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Philosophy

278 books

Must-Read 1945

A History of Western Philosophy

Bertrand Russell

Must-Read 1689

A Letter Concerning Toleration

John Locke

Must-Read 2008

A Secular Age

Charles Taylor

Must-Read 1971

A Theory of Justice

John Rawls

Must-Read 2014

A Thousand Plateaus

Gilles Deleuze

Must-Read 1739

A Treatise of Human Nature

David Hume

Must-Read 1981

After Virtue

Alasdair MacIntyre

Must-Read 1953

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

David Hume

Must-Read 1751

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

David Hume

Must-Read 1793

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

John Locke

Must-Read 1974

Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Robert Nozick

Must-Read 1999

Anti-Oedipus

Gilles Deleuze

Must-Read 1907

Apology

Plato

Must-Read 2010

Basic Writings

Martin Heidegger

Must-Read 1680

Behemoth

Thomas Hobbes

Must-Read 1962

Being and Time

Martin Heidegger

Must-Read 1961

Between Past and Future

Hannah Arendt

Must-Read 1955

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

Must-Read 1993

Bodies That Matter

Judith Butler

Must-Read 1960

Cartesian Meditations

Edmund Husserl

Must-Read 1938

Categories

Aristotle

Must-Read 1927

Charmides

Plato

Must-Read 1941

Concluding Unscientific Postscript

Søren Kierkegaard

Must-Read 1782

Confessions

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Must-Read 1962

Conjectures and Refutations

Karl Popper

Must-Read 2004

Critique of Dialectical Reason

Jean-Paul Sartre

Must-Read 2012

Critique of Judgment

Immanuel Kant

Must-Read 2012

Critique of Practical Reason

Immanuel Kant

Must-Read 2016

Critique of Pure Reason

Immanuel Kant

Must-Read 1907

Crito

Plato

Must-Read 1997

Daybreak

Friedrich Nietzsche

Must-Read 1949

De Cive

Thomas Hobbes

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De Officiis (On Duties)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Must-Read 1976

