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Perlle's "Philosophy Texts"

This list contains works of important philosophy texts throughout time. The list is not in any real order; it is also not exhaustive or comprehensive. Rather, it is a list of well-respected philosophy texts with a few fun books thrown in. I have also included some of the lesser known female philosophers.

1.
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Works of Plato
by Plato
 
2. Aristotle's Poetics
by Stephen Halliwell
 
3. On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura) (Philosophical Classics)
by Titus Lucretius Carus
 
4. Enchiridion (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Epictetus
 
5. The Spiritual Teachings of Marcus Aurelius
by Mark Forstater
 
6. The Enneads: Abridged Edition (Penguin Classics)
by Plotinus
 
7.
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The Writings of Christine De Pizan
by de Pisan Christine
 
8. Augustine of Hippo
by Peter Robert Lamont Brown
 
9. Boethius (Great Medieval Thinkers)
by John Marenbon
 
10. The Guide for the Perplexed
by Moses Maimonides
 
11. The Incoherence of the Philosophers (Islamic Translation Series)
by Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali
 
12. Aquinas: Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)
by Thomas Aquinas
 
13. Machiavelli's The Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli
 
14. Francis Bacon: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
by Francis Bacon
 
15. Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings
by René Descartes
 
16. Spinoza: Complete Works
by Benedictus de Spinoza
 
17. Leviathan
by Thomas Hobbes
 
18. The Selected Political Writings of John Locke (Norton Critical Editions)
by Paul E. Sigmund
 
19. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (The Clarendon Edition of the Works of David Hume)
by David Hume
 
20. Basic Writings of Kant (Modern Library Classics)
by Immanuel Kant
 
21. The Essential Kierkegaard
by Soren Kierkegaard
 
22. The Ethics Of Ambiguity
by Simone de Beauvoir
 
23. Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings
by Jean-Paul Sartre
 
24. Selected Writings
by Karl Marx
 
25. The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, the Subjection of Women and Utilitarianism (Modern Library Classics)
by John Stuart Mill
 
26. A Nietzsche Reader (Penguin Classics)
by Friedrich Nietzsche
 
27. Pragmatism and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)
by William James
 
28. Being and Time
by Martin Heidegger
 
29. Emile: Or, On Education
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
 
30. We the Living
by Ayn Rand
 
31. Phenomenology of Spirit (Galaxy Books)
by G. W. F. Hegel
 
32. Essays On Woman (Collected Works of Edith Stein)
by Edith Stein
 
33. How We Think
by John Dewey
 
34. Gravity and Grace
by Simone Weil
 
35. The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
by Albert Camus
 
36. The Essential Foucault
by Michel Foucault
 
37. Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy
by Christopher Phillips
 
38. Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness (Shambhala Library)
by Sharon Salzberg
 
39. The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer  
40. On Bullshit: sobre la manipulacion de la verdad
by Harry G. Frankfurt
 
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Created by Perlle on Apr 22, 2006.