No, I'm not dead. Neither am I incapacitated, unmotivated, or otherwise incapable of blogging. The simple reason for my absence is this: I used to blog during downtime at work. I was promoted in February, and now I have no downtime at work. I want to keep blogging on a regular basis, but I just haven't quite figured out how to do it. To prove my sincerity in this matter, I offer this, an actual post.
Most of you are aware that the unsettling web hegemon known as Google has a
Books section wherein the Google masters want to digitize as many books known to man as possible. For practical purposes many of these books are largely worthless, since most are copyrighted and you can only view a few pages. But many of the books have copyrights that have expired (I assume), so Google offers them for free viewing and as downloadable PDFs. The majority of these are older books from previous centuries, and this means that many classic philosophical and theological works are there for the taking. Here I offer downloadable links to some of these that I recently found while browsing through Google Books. Just click and save:
- Augustine, Seventeen Short Treatises of St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo
- Augustine, The City of God, vol. II
- Timothy Dwight, Theology: Explained and Defended, in a Series of Sermons
- A. H. Strong, Systematic Theology
- George Fox, The Works of George Fox
- The Church of England, The Book of Common Prayer (1815)
- John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy
- Spinoza, The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza
- Aristotle, The Organon, or Logical Treatises, of Aristotle
- Aristotle, Aristotle on His Predecessors, Being the First Book of His Metaphysics
- Aristotle, William David Ross, John Alexander Smith, The Works of Aristotle
- Kant, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
- William James, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
- William James, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
- Herbert Spencer, Essays, Scientific, Political, and Speculative
- Berkeley, A New Theory of Vision and Other Select Philosophical Writings
- Hume, Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, vol. II
- Hume, The Philosophical Works of David Hume
- Hume, Philosophical Works, Part II
- Locke, The Works of John Locke, vol. VIII
- Thomas Reid, An Inquiry Into the Human Mind: On the Principles of Common Sense
