Western

A collection of primary and secondary materials in Western philosophy from antiquity through the 21st century. This collection includes materials by and about major philosophers, such as Plato, Descartes, Marx, and Nietzsche, as well as materials about major Western themes such as metaphysics and ontology.

Sub-headings:

Classic Greek and Roman

Documents by and about major figures such as Plato, Aristotle, and St. Augustine, as well as information about general philosophical movements from antiquity.

Modern

Materials either from or about the Enlightenment through the 19th century.

Twentieth Century

This collection includes documents either by or about major twentieth century figures such as Freud, Sartre, Heidegger, Russell, and Derrida. The thematic material that is covered includes psychoanalysis, existentialism, deconstruction, post-structuralism, and postmodernism.

Resources in this category:

Aesthetics On-Line: American Society for Aesthetics/British Society of Aesthetics
http://aesthetics-online.org/

"The American Society for Aesthetics was founded in 1942 to promote study, research, discussion, and publication in aesthetics." The aim of the British Society of Aesthetics, founded in 1960, "is to promote study, research and discussion of the fine arts and related types of experience from a philosophical, psychological, sociological, scientific, historical, critical and educational standpoint." The contents include "articles about philosophy and the arts, information about aesthetics events worldwide, and links to other arts, philosophy and aesthetics-related resources on the internet (including the aesthetics email list)." There are also book lists, news, and a direct link to the journal site.

Aristotle et al.: Readings for Philosophers and Catholics
http://www2.nd.edu/Departments//Maritain/aristotl.htm

A dense selection of documents about Aristotle, Scholasticism, Medieval Philosophy, and Catholic Philosophy provided by the Jacques Maritain Center at the University of Notre Dame.

Augustine of Hippo
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/augustine.html

This site created by J.J. O'Donnell, Augustine scholar and Provost of Georgetown University, offers an extensive collection of materials on the life and work of Augustine of Hippo. These include a fine introduction, Latin texts, translations of "Confessions," "On Christian Doctrine," excerpts from "City of God," links to many other complete texts, an array of commentaries and other secondary scholarly materials, a collection of images, and a large bibliography of primary and secondary materials. This is a very well-maintained site.

The Cry: existentialism, art, poetry, discussion, surrealism, nietzsche
http://www.thecry.com/

This site contains: "existentialism, sources, philosophers, texts, community and everything related to this movement, angst art, theater, and some music too."

eserver.org: philosophy
http://philosophy.eserver.org/

A collection containing canonical philosophical texts and links to scholarly philosophic organizations. Includes complete electronic versions of texts by Aristotle, Bacon, Berkely, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Leibniz, Marx and Engels, Mill, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Pascal, Plato, and Rousseau.

History of Philosophy
http://www.friesian.com/history.htm

A large collection of online essays and web resources. Essay topics include Camus, institutional suicide of Chinese Buddhism, and Ayn Rand. The encyclopedia of web resources covers the following areas of Western philosophy: Ancient Greek, Hellenistic, Late Antiquity, Mediaeval, and Modern. The encyclopedia covers the following areas of Eastern Philosophy: Indian, Chinese, and Buddhist.

Institute for Learning Technologies: Digital Text Projects
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/digitext.html

Developed by Columbia University, this site is an excellent resource for complete electronic texts. Included are Rousseau's "Emile;" Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics;" Dewey's "Democracy and Education;" Locke's "Of the Conduct of the Understanding" and "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding;" Machiavelli's "The Prince;" Plato's "Meno," "Crito," "Protagoras," "Phaedrus," "Gorgias," "Ion," "Symposium," "Phaedo," and "Republic;" and the John Dryden version of Virgil's "Aeneid."

Internet Medieval Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook2.html#thought2

A large selection of full text sources from the Medieval period. The "Medieval Thought" subheading contains texts by Boethius, Anselm, Peter Abelard, Thomas Aquinas, and John Duns Scotus. The site also offers texts by Augustine, Machiavelli, Luther, Calvin, St. John of the Cross, and St. Teresa of Avila. There is also a large literature collection.

Marxist Philosophy Archive
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/index.h...

This site contains an archive of texts by authors that were either strict Marxists or thinkers whose ideas influenced the Marxist tradition. The archive emphasizes texts by Marx, Engels, and Hegel.

Origins
http://www.origins.org/

"Features scholarly and popular resources concerning intelligent design and philosophical theism." Topics include intelligent design; creationism; theism; atheism; and Darwinism & evolution.

Philosophy of Religion
http://www.philosophyofreligion.info/

Discussions on all topics in the philosophy of religion divided into four sections: Arguments for the Existence of God, Arguments for Atheism, Christian Ethics, and a Directory

Philosophy Since the Enlightenment
http://www.philosopher.org.uk/index.htm

This site provides brief summaries of many important figures and movements in Western philosophy since the Enlightenment.

The Pragmatism Cybrary
http://www.pragmatism.org/

This site contains an introduction to Pragmatism, biographical and bibliographical information about famous Pragmatists, a list of publishers of books about Pragmatism, and links to other sites on Pragmatism.

Thomas Instituut te Utrecht: Thomas Aquinas
http://www.thomasinstituut.org/thomasinstituut/scripts/index...

A large selection of texts by Thomas Aquinas. Most texts are either in the original Latin or translated into English. A few French translations are available.

Western Philosophers
http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48546

This IPL pathfinder provides sources that assist people seeking information about notable western philosophers. This document contains print and Internet resources recommended as starting points.

William James
http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/james.html

This site devoted to William James is an excellent resource for both beginning students and scholars. It contains the full text of Jame's "The Principles of Psychology," "The Will to Believe," and "On the Varieties of Religious Experience." It also contains various essays, excerpts, letters, and reviews by William James. A chronology, biography, photographs, essays about James, and various teaching materials are also available.