Philosophy/Bibliography

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Most influential works of philosophy

Ancient philosophy

• Plato. Apology
• Plato. Meno
• Plato. Euthyphro
• Plato. Phaedo
• Plato. The Republic
• Plato. The Symposium
• Aristotle. Metaphysics
• Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics

Medieval philosophy

• Augustine. Confessions
• Anslem. Proslogion
• Aquinas, Thomas. Summa Theologica

Early modern philosophy

• Bacon, Francis. Novum Organum
• Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan
• Descartes, Rene. Discourse on Method
• Descartes, Rene. Meditations on First Philosophy.
• Spinoza, Baruch. Ethics
• Leibniz, Gottfried. Monadology
• Locke, John. Second Treatise of Government
• Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
• Berkeley, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
• Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
• Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
• Hume, David. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The Social Contract
• Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason
• Kant, Immanuel. Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics
• Kant, Immanuel. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
• Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Practical Reason
• Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Judgment
• Kant, Immanuel. Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone

Nineteenth century

• Hegel, Georg W. F. Phenomenology of Spirit
• Hegel, Georg W. F. Elements of the Philosophy of Right
• Schopenhauer, Arthur. The World as Will and Representation
• Kierkegaard, Søren. Either/Or
• Kierkegaard, Søren. Fear and Trembling
• Kierkegaard, Søren. Philosophical Fragments
• Kierkegaard, Søren. Concluding Unscientific Postscript
• Kierkegaard, Søren. The Sickness Unto Death
• Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The German Ideology
• Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto
• Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty
• Mill, John Stuart. Utilitarianism
• Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
• Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil
• Nietzsche, Friedrich. On the Genealogy of Morality
• Frege, Gottlob. Concept Notation
• Frege, Gottlob. On Sense and Reference
• Husserl, Edmund. Logical Investigations

Twentieth century

• James, William. Pragmatism
• Whitehead, Alfred North and Bertrand Russell. Principia Mathematica
• Russell, Bertrand. The Problems of Philosophy
• Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time
• Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
• Sartre, Jean-Paul. Being and Nothingness
• Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations

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