 | The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia (HPC Classics) by Epicurus
Buy new: £4.46 / Used from: £2.15 So right so long ago
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 | The Republic (Penguin Classics) by Plato
Buy new: £19.18 / Used from: £11.00 Some dull bits (but better than Aristotle,although to be fair Aristotles books are just his lecture notes and he was the more rational philosopher ) but the foundation of western philosophy
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 | Discourse on Method and the Meditations (Classics) by Rene Descartes
Buy new: £3.69 / Used from: £0.33 Went right back to basics and then went astray at step 2 but still essential reading
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 | Locke : Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Everyman Library) by John Locke
Buy used from: £3.30 Good British common sense
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 | An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
Buy new: £1.06 / Used from: £0.33 Even better British common sense
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 | The World as Will and Representation - Volume 1: v. 1 by Arthur Schopenhauer
Buy new: £7.27 / Used from: £7.44 Clever and consistent and tells you all you need to know about Hegel
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 | Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Classics S.) by Friedrich Nietzsche
Buy new: £4.07 / Used from: £2.99 A brilliant stylist with a keen mind and some startling opinions
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 | The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance by Anthony Gottlieb
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £9.40 An even better overview of early western philosophy than Bertrand Russels'
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 | The Open Society and Its Enemies: Volume 1 (Routledge Classics): Vol 1 by Karl Popper
Buy new: £9.34 / Used from: £6.54 You need to read the second volume aswell (and Plato and Marx) but it is the best book of philosophy ever written, it even made me laugh
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 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.25 You need to have read Platos' Republic and not exactly philosophy but a great read
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