362 marcel sarot, michael scott, and maarten wisse
Natural Religion, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and many
others. Especially interesting is the collection of eighteenth-century reviews of
Hume’s work, and of early commentaries on his writings. All texts can easily be
printed, and may freely be distributed for classroom purposes.
The single most comprehensive web page with links to classic philosophical
texts (and scientific and literary texts as well) is The Internet Public Library Online
Texts Collection (http:\\www.ipl.org\reading\books\) edited by Joseph Janes and
hosted by the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Here, one finds
links to thousands of texts made available by, e.g., the Gutenberg Project
in the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (http:\\ccel.wheaton.edu\). The IPL
library can be browsed by Dewey category, so it is easy to search on specific
subjects. Available e-texts include the full text of the Dominican translation of
Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae, numerous works by Aristotle, Augustine, Berkeley,
Calvin, Darwin, Descartes, Diderot, Kant, Plato, Russell and many others. It covers
over 20,000 titles. One comes across texts in Latin, English, French and German,
but texts in less common languages (e.g., Italian and Swedish) are also available.
One can search for authors and titles, but, unfortunately, there is no possibility to
search the texts themselves. For a philosopher’s second-best choice for a virtual
library we suggest ATHENA (http:\\un2sg4.unige.ch\athena\html\athome.html),
edited by Pierre Perroud (Geneva, Switzerland). ATHENA is currently one of the
most comprehensive web sites on textual resources in general; it covers almost
10,000 texts, of which many are not referenced by IPL (e.g., texts by Cyprian of
Carthago and John Duns Scotus). This site is especially strong in French texts and
translations.
Even after checking both ATHENA and IPL, one cannot be certain that a certain
text is not somewhere online. Important texts may be found elsewhere. For
example, Anselm’s Proslogion and Monologion are both available on CCEL (in
English); and though both IPL and ATHENA include links to CCEL, they fail to
mention Anselm. A third major virtual public library that is worth checking is The
On-line Books Page (http:\\digital.library.upenn.edu\books\serial-criteria.html)
edited by John Mark Ockerbloom at Carnegie Mellon University. This page
concentrates on texts in the English language only. It covers a large selection of
books (approximately 10,000, including Anselm) and has links to other sites,
though these have been less carefully compiled. For those especially interested in
Latin and Greek texts, Greek and Latin Classics Texts: A Library of Congress Internet
Resource Page (http:\\lcweb.loc.gov\global\classics\clastexts.html) is the best
starting point. It lists many texts that are unavailable in either IPL or ATHENA, in
both Greek and Latin and English translations. The Latin Library at Ad Fontes
Academy (http:\\patriot.net\"lillard\cp\latlib) should also be mentioned,
because it contains numerous Latin texts that are not linked by other sites, such
as De Trinitate Dei by Augustine and a Latin edition of the Summa of Thomas