 | The Republic (Penguin Classics) by Plato
Buy used from: £0.35 The MAIN starting point and contempary thinking point even today and what style
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 | Discourse on Method and the Meditations (Classics) by Rene Descartes
Buy used from: £0.45 The starting point of Modern Philosophy and another good introduction
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 | The Ethics of Aristotle (Classics) by Aristotle
Buy used from: £0.01 Another beatifully inspiring Greek Classic and foundation of the West
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 | An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (Oxford Philosophical Texts) by David Hume
Buy new: £10.68 / Used from: £1.50 British Empiricism and the Age of Reason. Alot of good sense
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 | Essays and Aphorisms (Classics) by Arthur Schopenhauer
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £3.50 Death of reason. All is will. Depressing but important view
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 | Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche
Buy used from: £0.01 Important again. Age of Ideaology and New thinking. Radical really. God is Dead.. and some powerful possibilities
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 | Critique of Pure Reason (Dover Philosophical Classics) by Immanuel Kant
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.99 Hard read. But this is truly the foundation of Western Philosophy this work. Do you good to read it! Hardest book here really. But brilliant.
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 | Language, Truth and Logic (Penguin Modern Classics) by A.J. Ayer
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £4.22 A 20th Classic. Logical Positivism A very claryfying work as to what it is.
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 | The Problems of Philosophy (OPUS) by Bertrand Russell
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £2.99 A very good classic 20th text recommended by Profs as to what Philosophy is all about with real thinking in it!! By a great reasoner.
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 | Philosophical Investigations: The German Text with a Revised English Translation: German Text, with a Revised English Translation by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £19.01 Probably the most influential text of the 20th C. Massive really
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 | Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty
Buy used from: £10.10 A great outline of Philosophy today overlapping into the 21st C READ THESE FIRST! Then go Post Modern and Continental is my advice!! Derrida and Baudrillaird, Deleuze, Sartre and Heidegger can wait
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 | A Thousand Plateaus (Continuum Impacts): Capitaliism and Schizophrenia: 21 by Gilles Deleuze
Buy new: £11.39 / Used from: £10.57 Here`s the beginning of some radical contemporary texts.. but you will do well to read the others first. Trust me.
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 | The Order of Things (Routledge Classics): Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault
Buy new: £8.45 / Used from: £6.66 Should put a few things in context and make you think
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 | Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
Buy new: £16.89 / Used from: £16.15 Certainly make you think if you get into this. Might be pointless and definately a very hard book relatively. But one of the greats of 20th C thinking in a way. Not as useful as Wittgenstein.
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 | Phenomenology of Spirit (Galaxy Books) by G. W. F. Hegel
Buy new: £9.39 / Used from: £5.29 A Classic from a great and a very influential work if less so now. Part of the story.
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 | Philosophical Works of Leibnitz (1908) by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibnitz
Buy new: £20.85 / Used from: £20.51 He`s read less and less . But WHAT a mind. great stuff really.
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 | Ethics (Penguin Classics) by Benedict Spinoza
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £5.97 A Brilliant elegant clessical attempt. Quite brilliant really.
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 | The Enneads (Classics) by Plotinus
Buy new: £8.27 / Used from: £4.20 Neo-Platonism for St.Aquinus to write for the Church. St.Aquinus himself quite brilliant also.
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 | The Varieties of Religious Experience (Penguin Classics) by William James
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £1.21 A good pragmatist sensible American view of common sense. James is a wonderful influence on 20th C Philosophy really
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 | An Introduction to Philosophical Logic by Anthony C. Grayling
Buy new: £18.39 / Used from: £15.95 Useful work. NOT a classic CLASSIC text. But useful like Russell`s work in what Philosophy really IS all round and how it is connected to logic.
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 | Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (Routledge Classics) by Jean-Paul Sartre
Buy new: £11.96 / Used from: £11.13 A Guess the 20th C would not be complete without this and existentialism. You may as read Lacan and Freud as well. Don`t forget Jung either.
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 | The Parallax View (Short Circuits Series) by S Zizek
Buy new: £14.38 / Used from: £10.00 Whether you agree or not. A contempory who makes you think and wants you to think. I like him for this reason alone and his 21st view of culture.
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 | The Consolation of Philosophy (Penguin Classics) by Ancius Boethius
Buy used from: £4.50 The classic ideal of a philosophical nature, Medieval thought at it`s best
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 | The Metaphysics (Penguin Classics) by Aristotle
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £3.10 The other great work by Aristotle and essential reading really from Greece.
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 | The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics) by Plato
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.35 A great literary almost light read. The death of Socrates and romantic really. Ancient Athens in all it`s glory and ideals of a philosopher
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