Essays
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