[open-humanities] Help needed finding electronic editions of public domain philosophy texts

Fri Feb 3 16:48:04 UTC 2012

Here are a few ideas. I've only ever read translations of the following.
Since I can't read the original languages, I'm sure somebody else can
better hunt down original language editions of these texts. (While I'm on
the topic, I'd like to throw in a vote for including public domain
translations when possible.) Most of these ideas are brushing the surface
of significant traditions -- many more authors could be added to each of
those (especially Christian and Chinese philosophy).

   - Diogenes Laertius' *Lives of Philosophers*
   - Some pre-Socratics: Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Heraclitus
   - Stoics: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca
   - Epicureans: Epicurus and Lucretius
   - A few significant Christian philosophers: Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa,
   William of Ockham, Martin Luther
   - Ancient Chinese philosophers: Confucius, Mencius, Mozi, Laozi,
   Zhuangzi, Xun Zi
   - Sigmund Freud

David

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Sam Leon <sam.leon at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> If you have limited time and it would be easier to send me ideas, then do
> that.
>
> If you've got time, then just add direct to the spreadsheet. Look forward
> to seeing your preferred thinkers in there!
>
> S
>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:32 PM, David Clark <david.dave.clark at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Would you like us to add directly to the Google Doc? Or to send ideas to
>> you (or someone else), who will the add to the spreadsheet what you
>> consider most appropriate to the project?
>>
>> David
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Sam Leon <sam.leon at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>>>  Dear all,
>>>
>>> I'm currently putting together a list of digital plain text editions of
>>> *well-know philosophical texts* that will be the initial material to be
>>> featured on Open Philosophy<http://jonathangray.org/2011/11/04/ideas-for-openphilosophy-org/>[1], the first instance of TEXTUS [2] a platform that will enable users to
>>> work with, share and collaboratively annotate collections of public domain
>>> texts.
>>>
>>> It would be a great help if I could have other people's input on this.
>>> Currently we're working on a Google spreadsheet that can be found here<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ams8fpz2_77XdHNMeVB4SGsxMi1nQUFneHFKX2l4T2c>
>>>  [3].
>>>
>>> If you have a moment and you're interested in helping, we need people to:
>>>
>>> (a) Add new (public domain) philosophy texts they think should be
>>> featured there with links to digital editions (eg from Wikisource<http://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page>or Project
>>> Gutenberg <http://www.gutenberg.org/>);
>>> (b) Unpack the URLs for the Wikisource entries for the authors into the
>>> texts themselves.
>>>
>>> At the moment, we're focussing on *texts in their original language *and
>>> trying to get *plain text *versions from Project Gutenberg or
>>> Wikisource rather than page scans found on the Internet Archive.
>>>
>>> If any of this is unclear to anyone who wants to get involved just give
>>> me a shout and we can chat on Skype or clarify things via email.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Sam
>>>
>>> [1] http://jonathangray.org/2011/11/04/ideas-for-openphilosophy-org/
>>> [2] TEXTUS project webpage: http://textusproject.org TEXTUS project
>>> Wiki: http://wiki.okfn.org/Projects/Textus
>>> [3]
>>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ams8fpz2_77XdHNMeVB4SGsxMi1nQUFneHFKX2l4T2c&pli=1#gid=0
>>>
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>>>
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