What's New

In this update, I fixed a bug that sometimes prevented Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan and Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments from opening.

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App Description

Includes offline full texts of:
Aristotle: Metaphysics, Nichomachean Ethics, Politics, Rhetoric, Poetics

Buddha: Siddhartha

Confucius: Analects, Mencius, The Doctrine of the Mean, The Great Learning

Rene Descartes: Discourse on the Method, Meditations, Principles of Philosophy

Ludwig Feuerbach: The Essence of Christianity

Gaunilo of Marmoutiers: On Behalf of the Fool

Georg Hegel: Phenomenology Of Spirit, Philosophy of Right, Science of Logic

Thomas Hobbes: Behemoth, Leviathan

David Hume: Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, A Treatise of Human Nature, Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

William James: The Will to Believe

Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, Prolegomena To Any Future Metaphysics, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, Critique of Practical Reason

Soren Kierkegaard: Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, Stages on Life's Way, The Concept of Dread

Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching

John Locke: Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Second Treatise of Government, Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince

Karl Marx: A Criticism of the Hegelian Philosophy of Right, Das Kapital, The Communist Manifesto, Wage, Labor, and Capital

John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women

Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil, The Birth of Tragedy, Human, All Too Human, The Antichrist, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Plato: Alcibiades, Charmides, Cratylus, Critias, Crito, Euthydemus, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Ion, Laches, Laws, Lesser Hippias, Lysis, Menexenus, Meno, Parmenides, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Philebus, Protagoras, Sophist, Statesman, Symposium, Thaetetus, The Apology, The Republic, Timaeus

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract

Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

St. Anselm of Canterbury: Proslogion, Apologetic

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus Logico Philosophicus

iPhone Screenshots

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iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • June 07, 2014 Initial release
  • May 09, 2015 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
  • May 11, 2015 Price increase: $1.99 -> $2.99
  • August 21, 2015 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $1.99
  • September 05, 2015 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
  • December 24, 2015 Price increase: $0.99 -> $2.99
  • March 08, 2016 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $0.99
  • March 09, 2016 Price increase: $0.99 -> $2.99
  • November 06, 2016 Price increase: $2.99 -> $4.99
  • June 14, 2019 New version 7.0
  • June 14, 2019 Price increase: $4.99 -> $9.99
  • June 16, 2019 Price increase: $4.99 -> $9.99

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