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We do not always look for a work, a text, or a passage in the same way. Browse by work as you would in a traditional library, travel through time, follow a semantic concept, or go straight to a precise excerpt. This Library exists to support practice and deeper study by bringing old texts into contact with daily experience and present questions.

Works
305
Authors
94
Passages
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259
Private works
46
Private records
56
Private excerpts
20,006
Text representations
223,819
Editions and translations
849
Languages
17
Works in French and English
259
Multilingual works
259
Tracked concepts
9
Estimated sentences
1,456,557
Words
27,541,029

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Photorealistic editorial illustration of Academica in the Prokopton42.com Library AcademicaCicero

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Academica

In the surviving fragments of the Academica, Cicero stages the conflict between dogmatic certainty and sceptical inquiry. He asks what criterion can identify a true impression and how action remains possible when secure knowledge is disputed.

What you will learn
Composition
45 BCE
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
Latin · English · French
Extent
69 passages · 215,055 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding in the Prokopton42.com Library An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke

Work

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

The Essay examines the origin and composition of ideas, personal identity, and the limits of knowledge.

What you will learn
Composition
1689-1700; revised lifetime editions
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
English · French
Extent
1,114 passages · 257,071 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of On Providence in the Prokopton42.com Library On ProvidenceSeneca

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On Providence

Seneca answers Lucilius’ question why good people suffer misfortune if providence governs the world. Trial, training, and the distinction between moral goods and external circumstances compose his Stoic response.

What you will learn
Composition
50s or early 60s CE
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
Latin · English · French
Extent
6 passages · 7,167 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of On Tranquillity of Mind in the Prokopton42.com Library On Tranquillity of MindSeneca

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On Tranquillity of Mind

Serenus describes an instability making him alternate among ambition, simplicity, engagement, and retreat. Seneca’s reply seeks practical steadiness: choose fitting work, limit agitation, and retain flexibility able to face reversals.

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Composition
c. 55-62 CE
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
Latin · English · French
Extent
17 passages · 13,372 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Politics in the Prokopton42.com Library PoliticsAristotle

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Politics

Politics proceeds through distinctions, objections, and causal inquiry. The surviving text has the density of a school treatise, not a transcribed conversation.

What you will learn
Composition
work attested c. 335-323 BCE; earlier layers possible
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent
189 passages · 98,973 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Summa Theologiae in the Prokopton42.com Library Summa TheologiaeThomas Aquinas

Work

Summa Theologiae

An architecture of questions in which objections, sed contra, respondeo and replies remain distinct down to citation level.

What you will learn
Composition
c. 1265-1273; unfinished
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
Latin · English · French
Extent
23,323 passages · 2,151,409 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of The Essays in the Prokopton42.com Library The EssaysMichel de Montaigne

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The Essays

The Essays test a changing life against customs, books, and the body. Montaigne revises his judgment instead of hiding its contradictions.

What you will learn
Composition
1580-1592; authorial layers, posthumous 1595 edition
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
French · English
Extent
106 passages · 458,785 words
Photorealistic editorial illustration of Tusculan Disputations in the Prokopton42.com Library Tusculan DisputationsCicero

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Tusculan Disputations

In five debates held at Tusculum, Cicero examines fear of death, pain, grief, passions, and the sufficiency of virtue. Philosophy becomes argumentative therapy against judgements that enslave the mind.

What you will learn
Composition
45 BCE
Editions / translations
Dates to be documented
Languages
Latin · English · French
Extent
475 passages · 182,021 words

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