Dialectic of Enlightenment

Theodor W. Adorno

Must-Read 1779

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

David Hume

Must-Read 2004

Difference and Repetition

Gilles Deleuze

Must-Read 1975

Discipline and Punish

Michel Foucault

Must-Read 1902

Discourse on Metaphysics

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Must-Read 1999

Discourse on Method

René Descartes

Must-Read 1998

Discourse on the Method

René Descartes

Must-Read 2009

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Must-Read 1800

Discourses

Epictetus

Must-Read 1969

Ecce Homo

Friedrich Nietzsche

Must-Read 1963

Eichmann in Jerusalem

Hannah Arendt

Must-Read 1992

Either/Or

Søren Kierkegaard

Must-Read 2007

Émile, or On Education

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Must-Read 1600

Enchiridion

Epictetus

Must-Read 1963

Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences

G.W.F. Hegel

Must-Read 2005

Ethics

Baruch Spinoza

Must-Read 1948

Euthyphro

Plato

Must-Read 2007

Existentialism Is a Humanism

Jean-Paul Sartre

Must-Read 1941

Fear and Trembling

Søren Kierkegaard

Must-Read 1989

Gender Trouble

Judith Butler

Must-Read 1956

Genealogy of Morals

Friedrich Nietzsche

Must-Read 1942

Generation of Animals

Aristotle

Must-Read 2018

Gorgias

Plato

Must-Read 1964

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

Immanuel Kant

Must-Read 1476

History of Animals

Aristotle

Must-Read

History of Sexuality, Volume 1

Michel Foucault

Must-Read 2014

Human, All Too Human

Friedrich Nietzsche

Must-Read 1980

Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology

Edmund Husserl

Must-Read 1953

Introduction to Metaphysics

Martin Heidegger

Must-Read 1767

Ion

Plato

Must-Read 2015

Knowledge and Human Interests

Jürgen Habermas

Must-Read 1921

Laws

Plato

Must-Read 1995

Lectures on the Philosophy of History

G.W.F. Hegel

Must-Read 1969

Letters from a Stoic

Seneca

Must-Read 2001

Logical Investigations

Edmund Husserl

Must-Read 1888

Lysis

Plato

Must-Read 2001

Madness and Civilization

Michel Foucault

Must-Read 1982

Margins of Philosophy

Jacques Derrida

Must-Read 1929

Marriage and Morals

Bertrand Russell

Must-Read 1999

Meditations

René Descartes

Must-Read 1626

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

Must-Read 1999

Meditations on First Philosophy

René Descartes

Must-Read 1959

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Simone de Beauvoir

Must-Read 2014

Meno

Plato

Must-Read 1951

Minima Moralia

Theodor W. Adorno

Must-Read 2012

Monadology

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Must-Read 1979

Mortal Questions

Thomas Nagel

Must-Read 1955

Myth of Sisyphus

Albert Camus

Must-Read 1980

Naming and Necessity

Saul Kripke

Must-Read 1949

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre

Must-Read 2014

Negative Dialectics

Theodor W. Adorno

Must-Read 2008

New Essays on Human Understanding

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Must-Read 1558

Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle

Must-Read 1983

Nietzsche and Philosophy

Gilles Deleuze

Must-Read 2017

On Anger

Seneca

Must-Read 1869

On Being and Essence

Thomas Aquinas

Must-Read 1887

On Benefits

Seneca

Must-Read 1969

On Certainty

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Must-Read 1958

On Christian Doctrine

Augustine

Must-Read 1889

On Clemency

Seneca

Must-Read 1964

On Free Choice of the Will

Augustine

Must-Read 2004

On Interpretation

Aristotle

Must-Read 1956

On Revolution

Hannah Arendt

Must-Read 1977

On the Basis of Morality

Arthur Schopenhauer

Must-Read 1969

On the Genealogy of Morals

Friedrich Nietzsche

Must-Read 1910

On the Nature of Things

Lucretius

Must-Read 2005

On the Shortness of Life

Seneca

Must-Read 1935

On the Soul

Aristotle

Must-Read 2009

On What Matters

Derek Parfit

Must-Read 1998

Otherwise than Being

Emmanuel Levinas

Must-Read 1926

Our Knowledge of the External World

Bertrand Russell

Must-Read 1951

Parerga and Paralipomena

Arthur Schopenhauer

Must-Read 1939

Parmenides

Plato

Must-Read 1853

Parts of Animals

Aristotle

Must-Read 1989

Passions of the Soul

René Descartes

Must-Read 1670

Pensées

Blaise Pascal

Must-Read 1983

Perpetual Peace

Immanuel Kant

Must-Read 1888

Phaedrus

Plato

