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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
31 of 60 books match this length.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
An enquiry concerning the principles of morals
Beyond Good and Evil
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Ecce homo
Essays, Moral and Political
Gorgias
Human, all too human
Meditations
My Religion
Nicomachean Ethics
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.
Of the Conduct of the Understanding
On the Genealogy of Morals
Phaedo
Phaedrus
Second Treatise of Government
Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Studies in Pessimism
The Age of Reason
The Antichrist
The Basis of Morality
The Birth of Tragedy
The Everlasting Man
The Problems of Philosophy
The Social Contract
Timaeus
Twilight of the Idols
Utopia
Walden
What Is Art?