Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
10 best books like Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (George Berkeley): The Republic, Philosophical Investigations, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, Ethics, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, Meditations on First Philosophy, The Blue and Brown Books, Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0140449140 |
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classic text is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: what is goodness?; what is reality?; and what is knowledge?...
Philosophical Investigations
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| ISBN | 0631231277 |
If you read first Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, and then follow it with his Philosophical Investigations, you will treat yourself to perhaps the most fascinating intellectual development in the history of philosophy. Wittgenstein has the distinct merit of producing, not one, but two enormously...
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,...
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
| Author | David Hume |
| ISBN | 1420926993 |
I had seen so many references to Hume's Enquiry that I almost thought I had read it; but, when I actually got around to opening the book, I found as usual that things were not quite as I had imagined. I was not surprised by his relentless scepticism, or by his insistence on basing all reasoning on empirical...
Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0872206335 |
Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, by Plato, G.M.A. Grube (Translator), John M. Cooper (Editor)
Five dialogues, Plato; Introduction by A.D.Lindsay. London: J.M.Dent & sons Ltd, 1947...
Meditations on First Philosophy
| Author | René Descartes |
| ISBN | 0872201929 |
Meditationes de prima philosophia = Meditations on First Philosophy, René Descartes
Meditations on First Philosophy is a philosophical treatise written by René Descartes first published in Latin in 1641. The book is made up of six meditations, in which Descartes first discards all belief...
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| ISBN | 0061312118 |
These works, as the subtitle makes clear, are unfinished sketches for Philosophical Investigations, among the most important & influential philosophical work of modern times. The 'Blue Book' is a set of notes dictated to Witgenstein's Cambridge students in 1933-34. The 'Brown Book' was a draft...
| 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...
| Author | Saul A. Kripke |
| ISBN | 0674598466 |
If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it.
Ever since the publication of its original version, "Naming and Necessity" has had great and increasing influence. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural...
