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10 best books like Philosophical Fragments/Johannes Climacus (Søren Kierkegaard): A Summa of the Summa: The Essential Philosophical Passages of St Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica, Theaetetus, Church Dogmatics 1.1: The Doctrine of the Word of God, Psychology: The Briefer Course, Essays on the Theory of Numbers, The Encyclopaedia Logic: The Encyclopaedia of Philosophical Sciences 1 with the Zusätze, The Geometry of René Descartes: with a Facsimile of the First Edition, Don Giovanni in Full Score, German Ideology, Monologion and Proslogion with the Replies of Gaunilo and Anselm

A Summa of the Summa: The Essential Philosophical Passages of St Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica
AuthorPeter Kreeft
QUESTION 1. Of the Summa Theologica

ARTICLE 1. Whether One Should Read the Summa Theologica?

Objection 1. The Summa Theologica was written over 700 years ago (1265-1274). Thus, whatever philosophy is contained in this book is long outdated. Further, the state of scientific knowledge...
Theaetetus
AuthorPlato
ISBN0140444505
Set immediately prior to the trial and execution of Socrates in 399 BC, Theaetetus shows the great philosopher considering the nature of knowledge itself, in a debate with the geometrician Theodorus and his young follower Theaetetus. Their dialogue covers many questions, such as: is knowledge purely...
Church Dogmatics 1.1: The Doctrine of the Word of God
AuthorKarl Barth
ISBN0567090132
s/t: Introduction, The Word of God as the Criterion of Dogmatics, The Revelation of God
Described by Pope Pius XII as the most important theologian since Thomas Aquinas, the Swiss pastor & theologian, Karl Barth, continues to be a major influence on students, scholars & preachers today....
Psychology: The Briefer Course
AuthorWilliam James
ISBN0486416046
William James’s monumental Principles of Psychology has long been on my to-read list. But I have a nasty habit of letting books scare me; and a 1,400-page textbook from 1890 was sufficiently intimidating to make me put it off indefinitely.

To warm up to the task, I decided to read a couple...
Essays on the Theory of Numbers
AuthorRichard Dedekind
ISBN0486210103
This volume contains the two most important essays on the logical foundations of the number system by the famous German mathematician J. W. R. Dedekind. The first presents Dedekind's theory of the irrational number-the Dedekind cut idea-perhaps the most famous of several such theories created in...
The Encyclopaedia Logic: The Encyclopaedia of Philosophical Sciences 1 with the Zusätze
AuthorGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
ISBN0872200701
Wissenschaft der Logik = Hegel's Science of Logic, c1998, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 - 1831), Arnold V. Miller, John Niemeyer Findlay
Science of Logic, first published between 1812 and 1816, is the work in which Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel outlined his vision of logic. Hegel's logic...
The Geometry of René Descartes: with a Facsimile of the First Edition
AuthorRené Descartes
ISBN0486600688
This is an unabridged republication of the definitive English translation of one of the very greatest classics of science. Originally published in 1637, it has been characterized as "the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences" (John Stuart Mill); as a book which "remade...
Don Giovanni in Full Score
AuthorWolfgang Amadeus Mozart
ISBN0486230260
This is the complete orchestral and vocal score of Mozart's Don Giovanni, considered by many to be the greatest opera ever written. This edition contains all the music Mozart wrote for Don Giovanni, both for the original version performed in Prague (1787) and the alterations―Don Ottavio's aria...
German Ideology
AuthorKarl Marx
ISBN0717803015
2011 Reprint of 1939 Edition. Parts I & III of "The German Ideology". Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published by the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow in 1939. "The German Ideology" was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels...
Monologion and Proslogion with the Replies of Gaunilo and Anselm
AuthorAnselm of Canterbury
ISBN0872202976
The Proslogion (also spelled Proslogium; English translation of title: Discourse on the Existence of God), written in 1077-1078, was an attempt by the medieval cleric Anselm to prove beyond contention the existence of god.
Anselm wrote this discourse, not from the perspective of an attempt...
Hellenistic Philosophy: Introductory Readings
AuthorBrad Inwood
ISBN0872203786
This new edition of Hellenistic Philosophy--including nearly 100 pages of additional materia--offers the first English translation of the account of Stoic ethics by Arius Didymus, substantial new sources on Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Scepticism, expanded representation of Plutarch and Cicero,...
The Essential Plotinus
AuthorPlotinus
ISBN0915144093



Building on the teachings of Plato and with his profound impact on the Christian contemplative tradition, Plotinus is one of the most influential philosophers in the Western tradition. If you would like to begin studying Plotinus, this little book of selections translated by Elmer...
On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
AuthorFriedrich Nietzsche
ISBN0915144948
(Part II of Thoughts Out of Season)

"Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity.” These are Goethe’s words with which, as with a boldly expressed ceterum censeo, we may begin our consideration of the worth and worthlessness...
An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent
AuthorJohn Henry Newman
ISBN0268010005
This classic of Christian apologetics seeks to persuade the skeptic that there are good reasons to believe in God even though it is impossible to understand the Deity fully. First written over a century ago, the Grammar of Assent speaks as powerfully to us today as it did to its first readers. Because...
Vom Wesen der Wahrheit
AuthorMartin Heidegger
ISBN0826477046
The Essence of Truth must count as one of Heidegger's most important works, for nowhere else does he give a comparably thorough explanation of what is arguably the most fundamental and abiding theme of his entire philosophy, namely the difference between truth as the "unhiddenness of beings" and truth...
Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays
AuthorGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
ISBN0872201325
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...
Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas
AuthorThomas Aquinas
ISBN0075536536
By the time one has finished a hundred pages of this Introduction to St, Thomas Aquinas, one understands why so many priests and ministers hate theology. This book is truly the most mind-numbing work of pedantry that I have ever tackled. It analyzes in excruciating detail the qualities of man, of nature,...
Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography
AuthorJoakim Garff
"The day will come when not only my writings, but precisely my life--the intriguing secret of all the machinery--will be studied and studied." S�ren Kierkegaard's remarkable combination of genius and peculiarity made this a fair if arrogant prediction. But Kierkegaard's life has been notoriously...
Philosophy and Theology
AuthorJohn D. Caputo
ISBN0687331269
A highly engaging essay that will draw students into a conversation about the vital relationship between philosophy and theology.

In this clear, concise, and brilliantly engaging essay, renowned philosopher and theologian John D. Caputo addresses the great and classical philosophical...
Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology
AuthorEdmund Husserl
The "Cartesian Meditations" translation is based primarily on the printed text, edited by Professor S. Strasser and published in the first volume of Husserliana: Cartesianische Meditationen und Pariser Vortrage, ISBN 90-247-0214-3. Most of Husserl's emendations, as given in the Appendix to...
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