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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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