Top 100 Philosophy Books

📘 L’étranger

*L'Étranger* est le premier roman publié d’Albert Camus, paru en 1942. Il prend place dans la tétralogie que Camus nommera « cycle de l’absurde » qui décrit les fondements de la philosophie camusienne : l’absurde. Le roman a été traduit en soixante-huit langues.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 Meditations

A series of spiritual exercises for leading a meaningful life, 2,000 years old and still relevant today.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 कामसूत्र

A work of philosophy, psychology, sociology, Hindu dogma, scientific inquiry, and sexology, the "Kama Sutra" has been a classic of world literature for more than 1700 years.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 The God Delusion

Publication Date: January 16, 2008 A preeminent scientist—and the world's most prominent atheist—asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 The Art of Loving

"The Art of Loving" (1956) is a seminal work by psychoanalyst and social philosopher Erich Fromm. In this book, Fromm explores the concept of love in a profound and comprehensive manner, arguing that love is not just a passive feeling but an art that requires practice, knowledge, and effort.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 Le Deuxième Sexe

**The Second Sex** (French: *Le Deuxième Sexe*) is a 1949 book by the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, in which the author discusses the treatment of women throughout history. Beauvoir researched and wrote the book in about 14 months between 1946 and 1949.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 All About Love

O que é o amor, afinal? Será esta uma pergunta tão subjetiva, tão opaca? Para bell hooks, quando pulverizamos seu significado, ficamos cada vez mais distantes de entendê-lo.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 Gödel, Escher, Bach

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Philosophy of Mind

📘 The daily stoic

Why have history's greatest minds embraced the wisdom of the ancient Stoics? Because they realize that the most valuable wisdom is timeless and that philosophy is for living a better life, not a classroom exercise.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 Jenseits von Gut und Böse

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Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 La Nuit

Elie Wiesel's autobiographical memoir chronicles his childhood in a Hungarian ghetto and his harrowing survival in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, exploring the horrors of the Holocaust and its lasting moral impact.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 Candide

Candide: A Tale of Conviviality and Optimism in a Wretched World

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 The Wisdom of Insecurity

amazing insight. helps westerners step back and look at their actions and how they relate to the world around them. the mere desire to "be secure" is what actually makes you insecure. all about time and pain. most influential book i've ever read, and i've read a lot, high iq, etc. from my point of view, a must read.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Philosophy of Mind

📘 The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 Nicomachean Ethics

An detailed examination of what the best life might be for human beings. In order to anwer this question, Aristotle finds he also has to examine what virtue itself is and all of the various virtues that might make up the best life.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 Le mythe de Sisyphe

«Il n'y a qu'un problème philosophique vraiment sérieux : c'est le suicide.» Avec cette formule foudroyante, qui semble rayer d'un trait toute la philosophie, un jeune homme de moins de trente ans commence son analyse de la sensibilité absurde.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 The Kybalion

Entre os fragmentos de conhecimentos ocultos possuídos pelo mundo contam-se os Preceitos Herméticos, reunidos neste livro e atribuídos ao imortal instrutor egípcio conhecido entre os gregos como Hermes Trimegisto.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 The Demon-Haunted World

A prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace “A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a manifesto for clear thought.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Epistemology

📘 The Secret Language of Destiny

From the authors of "The Secret Language Of Birthdays" comes this mystical, magical key to understanding ones personal life path. Using unique combinations of astrology, numerology and *je ne sais quoi*, Gary Goldschneider and Joost Elffers have created a work that pinpoints some intimate characteristics and quirks of the individual.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 The Black Swan

From the critically acclaimed author of Fooled by Randomness, a book about the impact of improbable events on every aspect of life.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Epistemology

📘 The four agreements companion book

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 Los Cuatro Acuerdos

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 The Story of Philosophy

It's like having the "cliff notes" of all western philosophy.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 The great conversation

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Epistemology

📘 The Dialogues of Plato / The Seventh Letter

Writing in the fourth century B.C.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 The Sayings of Lao Tzü

The essential, classic text of Taoism. These 81 poems comprise an Eastern classic, the mystical and moral teachings of which have profoundly influenced the sacred scriptures of many religions.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 Συμπόσιον

One of the most famous works of literature in the Western world, Plato's Symposium is also one of the most entertaining. The scene is a dinner party in Athens in 416 B.C. at which the guests - including the comic poet Aristophanes and Plato's mentor, Socrates - playfully discuss the nature of eros, or love.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους

There is a well-known saying that the whole of Western Philosophy is footnotes of Plato. This is because his writings have set the schema that philosophy can be said to have followed ever since. Following the teachings of Socrates, Plato's works are among the world's greatest literature.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 A history of western philosophy

[The author's] purpose is to exhibit philosophy as an integral part of social and political life: not as the isolated speculations of remarkable individuals, but as both an effect and a cause of the character of the various communities in which different systems flourished.-Pref.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

