Edda | |
Der Nibelunge liet | English https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7321/7321-h/7321-h.htm | |
Beowulf | English, French https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beowulf |
Peripatetic school (of Aristotle)
text | introduction | link |
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Μεταφυσικά
Metàphusiká |
The work of Aristotle, the first scientific research on the first principles and causes (causality) from which different beings derive their essential existence. It is the first metaphysical book in history. | multiple languages https://el.wikisource.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%B5%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%86%CF%85%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AC |
Πολιτικά
Politiká |
Aristotle's treatise on the science of political life. The subject is approached from the point of view of the city-state, considering that it is the one that contributes to the most fulfilled life of the citizen. | multiple languages https://el.wikisource.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%B9%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AC |
Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια
Ēthika Nikomacheia |
It is one of three treatises that primarily analyze the forms and conditions of Aristotle's moral and intellectual virtue. | multiple languages https://el.wikisource.org/wiki/%CE%97%CE%B8%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AC_%CE%9D%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%AC%CF%87%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1 |
Κατηγορίαι
Katēgoriai |
Aristotle starts from the various abstract concepts - such as the color green, the concept tenderness, the concept low, slow, taste, and multiple - and tries to impose an order. He considers that each concept can be subordinated to a superior and thus arrives at the ten fundamental concepts which they call CATEGORIES | multiple languages https://el.wikisource.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B7%CE%B3%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%B1%CE%B9 |
Platoism
text | introduction | link |
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Φαίδων
Phaidōn (Platon) |
dialogues relating to the trial and execution of Socrates. | multiple languages https://el.wikisource.org/wiki/%CE%A6%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%B4%CF%89%CE%BD |
Renaissance humanism
text | introduction | link |
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Moriae encomium | multiple languages https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Moriae_encomium | |
Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia | multiple languages https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Utopia | |
Ruism
text | introduction | link |
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論語
Lún Yǔ |
Chinese, English https://ctext.org/analects | |
孟子
Mèng Zǐ |
Chinese, English https://ctext.org/mengzi | |
荀子
Xún Zǐ |
Chinese https://ctext.org/xunzi |
text | introduction | link |
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春秋穀梁傳
Chūnqiū Gǔliáng Zhuàn |
Chinese https://ctext.org/guliang-zhuan |
Scholasticism
text | introduction | link |
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Summa Theologiae
(Summary of Theology of Thomas Aquinas) |
Reasoning for almost all points of Christian theology in the West, topics of the Summa follow the following cycle: God. Creation, Man, Man's purpose, Christ, the Sacraments, and back to God. | Latin, English, Spanish https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Summa_Theologiae |
School of Diplomacy
text | introduction | link |
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鬼谷子
Guǐ Gǔ Zǐ |
Chinese https://ctext.org/gui-gu-zi | |
戰國策
Zhàn Guó Cè |
Chinese https://ctext.org/zhan-guo-ce |
School of Names
text | introduction | link |
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公孫龍子
Gōngsūn Lóng Zǐ |
Chinese https://ctext.org/gongsunlongzi |
School of Military
text | introduction | link |
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孫子兵法
Sūn Zǐ Bīng Fǎ |
Chinese, English https://ctext.org/art-of-war | |
吳子
Wú Zǐ |
Chinese, English https://ctext.org/wu-zi |
Shintō
text | introduction | link |
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古事記
Kojiki |
multiple languages https://ja.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%8F%A4%E4%BA%8B%E8%A8%98 | |
日本書紀
Nihon Shoki |
multiple languages https://ja.wikisource.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E6%9B%B8%E7%B4%80 |
Sikhism
text | introduction | link |
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ਗੁਰੂ ਗਰੰਥ ਸਾਹਿਬ
Guru Granth Sahib |
Panjabi, English https://www.sikhnet.com/Siri-Guru-Granth-Sahib#tab-read |
Stoicism
text | introduction | link |
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Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν
Ta eis heauton |
Personal notes by Marc Aurele, written in Greek, addressed to himself and his ideas on Stoical philosophy. | Greek, English https://el.wikisource.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%B1_%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%82_%CE%B5%CE%B1%CF%85%CF%84%CF%8C%CE%BD |
Zoroastrianism
text | introduction | link |
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اوستا
Avesta |