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The purpose of this philosophy article is to create a guide to important philisophical idea spanning time, ideas, and peoples. It is both an introductory and advanced page for persons interested in any of the ideas of philosophy, and while at the moment it may be missing a couple of features, it is up to those fluent in these philosophical books to insert and revise information as the need may arise.
<strike>The purpose of this philosophy article is to create a guide to important philisophical idea spanning time, ideas, and peoples. It is both an introductory and advanced page for persons interested in any of the ideas of philosophy, and while at the moment it may be missing a couple of features, it is up to those fluent in these philosophical books to insert and revise information as the need may arise.</strike>
==='''An Overview of Philosophy'''===
Philosophy is a subject that the many pseudo-intellectuals of /lit/ pretend to have knowledge of when they really have no idea what they're saying. '''Philosophy-majors, and people who have an interest in philosophy in general, are some of the most pretentious douchebags you will ever meet.'''


Typical comment from a pretentious asshat who just learned of Plato's forms:


'''"You know that desk you're sitting in? Well...it's not really there..."'''
Such is the douchefaggotry that takes a hold of many people with interests in philosophy. So it is in your best interest to ignore everything on this page except for this overview.





Revision as of 18:04, 22 January 2011

The purpose of this philosophy article is to create a guide to important philisophical idea spanning time, ideas, and peoples. It is both an introductory and advanced page for persons interested in any of the ideas of philosophy, and while at the moment it may be missing a couple of features, it is up to those fluent in these philosophical books to insert and revise information as the need may arise.

An Overview of Philosophy

Philosophy is a subject that the many pseudo-intellectuals of /lit/ pretend to have knowledge of when they really have no idea what they're saying. Philosophy-majors, and people who have an interest in philosophy in general, are some of the most pretentious douchebags you will ever meet.

Typical comment from a pretentious asshat who just learned of Plato's forms:

"You know that desk you're sitting in? Well...it's not really there..."

Such is the douchefaggotry that takes a hold of many people with interests in philosophy. So it is in your best interest to ignore everything on this page except for this overview.


Classic Philosophy

Pre-Socratic Thought

Title Author* Year** Pages Description Book Cover
The Art and Thought of Heraclitus Charles H. Kahn ~500BCE 372
Early Greek Philosophy Johnathan Barnes ~700BCE - ~300BCE 336
Empedocles: The Extant Fragments M.R. Wright ~450BCE 372
The Greek Sophists John Dillon ~400s BCE 464
Parmenides of Elea David Gallop ~500BCE 144
The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library Kenneth Guthrie ~500sBCE 362
Xenophanes of Colophon: Fragments James Lesher ~540 - ~480BCE 272



Socratic Thought

Title Author* Year Pages Description Book Cover
The Trial of Socrates I.F. Stone ~399BCE 304
The Clouds Aristophanes ~423BCE 212



Platonic Thought

Title Author* Year** Pages Description Book Cover
Plato Constance Meinwald 2009 256
Plato and the Socratic Dialogue Charles H. Kahn 1998 456
The Open Society and Its Enemies Karl Popper 1945 744
Plato on Knowledge and Forms Gail Fine 2003 464
Apology Plato ~399BCE 127 Plato's recording of the trial of Socrates.
Republic Plato ~380BCE 480

Plato's Complete Works

Plato ~400BCE - ~348BCE 1808 Complete collection of all of Plato's works from Crito to The Laws. Anyone interested in acquiring all of Plato's works should either get this or check out Project Gutenberg's page on him.
Symposium Plato ~383BCE 144


Aristotlean Thought

Title Author Year Pages Description Book Cover
Aristotle Christopher Shields 2007 472
From Aristotle to Augustine David Furley 2003 480
Aristotle on Nature and Living Things Allan Gotthelf 1985 410
The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 350 BCE 320
Rhetoric Aristotle ~350BCE 146
Metaphysics Aristotle ~350BCE 365
Poetics Aristotle ~350BCE 58
Politics Aristotle ~350BCE 188



Cynicism

Title Author Year Pages Description Book Cover
The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy R. Bracht Branham 2000 465
Diogenes of Sinope: A Study of Greek Cynicism Farrand Sayre 1938 139



Epicureanism

Title Author Year Pages Description Book Cover
The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism James Warren 2009 356
The Essential Epicurus Epicurus ~300BCE 101
The Nature of Things Lucretius 50 BCE 336



Stoicism

Title Author Year Pages Description Book Cover
Letters from a Stoic Seneca ~65AD 254
Epictetus - Discourses and Selected Writings Epictetus ~101AD 304
Meditations Marcus Aurelius ~175AD 108


