Reading list · 12 titles
Philosophy: The Foundations
Plato to Nietzsche in the original texts.
The books that every philosophy course starts with, in public-domain translations. Plato's Republic and the Apology, Aristotle's Ethics, Descartes's Meditations, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Kant's Critique, Mill on liberty and Nietzsche at his most quotable. Read a chapter at a time; these reward slow reading.
Public DomainFeaturedEbookThe Republic
Plato
Public DomainEbookApology
Plato
Public DomainEbookThe Ethics of Aristotle
Aristotle
Public DomainEbookDiscourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences
René Descartes
Public DomainEbookLeviathan
Thomas Hobbes
Public DomainEbookAn Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1: MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2
John Locke
Public DomainEbookAn Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume
Public DomainEbookThe Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
Public DomainEbookOn Liberty
John Stuart Mill
Public DomainFeaturedEbookBeyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Public DomainFeaturedEbookThus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Public DomainEbookThe Problems of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
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