A selection of foundational texts in Western philosophy.
Aristotle|Nicomachean Ethics
Canonical
Aristotle|Politics
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Augustine of Hippo|Confessions
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Baruch Spinoza|Ethics
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David Hume|An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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Friedrich Nietzsche|Beyond Good and Evil
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel|Phenomenology of Spirit
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz|Monadology
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Immanuel Kant|Critique of Pure Reason
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau|The Social Contract
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John Locke|Second Treatise of Government
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John Stuart Mill|On Liberty
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Karl Marx|Das Kapital
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Ludwig Wittgenstein|Philosophical Investigations
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Michel Foucault|Discipline and Punish
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René Descartes|Meditations on First Philosophy
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Thomas Aquinas|Summa Theologica
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Thomas Hobbes|Leviathan
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