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1580★ 9.3
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The Stranger
1942★ 8.9
The Republic
380 BC★ 8.8
Critique of Pure Reason
1781★ 8.8
The Second Sex
1949★ 8.7
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
1891★ 8.5
Being and Time
1927★ 8.5
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
1962★ 8.3
A Theory of Justice
1971★ 8.3
The Wealth of Nations
1776★ 8.2
Leviathan
1651★ 8.2
The Phenomenology of Spirit
1807★ 8.2
On Liberty
1859★ 8.2
Candide
1759★ 8.2
Beyond Good and Evil
1886★ 8.2
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
1922★ 8.2
Walden
1854★ 8.2
Discipline and Punish
1975★ 7.8
The Metaphysics
350 BC★ 7.6
On the Nature of Things
55 BC★ 7.6
The Nicomachean Ethics
350 BC★ 7.6
The Bhagavad Gita
Author unknown
150 BC★ 7.6
The Complete Writings
300 BC★ 7.5
Discourses
108★ 7.5
Meditations
180★ 7.5
Critique of Judgment
1790★ 7.5
The Last Days of Socrates (includes Apology)
399 BC★ 7.5
The Art of Rhetoric
350 BC★ 7.5
Meditations on First Philosophy
1641★ 7.5
The City of God
426★ 7.5
Mahabharata
400 BC★ 7.5
The Consolation of Philosophy
524★ 7.4
Summa Theologica
1274★ 7.4
Pensees
1669★ 7.4
The Upanishads
Author unknown
500 BC★ 7.4
The New Organon
1620★ 7.4
Two Treatises of Government
1689★ 7.4
A Treatise of Human Nature
1740★ 7.4
Ethics
1667★ 7.4
On the Social Contract
1762★ 7.3
Utopia
1516★ 7.3
The Enneads
270★ 7.3
Mencius
300 BC★ 7.3
On the Genealogy of Morals
1887★ 7.3
Emile, Or On Education
1762★ 7.2
The Handbook (The Encheiridion)
125★ 7.2
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
1779★ 7.2
The Myth of Sisyphus
1942★ 7.2
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
1755★ 7.2
The Anatomy of Melancholy
1638★ 7.2
Critique of Practical Reason
1788★ 7.1
Illuminations
1955★ 7.1
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
1690★ 7.1
In Praise of Shadows
1933★ 7.1
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
1785★ 7.1
Fear and Trembling
1843★ 7.1
The World as Will and Representation
1859★ 7.1
Discourse on Method
1637★ 7.1
Letters from a Stoic
60★ 7.0
Hojoki
1212★ 7.0
Either/Or
1843★ 7.0
The Birth of Tragedy
1872★ 7.0
Man's Search for Meaning
1946★ 6.9
Early Greek Philosophy
Various and Jonathan Barnes
500 BC★ 6.9
Civilization and Its Discontents
1929★ 6.9
The Road to Serfdom
1944★ 6.9
Dialectic of Enlightenment
1944★ 6.9
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
225★ 6.9
The Art of Happiness (All Writings)
270 BC★ 6.9
The Sickness Unto Death
1849★ 6.8
One-Dimensional Man
1964★ 6.8
Minima Moralia
1951★ 6.8
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
1759★ 6.8
Anti-Oedipus
1972★ 6.7
A Secular Age
2007★ 6.7
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Author unknown
1386★ 6.7
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
1978★ 6.7
Tao Te Ching
400 BC★ 6.7
The Analects
221 BC★ 6.7
The Muqaddimah
1377★ 6.7
The Symposium
380 BC★ 6.7
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
1748★ 6.7
Pragmatism and Other Writings
1907★ 6.6
The Cost of Discipleship
1937★ 6.6
The Postmodern Condition
1979★ 6.6
The Poetics of Space
1957★ 6.6
The Book of the City of Ladies
1405★ 6.5
Revelations of Divine Love
1395★ 6.5
Gravity and Grace
1943★ 6.5
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
1135★ 6.5
The Society of the Spectacle
1967★ 6.5
Camera Lucida
1980★ 6.5
The New Science
1725★ 6.4
Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues
1710★ 6.3
Discourse on Metaphysics
1686★ 6.3
Philosophical Essays
1710★ 6.3
The Passions of the Soul
1649★ 6.3
Cartesian Meditations
1931★ 6.3
On the Aesthetic Education of Man
1794★ 6.2
After Virtue
1981★ 6.2