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This is a list of important publications in philosophy, organized by field. The publications on this list are regarded as important because they have served or are serving as one or more of the following roles:
The list starts in order with the first ten books: the I Ching (an ancient Chinese divination text), the Hebrew Bible (a version of which serves as the "Old Testament" of the Christian Bible), the Iliad and Odyssey, the Upanishads (a collection of ancient Indian philosophical texts), the Tao Te Ching, the Avesta, the Analects, the History of ...
Many publishers have lists of best books, defined by their own criteria.This article enumerates some lists for which there are fuller articles. Among them, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (Xanadu, 1985) and Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels (Grafton, 1988) are collections of 100 short essays by a single author, David Pringle, with moderately long critical introductory chapters also by ...
A Berlin Republic – A Buyer's Market – A Calendar of Wisdom – A Clockwork Orange – A Conflict of Visions – A Darwinian Left – A Defence of Common Sense – A Defense of Abortion – A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain – A Few Words on Non-Intervention – A Fórmula de Deus – A General View of Positivism – A Grief Observed – A Guide for the Perplexed ...
Small Moral Works-Philosophical stories that were greatly enjoyed even by Arthur Schopenhauer. Kierkegaard, Søren: 1813-1855 Diary of a Seducer-A novel in the highly literary philosophical work Either/Or. Turgenev, Ivan: 1818-1883 Fathers and Sons; Dostoevsky, Fyodor: 1821-1881 Existentialism. Crime and Punishment; The Brothers Karamazov ...
Bacon finds philosophy to have become preoccupied with words, particularly discourse and debate, rather than actually observing the material world: "For while men believe their reason governs words, in fact, words turn back and reflect their power upon the understanding, and so render philosophy and science sophistical and inactive."