by Friedrich Nietzsche, R.J. Hollingdale (1883)
A poetic philosophical masterpiece in which the prophet Zarathustra descends from his mountain cave to preach the death of God, the arrival of the Übermensch, and the eternal return of all things.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Kaufmann
Nietzsche systematically tears down traditional Western metaphysics and dogmatic morality, laying the groundwork for existentialist thought, the will to power, and free spirits of the future.
Henry More
This is the first complete modern edition of Henry More's long philosophical poem, A Platonick Song of the Soul (1647). This early work of the Cambridge Platonist, written in Spenserian stanzas, is a sustained literary presentation of the Neoplatonic doctrine of the immateriality and immortality of the soul. Despite the occasional strenuousness of its poetic style, the Platonick Song offers a splendid baroque evocation of the extraordinary powers of the soul both in its individual microcosmic form and in its universal macrocosmic manifestation.
Lao Tzu, Stephen Mitchell
The eighty-one short poetic verses of the Tao Te Ching deliver the foundation of Taoist wisdom: living in harmony with the natural flow of the universe through simplicity, humility, and effortless action (wu wei).
Dong Daxi bian
The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. In the book, the prophet Almustafa who has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses many issues of life and the human condition. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.