This document provides recommendations for survey texts, primary sources, and books to develop a strong foundation in the history of philosophy. It lists 25 influential primary works from Plato to Heidegger, as well as survey texts by Durant, Russell, and Goldstein to provide philosophical context and perspective. Additional recommendations include works by Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and others.
This document provides recommendations for survey texts, primary sources, and books to develop a strong foundation in the history of philosophy. It lists 25 influential primary works from Plato to Heidegger, as well as survey texts by Durant, Russell, and Goldstein to provide philosophical context and perspective. Additional recommendations include works by Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and others.
This document provides recommendations for survey texts, primary sources, and books to develop a strong foundation in the history of philosophy. It lists 25 influential primary works from Plato to Heidegger, as well as survey texts by Durant, Russell, and Goldstein to provide philosophical context and perspective. Additional recommendations include works by Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and others.
2. A History of Western Philosophy, Russell 3. Plato at the Googleplex, Goldstein
My primary source recommendations:
1. Republic, Plato 2. Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle 3. The Prince, Machiavelli 4. Complete Essays, Bacon 5. Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes 6. Leviathan, Hobbes 7. Theological-Political Treatise, Spinoza 8. Pensées, Pascal 9. Ethics, Spinoza 10. Second Treatise of Government, Locke 11. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke 12. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Berkeley 13. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume 14. The Social Contract, Rousseau 15. Candide, Voltaire 16. Critique of Pure Reason, Kant 17. Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel 18. The World as Will and Presentation, Schopenhauer 19. Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Hegel 20. Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard 21. The Communist Manifesto, Marx 22. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1, Marx 23. Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche 24. On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche 25. Being and Time, Heidegger 26. Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein