Here’s a list of some of the best philosophy books of all time. Take a look and see what you think. If you think I have neglected to list some really good reads in Philosophy, please indicate that in the comments below. I would like your help in compiling the best philosophy books of all time!
Confessions by Saint Augustine
Summa Theologica by Saint Thomas Aquinas
Of Grammatology by Jacques Derria
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
Meditations by Renee Descartes
Das Kapital by Karl Marx
Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida
A Treatise on Human Nature by David Hume
Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard
Phenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Metaphysics by Aristotle
Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Symposium by Plato
Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault
An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
Being and Nothingness: An Essay in Phenomenological Ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Republic by Plato
Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza
Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
Poetics by Aristotle
Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
Pragmatism by William James
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
Poetry, Language, Thought by Martin Heidegger
Being and Truth by Martin Heidegger
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
Memory, History, Forgetting by Paul Riceour
Did I miss a book that should be on the list? If so, please say so in a comment below. I’d love to hear your feedback.
One Response to "Best Philosophy Books"
Even though it is not very popular, “The Discourses” by Machiavelli is a very interesting read. It shows a different side of Machiavelli, one who believes in the power of republics.