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Philosophy books — 60 PDFs & ePubs
60 classic philosophy books · free in PDF & EPUB
From the agora to your armchair: the philosophy shelf holds the books that built how we think — Stoics, skeptics, idealists, and one very loud German. All public domain, free to download in PDF or EPUB, or to read online without an account.
Meditations is the gateway: a Roman emperor's private notes, five minutes at a time. The Republic is the argument the rest of philosophy answers; Thus Spake Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil bring the hammer. And The Art of War proves strategy is philosophy in work clothes.
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The Republic
The argument the rest of Western philosophy has spent 2,400 years answering.
Masters of philosophy
The authors who built the genre — all their books free in the library.
All philosophy books
60 books, sorted however you like.
A Confession
A Guide to Stoicism
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
An enquiry concerning the principles of morals
Apology
Beyond Good and Evil
Crito
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Discourses on Livy
Ecce homo
Essays, Moral and Political
A hidden gem from this shelf
The Everlasting Man
Chesterton retells human history as a mystery about what makes people strange: cave paintings, myth-making, and the disruptive figure of Christ at the center.
Euthyphro
Gorgias
Human, all too human
Leviathan
Life Without Principle
Meditations
My Religion
Nicomachean Ethics
Of the Conduct of the Understanding
On the Genealogy of Morals
Pensées
Phaedo
Phaedrus
Poor Richard's Almanack
Protagoras
Second Treatise of Government
Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Studies in Pessimism
Summa theologica
Symposium
Tao Te Ching
The Age of Reason
The Antichrist
The Art of Being Right
The Art of War
The Basis of Morality
The Birth of Tragedy
The Book of Life
The Book of the Law
The City of God
The Dawn of Day
The Everlasting Man
The Gay Science
The Kingdom of God Is Within You
The Prince
The Problems of Philosophy
The Republic
The Social Contract
The Story of Ahikar
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
The Wisdom of Life
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Timaeus
Treatise of Human Nature
Twilight of the Idols
Utopia
Walden
What Is Art?