Main Sources

 

1. Heraclitus, Parmenides, Zeon, Pythagoras, Gorgias in FRAGMENTS OF THE PRESOCRATICS & THE SOPHISTS (The First Philosophers. The Presocratics and the Sophists. Trans. Robin Waterfield. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000)

 

2. PLATO, Republic (bks. 1, 3, 7, 10), Phaedrus, Symposium, Cratylus

 

3. ARISTOTLE, from The Basic Works of Aristotle, ed. Richard Mckeon, (Modern Library): Categories: 1-5, 12-13; De Interpretatione: 1-4, 7-9, 12-13; Prior Analytics: i 1, 4, 30; ii 23; Posterior Analytics: i 1-10, 22; ii 8-10, 19; Physics: i 1-9; ii; iii 1-3; iv 10-11, 14 ; vi 2 , 9; viii 1-6 , 8; De Anima: i 1-4 ; ii 1-12 ; iii 1-5, 10-13; Metaphysics: i 1-4, 6, 9 ; ii; iii 1; iv 1-6; v 7-8; vii; viii 1-3, 6; ix 1-7; xii 6-10 ; xiii 10; Nicomachean Ethics: i 1-13; ii 1-6; iii 1-7; v 1-2, 7, 10; vi 1-3, 5-8, 12-13; vii 1-3; viii 1-3, 9; ix 4, 7-9, 12; x 4-9; Politics: i 1-6; ii 1 , 2, 3-5 ; iii 1, 4, 6-12; iv 1, 3 , 11; v 1, 8, 9 ; vii 1-3, 8-9, 13, 15; Rhetoric: i 1-2, 5-6, 13 ; ii 1, 4, 22; Poetics: 4 , 6-11, 13-15

 

4. PLOTINUS, Collected Writings of Plotinus. Thomas Taylor, trans. Frome, Somerset: Prometheus Trust, 1994 ("On Dialectics" I.3; "On Beauty" I.6; "On Being" II.6; "On the Soul" IV.2, IV.7-8; "On the One" VI.9)

 

5. AUGUSTINE, from Confessions books 8-13

 

6. NICCOLÃ’ MACHIAVELLI, The Prince. Harvey C. Mansfield, trans. & intro. 2nd ed. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998

 

7. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, from Essays "To the Reader", essays 1, 2, 8, 12, 14, 18, 20, 21, 28, 30, 31

 

8. FRANCIS BACON from The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, 1970: The Advancement of Learning, Arthur Johnston, ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974; from the Essays: nos. 1-11; 16-19; 22; 28; 31-32; 38

 

9. THOMAS HOBBES, from Leviathan (Richard Tuck, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996) Introduction; Part I: of Man, Chs. i-v; Part II: of Commonwealth, Chs. xvii-xix; xxx, xxxi; Part III: of a Christian Commonwealth, Ch. Xxxii; A Review and Conclusion

 

10. RENE DESCARTES, Meditations on First Philosophy (George Heffernan, ed., trans. & notes. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 1992); A Discourse on Method. John Veitch, ed. & trans.; introduction by A.D. Lindsay. London: Dent; New York: Dutton, 1969

 

11. BLAISE PASCAL, from Pensées and Other Writings. Honor Levi, trans.; Anthony Levi, intro. & notes (Oxford UP, 1995): pp. 12-22; 28-51; 64-73; 87-94; 146-158; 178-181

 

12. BENEDICTUS DE SPINOZA, Ethics (G.H.R. Parkinson, ed. & trans. Oxford UP, 2000): books 1, 2 and 5.

 

13. G.W. LEIBNIZ, Monadology, and other philosophical essays. Paul Schrecker and Anne Martin Schrecker, trans.; Paul Schrecker, intro. & notes. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965

 

14. JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU, from The Social Contract (Christopher Betts, trans. & intro. notes. New York: Oxford UP, 1994), books 1 and 2

 