Skepticism

Title Author Year Pages Description Book Cover
The Greek Skeptics: From Pyrrho to Sextus Norman Maccoll 1868 58 Can be found on Google Books here.
The Outlines of Pyrrhonism Sextus Empiricus ~200AD 283


Neoplatanism

Title Author Year Pages Description Book Cover
Neoplatonism R.T. Wallis 1995 212
Neoplatanism and Gnosticism R.T. Wallis 1992 548
The Neoplatonists John Gregory 1998 208


Plotinus

Title Author Year Pages Description Book Cover
The Enneads Plotinus 250AD 484



Christian and Medieval Philosophies

Gnostic Christianity

Title Author Year Pages Description Book Cover
Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature Birger A. Pearson 2007 362
The Nag Hammadi Library ~300AD 549
Gnosticism and Christianity in Roman and Coptic Egypt Birger A. Pearson 2004 320



St. Augustine

Title Author Year Pages Description Book Cover
St. Augustine of Hippo Peter Brown 2000 576
On Christian Doctrine St. Augustine ~400AD 158
Confessions St. Augustine ~398AD 352
City of God St. Augustine ~436AD 804



On Tertullian

Title Author Year Pages Description Book Cover
Tertullian: A Historical and Literary Study Timothy David Barnes 1985 340



Scholasticism

Title Author Year Pages Description Book Cover
Scholasticism Josef Piper 2001 192
Philosophy in the Middle Ages Arthur Hyman 1978 724
The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy Norman Kretzmann 1988 1056
A History of Jewish Philosophies in the Middle Ages Colette Sirat 1990 485
The Aristotle Adventure Burgess Laughlin 1995 243
Aristotle's Children Richard E. Rubenstein 2004 384



St. Anselm

Title Author Year Pages Description Book Cover
Saint Anselm: A Portrait in a Landscape R.W. Southern 1992 524
Monologion and Proslogion St. Anselm ~1078 192


Thomas Aquinas

Title Author Year Pages Description Book Cover
The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas Etienne Gilson 1994 502
St. Thomas Aquinas Ralph McInerny 1989 197
Guide to Thomas Aquinas Josef Piper 1991 181
The Summa Theologica Thomas Aquinas 1273 3020
Selected Writings Thomas Aquinas 1270s 450



William of Ockham

Title Author Year Pages Description Book Cover
Philosophical Writings Ockham ~1323 167
The Cambridge Companion to Ockham Paul Vincent Spade 1999 440



Erasmus

Title Author Year Pages Description Book Cover
Desiderius Erasmus: The Praise of Folly and Other Writings Erasmus 1511 352



Martin Luther

Title Author Year Pages Description Book Cover
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther Roland Herbert Bainton 1950 441
Concerning Christian Liberty Martin Luther 1520s 42
The Bondage of the Will Martin Luther 1525 264
On The Jews and Their Lies Martin Luther 1543 70



Calvinism

Title Author Year Pages Description Book Cover
Institutes of the Christian Religion John Calvin 1536 1059
The History and Character of Calvinism J.T. McNeill 1967 480

Modern Philosophy

General

Title Author Year Pages Description Book Cover
The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy C.B. Schmitt 1991 922
The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy James Hankins 2007 452
Renaissance Thought and the Arts Paul Oskar Kristeller 1980 248
Enlightening the World Philipp Blom 2005 416
Diderot: A Critical Biography P.N. Furbank 2008 550
France in the Enlightenment Daniel Roche 2000 736
The Copernican Revolution Thomas S. Kuhn 1992 320


Rationalism

Title Author Year Pages Description Book Cover
The Courtier and the Heretic Matthew Stewart 2007 352
Philosophers at War Alfred Rupert Hall 2002 356
The Renaissance and 17th Century Rationalism G.H.R. Parkinson 2003 480


Descartes

Title Author Year Pages Description Book Cover
Receptions of Descartes Tad M. Schmaltz 2005 272
Meditations on First Philosophy Rene Descartes 1641 110
Discourse on Method Rene Descartes 1637 44


Baruch Spinoza

Title Author Year Pages Description Book Cover
Spinoza Michael Della Rocca 2008 360
Ethics Spinoza 1677 208
Tractatus Theologico Spinoza 1670 315


Leibniz

Title Author Year Pages Description Book Cover
Leibniz Nicholas Jolley 2005 272
The Monadology Leibniz 1714 34
Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God Leibniz 1710 294
Candide Voltaire 1759 176


Empiricism

Title Author Year Pages Description Book Cover
British Philosophy and the Age of Enlightenment Stuart Brown 2003 440
British Empiricism & American Pragmatism Robert Roth 1993 205



External Links

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/presocratics/
http://www.heraclitusfragments.com
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/presoc
-Emp.htm = Emptedocle' fragments
-Xenophan.html = Xenophanes' Fragments
-Parmends.html = Parmenides Fragments