Philosophy
The questions that won't leave you alone. Plato to Butler.
50 essential works
Republic
Plato
380 BCE · Greece
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Symposium
Plato
385 BCE · Greece
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Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle
340 BCE · Greece
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Metaphysics
Aristotle
350 BCE · Greece
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
180 · Roman Empire
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Letters from a Stoic
Seneca
65 · Roman Empire
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Tao Te Ching
Laozi
400 BCE · China
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Zhuangzi
Zhuangzi
300 BCE · China
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The Analects
Confucius
475 BCE · China
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The Dhammapada
Traditional (attributed to the Buddha)
300 BCE · India
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Shōbōgenzō
Eihei Dōgen
1253 · Japan
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Bhagavad Gita
Traditional (attributed to Vyasa)
200 BCE · India
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Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes
1641 · France
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Ethics
Baruch Spinoza
1677 · Netherlands
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume
1748 · Scotland
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Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
1781 · Germany
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Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Immanuel Kant
1785 · Germany
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Phenomenology of Spirit
G.W.F. Hegel
1807 · Germany
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The World as Will and Representation
Arthur Schopenhauer
1818 · Germany
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Either/Or
Søren Kierkegaard
1843 · Denmark
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Fear and Trembling
Søren Kierkegaard
1843 · Denmark
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The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
1848 · Germany
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On the Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche
1887 · Germany
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
1885 · Germany/Switzerland
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Pragmatism
William James
1907 · United States
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1921 · Austria
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Philosophical Investigations
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1953 · Austria/England
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Being and Time
Martin Heidegger
1927 · Germany
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Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre
1943 · France
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The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
1949 · France
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The Human Condition
Hannah Arendt
1958 · United States/Germany
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Discipline and Punish
Michel Foucault
1975 · France
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The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1
Michel Foucault
1976 · France
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A Theory of Justice
John Rawls
1971 · United States
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After Virtue
Alasdair MacIntyre
1981 · United States/Scotland
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Writing and Difference
Jacques Derrida
1967 · France/Algeria
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Reasons and Persons
Derek Parfit
1984 · England
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Gender Trouble
Judith Butler
1990 · United States
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The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
1961 · Martinique/Algeria
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The Muqaddimah
Ibn Khaldun
1377 · Tunisia
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The Guide for the Perplexed
Moses Maimonides
1190 · Egypt/Spain
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Summa Theologiae
Thomas Aquinas
1274 · Italy
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Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
1651 · England
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Two Treatises of Government
John Locke
1689 · England
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On Liberty
John Stuart Mill
1859 · England
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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Shunryu Suzuki
1970 · United States/Japan
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I and Thou
Martin Buber
1923 · Austria/Israel
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The Ethics of Ambiguity
Simone de Beauvoir
1947 · France
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The Six Perfections
Dale S. Wright
2009 · USA
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Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism
Dale S. Wright
1998 · USA
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