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CANONICAL READING LIST IN
PHILOSOPHY
1. The Presocratics: The Milesians,
Heraclitus, Parmenides,
Anaxagoras, and the Early Atomists.
2. Plato: Apology, Meno,
Republic, and Theatetus.
3. Aristotle: Categories,
Metaphysics, Nichomachean Ethics.
4. Epictetus: The Enchiridion.
5. Augustine: The City of God,
vol. I, II.
6. Anselm: Proslogium,
Monologium, Guanilo's Reply.
7. Aquinas: Standard selections from
Summa Theologica, and
Summa Contra Gentiles.
8. Descartes: Meditations on First
Philosophy, and
Selections from Discourse on Method.
9. Leibniz: Monadology, and
Discourse on Metaphysics.
10. Spinoza: Short Treatise on
God, Man, and Nature.
11. Hobbes: The Leviathan.
12. John Locke: An Essay
Concerning Human Understanding, and
Second Treatise of Government.
13. George Berkeley: Three
Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous.
14. David Hume: An Enquiry
Concerning Human Understanding,
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals,
and
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.
15. Immanuel Kant: Critique of
Pure Reason, and
Fundamental
Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
16. John Stuart Mill: On Liberty,
and Utilitarianism.
17. Hegel: The introduction to the
Phenomenology of the Spirit.
18. Marx and Engels: Manifesto of
the Communist Party, and
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific.
19. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus,
Logico-Philosophicus, and
Philosophical Investigations.
20. Jean Paul Sartre: "Existentialism
is a Humanism," and
The Transcendence of the Ego.
21. Frege: "Sense and Reference".
22. Russell: "On Denoting," and
The Problems of Philosophy.
23. Willard V.O. Quine: "Two Dogmas
of Empiricism".
24. John Rawls: A Theory of
Justice.
25. Saul Kripke: Naming and
Necessity.
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