Friday, September 10, 2010

12 - What to Read - The List

The Suggested Reading List. 



Some are more important than others; 
and some are easier to read than others: 
  

Knowledge

Meditations on First Philosophy, Rene Descartes

"The Value of Philosophy," Bertrand Russell


Mind

Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume

New Essays on Human Understanding, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Vindication of the Right of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft


Free Will


Ethics, Benedict Spinoza

Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friederich Nietzsche


The Self

The Dialogues and The Republic, Plato

The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. DeBois

The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir

Homosexuality: The Psychology of the Creative Process, Paul Rosenfels


God

Pensees, Blaise Pascal

The Will to Believe, William James

"Why I Am Not a Christian," Bertrand Russell


Reasoning

Logic, Aristotle

Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant


The World

Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith

"Letter from a Birmingham Jail" Martin Luther King, Jr.
  
A Theory of Justice, John Rawls

Anarchy, State and Utopia, Nozick


What to Do

The Analects, Confucius

Ethics, Aristotle

Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, Immanuel Kant


On Liberty, John Stuart Mill

The Ethics of Ambiguity, Simone de Beauvoir


Meaning Of Life

"Humanism and Existentialism," John-Paul Sartre

Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl

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