The 20 Greatest Philosophy Books

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Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: https://go.nebula.tv/jaredhenderson I found a book called 'The Twenty Greatest Philosophy Books' recently, and I thought it could be improved. So I made my own list of the twenty greatest philosophy books. Read books with me on Substack (we're reading Plato's Republic right now!): https://jaredhenderson.substack.com → Preferred Translations (links to publishers, find them at your preferred bookstores) Plato's Republic: https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/politics-international-relations/texts-political-thought/plato-republic?format=PB&isbn=9780521484435 Aristotle's Metaphysics: https://hackettpublishing.com/metaphysics-reeve-edition Tao Te Ching and The Analects (in 'The Four Chinese Classics'): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/675112/the-four-chinese-classics-by-david-hinton/ Augustine's Confessions: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/286429/confessions-by-augustine-of-hippo-translated-by-garry-wills/ Aquinas' Summa Theologica (hard to find in an affordable edition, so here's an online link): https://www.newadvent.org/summa/ Ibn Rushd's The Incoherence of the Incoherence (unsure of the best translation, but here's one on Internet Archive): https://archive.org/details/the-incoherence-of-the-incoherence Descartes' Meditations: https://www.hackettpublishing.com/meditations-on-first-philosophy Hobbes' Leviathan: https://hackettpublishing.com/leviathan Hume's Enquiry: https://hackettpublishing.com/an-enquiry-concerning-human-understanding Spinoza's Ethics: https://hackettpublishing.com/ethics Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/critique-of-pure-reason/259C2355B74458963EC285F53337AAF0 Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel-the-phenomenology-of-spirit/6FEDB42FDEF2E5FF97FEAE0EEEDABE8E Mill's Utilitarianism: https://hackettpublishing.com/utilitarianism Marx's Capital (vol 1): https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691190075/capital?srsltid=AfmBOoppYbHXCfxAib6VFlQ37UnuQQ8qDP7jJFVt815kd4t3hh2FYWxk Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra: https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/nietzsche-thus-spoke-zarathustra/5E1FF7A96401587F59F12BDAEB9CEF93#overview Frege's Foundations of Arithmetic: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810106055/the-foundations-of-arithmetic/ de Beauvoir's The Second Sex: https://archive.org/details/secondsex0000beau_d3j9 Heidegger's Being and Time: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/being-and-time-martin-heidegger?variant=32154071597090 Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Philosophical+Investigations%2C+4th+Edition-p-9781405159289