Philosophy Reading List
Parmenides, On Nature
Plato, Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium,Theaetetus
Aristotle, Categories, Posterior Analytics I.1-6, 18, 34-5; II.1-2, 8-11, 19, Physics I-III.3, On the Soul,
Metaphysics I-IX, XII, Nicomachean Ethics
Epictetus, Discourses I-II
Plotinus, Enneads (selection by A.H. Armstrong, 1953)
Augustine, Confessions, City of God VIII and XIX
Pseudo-Dionysius, Mystical Theology, The Divine Names
Anslem, Monologion, Proslogion
Avicenna, The Metaphysics of "The Healing" (trans. M. Marmura), I.1-7, V, VIII.3-7
Averroes, The Incoherence of the Incoherence (trans. S. Van Den Bergh), 4th, 5th and 13th Discussions
Maimonides, Guide of the Perplexed, Introduction to First Part, I.50-II.31, III.8-24
Bonaventure, The Itinerary of the Mind into God, The Reduction of the Arts to Theology
Aquinas, Summa Theologiae I.1-13, 75-89, I-II.1-5, 90-97, De ente et essentia
Duns Scotus, Ordinatio I, dist.2, qu.1: I, dist.3, qu.1; II, dist.3,part 1, qu.1-6
William of Ockham, Ordinatio I, dist.2, qu.4-8, Questions on the Physics I, qu. 132-36, and Quodlibet I, qu.1
Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, Discourse on Method
Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics, Monadology
Locke, Essay Covering Human Understanding (Intro.; Bk. 1, ch. 1; Bk. 2, ch. 1-13, 19-27, 31-33, Bk. 3, ch. 1-3; Bk. 4, ch. 1-4, 9-11, 18-19)
Hume, An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Rousseau, First Discourse: Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts
Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, Critique of Pure Reason
Hegel, Philosophy of Spirit (Part 3 of the Encyclopedia of Philosophic Sciences)
Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling, Concluding Unscientific Postscript
Mill, Utilitarianism, On Liberty, The Subjection of Women
Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals, Thus Spake Zarathustra
Bergson, An Introduction to Metaphysics
Husserl, Ideas I, section 2: "The Fundamental Phemomenological Outlook," "Philosophy and the Crisis of European Humanity" (Vienna Lecture, in the appendix to Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology)
Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Philosophical Investigations
Heidegger, Being and Time, "What is Metaphysics?" "The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking" |