| Tom Butler-Bowdon | philosophy classics |
Your shortcut to the most important ideas on being, truth, and meaning By Tom Butler-Bowdon A stunning survey of the "king of disciplines," 50 Philosophy Classics seeks to enlighten and explain, rather than merely instruct, highlighting a remarkable group of thinkers and their seminal works. This lively entry point to the field of philosophy analyses of ancient and modern philosophers to show how philosophy helped shape the events human history. Below is the list of books covered in 50 Philosophy Classics.
Thomas AquinasSumma Theologica 2. Hannah ArendtThe Human Condition (1958) 3. AristotleNicomachean Ethics(4th century BC) 4. AJ AyerLanguage, Truth and Logic (1936) 5. Jean Baudrillard Simulacra and Simulation (1981) 6. 7. Jeremy BenthamPrinciples of Morals and Legislation(1789) 9. David BohmWholeness and the Implicate Order (1980) 11. Noam ChomskyUnderstanding Power (2002) 12. CiceroOn Duties(44 BC) 13. ConfuciusAnalects(5th century BC) 14. Rene DescartesMeditations (1641) 15. Ralph Waldo EmersonFate (1860) 16. EpicurusLetters (3rd century BC) 17. Michel FoucaultThe Order of Things (1966) 18. Harry FrankfurtOn Bullshit (2005) 19. GWF Hegel Phenomenology of Spirit (1803) 20. Martin HeideggerBeing and Time (1927) 21. DavidHumeAn Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) 22. William JamesPragmatism (1904) 23. Immanuel KantCritique of Pure Reason (1781) 24. Søren KierkegaardFear and Trembling (1843) 25. Saul KripkeNaming and Necessity (1972) 26. Thomas KuhnThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) 27. Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizTheodicy(1710) 28. John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human Understanding(1690) 29. 30. Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince(1532) 32. 33. 34. Iris MurdochThe Sovereignty of Good (1970) 35. 36. Blaise PascalPensees (1670) 38. PlatoThe Republic(4th century BC) 39. 40. 41. Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Social Contract(1762) 42. Bertrand RussellThe Conquest of Happiness (1920) 44. Jean Paul SartreBeing and Nothingness (1943) 45. Arthur SchopenhauerThe World as Will and Representation (1818) 46. Peter SingerThe Life You Can Save (2009) 48. Baruch SpinozaEthics (1677) 49. 50. Ludwig WittgensteinPhilosophical Investigations (1953) Source:50 Philosophy Classics: Thinking, Being, Acting, Seeing - Powerful Thinking From 50 Key Books (Nicholas Brealey Publishing, London & Boston, 2022).
|  50 PHILOSOPHY CLASSICS Your shortcut to the most important ideas on being, truth, and meaning Nicholas Brealey Publishing (London & Boston) "This book explains and discusses briefly, but with remarkable lucidity, some of the ideas of fifty philosophical thinkers from ancient times to the present-day. Complex views on a whole range of important and enduring issues are made accessible to the general reader...The book is enjoyable and instructive." C.L. Ten, Professor of Philosophy, National University of Singapore "50 Philosophy Classics is an impressively wide-ranging compendium of nutshell clarity. It strikes just the right balance between accurate explication, insightful contextual analysis, and breezy illustrative anecdote." Dr. Phil Oliver, Department of Philosophy, Middle Tennessee State University Readers of50 Philosophy Classics, New Edition (2022), click here for your bonus chapters: 
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