Must-Read 2011

Phenomenology of Perception

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Must-Read 2017

Philebus

Plato

Must-Read 1981

Philosophical Explanations

Robert Nozick

Must-Read 1936

Philosophical Fragments

Søren Kierkegaard

Must-Read 1958

Philosophical Investigations

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Must-Read 1991

Philosophy of Right

G.W.F. Hegel

Must-Read 1472

Physics

Aristotle

Must-Read 2001

Political Treatise

Baruch Spinoza

Must-Read 2014

Politics

Aristotle

Must-Read 1901

Posterior Analytics

Aristotle

Must-Read 1907

Pragmatism

William James

Must-Read 1910

Principia Mathematica

Bertrand Russell

Must-Read 2008

Principles of Philosophy

René Descartes

Must-Read 1890

Principles of Psychology

William James

Must-Read 1964

Prior Analytics

Aristotle

Must-Read 1900

Problems of Philosophy

Bertrand Russell

Must-Read 2021

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

Immanuel Kant

Must-Read 1888

Protagoras

Plato

Must-Read 1851

Provincial Letters

Blaise Pascal

Must-Read 1984

Reasons and Persons

Derek Parfit

Must-Read 2009

Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason

Immanuel Kant

Must-Read 1964

Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Must-Read 2007

Repetition

Søren Kierkegaard

Must-Read 2013

Republic

Plato

Must-Read 1783

Reveries of the Solitary Walker

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Must-Read 1515

Rhetoric

Aristotle

Must-Read 1961

Rules for the Direction of the Mind

René Descartes

Must-Read 2010

Science of Logic

G.W.F. Hegel

Must-Read 1693

Some Thoughts Concerning Education

John Locke

Must-Read 1867

Sophist

Plato

Must-Read 1989

Sources of the Self

Charles Taylor

Must-Read 1994

Specters of Marx

Jacques Derrida

Must-Read 2015

Statesman

Plato

Must-Read 1908

Symposium

Plato

Must-Read 1969

The Antichrist

Friedrich Nietzsche

Must-Read 1972

The Archaeology of Knowledge

Michel Foucault

Must-Read 2012

The Birth of the Clinic

Michel Foucault

Must-Read 1956

The Birth of Tragedy

Friedrich Nietzsche

Must-Read 1964

The Blue and Brown Books

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Must-Read

The City of God

Augustine of Hippo

Must-Read 1964

The Consolation of Philosophy

Boethius

Must-Read 1970

The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology

Edmund Husserl

Must-Read 1962

The Ethics of Ambiguity

Simone de Beauvoir

Must-Read 2001

The Gay Science

Friedrich Nietzsche

Must-Read 1999

The Law of Peoples

John Rawls

Must-Read 1935

The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Karl Popper

Must-Read 1759

The Natural History of Religion

David Hume

Must-Read 2012

The Order of Things

Michel Foucault

Must-Read 2004

The Plague

Albert Camus

Must-Read 1956

The Poverty of Historicism

Karl Popper

Must-Read 1977

The Question Concerning Technology

Martin Heidegger

Must-Read 1953

The Rebel

Albert Camus

Must-Read 1963

The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir

Must-Read 1954

The Sickness Unto Death

Søren Kierkegaard

Must-Read 1980

The Stranger

Albert Camus

Must-Read 1989

The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere

Jürgen Habermas

Must-Read 1985

The Theory of Communicative Action

Jürgen Habermas

Must-Read 1817

The Varieties of Religious Experience

William James

Must-Read 2008

The Visible and the Invisible

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Must-Read 1897

The Will to Believe

William James

Must-Read 1966

The World as Will and Representation

Arthur Schopenhauer

Must-Read 2014

Theaetetus

Plato

Must-Read 1951

Theodicy

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Must-Read 2001

Theological-Political Treatise

Baruch Spinoza

Must-Read 2021

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche

Must-Read 2018

Timaeus

Plato

Must-Read 1992

Totality and Infinity

Emmanuel Levinas

Must-Read 1921

Tractatus Logico Philosophicus

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Must-Read 1921

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Must-Read 1969

Twilight of the Idols

Friedrich Nietzsche

Must-Read 2004

Undoing Gender

Judith Butler

Must-Read 1863

Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill

Must-Read 1988

Whose Justice? Which Rationality?

