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Philosophy 
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I. EARLY HISTORY AND RELIGION FOUNDATIONS 

     [Bold] denotes completed book

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  1.  The Epic of Gilgamesh, Unknown, ~2100 BC 

  2.  Odyssey, Homer, ~800  BC 

  3.  Iliad, Homer, ~800 BC 

  4.  The Upanishads, Unknown, ~600 BC 

  5.  Ajax, Sophocles, 500 BC 

  6.  In the Buddha's Words, An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon, Guatama Buddha [Edited by  Bhikku Bodhi], 500 BC 

  7.  Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu, 400 BC 

  8.  Complete Works, Plato, 400 BC

  9.  The Basic Works of Aristotle, Aristotle [Edited by Richard McKeon], 350 BC

  10.  Analects of Confucius, Confucius, 300 BC

  11.  The Bible (NRSV), Various, 2000 BC - 100 AD

  12.  Meditations, Marcus Aurelius, 175

  13.  City of God, Augustine of Hippo, 426

  14.  The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius, 524

  15.  The Koran, Various, 600

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II. MIDDLE AGES 

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  1.  Beowulf, Unknown, 975​ 

  2.  The Incoherence of the Incoherence, Abu I-Walid Muhammad bin Rushd, 1150

  3.  Secretum, Petrarch, 1350

  4.  The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer, 1387

  5.  Dante's Inferno, Dante Alighieri, 1472

  6.  Aquinas's Shorter Summa:  Saint Thomas's Own Concise Version of His Summa Theologica, Thomas  Aquinas, 1485

  7.  Utopia, Thomas More, 1516

  8.  The Prince, Machiavelli, 1532

  9.  As You Like It, Shakespeare, 1599

  10.  Macbeth, Shakespeare, 1606

  11.  King Lear, Shakespeare, 1606

  12.  The Tempest, Shakespeare, 1610

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III. ENLIGHTENMENT

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  1.  Novum Organum, Francis Bacon, 1620 

  2.  The Art of War, Sun Tzu, 1621

  3.  Meditations of First Philosophy, Rene Descartes, 1641

  4.  Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes, 1651

  5.  Paradise Lost, John Milton, 1667

  6.  Ethics, Spinoza, 1677

  7.  Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Two Treatise on Civil Government, John Locke, 1689

  8.  A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, George Berkeley, 1710

  9.  Monadology, Leibniz, 1714

  10.  A Treatise of Human Nature, Enquiry Concerning the Human Understanding, David Hume, 1740

  11.  Candide, Voltaire, 1759

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IV. IDEALISM, UTILITARIANISM, AND TRANSCENDENTALISM

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  1. ​ On the Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762

  2.  The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith, 1776 

  3.  Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant, 1781

  4.  Rights of Man, Thomas Paine, 1791

  5.  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792

  6.  The Phenomenology of Spirit, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1807

  7.  Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1808

  8.  The World as Will and Representation, Arthur Schopenhauer, 1818

  9.  Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

  10.  The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 1848

  11.  Walden; Or Life in the Woods, Henry David Thoreau, 1854

  12.  On Liberty, John Stuart Mill, 1859

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V. RUSSIAN, GERMAN, AND OTHER EXISTENTIALISM

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  1.  Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard, 1843

  2.  Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev, 1862

  3.  War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, 1869

  4.  Demons, Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1872

  5.  Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1880

  6.  The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1880

  7.  The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy, 1886

  8.  Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886

  9.  Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche, 1891

  10.  The Trial, Franz Kafka, 1925

  11.  Being and Time, Martin Heidegger, 1927

  12. The Roads to Freedom trilogy, Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938

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VI. MODERNISM AND PSYCHOLOGY

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  1.  Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, 1932

  2.  Modern Man in Search of a Soul, Carl Jung, 1933

  3.  The Stranger, Albert Camus, 1942

  4.  A History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell, 1945

  5.  Animal Farm, George Orwell, 1945

  6.  The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

  7.  The Ever Present Origin, Jean Gebser, 1949

  8.  A Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Conrad, 1949

  9.  The Origins and History of Consciousness, Erich Neumann, 1949

  10.  Man and His Symbols, Carl Jung, 1964 

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VII. POLITICAL, POSTMODERNISM, AND POSTMODERNISM CRITIQUE

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  1. The Road to Serfdom, F.A. Hayek, 1944

  2. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, 1957 

  3. Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman, 1962

  4. The Order of Things, Michel Foucault, 1966

  5.  Of Grammatology, Jacques Derrida, 1967

  6.  Knowledge and Decisions, Thomas Sowell, 1996

  7.  Maps of Meaning, Jordan Peterson, 1999

  8.  The Fourth Political Theory, Aleksandr Dugin, 2009

  9.  Cynical Theories, Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay, 2020

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