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Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Epistemology

📘 Moralia

The Moralia of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an eclectic collection of 78 essays and transcribed speeches. They provide insights into Roman and Greek life, but often are also timeless observations in their own right.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 Discours de la méthode

By an almost universal agreement among philosophers and historians, Rene' Descartes is considered the originator of modern philosophy, or at least the first important philosopher of our times.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Epistemology

📘 Εὐθύφρων / Κρίτων / Φαίδων / Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους

Reprinted with updated Further Reading

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 Bioethics and moral decisions

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 Astrology for the soul

For the first time ever, a famous spiritual astrologer shares the secrets, previously known only to professionals, that hold the key to your future.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 It's All Love

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 Essays

"Bacon's Essays have attracted an eager readership since their publication in 1625. They sum up a lifetime's observations on the whole range of human activity, by one of the keenest minds of the Renaissance.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 L'Homme révolté

**The Rebel** (French: *L'Homme révolté*) is a 1951 book-length essay by Albert Camus, which treats both the metaphysical and the historical development of rebellion and revolution in societies, especially Western Europe.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 Numerology and the divine triangle

The 1979 edition is the same as later editions, though the 1979 did have a darker cover. I suspect there may have been an even earlier edition as I owned a copy of this book at least as early as 1978, when I gave it to a friend--but it think it was years earlier. Without an exact year I can't find a record of it.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 The pig that wants to be eaten

Both entertaining and startling, The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten offers one hundred philosophical puzzles that stimulate thought on a host of moral, social, and personal dilemmas.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 Justice

Michael Sandel offers a searching, lyrical exploration of the meaning of justice that considers familiar controversies such as affirmative action, same-sex marriage, physician-assisted suicide, abortion, national service, patriotism and dissent, and the moral limits of markets in fresh and illuminating ways.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 Karmic Astrology

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 Colorstrology

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 God Is Not Great

Christopher Hitchens: The ultimate case against religion and the case for a more secular life based on science and reason.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 The Tao of Pooh

The how of Pooh? The Tao of who? The Tao of Pooh!?! Yes, Winnie-the-Pooh has a certain Way about him, a way of doing things that has made him the world's most beloved bear. In these pages Benjamin Hoff shows that Pooh's Way is amazingly consistent with the principles of living envisioned long ago by the Chinese founders of Taoism.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 The Signal and the Noise

Nate Silver, the founder of the website FiveThirtyEight.com, explores the science of prediction, emphasizing the importance of humility and statistical analysis.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Epistemology

📘 Ishmael

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 Planets in transit

This book covers complete delineations of all the major transits - conjunction, sextile, square, trine and opposition - that occur between transiting Sun, Moon and all planets to each planet in the natal chart and the Ascendant and Midheaven, as well as complete delineations of each planet transiting each house of the natal chart.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 Introduction to logic

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Epistemology

📘 Conversations with Nostradamus

**Conversations with Nostradamus: His Prophecies Explained, Vol. 1** The only accurate translation of the Nostradamus Quatrains ever printed. In a million-to-one chance using regressive hypnosis, Nostradamus has broken through to our time period to reveal the events he foresaw rushing toward our planet's future.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 Think

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Epistemology

📘 History, its theory and method

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Epistemology

📘 The Emperor's New Mind

Advances the theory that despite burgeoning computer technologies, there will remain facets of human thinking that cannot be emulated by a machine.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Philosophy of Mind

📘 Earth, air, fire & water

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 The Convoluted Universe, Book Two

Buckle your seat belts and get ready for another roller coaster ride that will present new concepts and either threaten or expand your belief systems. Dolores Cannon continues to uncover complicated metaphysics, creating the need for sequels.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 Keepers of the Garden

A young man wanting to explore past-life regression discovers this is his first lifetime on Earth. All his other existences were on alien worlds and in other dimensions. As this unique case is explored further, he finds out that his association with extraterrestrials did not cease with these other lives.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 Chanakya Neeti

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 The Architecture of Happiness

One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings and streets that surround us.And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Philosophy of Mind

📘 The astrological tarot

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 Finite and infinite games

Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life, the games we play in business and politics, in the bedroom and on the battlefield — games with winners and losers, a beginning and an end. Infinite games are the more mysterious — and ultimately more rewarding. They are unscripted and unpredictable; they are the source of true freedom.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 Indian philosophy

On the philosophy of Upanishads; being translation of 4th chapter of vol. 1 of Indian philosophy.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 The book of Thoth

Now a classic in the field, used by students of the Golden Dawn as well as by those who want to understand Crowley's tarot. This is the definitive study of the Egyptian tarot and is used as a key to all Western mystery disciplines. Color plates of eight cards.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 Journey Of Souls

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 How to Think Like a Roman Emperor

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 Muchas vida, muchos maestros

