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Stoicism
The Practicing Stoic
A non-academic work, perfect as an introduction for readers unfamiliar with the basics of Stoic principles. Focusses on Roman Stoicism. Feel free to skip this book if you have read about Stoicism before.
Book
Thing
Branches and schoolsβ
Pre-Socraticsβ
- The First Philosophers: The Presocratis and the Sophists (Waterfield)
- The Presocratic Philosophers (Kirk, Raven, Schofield)
Plato and Neo-Platonismβ
- Plato: Phaedo, Euthyphro, Symposium, Timaeus, Laws, Phaedrus, Sophist
- Xenophon: Conversations of Socrates
- Plotinus: Enneads
- Julian the Apostate:
Stoicismβ
- The Practicing Stoic (Farnsworth)
- The Cambradige Companion to Stoics
- Marcus Aurelius' Meditations: Annotated Edition
- Enchiridion video series by Sadler
- Cicero De Officiis
- The Philosophy of Crysippus (Gould)
- The Routledge Handbook of the Stoic Tradition
Existentialismβ
- Copleston vol. 9 - 11
- Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre, by Walter Kaufmann
- Either/Or (Kierkegaard)
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Nietzsche) or The Portable Nietzsche
- Sartre: Being and Nothingness, No Exit, Existentialism is a Humanism
- Camus: The Stranger
Subjects/fieldsβ
Metaphysicsβ
- Inwagen: Introduction to Metaphysics
- Plato: Phaedo
- Aristotle's Metaphysics
- Kant: Critique of Pure Reason
- Being and Time (Heidegger)
Epistemologyβ
- Plato: Theaetetus
- Descartes: Discorse on the Method
- The Rationalists (Cottingham)
- The Empiricists (Woolhouse)
Scienceβ
- Chalmers: Introduction to Philosophy of Science
- Lindberg: Origins of Western Science
- Two books by Lloyd on Greek Science
Ethicsβ
- James Rachels: Introduction to Ethics
Political thoughtβ
Important founding worksβ
- The Prince (Machiavelli)
- Leviathan (Hobbes)
- Social Contract (Rousseau)
- Second Treatise of Government (Locke)
Classical Liberalismβ
- John Stuart Mill's On Liberty
- Rousseau's Social Contract
- Rawls's A Theory of Justice
Socialismβ
- Kolakowski: Main currents of Marxism (Iβd buy the whole thing as a reference work, but for our purposes Iβd read only the first volume)
- Mark Fisherβs Capitalist Realism
Minarchism and Anarchismβ
- The Conquest of Bread (Kropotkin)
- Anarchy, State and Utopia (Nozick)
Progress and primitivismβ
- Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited (Huxley)
- Industrial Society and its Future (Kaczynski)
Time periodsβ
Hellenic and Roman philosophyβ
- Copleston vol. 1
- The Hellenistic Philosophers by Long and Sedley (vol. 1 + 2)
- From Epicurus to Epictetus (Long)
Medieval philosophyβ
- Copleston vol. 2 + 3
- Aquinas
Continental philosophyβ
- Copleston vol. 4 - 7
- Hegels Phenomenology of Spirit
- The Portable Nietzsche by Kaufmann (and the Kaufmann biography)
Analytical philosophyβ
- Compleston vol. 8
- Logic for Dummies (Zegarelli)
- The two books by Wittgenstein
Post-structualismβ
- Copleston vol. 9
- The Foucault Reader