The 20 Greatest Philosophy Books
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I found a book called 'The Twenty Greatest Philosophy Books' recently, and I thought it could be improved. So I made my own list of the twenty greatest philosophy books.
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Plato's Republic: https://www.cambridge.org/us/universi...
Aristotle's Metaphysics: https://hackettpublishing.com/metaphy...
Tao Te Ching and The Analects (in 'The Four Chinese Classics'): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...
Augustine's Confessions: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...
Aquinas' Summa Theologica (hard to find in an affordable edition, so here's an online link): https://www.newadvent.org/summa/
Ibn Rushd's The Incoherence of the Incoherence (unsure of the best translation, but here's one on Internet Archive): https://archive.org/details/the-incoh...
Descartes' Meditations: https://www.hackettpublishing.com/med...
Hobbes' Leviathan: https://hackettpublishing.com/leviathan
Hume's Enquiry: https://hackettpublishing.com/an-enqu...
Spinoza's Ethics: https://hackettpublishing.com/ethics
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/...
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/...
Mill's Utilitarianism: https://hackettpublishing.com/utilita...
Marx's Capital (vol 1): https://press.princeton.edu/books/har...
Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra: https://www.cambridge.org/highereduca...
Frege's Foundations of Arithmetic: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780...
de Beauvoir's The Second Sex: https://archive.org/details/secondsex...
Heidegger's Being and Time: https://www.harpercollins.com/product...
Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Philosoph...