El doctor Brian Weiss -psiquiatra del hospital Mount Sinai de Miami, EE.UU.- relata en este libro su experiencia con Catherine, una paciente a quien trató bajo hipnosis, luego de intentar sin éxito durante un año la terapia convencional.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 The magickian

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 Conversations with Nostradamus. Volume I

The only accurate translation of the Nostradamus Quatrains ever printed. In a million-to-one chance using regressive hypnosis, Nostradamus has broken through to our time period to reveal the events he foresaw rushing toward our planet's future.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 Anthropology

This text provides students with a comprehensive and scientific introduction to the four fields of anthropology. The book helps students understand humans in all their variety and why such variety exists. The new twelfth edition places an increased emphasis on immigration, migration and globalization.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Epistemology

📘 The notebooks of Lazarus Long

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 The dictator's handbook

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 Beyond Good and Evil

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 The Abolition of Man

C. S. Lewis sets out to persuade his audience of the importance and relevance of universal values such as courage and honor in contemporary society.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 The Problems of Philosophy

In the following pages I have confined myself in the main to those problems of philosophy in regard to which I thought it possible to say something positive and constructive, since merely negative criticism seemed out of place.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Epistemology

📘 Business ethics

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 Freedom from the known

A MASTERPIECE FROM JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI ON FREEDOM. THE AUTHOR SAYS ABOUT THE CHAINS IN WHICH THE PRESENT MAN LIVE,ABOUT HIS FEARS OF THE KNOWN AND FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 The pain of being human

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 The Road to Character

With the wisdom, humor, curiosity, and sharp insights that have brought millions of readers to his New York Times column and his previous bestsellers, David Brooks has consistently illuminated our daily lives in surprising and original ways. In The Social Animal, he explored the neuroscience of human connection and how we can flourish together.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 The Custodians

UFO sightings and abductions by aliens were the beginning, the tip of the iceberg. Dolores Cannon's work in hypnosis has taken the study beyond abduction.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

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Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus

In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the fulfillment of one's worldly duties.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 How should we then live?

As one of the foremost evangelical thinkers of the twentieth century, Francis Schaeffer long pondered the fate of declining Western culture.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 Tractatus logico-philosophicus

Como señaló Bertrand Russell en el prólogo a la traducción inglesa de 1922, reproducido en esta edición, el *Tractatus logico-philosophicus* «merece por su intento, objeto y profundidad, que se le considere un acontecimiento de suma importancia en el mundo filosófico».

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 How to Be a Stoic

An engaging guide to how Stoicism--the ancient philosophy of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius--can provide lessons for living in the modern world. Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life. No goal is more elusive.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 Chto takoe iskusstvo? / What is art?

Marathi translation of the what is art?, English translation by Charles Johnston from Russian.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 Simulacra and simulation

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 Vedic Astrology - Ups and Downs in Career - Replicable Astrological Techniques Using Transits of Saturn and Jupiter

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 The clean coder

In the <i>Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers</i>, legendary software expert Robert C Martin introduces the disciplines, techniques, tools, and practices of true software craftsmanship.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 Utilitarianism

"Because Utilitarianism is a work of enduring value, it is easy to forget that Mill meant for it to be a topical and relevant contribution to the moral debates of his time.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 The Convoluted Universe, Book Three

Join us on a voyage through time and space into the world of the strange and unusual and unfathomable, as hypnotherapist Dolores Cannons Convoluted Universe series continues. Suspend belief as you explore worlds and dimensions where your dreams become reality and your reality is only a dream.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 The birth and death of meaning

This book represents the first of Becker's final trilogy, what can be considered his mature theoretical work. In this book, Becker begins his presentation of what he confidently feels is a unified and well rounded general theory of human nature.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 A Guide to the Good Life

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 The beginning of infinity

"A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers. Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life's mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly miraculous.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Epistemology

📘 Just and Unjust Wars

«En nuestros días, el lenguaje de la teoría de la guerra justa se utiliza prácticamente en todas partes y lo mismo está en boca de los gobernantes legítimos que en la de los ilegítimos», pero, cuando la guerra tiene lugar, «únicamente en los estados democráticos pueden los ciudadanos unirse a la polémica con libertad y sentido crítico.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 A Modern Approach To Logical Reasoning

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Epistemology

📘 The power of logical thinking

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Epistemology

📘 Natural law in the spiritual world

The Scottish evangelical author writer Henry Drummond argues in Natural Law in the Spiritual World that the scientific principle of continuity extends beyond our physical world into the spiritual. After its publication in 1883, he became popular as serious readers found the common standing-ground they needed in Drummond's book.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics

📘 Evolution of Awareness

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Epistemology

📘 Courage Is Calling

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Ethics

📘 The secret doctrine

Madame Blavatsky's Victorian-era masterpiece is now scaled down to its essentials, providing the most readable, accessible experience ever of one of history's seminal occult works.

Genre: Philosophy Subgenre: Metaphysics