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Philosophy Reading List
Parmenides | On Nature |
Plato | Republic Apology Crito Phaedo Symposium Theaetetus |
Aristotle | Categories Posterior Analytics I.1–6, 18, 33–4; II.1–2, 8–11, 19 Physics I–III.3 On the Soul Metaphysics I–IX, XII Nicomachean Ethics |
Epictetus | Discourses I–II |
Plotinus | Enneads (selection by A. H. Armstrong, 1953) |
Augustine | Confessions City of God VIII and XIX |
Pseudo-Dionysius | Mystical Theology The Divine Names |
Anselm | Monologion Proslogion |
Avicenna | The Metaphysics of “The Healing” (trans. M. Marmura), I.1–7, V, VIII.3–7 |
Averroës | The Incoherence of the Incoherence (trans. S. Van Den Bergh), 4th, 5th, and 13th Discussions |
Maimonides | Guide of the Perplexed, Introduction to First Part, I.50–II.31, III.8–24 |
Bonaventure |
The Itinerary of the Mind into God |
Aquinas | Summa theologiae I.1–13, 75–89, I–II.1–5, 90–97 De ente et essentia |
Duns Scotus | Ordinatio I, dist. 2, qu. 1; I, dist. 3, qu. 1; II, dist. 3, part 1, qu. 1–6 |
William of Ockham | Ordinatio I, dist. 2, qu. 4–8 Questions on the Physics I, qu. 132–36, and Quodlibet I, qu. 1 |
Descartes | Meditations on First Philosophy Discourse on Method |
Leibniz | Discourse on Metaphysics Monadology |
Locke | Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Intro.; Bk. 1, ch. 1; Bk. 2, ch. 1–13, 19–27, 31–33; Bk. 3, ch. 1–3; Bk. 4, ch. 1–4, 9–11, 18–19) |
Hume | An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion |
Rousseau | First Discourse: Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts |
Kant | Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals Critique of Pure Reason |
Hegel | Philosophy of Spirit (Part 3 of the Encyclopedia of Philosophic Sciences) |
Kierkegaard | Fear and Trembling Concluding Unscientific Postscript |
Mill | Utilitarianism On Liberty The Subjection of Women |
Nietzsche | Genealogy of Morals Thus Spake Zarathustra |
Bergson | An Introduction to Metaphysics |
Husserl | Ideas I, section 2: “The Fundamental Phenomenological Outlook” “Philosophy and the Crisis of European Humanity” (Vienna Lecture, in the appendix to Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology) |
Wittgenstein | Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Philosophical Investigations |
Heidegger | Being and Time “What is Metaphysics?” “The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking” |
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