Philosophy M.A. Reading List

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Author	Work
Parmenides	On Nature
Plato	Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium
Aristotle	Categories 1-5, 10-14, Physics I-II, On the Soul I, II.1-7, 12, III.1-8, Nicomachean Ethics, Metaphysics I, VII, IX, XII
Augustine	Confessions
Aquinas	Summa Theologiae I.1-13, 75-89, I-II.90-97, De ente et essentia
Descartes	Meditations on First Philosophy, Discourse on Method
Leibniz	Discourse on Metaphysics
Locke	An 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 Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Rousseau	First Discourse: Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts
Kant	Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals
Hegel	Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit
Kierkegaard	Fear and Trembling
Mill	Utilitarianism
Nietzsche	Genealogy of Morals
Bergson	An Introduction to Metaphysics
Wittgenstein	Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Heidegger	"What is Metaphysics?", "The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking"

Author

Work

Parmenides

On Nature

Plato

Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium

Aristotle

Categories 1-5, 10-14, Physics I-II, On the Soul I, II.1-7, 12, III.1-8, Nicomachean Ethics, Metaphysics I, VII, IX, XII

Augustine

Confessions

Aquinas

Summa Theologiae I.1-13, 75-89, I-II.90-97, De ente et essentia

Descartes

Meditations on First Philosophy, Discourse on Method

Leibniz

Discourse on Metaphysics

Locke

An 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 Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Rousseau

First Discourse: Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts

Kant

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals

Hegel

Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit

Kierkegaard

Fear and Trembling

Mill

Utilitarianism

Nietzsche

Genealogy of Morals

Bergson

An Introduction to Metaphysics

Wittgenstein

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Heidegger

"What is Metaphysics?", "The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking"

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