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- Aquinas, Thomas — Summa Theologiae
- 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
- Boethius — Consolation of Philosophy
- Burke, Edmund - On the Sublime and Beautiful
- 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
- 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 - Symposium
- Plato - The Apology, Phaedo, and Crito of Plato
- Plato - The Republic
- Popper, Karl — The Logic of Scientific Discovery
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- 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
- 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
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- 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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