15. IMMANUEL KANT, from Critique of Pure Reason (Trans. Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998): Prefaces and Introductions to the two editions, table of contents (pp. 99-151); "Transcendental aesthetic," 2nd edition (pp. 172-192); "The antinomy of pure reason" (pp. 459-95); from Critique of Judgment: "Introduction," "The Analytic of the Sublime" (§§22-29; 59); from Perpetual Peace and Other Essays: "Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Intent," "What Is Enlightenment?" "To Perpetual Peace"; from Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View: "Introduction"; from The Conflict of the Faculties: from Part 1, "On the Relation of the Faculties"; Part 2 sec. 6

 

14. FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL, Critical Fragments; Athenäum Fragments; "Introduction to the Transcendental Philosophy" (in Theory as Practice, ed. J. Schulte-Sasse)

 

15. G.W.F. HEGEL, Introduction to the Aesthetics; from The Phenomenology of Mind (trans. J.B. Baillie) "Preface," pp. 228-40 (the Master-Slave Relationship), pp. 241-67 (The Unhappy Consciousness), pp. 507-13 (Spirit in Self-Estrangement), the last chapter; from The Philosophy of Nature "Organics"; from The Philosophy of Right "Transition from Morality to Ethical Life" (including sections on civil society, the state, colonialism, international law); from Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences "Preface" and "Outline"; form The Philosophy of History, "Introduction"

 

16. F.W.J. SCHELLING, Investigations into the Nature of Human Freedom; The Ages of the World (1815 version; trans. Jason Wirth)

 

17. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER, from The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1: book 1: pp. 3-4; book 2: 95-109, 119-52; book 3: 169, 195-200, 208-28, 255-67; book 4: 274-86, 311-23, 398-412. (EFJ Payne translation)

 

18. KARL MARX, from The Marx - Engels Reader, The German Ideology; from Capital. A Critique of Political Economy. Vol. 1 (Penguin, 1976) Chs. 1-5, 32 and 33

 

19. SØREN KIERKEGAARD, from The Concept of Irony 9-13; 241-58; 265-75; 286-301; 310-12; 465-6; 527-8; Fear and Trembling

 

20. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, "On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense"; The Birth of Tragedy (§§1-17); The Genealogy of Morality. Maudemarie Clark & Alan J. Swensen, trans., intro. & notes. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998; The Will to Power, §§470-529 (the Kaufmann-Hollingdale translation).

 

21. C.S. PEIRCE, from Peirce on Signs, James Hoopes, ed., "On the nature of signs,"; from Philosophical Writings of Peirce. J. Buchler, ed., "Logic as Semiotic: The Theory of Signs."

 

22. HENRI BERGSON, from Key Writings. Keith Ansell Pearson & John Mullarkey, eds. Melissa McMahon, trans. New York: Continuum, 2002: "The Idea of Duration," pp. 49-80; from Duration and Simultaneity pp. 205-22

 

23. FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE, Course in General Linguistics Part 1, sec.1 ("Nature of the Linguistic Sign") and Part2, sec. IV and V ("Linguistic Value" and "Syntagmatic and Associative Relations").

 

24. SIGMUND FREUD, "The History of an Infantile Neurosis;" Dora; Interpretation of Dreams, Ch. 6 ("The Dream Work"); "The Uncanny"; "Mourning and Melancholia"; Beyond the Pleasure Principle; Civilization and Its Discontents

 

25. EDMUND HUSSERL, from Shorter Works, eds., McCormick and Elliston:

"Phenomenology," from Encyclopaedia Britannica, pp. 21-35; "Husserl's Inaugural Lecture at Freiburg" pp. 9-17; "On the Psychological Grounding of Logic," pp. 146-7; "The Lectures on Internal Time Consciousness from the Year 1905," pp. 277-88; "Philosophy as Rigorous Science," pp. 166-97; "The Origin of Geometry," pp. 255-70; "Renewal: Its Problem and Method," pp. 326-31

 

26. GEORG SIMMEL, from Simmel on Culture: Selected Writings. David Frisby & Mike Featherstone, eds. London: SAGE, 1997: 55-108; 174-186; and 233-254

 

27. MAX WEBER, from Selections in Translation, ed. W.G. Runciman (Cambridge 1978): "Protestant Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism", pp. 138-173; "The Nature of Charismatic Domination", pp. 226-250; "The Development of Bureaucracy and Its Relation to Law", pp. 341-54

