This is a personal list of philosophy books I want to read (hopefully in this lifetime)

  • Aristotle (Metaphysics, Rhetoric, Nichomachean Ethics, On the Soul, The Physics, Poetics, Politics)
  • Plato (The Republic, Allegory of the Cave, The Symposium, Timaeus, Phaedrus, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Five Dialogues)
  • Descartes (Meditations I-VI, Discourse on Method, Passions of the Soul, Treatise of Man)
  • David Hume (A Treatise of Human Nature, the Enquiries concerning Human Understanding, the Principles of Morals)
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein (On Certainty, Blue and Brown Books, Philosophical Investigations, Tractatus Logica-Philosophicus, Culture and Value)
  • Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologica, The Summa Contra Gentiles, Treatise on Happiness, Treatise on Law, On Being and Essence, On Law, Morality, and Politics)
  • Bertrand Russell (Problems of Philosophy, A History of Western Philosophy, Principia Mathematica, The Value of Philosophy)
  • Thomas Hobbes (Leviathan, De Corpore)
  • Baruch Spinoza (Ethics, The Philosophy of Spinoza, Spinoza’s Religion, The Rationalists, Theologico-Political Treatise)
  • Jacques Derrida (Of Grammatology, Archive Fever, Specters or Marx, Glas)
  • Karl Marx (The Communist Manifesto, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, Capital, Critique of the Political Economy)
  • Frederick Nietzsche (God is Dead, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, The Antichrist, On the Genealogy of Morality)
  • Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, What is Enlightenment? Perpetual Peace, Critique of Judgement, Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason)