Lists of Bests: Philosophy: 100 Essential Books — From the Pre-Socratics to Peter Sloterdijk http://www.listsofbests.com/list/43035 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:24:08 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1385765 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1385765"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0192824546.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robin Waterfield</div> The Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro; The Apology; Crito; Phaedo (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307938 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307938"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044582X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plato</div> The Symposium (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52414 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52414"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449272.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plato</div> The Republic (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3334 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3334"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449140.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plato</div> Theatetus (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1865826 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1865826"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140444505.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39751823_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plato</div> Categories and De Interpretatione (Clarendon Aristotle Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/261651 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/261651"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0198720866.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056424922_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> Physics: Books I and II (Clarendon Aristotle Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1010084 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1010084"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0198720262.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> Metaphysics (Clarendon Aristotle Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1567642 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1567642"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0198239475.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> Poetics (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3311 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3311"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140446362.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> De Anima: Books II and III (With Passages From Book I) (Clarendon Aristotle Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2961369 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2961369"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/010NRH8X67L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> The Nicomachean Ethics (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/147406 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/147406"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449493.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> The Enneads: Abridged Edition (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673853 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673853"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044520X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plotinus</div> Selected Works (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53702 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53702"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140440992.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcus Tullius Cicero</div> The Nature of Things (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2836984 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2836984"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01tPtH53M9L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Trans. Alicia Stallings Lucretius</div> The Consolation of Philosophy: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3321 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3321"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140447806.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ancius Boethius</div> The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia (HPC Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1386039 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1386039"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0872202410.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V61464182_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Epicurus</div> Confessions, Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/404559 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/404559"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039512.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Augustine of Hippo</div> City of God (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/463296 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/463296"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140448942.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Augustine of Hippo</div> Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/73175 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/73175"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192825259.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anselm of Canterbury</div> Aquinas: Selected Writings (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3208 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3208"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140436324.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Aquinas</div> Philosophical Writings: A Selection http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26776 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26776"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0872200183.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1115586980_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Duns Scotus John</div> Philosophical Writings: A Selection http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2961358 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2961358"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/0143QgGUmdL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William of Ockham</div> Francis Bacon: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/415158 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/415158"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192840819.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Francis Bacon</div> The Prince (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/504174 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/504174"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/019280426X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Niccolo Machiavelli</div> Discourse on Method and Related Writings (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/447540 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/447540"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140446990.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rene Descartes</div> Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15242 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15242"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521558182.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V37850533_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rene Descartes</div> Pensees and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/380109 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/380109"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192836552.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Blaise Pascal</div> La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2961388 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2961388"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01KAFFJ4SAL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julien Offray de La Mettrie</div> Malebranche: Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2961381 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2961381"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01XoFNfgfeL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nicolas Malebranche</div> New Science (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/298884 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/298884"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140435697.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V65732449_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Giambattista Vico</div> Ethics (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88532 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88532"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140435719.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Benedict de Spinoza</div> Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3308 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3308"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140446044.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44812349_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michel de Montaigne</div> Leviathan (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3163 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3163"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140431950.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39861507_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Hobbes</div> The Social Contract and Discourses http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2949011 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2949011"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11pielH-y1L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean-Jacques Rousseau</div> The Second Treatise on Civil Government (Great Books in Philosophy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27126 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27126"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0879753374.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056503987_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Locke</div> Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26778 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26778"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0872201325.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz</div> The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/172312 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/172312"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0520088174.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isaac Newton</div> Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/167811 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/167811"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521626951.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Immanuel Kant</div> Philosophical Dictionary (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107616 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107616"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044257X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Francois Voltaire</div> Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Phil (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/108311 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/108311"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140432930.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056421237_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Berkeley</div> Critique of Practical Reason (Hackett Classics Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1511602 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1511602"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0872206181.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056502542_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Immanuel Kant</div> J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/87967 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/87967"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521379172.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Stuart Mill</div> Critique of Judgment (Hackett Publishing) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2961851 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2961851"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01HJ4MXATBL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Immanuel Kant</div> A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Mor (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2283264 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2283264"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140432442.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Hume</div> An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002526 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1002526"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140434828.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056421260_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Locke</div> Critique of Pure Reason http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38818 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38818"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0872202577.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Immanuel Kant</div> The Principles of Morals and Legislation (Great Books in Philosophy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/412665 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/412665"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0879754346.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V61536910_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeremy Bentham</div> Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature of Human Freedom http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/337584 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/337584"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/087548025X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1068085407_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling</div> Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/798059 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/798059"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3423306718.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Schopenhauer</div> Hegel: Elements of the Philosophy of Right (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/674069 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/674069"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521348889.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel</div>