Western Philosophy: The Wisest of Purchases

A Listmania! list by Mr. Peter T. Hardy (Berkshire, England)
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The Republic (Penguin Classics)
1.  The Republic (Penguin Classics) by Plato
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  "Why choose to be good?"
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The Nicomachean Ethics (Penguin Classics)
2.  The Nicomachean Ethics (Penguin Classics) by Aristotle
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  "How should we live?"
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Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy (Hackett Classics)
3.  Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy (Hackett Classics) by Rene Descartes
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  "How can we be certain that anything exists?"
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A Spinoza Reader: The "Ethics" and Other Works
4.  A Spinoza Reader: The "Ethics" and Other Works by Benedictus de Spinoza
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  "What is mankind's place in nature?"
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Enquiries concerning Human Understanding and concerning the Principles of Morals
5.  Enquiries concerning Human Understanding and concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume
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  "What is human knowledge?"
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: with "Of the Immortality of the Soul, "Of Suicide", "Of Miracles"
6.  Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: with "Of the Immortality of the Soul, "Of Suicide", "Of Miracles" by David Hume
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  "Is it certain that the God of classical theism is real?"
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Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues (Oxford World's Classics)
7.  Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues (Oxford World's Classics) by George Berkeley
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  "Why should the cosmos consist of matter, rather than of mind?"
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Basic Political Writings: "Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts", "Discourse on the Origins of Inequality", "Discourse on ... ... Political Economy", "On the Social Contract"
8.  Basic Political Writings: "Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts", "Discourse on the Origins of Inequality", "Discourse on ... ... Political Economy", "On the Social Contract" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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  "Whose will should direct society?"
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Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
9.  Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Immanuel Kant
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  "Where does morality come from, if not from God?"
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The World As Will And Idea (Everyman)
10.  The World As Will And Idea (Everyman) by Arthur Schopenhauer
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  "Might human life be a dreadful mistake, controlled by forces beyond our comprehension and control?"
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The Phenomenology of Mind (Dover Philosophical Classics)
11.  The Phenomenology of Mind (Dover Philosophical Classics) by G.W.F. Hegel
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  "Might the life of the cosmos be that of the emergence and self-realisation of an all-encompasing mind?"
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The Basic Writings of Nietzsche (Modern Library)
12.  The Basic Writings of Nietzsche (Modern Library) by Friedrich Nietzsche
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  "What is the impulse to be moral founded upon?"
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On Liberty And Utilitarianism (Everyman's Library classics)
13.  On Liberty And Utilitarianism (Everyman's Library classics) by John Stuart Mill
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  "Is morality directed at the maximisation of the good for all?"
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Either/Or: A Fragment of Life (Penguin Classics)
14.  Either/Or: A Fragment of Life (Penguin Classics) by Soren Kierkegaard
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  "How is human life characterised by a radical choice between lifestyles?"
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Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy (Pelican)
15.  Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy (Pelican) by Karl Marx
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  "How does the restriction of power to those few able to reproduce wealth for themselves alienate the great mass of people?"
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Science and the Modern World
16.  Science and the Modern World by Alfred North Whitehead
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  "How might the demise of the worldview of Newtonian mechanics change our views of science and of reality?"
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Philosophical Investigations
17.  Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
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  "How do considerations of language bear upon philosophical problems?"
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Principia Ethica: With the Preface to the Second Edition and Other Papers
18.  Principia Ethica: With the Preface to the Second Edition and Other Papers by G. E. Moore
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  "What does the term 'good' refer to?"
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The Right and the Good (British Moral Philosophers)
19.  The Right and the Good (British Moral Philosophers) by David Ross
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  "Is morality primarily characterised by a plurality of often conflicting duties?"
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Entre Nous (Continuum Impacts)
20.  Entre Nous (Continuum Impacts) by Emmanuel Levinas
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  "How is human life characterised by the confrontation with 'otherness'?"
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Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method
21.  Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method by Blumer
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  "What kinds of behaviour characterise human society?"
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The Foucault Reader: An Introduction to Foucault's Thought (Penguin Social Sciences)
22.  The Foucault Reader: An Introduction to Foucault's Thought (Penguin Social Sciences) by Michel Foucault
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  "How, and for whom does power operate in society?"
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A Theory of Justice Rev (Paper) (Belknap)
23.  A Theory of Justice Rev (Paper) (Belknap) by John Rawls
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  "How can an unequal society be just?"
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One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (Routledge Classics)
24.  One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (Routledge Classics) by Herbert Marcuse
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  "Is human life more gravely repressed under post-industrial capitalism?"
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Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings
25.  Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings by Mark Poster
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  "In this age of electronic communications does the over-abundance of information pervert all meaningfulness?"
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