The makers of Encyclopaedia Britannica bring you the Great Books of the Western World. Comprising 60 volumes containing 517 works written by 130 authors, these texts capture the major ideas, stories, and discoveries that shaped Western culture.

Journey through Harvard University president Charles Eliot’s “five-foot shelf” of classics. This collection, first published in the early 1900s, remains one of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthologies of all time. Making good on earlier claims that he could fit the elements of a liberal education on a five-foot shelf, Eliot gathered this collection of key works, together with English professor William Neilson—who selected editions and wrote introductions. The massive collection covers major literary figures, philosophers, theologians, folklore, and historical subjects through the end of the nineteenth century. Originally published as a 51-volume collection of classics, the rise of modernism prompted Dr. Eliot to create an additional 20-volume collection of fiction—“The Shelf of Fiction”—to supplement his first collection. These two collections come together to create The Harvard Classics and Fiction Collection (71 vols.). Among...

One of the most influential philosophers of the nineteenth century, John Stuart Mill wrote extensively about politics, economics, and society. He argued that it was humanity’s duty to consistently move forward, cultivating knowledge, individual freedom, and human well-being.

With the Classic Studies on Logic collection, you’ll get a wealth of information in five volumes on the art of reasoning. Learn how to distinguish between valid and invalid deductions. Critically reason through the arguments of others. Strengthen your skills in debate. More than just an academic exercise, studying logic will help you share and defend your beliefs.

Teach and train the next generation with this library of resources devoted to helping young people become better grounded in Scripture and the classics. Build on the foundation laid by those who came before using digital tools that enhance the great deposit of the past.

The makers of Encyclopædia Britannica bring you one of the Great Books of the Western World. This text captures major ideas, stories, and discoveries that helped shape Western culture.

Explore the origins of utilitarian philosophy with the works of John Stuart Mill, and grapple with modern scientific and political challenges to orthodoxy with the works of Thomas Caryle. The Harvard Classics Journey through “Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf.” This massive collection, designed to provide the elements of a liberal education, was compiled by distinguished Harvard University president Charles Eliot in the early 1900s. Packed with the essential works of the Western classical tradition, the Harvard Classics collection remains one of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthologies of all time—a must-have library for students and lovers of the classics. Check out the complete The Harvard Classics and Fiction Collection. Keep reading with Harvard Classics, vol. 26: Continental Drama. Contents Autobiography and Essay on Liberty, by John Stuart Mill Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh, and Essay on Scott, by Thomas Carlyle ...

This work details John Stuart Mill’s five principles of inductive reasoning. Mill masterfully introduces a psychological system of logic within a system of empiricist principles, presenting an outline for forming clear arguments.

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