Synopsis of Western Philosophy
By Tom Maguire
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OVERVIEW
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CULTURES IN THE AEGEAN after 2,500 BC
- The Birth of Philosophy by Giorgio Colli
- The Theogony by Hesiod
- The Iliad by Homer
- The Odyssey by Homer
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THE PRESOCRATICS (7th - 5th cent. BC)
- Histories by Herodotus
- Fragments by Heraclitus
- The Parthenon
- The Persians by Aeschylus
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THE SOCRATICS (5th - 4th cent. BC)
- Memorabilia by Xenophon
- The Republic by Plato
- Gorgias by Plato
- The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
- Politics by Aristotle
- History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
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THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD (3rd.BC - 1st. AD)
- Republic by Zeno of Citium
- Letter to Menoeceus by Epicurus
- On the Crown by Demosthenes
- The Epistles by Paul of Tarsus
- Jesus of Nazareth by the 4 Evangelists
- The Axial Age
- The Silk Roads
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THE ROMANS (1st.BC - 5th.AD)
- De rerum natura by Lucretius
- Letters to Lucillus by Seneca
- Pros dogmatikous by Sextus Empiricus
- The Six Enneads by Plotinus
- The Gnostic Gospels
- The City of God by Augustine of Hippo
- The Pantheon (Rome)
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EASTERN MIDDLE AGES (6th - 12th. cent.)
- The Quran
- The Cure (al-Shifāʾ) by Avicenna
- A Guide for the Perplexed by Maimonides
- Commentaries on Aristotle by Averroes
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WESTERN MIDDLE AGES (6th. - 13th.)
- Sic et non by Abelard
- The Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas
- Commentaries by Duns Scotus
- Ars Magna by Ramón Llull
- Summa Logicae by Ockham
- The Divine Comedy by Dante
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RENAISSANCE Italy (12th - 14th)
- Secretum by Petrarch
- The Decameron by Boccaccio
- Oration on the Dignity of Man by Pico della Mirandola
- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
- 'The School of Athens' by Raphael
- The Sistine Chapel paintings by Michelangelo
- The Florence Duomo Dome by Brunelleschi
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RENAISSANCE: Rest of Europe (14th)
- Visio Anglie by John Gower
- The Bible in English by John Wycliffe
- The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
- Chroniques by Jean Froissart
- De Ecclesia by Jan Hus
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MODERN AGE: Europe 15th & 16th
- Praise Of Folly by Erasmus
- Utopia by Thomas More
- 95 Theses by Luther
- Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
- Novum Organum by Francis Bacon
- Spanish Mystics' writings
- Essays by Montaigne
- Metaphysical Disputations by Suarez
- Don Quixote by Cervantes
- Macbeth by Shakespeare
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AGE OF REASON: Europe (17th.)
- Discourse on Method by Descartes
- Meditations on First Philosophy by Descartes
- Pensées by Pascal
- Leviathan by Hobbes
- Essay Concerning Human Understanding by Locke
- De la recherche de la vérité by Malebranche
- Ethics by Spinoza
- A Serious Proposal to the Ladies by Mary Astell
- Monadology by Leibniz
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THE ENLIGHTENMENT (18TH. CENT)
- Treatise on the Principles of Human Knowledge by Berkeley
- Treatise on Human Nature by Hume
- L' Encyclopédie by The Encyclopedists
- Candide by Voltaire
- De L'Esprit Des Lois by Montesquieu
- Discours Préliminaire de l'Encyclopédie by Jean le Rond d'Alembert
- The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
- The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Critique of Pure Reason by Kant
- Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Bentham
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman hy Mary Wollstonecraft
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
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CONTEMPORARY (19th. century)
- System of Transcendental Idealism by Friedrich Schelling
- The World as Will and Representation by Schopenhauer
- The Philosophy of World History by Hegel
- Cours de philosophie positive by Comte
- Nature by Ralph Emerson
- Protestantism and Catholicism Compared in Their Effects on the Civilization of Europe by J. Balmes
- The Concept of Anxiety by Kierkegaard
- Walden by Thoreau
- Hard Times by Dickens
- On The Origin of Species by Darwin
- Utilitarianism by Mill
- Capital by Marx
Hereditary Genius by Galton
- The Birth of Tragedy by Nietzsche
- Thus spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche
- Time and Free Will by Bergson
- The Rules of Sociological Method by Durkheim
- The Will to Believe by William James
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CONTEMPORARY (20th. century)
- Logical Investigations by Husserl
- The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit Of Capitalism by Max Weber
- The Tragic Sense of Life by Unamuno
- Being and Time by Heidegger
- The Revolt of the Masses by Ortega y Gasset
- Being and Nothingness by Sartre
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
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CONTEMPORARY: QUANTUM MECHANICS (20th cent.)
SYNTHESIS
- Philosophies and Truth
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