50 PHILOSOPHY CLASSICS
Your shortcut to the most important ideas on being, truth, and meaning
Revised 2022 Edition
By Tom Butler-Bowdon
A stunning survey of the “king of disciplines,” 50 Philosophy Classics seeks to enlighten and explain, rather than merely instruct, highlighting a remarkable group of thinkers and their seminal works. This lively entry point to the field of philosophy analyses of ancient and modern philosophers to show how philosophy helped shape the events human history.
Below is the list of books covered in 50 Philosophy Classics.
- Revised Edition includes 7 new chapters, highlighted in green
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Table of Contents
1. Thomas AquinasSumma Theologica (1274)
2. Hannah ArendtThe Human Condition (1958)
3. AristotleNicomachean Ethics (4th century BC)
4. AJ AyerLanguage, Truth and Logic (1936)
5. Jean BaudrillardSimulacra and Simulation (1981)
6. Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex (1952)
7. Jeremy Bentham Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789)
8. Isaiah Berlin The Hedgehog and the Fox (1953)
9. David Bohm Wholeness and the Implicate Order (1980)
10. Judith ButlerGender Trouble (1990)
11. Noam ChomskyUnderstanding Power (2002)
12. CiceroOn Duties (44 BC)
13. ConfuciusAnalects (5th century BC)
14. Rene DescartesMeditations (1641)
15. Ralph Waldo Emerson Fate (1860)
16. EpicurusLetters (3rd century BC)
17. Michel Foucault The Order of Things (1966)
18. Harry FrankfurtOn Bullshit (2005)
19. GWFHegelPhenomenology of Spirit (1803)
20. Martin HeideggerBeing and Time (1927)
21. DavidHumeAn Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)
22. William JamesPragmatism (1904)
23. Immanuel KantCritique of Pure Reason (1781)
24. Søren Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling (1843)
25. Saul KripkeNaming and Necessity (1972)
26. Thomas Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)
27. Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizTheodicy (1710)
28.John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)
29.Marshall McLuhan The Medium is the Massage (1967)
30.Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince (1532)
31. Mary MidgleyThe Myths We Live By (2003)
32. John Stuart Mill On Liberty (1859)
33. Michel de Montaigne Essays (1580)
34. Iris MurdochThe Sovereignty of Good (1970)
35. Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
36. Blaise Pascal Pensees (1670)
37. Plotinus The Enneads (3rd century)
38. Plato The Republic (4th century BC)
39. Karl Popper The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934)
40. John Rawls A Theory of Justice(1971)
41. Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Social Contract (1762)
42. Bertrand Russell The Conquest of Happiness (1920)
43. Michael SandelThe Tyranny of Merit (2020)
44. Jean Paul Sartre Being and Nothingness (1943)
45. Arthur SchopenhauerThe World as Will and Representation (1818)
46. Peter SingerThe Life You Can Save (2009)
47. Peter SloterdijkYou Must Change Your Life (2013)
48. Baruch SpinozaEthics (1677)