Modern Classics on Philosophy

For the complete list of Modern Classics Click Here. [1st Draft – Published as on 21st August, 2022]

1. A History of Philosophy Without Gaps Peter Adamson
2. A History of Philosophy Copleston
3. A History of Philosophy Bertrand Russel
4. The History of Philosophy – A.C. Grayling
5. Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
6. Epistemological Bias – Abdelwahab Elemessiri
7. Capital by Karl Marx
8. Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes
9. Meditations by Rene Descartes
10. Ethics by Spinoza
11. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding John Locke
12. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
13. Four Dissertations David Hume
14. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion David Hume
15. Critique of Pure Reason – Kant
16. Critique of Practical Reason – Kant
17. Critique of Judgment – Kant
18. Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, 1785
19. Metaphysics of Morals
20. Utilitarianism by JS Mill
21. Syntactic Structures – Noam Chomsky
22. Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883) – Nietzche
23. Beyond Good and Evil (1886) – Nietzche
24. On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) – Nietzche
25. The Gay Science – Nietzche
26. René Descartes, Discourse on the Method, 1637
27. René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, 1641
28. René Descartes, Principles of Philosophy, 1644
29. Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670
30. Is Scientific Knowledge Rational? – Halil Rahman
31. Baruch Spinoza, Ethics, 1677
32. Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, 1677
33. Gottfried Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics, 1686
34. John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1689
35. A Short History of Ethics – Alasdair Macintyre
36. Anne Conway, The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, 1690
37. Gottfried Leibniz, New Essays on Human Understanding, 1704
38. George Berkeley, Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, 1710
39. Gottfried Leibniz, Théodicée, 1710
40. Gottfried Leibniz, Monadology, 1714 (printed 1720)
41. David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, 1738–1740
42. David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, 1748
43. Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, 1748
44. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, 1750
45. David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, 1751
46. Voltaire, Candide, 1759
47. Voltaire, Treatise on Tolerance, 1763
48. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, 1807
49. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Science of Logic, 1812–1817
50. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Right, 1820
51. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of History, printed 1837
52. Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, 1819–1859
53. Auguste Comte, Course of Positive Philosophy, 1830–1842
54. Does God Exist? Ismail Hacinebioglu
55. Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, 1843
56. Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling, 1843
57. Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety, 1844
58. Søren Kierkegaard, Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, 1846
59. Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will, 1889
60. Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory, 1896
61. Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy, 1912
62. G. E. Moore, “A Defence of Common Sense”, 1925
63. W. V. O. Quine, “Epistemology Naturalized”, 1971
64. Henri Bergson, “Introduction to Metaphysics”, 1903
65. G. E. Moore, “The Refutation of Idealism”, 1903
66. John Dewey, Experience and Nature, 1925/1929
67. Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, 1929
68. Rudolf Carnap, Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic, 1947/1956
69. Rudolf Carnap, “Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology”, 1950
70. W. V. O. Quine, “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”, 1951
71. William James, “The Will to Believe”, 1896
72. William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, 1902
73. Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy, 1945
74. Alvin Plantinga, God and Other Minds: A Study of the Rational Justification of Belief in God, 1967
75. John Hick, An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent, 1989/2004
76. Gottlob Frege, Begriffsschrift, 1879
77. Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead, Principia Mathematica, 1910–13/1925–27
78. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (also called The Tractatus), 1921
79. A. J. Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic, 1936
80. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 1953
81. Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, 1934/1959
82. John Dewey, Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, 1938
83. Gottlob Frege, The Foundations of Arithmetic, 1884
84. G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica, 1903
85. Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1943
86. Edmund Husserl, Logical Investigations, 1900/1901
87. Edmund Husserl, Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy, 1913
88. Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, 1927
89. Western Philosophy – Anthony Kenny
90. Of Religion – John Hick
91. Story of Philosophy – Will Durant

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