 

Additional Sources (pick 10)

 

FRAGMENTS OF THE PRESOCRATICS & THE SOPHISTS (The First Philosophers. The Presocratics and the Sophists. Trans. Robin Waterfield. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000) everything except Heraclitus, Parmenides, Zenon, Pythagoras and Gorgias

 

PLATO, Phaido, Sophist

 

PSEUDO-LONGINUS, On the Sublime. Tr. James A. Arieti and John M. Crossett, New York: E. Mellen Press, 1985

 

THE STOICS: Chaeremon the Egyptian, The Fragments. Pieter Willem van der Horst ed., notes & commentary. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1984; Arius Didymus, Epitome of Stoic Ethics. Arthur J. Pomeroy, ed. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 1999; Zeno the Stoic and Cleanthes, The Fragments. A.C. Pearson intro. & notes. New York: Arno Press, 1973; The Stoic and Epicurean Philosophers: the complete extant writings of Epicurus, Epictetus, Lucretius, Marcus Aurelius. Whitney J. Oates, ed. & intro. New York, Modern Library, 1957

 

AUGUSTINE, from The Political Writings. Henry Paolucci, ed. Washington D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1962 "Origins of the Coercive Government" (1-43)

 

THE GREEK FATHERS: from PHILOKALIA, from vol. 2: 38-47 St. Theodoros, "Theoretikon"; from vol. 3: 108-44 St. Peter of Damaskos, "The Stages of Contemplation"; vol. 4: 418-25 St. Gregory Palamas, "The Declaration of the Holy Mountain"; from Gregory Palamas, The Triads (ed. John Meyendorff; tr. Nicholas Gendle, New York: Paulist Press, 1983) sections B, C, E and F; from John Meyendorff, Byzantine Theology, pp. 1-15; 138-50; 201-11; 224-7; from Leonid Ouspensky, Theology of the Icon (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir Seminary Press, 1992), vol. 1. 35-50, 151-94; vol. 2: 463-515

 

THOMAS AQUINAS, from (Selected Writings, ed. Ralph McInerny; Penguin, 1998) Summa Theologica : 1.44 (pp. 360-7), 3.16 & 3.3 (pp. 749-85); 85-108; 551-65

 

MEISTER ECKHART: Meister Eckhart, Teacher and Preacher. Bernard McGinn, with Frank Tobin & Elvira Borgstadt, eds.; Kenneth Northcott, preface. New York & Toronto: Paulist Press, 1986 from Commentary on Exodus: idols 81-5; god and negation 99-102; Latin sermon XXIX, 223-27; German sermon 9 "Quasi stella matutina" 255-61; 40 "Manete in me/Beatus vir", 300-06. From Meister Eckhart, The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises and Defense (E. Colledge & Bernard McGinn, trans. New York & Toronto: Paulist Press, 1986) "On Detachment", 285-94

 

NICHOLAS DE CUSA, On Learned Ignorance/De docta ignorantia. Tr. Jasper Hopkins. Minneapolis: A.J. Banning P, 1981

 

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Essays books 1 and 2, minus essays nos. 1, 2, 8, 12, 14, 18, 20, 21, 28, 30, 31

 

GIORDANO BRUNO, Cause, Principle, and Unity. Robert de Lucca, ed. & trans.; Essays on Magic. Richard J. Blackwell, ed. & trans.; Alfonso Ingegno, intro. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge UP, 1998

 

FRANCIS BACON from The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, 1970: The New Atlantis, Arthur Johnston, ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974; author's preface and "plan of work" to The Great Instauration, pp. 243-54; from The New Organon aphorisms i-cxxx; bk. 2, aph. xxi-xxiii; Lisa Jardine & Michael Silverthorne, eds. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge UP, 2000; from Of the Wisdom of the Ancients chs. 1-10

 

BENEDICTUS DE SPINOZA, The Principles of Cartesian Philosophy; Metaphysical Thoughts (Samuel Shirley, trans.; Steven Barbone & Lee Rice, intro. & notes. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998)

