Biblehub contains a comprehensive set of scholarly tools for studying the Bible. Has anyone created a similar system for reading philosophical texts? I would greatly benefit from a similar rendering of Plato's Parmenides, but I would warmly welcome similar treatment of any source, either for classical or contemporary philosophical texts.
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I'm sure other people will have some good suggestions, but as a first baseline (which others might like to propose improvements on), might I suggest Project Gutenberg's philosophy eBook collection? gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/57– Paul RossCommented Dec 17, 2021 at 9:28
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3So far as I am aware there is no single site, however, there are ambitious projects ongoing. For ancient Greek and Roman texts, Perseus is a fabulous enterprise. For example, spend some time and find out the facilities at perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/….– Tankut BeyguCommented Dec 17, 2021 at 10:32
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1@PaulRoss Project Gutenberg is certainly a valuable source, but I meant more some kind of structured data, using advantages of hypertext in an essential way.– მამუკა ჯიბლაძეCommented Dec 17, 2021 at 12:57
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@TankutBeygu I should certainly mention Perseus, thanks! For example, it gives possibility to translate words on the spot. Do you know if it can provide search for parallel places or things like that? In general, I think an answer describing at least some of the possibilities that Perseus provides would be very useful.– მამუკა ჯიბლაძეCommented Dec 17, 2021 at 12:59
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Deus Magnus Est ~ Nomen nescio.– HudjefaCommented May 23, 2023 at 11:14
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For Kant in German, there is the whole Akademie-Ausgabe, including a full-text search of all 23 volumes.
For a lot of texts, but philosophically mostly the ancient originals, there's Perseus
For a broad variety of texts, see Gutenberg Project.
A word of caution if reading anything for free in translation, though: these translations are almost certainly 75+ years old. This means they equally certainly do not meet contemporary scholarly standards. If you want an academically sound translation, you won't get around the newest translations, which will be comprehensive editions published by Cambridge or Oxford University Press in the case of translations into English most of the times, regardless of the author.
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Most of classical Chinese philosophy (both pre-imperial -- pre-Qin, Han -- and imperial) is available at The Chinese Text Project
an online open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world. The site attempts to make use of the digital medium to explore new ways of interacting with these texts that are not possible in print. With over thirty thousand titles and more than five billion characters, the Chinese Text Project is also the largest database of pre-modern Chinese texts in existence.
Many of the classical Ru (Confucian) texts, like the Analects, Mengzi, Xunzi, and the main Daoist texts, the Laozi, Zhuangzi, and Liezi, are available in bilingual formats (mostly using the old, nineteenth century Legge translations, though). All texts are also searchable and there are some other research tools available.
