The best philosophy books ever?

Sang Hanafin: Atlas Shrugged.Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden BraidThe BibleThe Origin of Species

Pasquale Pollet: Philosophy is the education of grownups._ Stanley Cavell _Much of what philosophy is has changed in the last 100 years in particular and so when I contemplate on the 'philosophy' books I have read it obviously embraces a wide gamut of human intellectual thinking across a variety of disciplines.What I realized is that Philosophy does not always reside within the discipline of Philosophy. So my choice of books that I have read in particular which were/are fascinating to read/reflect upon as philosophical is of wider realms of human thinking though inclusive of what otherwise is known as Philosophy.1/ BLUE ARABESQUE: A Search for the Sublime by Patricia Hampl/ 2/ JANE GOODALL: The Woman Who Redefined Man by Dale Peterson/ 3/ THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan/ 4/ PROGRAMMING THE UNIVERSE: A Quantum Computer Sci! entist Takes On the Cosmos by Seth Lloyd/ 5/ Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman/ 6/ Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu/ 7/ The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff/ 8/ Knowledge and the Flow of Information By Fred Dreske/ 9/ Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein/ 10/ Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy by Bertrand Russell/ 11/ Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein/ 12/ A History of Western Philosophy and Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Bertrand Russell/ 13/ Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard McKay Rorty/ 14/ The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky/ 15/ Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter/ 16/ Metamagical Themas by Douglas Hofstadter/ 17/ Global Civilization: A Buddhist-Islamic Dialogue - Daisaku Ikeda With Majid Tehranian/ 18/ Choose Life: A Dialogue - Daisaku Ikeda with Arnold J. Toynbee/ 19/ Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Greg! ory Bateson/ 20/ Figures of Speech or Figures of Thought?: The! Traditional View of Art by Ananda Coomaraswamy/21/ Metaphysics by Ananda Coomaraswamy/ 22/ Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975) by Richard Buckminster Fuller in collaboration with E.J. Applewhite (2 Vols)/23/ Critical Path by Bucky Fuller/ 24/ Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich/ and 25/ Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science by John D. Barrow/.I wind up after 25 for obvious reasons. There are too many I wish I could recollect here! I will name a few whose works are philosophically exceptional before I sign off: Sri Aurobindo, Ralph Abraham, Jacques Derrida, Max Black, G J Chaitin, Ervin Laszlo, Ken Wilber, A N Whitehead and Richard Dawkins. Hope this list of my reading will open an integrational window into the universal philosophy of our species. Bye!...Show more

Giovanna Sherlin: Best Modern Philosophy Books

Nia Monopoli: Bertrand Russell "The Principles of Mathematics"Also love his article "On Denoting".Mill's "Utilitari! anism" (such a clear writer), or "On the Subjugation of Women".Hume's "A Treatise of Human Understanding" is very well written as well.

Virgil Loatman: The history of philosophy, Will and Edna Durant. Brief synopsis on all of the major philosophers and their ideas. Not too deep.

Angel Klym: Being and Time by Martin HeideggerThe life of reason: or, The phases of human progress by George SantayanaBasic Writings by Martin HeideggerThe Philosophy Of Existentialism by Gabriel MarcelSome Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy Five Essays by George Santayana Nietzsche: Volumes One and Two (Nietzsche, Vols. I & II) by Martin HeideggerThe Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude by Martin HeideggerPhilosophy of Existence (Works in Continental Philosophy) by Karl Jaspers, Richard F. GrabauThe Mystery of Being, Volume I: Reflection and Mystery (Gifford Lectures, 1949-1950)The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy and Character and Opinion in the U! nited States (Rethinking the Western Tradition) by George Santayana and! Prof. James Seaton Concept of Time: The First Draft of Being and Time (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers) by Martin Heidegger and Ingo Farin Karl Jasper's Philosophy: Expositions & Interpretations edyed by Kurt Salamun, and Gregory J. Walters Being and Time (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) by Martin Heidegger, Joan Stambaugh and Dennis J. Schmidt Introduction to Metaphysics (Nota Bene) by Martin Heidegger, Professor Gregory Fried and Professor Richard Polt Poetry, Language, Thought (Perennial Classics) by Martin HeideggerIntroduction to Philosophy -- Thinking and Poetizing (Studies in Continental Thought) by Martin Heidegger and Phillip Jacques Braunstein...Show more

Romeo Tinnea: the nature. everyone of the philosophers had to learn from the nature.

Jonathon Labonne: that actual a hard question for me to respond to as i've got examine lots over the final fifty years. I remember analyzing the essays of Thomas Henry Huxley in 1959 as nic! ely as a number of his grandson, Aldous Huxley's novels, which tended to be philosophical in tone. I wrote my senior English paper on comparing the philosophies of those 2 adult men. Later that 365 days i offered a 2 volume set of the two/Or through Kierkegaard yet did no longer get around to analyzing it until ten years later. I additionally examine "In compliment of Idleness" through Bertrand Russell someplace around the early Nineteen Sixties. as nicely as countless e book collections of essays consisting of "The Age of examine"....Show more

Jarrod Darnall: Conjectures and Refutations.