Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and The Natural History of Religion
10 best books like Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and The Natural History of Religion (David Hume): Politics, City of God, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, Ethics, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Principles of Human Knowledge & Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous, The Concept of Mind, Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking, Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays, The Problems of Philosophy
Author | Aristotle |
ISBN | 0486414248 |
What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it bring about the most desirable life for its citizens? What sort of education should it provide? What is the purpose of amassing wealth? These are some of the questions Aristotle attempts to answer in one of the...
Author | Augustine of Hippo |
ISBN | 0140448942 |
This is a truly COLOSSAL book!
You know, there are two ways of getting answers in the world... there’s getting the world’s answers (and that’s sometimes doublethink) and there’s getting TRANSCENDENTAL answers!
Sub specie aeternitatis, transcendental answers are the...
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
Author | René Descartes |
ISBN | 0872204200 |
La figura de Descartes como filósofo no ha sido objeto de unánime interpretación. Sobre todo en la actualidad se juzga y pondera su obra. no menos que su personalidad, de manera diferente. Para algunos, Descartes es de preferencia un metodólogo (W. Windelband, P. Natorp...) . Su preocupación,...
Author | Baruch Spinoza |
ISBN | 0140435719 |
Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work - an elegant, fully cohesive cosmology derived from first principles, providing a coherent picture of reality, and a guide to the meaning of an ethical life. Following a logical step-by-step format, it defines...
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Author | Immanuel Kant |
ISBN | 0521626951 |
Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in moral philosophy ever written. In Kant's own words its aim is to search for and establish the supreme principle of morality,...
Author | George Berkeley |
ISBN | 0140432930 |
One of the greatest British philosophers, Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753) was the founder of the influential doctrine of Immaterialism - the belief that there is no reality outside the mind, and that the existence of material objects depends upon their being perceived. The Principles of Human Knowledge...
Author | Gilbert Ryle |
ISBN | 0226732967 |
This now-classic work challenges what Ryle calls philosophy's "official theory," the Cartesians "myth" of the separation of mind and matter. Ryle's linguistic analysis remaps the conceptual geography of mind, not so much solving traditional philosophical problems as dissolving them into the...
Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking
Author | Daniel C. Dennett |
ISBN | 0393348784 |
Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun.
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers seventy-seven of Dennett’s most successful...
Author | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz |
ISBN | 0872201325 |
Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays contains complete translations of the two essays that constitute the best introduction to Leibniz's complete thought: 'Discourse on Metaphysics', a short course in his metaphysics, written in 1686 at the time his mature thought was just crystalising and...
The Problems of Philosophy
Author | Bertrand Russell |
ISBN | 1421903679 |
Plato, in the Symposium, was perhaps the first person to consider the question of the "unliked review". If a review never receives any votes, can it truly be said to exist? This problem has tormented many of the world's greatest philosophers. Bishop Berkeley's famous answer is that God reads and likes...