 

IMMANUEL KANT, Critique of Practical Reason, from Critique of Judgment: "Preface," and "Critique of the Aesthetical Judgment"; Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals; The Conflict of the Faculties (minus the fragments form the main list)

 

FRIEDRICH SCHILLER, On Naive and Sentimental Poetry, from Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man letters 1, 3-5, 9, 12-16, 18, 23-24, 27

 

F.W.J. SCHELLING, "On the Nature of Philosophy as Science"; Idealism and the Endgame of Theory: three essays, trans. & ed. Thomas Pfau; The Philosophy of Art, trans., ed. & intro. Douglas W. Stott (Minnesota, 1989)

 

A.W. SCHLEGEL, "Theory of Art" (In Theory as Practice, ed. Schulte-Sasse)

 

J.G. FICHTE, from Science of Knowledge, Part 1; from Part 2 first Lehrsatz (A-D, and intro to E up to I); from Part 3 second-fourth Lehrsatz

 

FRIEDRICH SCHLEIERMACHER, "General Hermeneutics," Hermeneutics and Criticism, Bowie, ed.

 

KARL MARX, from The German Ideology (minus the selections from the main list); The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

 

SØREN KIERKEGAARD, Point of View for my Work as an Author; Fear and Trembling (minus selections from the main list), Diary of a Seducer

 

CHARLES DARWIN from The Voyage of the Beagle ch. 17, "Galapagos Archipelago"; from On the Origin of Species ch. 4, "Struggle for Existence," and ch. 14, "Recapitulation and Conclusion;" from Descent of Man Ch. 21, "General Summary and Conclusion"

 

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, The Birth of Tragedy (minus selections from main list); Thus Spake Zarathustra; The Will to Power, §§1-470 (the Kaufmann-Hollingdale translation).

 

WILHELM DILTHEY, "The Rise of Hermeneutics," in Selected Writings, ed. H.P. Rickman; Introduction to the Human Sciences, Book 1 (Betanzos trans.) OR selections as in Part IV of Selected Writings (ed. Rickman)

 

HENRI BERGSON, from Key Writings. Keith Ansell Pearson & John Mullarkey, eds. Melissa McMahon, trans. New York: Continuum, 2002: from Matter and Memory, pp. 81-140; from Creative Evolution, pp. 171-203

 

EDMUND HUSSERL, from Ideas (trans. W.R. Boyce Gibson), Ch.3 ("The Thesis of the Natural Standpoint and its Suspension," pp. 91-100), Ch.8, Sec. 84 ("Intentionality as the Main Phenomenological Theme," pp. 222-26); from Logical Investigations (2 vols. edition, trans. J.N. Findlay), vol. II, "Investigation 1: Expression and Meaning," pp. 183-91

 

MAX WEBER, Selected Papers. S.N. Eisenstadt, ed. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1968)

 

CARL SCHMITT, The Concept of the Political (Tr. George Schwab)

 

WERNER HEISENBERG, from Across the Frontiers (Trans. Peter Heath. New York: Harper & Row, 1974), Chs. 4, 6, 9-14

 

Recommended:

 

HANS BUMENBERG, from The Legitimacy of the Modern Age (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1983) Part 1, Part 2 chs. 2 and 4, Part 3, Ch.7, Part 4; from Work on Myth (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1983) Part 1, Chs. 1-3, Part 2, Ch. 2, Part 3 Ch. 2, Part 5, Ch. 3; from The Genesis of the Copernican World (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987) Part 1

 

ERNST CASSIRER, The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy (Trans. Mario Domandi. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1963)

 

FERNAND HALLYN, The Poetic Structure of the World. Copernicus and Kepler (Trans. Donald M. Leslie. New York: Zone Books, 1993)

 

MARTIN HEIDEGGER, Early Greek Thinking (Trans. David Farrell Krell and Frank A. Capuzzi. New York: Harper & Row, 1975)

 

BRUNO LATOUR, The Pasteurization of France, trans. Sheridan and Law. (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1988)

 

GERSHOM SCHOLEM, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (New York: Schocken, 1961) and Kabbalah (New York: New American Library, 1974)