Top 10 Philosophy Books

[bmac007]

hello everyone... I actually like reading books on philosophy and asking for your recommendations on maybe some I haven't read.
in this thread please post any number of titles in philosophy (ten if you can) or even just post authors and other suggestions. i love reading and philosophy interests me so please, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thank you!! Here is my top 10:

1. The Republic - Plato
2. The Trial and Death of Socrates - Plato
3. Utopia - Thomas Moore
4. Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Fred Engles
5. Candide - Voltaire (yes this is a philosophical text)
6. Social Contract - Jean Jacques Rousseau
7. The Poetics - Aristotle (Haven't read it myself, heard it was tough to get through but very interesting)
8. Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche ***here is a great link that I found clear ad helpful to explain his basic philosophy if interested:
Friedrich Nietzsche (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2004 Edition) (http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2004/entries/nietzsche/)
9) If Aristotle Ran General Motors- Morris
10) Critique of Pure Reason- Kant

[Taltarzac725]

I have a B.A. from the University of Nevada, Reno in Philosophy. Like the works of David Hume Hume (http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/hume.htm). Also enjoy those of Bishop George Berkely. George Berkeley (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/berkeley/)

American philosophers like William James http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/james.html and Charles Sanders Peirce are also of interest. Charles Sanders Peirce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce)

A very difficult but great philosopher is Ludwig Wittgenstein. Ludwig Wittgenstein (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein/)

Anyone really interested in the Great Ideas of Western Philosophy should look at this Teaching Company course. http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/course_detail.aspx?cid=470

They have a previous edition of this work in both CD and Audio Tape form at the Lake County Library System's Lady Lake Library at 225 W. Guava Street in Lady Lake.

The Teaching Company also has courses on Eastern Philosophy.

[lightworker888]

These are all writer/poets whose writings I classify as philosophical, which to me means that they describe a particular way of moving in the world or world (life) view. Don't know if that is what you are asking for.

Lao Tzu, Confucius, Krishnamurti, Kahlil Gibran, L.S. Barksdale, Sufi, Esther & Jerry Hicks, Neale Donald Walsh, Barry Kaufman, J.J.Rousseau,

Harry Browne's How I found Freedom in an Unfree World was pivotal for my DH. He came into our life with more books than clothes and the majority were philosophical!

LW888

[Taltarzac725]

I see The Bible as having a lot of philosophy. "The Book of Job" and the "Gospel of John" seem to have a lot of philosophical underpinnings as do many of the Psalms.

[ijusluvit]

If you want some polar opposite perspectives, try Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica, followed by Jean Paul Sartre's No Exit.