philosophy online

conchubhar1

What websites, documents , pdfs etc would people recommend that are legally free, good and easily availible to view or download from the internet.

Thank ''you'' very much.

This is for ''me'' personally and would like to compile a list for everyone.

Joe1919

Stanford encyclopaedia of philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/

Internet encyclopaedia of philosophy http://www.iep.utm.edu/

Philosophy Now Magazine http://www.philosophynow.org/

http://www.marxists.org/

http://www.archive.org/index.php

http://gutenberg.net/

http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/

http://www.sparknotes.com/

Dont forget GoogleBooks (and learn how to clear your cookies/ reset ISP when you exceed your viewing limit)

Dont forget WIKI which often has good links to sources.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

One comment I would like to make is that some of these 'free' sources (e.g. translations of Plato, Aristotle) contain translations that are very old and the English is old and difficult ..
Hence, it can be well worth buying a book with a recent translation.

conchubhar1

nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thank you very very very much

on the english - my english will be good eneough and if not i have a dictionary built into my laptop that has a thesauras and eytmology etc. ideal for this - plus the internet

how do i do those google books tricks? thanks.

Joe1919

I not doubting your English. Its just that I wanted to read Plato's Republic once and I found the online translations which were written by Jowett in the 1800s difficult. (A bit like reading shakespear). It was well worth paying the 3 euro for a recent translation. It made all the difference as these texts can be very difficult in the first place.I found the same on many other occasions.

Anthow, I recommend downloading another browser such as Apple Safari for Google Books and going to setting/security/show cookies/remove all.. to clear cookies and this will allow you to read extra pages. However, you may also sometimes need to reset your ISP and in my case, this can be done by turning off and back on the router. Sometimes pages that are unavailable may be found later to be available.
However, there will be certain pages that wont be available no matter what you do.
Google Books seem to only allow you to read less than 20% normally but using this method, I can usaully read about 70% +.

conchubhar1

ah not bother - i studied a bit of shakespeare

i am poor and cheap student (boo hoo) but ye i cant afford or be arsed to pay for them as i am just doing this out of interest

well i am in safari now! handy!

i will use that trick - and i will definitely use that trick in college i will use the two networks and that trick
might be able to avoid buying a few extra books to just use for sources and an extra opinion


thanks very very much - much appreciated.

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ah i have that jowett translation from - http://classics.mit.edu//Plato/republic.html
it is by jowett anywhoo

Ostrom

Check this out: http://academicearth.org/courses/introduction-to-political-philosophy

Great approach, but painful pacing

conchubhar1

thanks - great link

maulk

efla wrote: »

Check this out: http://academicearth.org/courses/introduction-to-political-philosophy

Great approach, but painful pacing

Thanks for the link