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
Das Narrenschiff by Sebastian Brant
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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
Discours de la servitude volontaire by La Boétie
Essays by Montaigne
Metaphysical Disputations by Suarez
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AGE OF REASON: Europe (17th.)
Don Quixote by Cervantes
Macbeth by Shakespeare
The Hero by Baltasar Gracián
Discourse on Method by Descartes
Meditations on First Philosophy by Descartes
Las Meninas by Velázquez
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
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
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
An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense by Thomas Reid
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon
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
An Essay on the Principle of Population by Malthus
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CONTEMPORARY (19th. century)
System of Transcendental Idealism by Friedrich Schelling
The Third of May 1808 by Goya
The World as Will and Representation by Schopenhauer
The Philosophy of World History by Hegel
Nature by Ralph Emerson
Cours de philosophie positive by Comte
The Essence of Christianity by Feuerbach
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
Impression, soleil levant by Monet
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
The interpretation of dreams by Freud
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CONTEMPORARY (20th. century)
Logical Investigations by Husserl
The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit Of Capitalism by Max Weber
The Problems of Philosophy by Russell
The Tragic Sense of Life by Unamuno
Cours de linguistique générale by Saussure
Experience and Nature by Dewey
Being and Time by Heidegger
The Revolt of the Masses by Ortega y Gasset
The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Popper
Language, Truth, and Logic by A.J. Ayer
The Iliad, or The Poem of Force by Weil
Being and Nothingness by Sartre
The Road to Serfdom by Hayek
Phenomenology of Perception by Merleau-Ponty
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Popper
The Plague by Camus
The secret of philosophy by Eugeni D'Ors
1984 by George Orwell
The Second Sex by S. De Beauvoir
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
The Phenomenon of Man T. de Chardin
Philosophical Investigations by Wittgenstein
One-dimensional Man by Marcuse
Écrits by Lacan
Cartesian Linguistics by Chomsky
Naturalised epistemology by Quine
De la Grammatologie by Derrida
The Archaeology of Knowledge by Foucault
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses by Althusser
The Theory of Communicative Action by Habermas
Philosophy in the Flesh by Lakoff & Johnson
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QUANTUM MECHANICS (20-21st. cent.)
The Emperor’s New Mind by Roger Penrose
The Extended Mind by Clark & Chalmers
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli
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SYNTHESIS
Philosophies and Truth
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The history of western thought can be traced following the different syntheses along its path because the progression of philosophical idea...
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