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
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
- 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 Problems of Philosophy by Russell
The Tragic Sense of Life by Unamuno
Experience and Nature by Dewey
Being and Time by Heidegger
The Revolt of the Masses by Ortega y Gasset
The Iliad, or The Poem of Force by Weil
Being and Nothingness by Sartre
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 Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
Philosophical Investigations by Wittgenstein
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CONTEMPORARY: QUANTUM MECHANICS (20th cent.)
SYNTHESIS
- Philosophies and Truth
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