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- Aquinas, Thomas – Summa Theologiae
- Arendt, Hannah – The Origins of Totalitarianism
- Aristotle – Collected Works
- Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics
- Aristotle – Physics
- Aristotle – Politics
- Aristotle – The Categories
- Aurelius, Marcus – Meditations
- Ayer, Alfred – Language, Truth and Logic
- Bacon, Sir Francis – Novum Organum
- Benjamin, Walter – “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
- Bentham, Jeremy – An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
- Berkeley, George – Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
- Berlin, Isaiah – Concepts and Categories
- Berlin, Isaiah – “Two Concepts of Liberty”
- Boethius – Consolation of Philosophy
- Burke, Edmund – On the Sublime and Beautiful
- Camus, Albert – The Stranger
- Carroll, Lewis – Symbolic Logic
- Carroll, Lewis – The Game of Logic
- Confucius – The Analects
- Confucius – The Great Learning
- Derrida, Jacques – “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences”
- Descartes, Rene – Discourse on the Method
- Dewey, John – Democracy & Education
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor – Brothers Karamazov
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment
- Eliot, Charles – The Harvard Classics (51 Volumes)
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo – Essays
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo – The Complete Works
- Foucault, Michel – Die Ordnung des Diskurses
- Gramsci, Antonio – Selected Writings
- Hegel, GWF – Lectures on the History of Philosophy
- Hegel, GWF – Philosophy of Mind
- Hegel, GWF – Philosophy of Right
- Hegel, GWF – The Phenomenology of the Spirit
- Heidegger, Martin – Various Works Translated into English
- Hobbes, Thomas – Leviathan
- Hume, David – A Treatise of Human Nature
- Hume, David – Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
- Hume, David – Enquiry into the Principles of Morals
- Hume, David – An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- Hume David – Political Discourses
- James, William – Essay in Radical Empiricism
- James, William – Pragmatism
- James, William – Varieties of Religious Experience
- Kant, Immanuel – Critique of Judgement
- Kant, Immanuel – Critique of Practical Reason
- Kant, Immanuel – Critique of Pure Reason
- Kant, Immanuel – Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
- Kant, Immanuel – Perpetual Peace
- Kant, Immanuel – What is Enlightenment?
- Kierkegaard, Søren – Fear and Trembling
- Kierkegaard, Søren – Philosophical Fragments
- Kierkegaard, Søren – Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing
- Kierkegaard, Søren – The Sickness Unto Death
- Kierkegaard, Søren – Two Discourses on God and Man
- Leibniz – Theodicy
- Locke, John – An Essay on Human Understanding
- Locke, John – Second Treatise on Government
- Lucretius – On the Nature of the Things
- Machiavelli, Niccolò – The Prince
- Madison, Hamilton & Jay – The Federalist Papers
- Maimonides – Guide for the Perplexed
- Marx and Engels – The Communist Manifesto
- Marx, Karl – Das Kapital
- Mencken, H.L. – The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
- Mill, John Stuart– On Liberty
- Mill, John Stuart – Utilitarianism
- Montaigne – Essays
- Montesquieu – The Persian Letters
- Montesquieu – The Spirit of the Laws
- More, Thomas – Utopia
- Nietzsche, Friedrich – Beyond Good and Evil
- Nietzsche, Friedrich– Ecce Homo
- Nietzsche, Friedrich – Genealogy of Morals
- Nietzsche, Friedrich – Homer and Classical Philology
- Nietzsche, Friedrich – Human, All Too Human
- Nietzsche, Friedrich – Selected Letters
- Nietzsche, Friedrich – The Anti Christ
- Nietzsche, Friedrich – The Birth of Tragedy
- Nietzsche, Friedrich – The Case Against Wagner
- Nietzsche, Friedrich – The Dawn of Day
- Nietzsche, Friedrich – The Gay Science
- Nietzsche, Friedrich – Thus Spake Zarathustra
- Nietzsche, Friedrich – Twilight of the Idols
- Paine, Thomas – Common Sense
- Paine, Thomas – Rights of Man
- Paine, Thomas – The Age of Reason
- Pascal, Blaise – The Pensées
- Pascal, Blaise – The Provincial Letters
- Plato – Collected Works
- Plato – Three Dialogues by Plato: Euthyphro, Meno, Republic Book I
- Plato – Symposium
- Plato – The Apology, Phaedo, and Crito of Plato
- Plato – The Republic
- Popper, Karl – The Logic of Scientific Discovery
- Rousseau, Jean Jacques – Emile
- Rousseau, Jean Jacques – Julie; ou, la Nouvelle Héloïse
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques – The Confessions
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques – The Social Contract & Discourses
- Russell, Bertrand – Free Thought and Official Propaganda
- Russell, Bertrand – Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
- Russell, Bertrand – Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
- Russell, Bertrand – Political Ideals
- Russell, Bertrand – The Conquest of Happiness
- Russell, Bertrand – The Problems of Philosophy
- Russell, Bertrand – Western Philosophy
- Russell, Bertrand – Why I Am Not a Christian
- Ryle, Gilbert – The Concept of Mind
- Santayana, George – Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy: Five Essays
- Santayana, George – The Life of Reason
- Santayana, George – These Sense of Beauty
- Santayana, George – Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante and Goethe
- Sartre, Jean-Paul – Existentialism Is a Humanism
- Sartre, Jean-Paul – Nausea
- Read Online Now (French versions)
- Schopenhauer, Arthur – The World as Will and Representation
- Schopenhauer, Arthur – The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; On Human Nature
- iPad/iPhone – Kindle + Other Formats (find German version here)
- Schopenhauer, Arthur – Studies in Pessimism
- Seneca – On Benefits
- Smith, Adam – The Theory of Moral Sentiments
- Smith, Adam – The Wealth of Nations
- Spinoza – The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza, 2 vols.
- Spinoza – Ethics
- St. Augustine – Confessions
- Sun Tzu – The Art of War
- Tocqueville, Alexis de – Democracy in America Vol 1.
- Tocqueville, Alexis de – Democracy in America Vol 2.
- Thoreau, Henry David – Walden
- Tolstoy, Leo – What is Art?
- Voltaire – Candide
- Voltaire – Micromégas
- Voltaire – The Philosophical Dictionary
- Voltaire – The Works of Voltaire
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig – The Blue Book
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig – The Brown Book
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig – Notebooks, 1914-1916
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig – Notes on Logic
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig – Philosophical Investigations (German)
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig – Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig – Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (German-English Side by Side Edition)
- Wollstonecraft, Mary – A Vindication of the Rights of Women
General Resources
- 80 Philosophy ebooks from UC Press
- 70 Philosophy eBooks from University of Pittsburgh Press
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