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Link to Mr. Geen's Recommended Books List for Economics, Politics, and Philosophy | ||||
Building Your Personal Library | ||||
Outline of Western Political Philosophy | ||||
General Philosophy Links | ||||
Ancient and Medieval Thinkers | ||||
Plato Aristotle Cicero Epicurus St. Augustine Boethius St. Thomas Aquinas Marcilius of Padua |
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Early Modern Thinkers | ||||
Niccolo Machiavelli |
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19th and 20th Century Thinkers | ||||
Jeremy Bentham |
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Building Your Own Personal Library | ||||
The Cannon | ||||
This list identifies the classic texts of Philosophy that comprise the core of our Western intellectual tradition. It is meant to serve as a guide as you begin the process of finding those works from the past that have a track record of lasting value to include in your own personal library. You will also want enhance this process by including the master works of literature and the great music and fine art that will complete your library and advance your education. Check with the literature, music, and arts faculty to find these works. | ||||
Mr. Green's Outline of the History of Western Political Philosophy | ||||
Links: Find e-texts and other information about the great philosophers. | ||||
EpistemeLinks.com | ||||
History of Economic Thought Website | ||||
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy | ||||
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy | ||||
Lectures on Modern Intellectual History | ||||
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The Important Western Philosophers | ||||
The works of Political Philosophy are in blue | ||||
Classical and Medieval Thinkers | ||||
Plato | ||||
The Republic | ||||
Selected Dialogues by Plato | ||||
Apology. Crito, Phaedo, Euthyphro, Symposium, Gorgias, Meno, Phaedrus, Timaeus | ||||
Find Plato E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com | ||||
Plato's letter on considering a career in public life (two pages) | ||||
Aristotle | ||||
Politics | ||||
Nicomachean Ethics | ||||
Metaphysics | ||||
Find Aristotle E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com | ||||
Cicero | ||||
De Republica | ||||
De Legibus | ||||
Epicurus | ||||
Letter to Menoeceus | ||||
Principal Doctrines | ||||
St. Augustine | ||||
The Confessions | ||||
The City of God (Chapter 29) | ||||
Find St .Augustine E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com | ||||
Boethius | ||||
The Consolation of Philosophy | ||||
Find Boethius E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com | ||||
Summa Theologica (Assorted Sections) | ||||
On Kingship | ||||
Find St. Thomas Aquinas E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com | ||||
Masilius of Padua | ||||
The Defender of the Peace | ||||
William of Occam | ||||
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Early Modern Thinkers | ||||
Documents related to Political Philosophy are in blue | ||||
Niccolo Machiavelli | ||||
The Prince | ||||
The Discourses | ||||
Find Machiavelli E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com | ||||
Rene Descartes | ||||
Discourse on Method | ||||
Meditation on First Philosophy | ||||
Find Descartes E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com | ||||
Francis Bacon | ||||
Novum Organum (The New Organon) | ||||
Find Bacon E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com | ||||
Michel de Montaign | ||||
Essays | ||||
Thomas Hobbes | ||||
Leviathan | ||||
Find Hobbes E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com | ||||
John Locke | ||||
Second Treatise on Government | ||||
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | ||||
Letter on Toleration | ||||
Find Locke E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com | ||||
Baron de Montesquieu | ||||
The Spirit of the Laws | ||||
Persian Letters | ||||
David Hume | ||||
Treatise on Human Nature (Book III On Morals) | ||||
Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | ||||
Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals | ||||
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion | ||||
Selected Essays | ||||
On the Original Contract, Of the Origin of Government, Of the First Principles of Government, Of Commerce, Of Interest, Of Taxes, Of the Balance of Trade, Of the Liberty of the Press, | ||||
Find Hume E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com | ||||
Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||||
Discourse on the Arts and Science | ||||
Discourse on the Origins of Inequality | ||||
Discourse on Political Economy | ||||
The Social Contract | ||||
Confessions | ||||
Emile | ||||
Find Rousseau E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com | ||||
Adam Smith | ||||
An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | ||||
The Theory of Moral Sentiments | ||||
Find Smith E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com | ||||
Immanuel Kant | ||||
Critique of Pure Reason | ||||
Critique of Practical Reason | ||||
Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals | ||||
Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose | ||||
On the Common Saying: "This May Be True in Theory, But It Does Not Apply In Practice" | ||||
Perpetual Peace | ||||
Find Kant E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com | ||||
Edmund Burke | ||||
Reflections on the Revolution in France | ||||
Find Burke E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com | ||||
The American State Documents | ||||
The ConSource Website. | ||||
This website links the phrases and clauses of the American Constitution and the Constitutional Amendments to writing from the period that addressed or commented on the linked phrases or clauses. It also contains facsimiles (pdf) of the original letters, pamphlets, and other documents that are the source of these writings. | ||||
James Madison and Alexander Hamilton | ||||
The Federalist Papers | ||||
Link to the Full Text | ||||
Mary Wollstonecraft | ||||
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19th and 20th Century Thinkers | ||||
Documents related to Political Philosophy are in blue | ||||
Jeremy Bentham | ||||
A Fragment on Government | ||||
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation | ||||
Find Bentham E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com | ||||
George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||||
Phenomenology of Mind (or Phenomenology of Spirit) | ||||
Philosophy of Right | ||||
Find Hegel E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com | ||||
Alexis de Tocqueville | ||||
Democracy in America | ||||
Link to the Full Text | ||||
John Stuart Mill | ||||
On Liberty | ||||
Utilitarianism | ||||
The Subjugation of Women | ||||
Considerations on Representative Government | ||||
Principles of Political Economy | ||||
Find Mill E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com | ||||
Karl Marx | ||||
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, 1844 [contains Alienated (or Estranged) Labor] | ||||
The Communist Manifesto | ||||
Das Kapital | ||||
Selected Essays | ||||
On the Jewish Question, Critique of the Gotha Program, Theses on Feuerbach, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, The German Ideology | ||||
Find Marx E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com | ||||
Find the complete works of Marx and Engles as E-Texts at: | ||||
The Marx-Engles Library | ||||
The Marx-Engles Internet Archive | ||||
Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times" Worksheet | ||||
Friedrich Nietzsche | ||||
Find Nietzsche E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com | ||||
Peter Kropotkin | ||||
Link | ||||
Max Weber | ||||
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism | ||||
Politics as a Vocation | ||||
William James | ||||
Pragmatism | ||||
V.I. Lenin | ||||
Vladimir Lenin Works | ||||
John Dewey | ||||
Find Dewey E-Texts at EpistemeLinks.com | ||||
Adolph Hitler | ||||
Mein Kampf Link | ||||
Michael Oakeshott | ||||
The Michael Oakeshott Association: Works by Oakeshott | ||||
Isaiah Berlin | ||||
Two Concepts of Liberty | ||||
The Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library | ||||
Jurgen Habermas | ||||
Writings by Habermas | ||||
John Rawls | ||||
Theory of Justice | ||||
Robert Nozick | ||||
Anarchy, State, and Utopia | ||||
Donald McCloskey on the Classes and their Virtues | ||||
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