Alasdair MacIntyre

Must-Read 1927

Why I Am Not a Christian

Bertrand Russell

Must-Read 1962

Works of Love

Søren Kierkegaard

Must-Read 1978

Writing and Difference

Jacques Derrida

Recommended 1710

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

George Berkeley

Recommended 2024

A Voice from the South

Anna Julia Cooper

Recommended 1933

Adventures of Ideas

Alfred North Whitehead

Recommended 1975

Animal Liberation

Peter Singer

Recommended 1965

Being and Nothingness

Jean-Paul Sartre

Recommended 1989

Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

Richard Rorty

Recommended 2007

Cosmopolitanism

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Recommended 2011

Creating Capabilities

Martha Nussbaum

Recommended 1911

Creative Evolution

Henri Bergson

Recommended 2006

Critical Mass

Philip Ball

Recommended 2002

Democracy and Social Ethics

Jane Addams

Recommended 1980

Desire in Language

Julia Kristeva

Recommended 2008

Eclipse of Reason

Max Horkheimer

Recommended 1955

Eros and Civilization

Herbert Marcuse

Recommended 2006

Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy

Bernard Williams

Recommended 1953

From a Logical Point of View

Willard Van Orman Quine

Recommended 1952

Gravity and Grace

Simone Weil

Recommended 1711

Hayy ibn Yaqzan

Ibn Tufail

Recommended 2011

Illuminations

Walter Benjamin

Recommended 2002

Intention

Elizabeth Anscombe

Recommended 2009

Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

Michael Sandel

Recommended 1960

Language, Truth and Logic

A.J. Ayer

Recommended 2016

Letter to Menoeceus

Epicurus

Recommended 1982

Liberalism and the Limits of Justice

Michael Sandel

Recommended 1959

Matter and Memory

Henri Bergson

Recommended 1947

Meaning and Necessity

Rudolf Carnap

Recommended 1961

Meditations on Quixote

José Ortega y Gasset

Recommended 1968

Metaphysics

Aristotle

Recommended 2012

Mind and Cosmos

Thomas Nagel

Recommended 1998

Mind, Language and Society

John Searle

Recommended 2017

Modern Moral Philosophy

Elizabeth Anscombe

Recommended 1929

Monologion

Anselm of Canterbury

Recommended 2001

Natural Goodness

Philippa Foot

Recommended 2016

Necropolitics

Achille Mbembe

Recommended 2001

On the Postcolony

Achille Mbembe

Recommended 1963

One-Dimensional Man

Herbert Marcuse

Recommended 1992

Oneself as Another

Paul Ricoeur

Recommended 1907

Phaedo

Plato

Recommended 1998

Phenomenology of Spirit

G.W.F. Hegel

Recommended 1993

Philosophical Works

George Berkeley

Recommended 1955

Philosophical Writings of Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce

Recommended 1979

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

Richard Rorty

Recommended 1971

Philosophy of Existence

Karl Jaspers

Recommended 1984

Powers of Horror

Julia Kristeva

Recommended 1990

Practical Ethics

Peter Singer

Recommended 2016

Principal Doctrines

Epicurus

Recommended 2018

Principia Ethica

G.E. Moore

Recommended 1929

Process and Reality

Alfred North Whitehead

Recommended 1903

Proslogion

Anselm of Canterbury

Recommended 2014

Psychopolitics

Byung-Chul Han

Recommended 1993

Race Matters

Cornel West

Recommended 1981

Reason, Truth and History

Hilary Putnam

Recommended 1925

Science and the Modern World

Alfred North Whitehead

Recommended 1985

Speculum of the Other Woman

Luce Irigaray

Recommended 1969

Speech Acts

John Searle

Recommended 1989

The American Evasion of Philosophy

Cornel West

Recommended 1999

The Arcades Project

Walter Benjamin

Recommended 2015

The Burnout Society

Byung-Chul Han

Recommended 2002

The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy

Hilary Putnam

Recommended

The Construction of Social Reality

John Searle

Recommended 1952

The Enneads

Plotinus

Recommended 1981

The Expanding Circle

Peter Singer

Recommended 1986

The Fragility of Goodness

Martha Nussbaum

Recommended 1993

The Journey of the Mind to God

Bonaventure

Recommended 2018

The Lies That Bind

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Recommended 1967

The Logical Structure of the World

Rudolf Carnap

Recommended 1971

The Need for Roots

Simone Weil

Recommended 1953

The Origin and Goal of History

Karl Jaspers

Recommended 1964

The Poetics of Space

Gaston Bachelard

Recommended 1992

The Production of Space

Henri Lefebvre

Recommended 1964

The Psychoanalysis of Fire

Gaston Bachelard

Recommended 2023

The Public and Its Problems

John Dewey

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Recommended 2021

The Revolt of the Masses

José Ortega y Gasset

Recommended 1967

The Sovereignty of Good

Iris Murdoch

Recommended 2015

The Transparency Society

Byung-Chul Han

Recommended 2018

The Two Sources of Morality and Religion

Henri Bergson

Recommended 1986

The View from Nowhere

Thomas Nagel

Recommended 2001

The Virtuous City

Al-Farabi

Recommended 2005

Theses on the Philosophy of History

Walter Benjamin

Recommended 1985

This Sex Which Is Not One

Luce Irigaray

Recommended 1713

Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous

George Berkeley

Recommended 1889

Time and Free Will

Henri Bergson

Recommended 1985

Time and Narrative

Paul Ricoeur

Recommended 2002

Truth and Truthfulness

Bernard Williams

Recommended 2005

Unto This Last

John Ruskin

Recommended 2001

Upheavals of Thought

Martha Nussbaum

Recommended 1964

Vatican Sayings

Epicurus

Recommended 2002

Virtues and Vices

Philippa Foot

Recommended 1973

Waiting for God

Simone Weil

Recommended 1987

What Does It All Mean?

Thomas Nagel

Recommended 1960

Word and Object

Willard Van Orman Quine