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
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous by G. Berkeley
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The New Science by Giambattista Vico
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 System of Nature by Baron d'Holbach
Common Sense by T. Paine
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon
Philosophy in the Bedroom by the Marquis de Sade
Critique of Pure Reason by Kant
Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Bentham
Reflections on the Revolution in France by E. Burke
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman hy Mary Wollstonecraft
Elementarphilosophie by K. Reinhold
On Grace and Dignity by F. Schiller
Wissenschaftslehre by J. Fichte
An Essay on the Principle of Population by Malthus
Athenäum by F. von Schlegel
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CONTEMPORARY (19th. century)
System of Transcendental Idealism by Friedrich Schelling
Faust by J.W. Goethe
The Third of May 1808 by Goya
The World as Will and Representation by Schopenhauer
De la démocratie en Amérique by A. de Tocqueville
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 Civilisation of Europe by J. Balmes
The Concept of Anxiety by Kierkegaard
Bartleby, the Scrivener by H. Melville
Walden by Thoreau
Hard Times by Dickens
On Liberty by Stuart & Harriet Mill
On The Origin of Species by Darwin
Synthetic philosophy by H. Spencer
Utilitarianism by Mill
Capital by Marx
Hereditary Genius by Galton
Impression, soleil levant by Monet
The Birth of Tragedy by Nietzsche
Studies in philosophy and religion by F. Giner de los Ríos
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
Réflections sur la violence par G. Sorel
The Problems of Philosophy by Russell
Du côté de chez Swann by M. Proust
The Tragic Sense of Life by Unamuno
Cours de linguistique générale by Saussure
The Decline of the West by O. Spengler
The Thought: A Logical Inquiry by G. Frege
The Economic Consequences of the Peace by J.M. Keynes
Scepticism and Animal Faith by G. Santayana
Experience and Nature by Dewey
Being and Time by Heidegger
The Revolt of the Masses by Ortega y Gasset
The Concept of the Political by C. Smitt
The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Popper
Thought and Language by Lev Vygotsky
The Great Chain of Being by Arthur Lovejoy
Language, Truth, and Logic by A.J. Ayer
Philosophy of Existence by K. Jaspers
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
Hegemony by A. Gramsci
1984 by George Orwell
La Part Maudite by G. Bataille
The Second Sex by S. De Beauvoir
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
Philosophical Investigations by Wittgenstein
The Phenomenon of Man T. de Chardin
Waiting for Godot by S. Beckett
Mythologies by R. Barthes
The Way of Zen by Alan Watts
The Sacred and the Profane by M. Eliade
The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious by C. Jung
The Divided Self by R.D. Laing
Being and Death: An Outline of Integrative Philosophy by José Ferrater Mora
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by T. Kuhn
Understanding Media by M. McLuchan
One-dimensional Man by Marcuse
Écrits by Lacan
The Social Construction of Reality by P. Berger and T. Luckmann
Cartesian Linguistics by Chomsky
La Société du Spectacle by Guy Debord
Naturalised epistemology by Quine
De la Grammatologie by Derrida
The Archaeology of Knowledge by Foucault
La Société de Consommation by J. Baudrillard
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses by Althusser
To Have or to Be? by E. Fromm
L'État spectacle by R-G. Schwartzenberg
The Theory of Communicative Action by J. Habermas
Orality And Literacy by W. J. Ong
Temps et récit Vol.1 by P. Ricoeur
Amusing Ourselves to Death by N. Postman
The Emperor’s New Mind by Roger Penrose
The Construction Of Social Reality by J.Searle
The Extended Mind by Clark & Chalmers
Philosophy in the Flesh by Lakoff & Johnson
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21st. CENTURY
The Anatomy Of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton
Everything Must Go by Ladyman & Ross
Nudge by R.H. Thaler & C. R. Sunstein
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
The Usefulness of the Useless by Nuccio Ordine
Moral Tribes by J. Greene
Psychopolitics by Byung-Chul Han
The Structure of the World by Steven French
A Natural History of Human Thinking by M.Tomasello
The Secret of Our Success by J. Henrich
Quantum Ontology by P.J.Lewis
Catafalque: Carl Jung and the End of Humanity by P. Kingsley
Surfing Uncertainty by A. Clark
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
Conscience : the origins of moral intuition by Patricia S. Churchland.
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness by A. Seth
The Matter with Things by Iain McGilchrist
A Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Mechanics by Steven French
Magnifica humanitas by Pope Leo XIV
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SYNTHESIS
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