Philosophy Background
The following is my philosophy reading history, soon with my thoughts on each.
Classical
Apology - Plato
Crito - Plato
Phaedo - Plato
Republic - Plato
The Extant Works of Epicurus
Hellenistic
On the Shortness of Life - Seneca
Discourses (Epictetus) - Arrian
Enchiridion (Epictetus) - Arrian
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Medieval European
On Light - Robert Grosseteste
Early Modern European
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzche
Other
Tao te Ching - Lao Tzu
The Canon of Reason and Virtue - Lao Tze
Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi
The Way of Peace - James Allen
Related History
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers - Diogenes Laƫrtius
The History of Philosophy, Without Any Gaps - Peter Adamson
Apology - Plato
Crito - Plato
Phaedo - Plato
Republic - Plato
The Extant Works of Epicurus
Hellenistic
On the Shortness of Life - Seneca
Discourses (Epictetus) - Arrian
Enchiridion (Epictetus) - Arrian
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Medieval European
On Light - Robert Grosseteste
Early Modern European
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzche
Other
Tao te Ching - Lao Tzu
The Canon of Reason and Virtue - Lao Tze
Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi
The Way of Peace - James Allen
Related History
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers - Diogenes Laƫrtius
The History of Philosophy, Without Any Gaps - Peter Adamson
The following are on my reading list. Care to recommend any others?
My main passion has been reading ancient greek and roman philosophy, but friends are encouraging me to interact with far eastern philosophy, as well as more modern western philosophy, as reflected in the recomendations on this list. I would also like to be turned on to particular titles in Indian philosophy, as well as some Averroes or other middle eastern thinkers (though it still part of the western tradition).
- Letters from a Stoic - Seneca
- Symposium - Plato
- Timaeus - Plato
- Rhetoric - Aristotle
- Confessions - Augustine of Hippo
- On the Nature of Things - Titus Lucretius Carus
- Outlines of Pyrrhonism - Sextus Impericus
- On Nature - Heraclitus of Ephesus
- Become What You Are - Alan Watts
- On interpretation - Aristotle
- Ethics - Peter Abelard
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzche
- Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime - Immanuel Kant
- The Way of Chuang Tzu - Thomas Merton
- Beginner's Mind, Zen Mind - Shunryu Suzuki
- Orientalism - Edward Said
- The Book of Joy - Dalai Lama
- Brief History of Everything - Ken Wilbur
- The Path of Aloneness - Myamoto Musashi
- As a Man Thinketh - James Allen
My main passion has been reading ancient greek and roman philosophy, but friends are encouraging me to interact with far eastern philosophy, as well as more modern western philosophy, as reflected in the recomendations on this list. I would also like to be turned on to particular titles in Indian philosophy, as well as some Averroes or other middle eastern thinkers (though it still part of the western tradition).
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