The Western Canon of Metaphysics, Scientific Knowledge, and Human Thought

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The Republic
The Republic
by: Plato
3.96 avg rating — 220,194 ratings
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Beyond Good and Evil
Beyond Good and Evil 4.03 avg rating — 109,315 ratings
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Confessions
Confessions 3.99 avg rating — 71,260 ratings
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Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters
Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters 4.14 avg rating — 252 ratings
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Phenomenology of Spirit
Phenomenology of Spirit 3.96 avg rating — 19,985 ratings
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Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Reveries of the Solitary Walker 3.61 avg rating — 7,316 ratings
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Meditations
Meditations 4.28 avg rating — 320,715 ratings
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The Prince
The Prince 3.84 avg rating — 371,403 ratings
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Critique of Pure Reason
Critique of Pure Reason 3.96 avg rating — 40,916 ratings
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The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto
by: Karl Marx
3.67 avg rating — 189,247 ratings
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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory 4.20 avg rating — 22,702 ratings
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The Golden Bough
The Golden Bough 4.02 avg rating — 8,609 ratings
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The Histories
The Histories
by: Herodotus
4.01 avg rating — 54,681 ratings
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Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 746 ratings
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Simulacra and Simulation
Simulacra and Simulation really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15,970 ratings
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History of the Peloponnesian War
History of the Peloponnesian War 3.94 avg rating — 39,936 ratings
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The Symposium
The Symposium
by: Plato
4.09 avg rating — 85,852 ratings
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Categories/On Interpretation/Prior Analytics
Categories/On Interpretation/Prior Analytics
by: Aristotle
4.17 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Poetics
Poetics
by: Aristotle
3.83 avg rating — 28,472 ratings
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Physics
Physics
by: Aristotle
3.98 avg rating — 4,370 ratings
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The Art of Rhetoric
The Art of Rhetoric
by: Aristotle
3.88 avg rating — 6,613 ratings
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Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy 3.77 avg rating — 35,918 ratings
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Pensées
Pensées 3.94 avg rating — 14,064 ratings
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Second Treatise of Government
Second Treatise of Government 3.78 avg rating — 23,639 ratings
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 3.94 avg rating — 21,937 ratings
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The Federalist Papers
The Federalist Papers 4.10 avg rating — 41,559 ratings
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On Liberty
On Liberty 3.96 avg rating — 41,825 ratings
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The Origin of Species
The Origin of Species 4.01 avg rating — 120,185 ratings
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Civilization and Its Discontents
Civilization and Its Discontents 3.79 avg rating — 43,512 ratings
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Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 49,356 ratings
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An Introduction to Metaphysics
An Introduction to Metaphysics 3.88 avg rating — 800 ratings
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Philosophical Investigations
Philosophical Investigations 4.26 avg rating — 15,519 ratings
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Science and the Modern World
Science and the Modern World 3.98 avg rating — 578 ratings
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Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science 4.03 avg rating — 3,053 ratings
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The Problems of Philosophy
The Problems of Philosophy 3.90 avg rating — 18,141 ratings
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What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches 4.13 avg rating — 7,501 ratings
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The McTavish Regressions: Arabesque
The McTavish Regressions: Arabesque
by: Mctavish
4.12 avg rating — 24 ratings
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A Mathematician's Apology
A Mathematician's Apology 3.92 avg rating — 7,545 ratings
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Being and Time
Being and Time 4.05 avg rating — 27,067 ratings
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The Concept of the Political
The Concept of the Political 3.96 avg rating — 3,503 ratings
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The Decline of the West
The Decline of the West 4.06 avg rating — 2,170 ratings
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Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality 3.79 avg rating — 18,359 ratings
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The Society of the Spectacle
The Society of the Spectacle 4.03 avg rating — 22,635 ratings
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Faust, and the Urfaust
Faust, and the Urfaust 4.02 avg rating — 1,396 ratings
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Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism 3.68 avg rating — 24,612 ratings
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On Aggression
On Aggression 4.04 avg rating — 1,663 ratings
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Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals 3.83 avg rating — 22,111 ratings
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Being and Nothingness
Being and Nothingness 3.99 avg rating — 34,131 ratings
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Faust, First Part
Faust, First Part 3.83 avg rating — 84,124 ratings
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The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science
The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science 4.15 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Confessions
Confessions 3.59 avg rating — 9,159 ratings
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The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke 4.36 avg rating — 16,994 ratings
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Timaeus and Critias
Timaeus and Critias
by: Plato
3.84 avg rating — 2,083 ratings
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Philebus
Philebus
by: Plato
3.86 avg rating — 979 ratings
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The Nicomachean Ethics
The Nicomachean Ethics
by: Aristotle
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 57,307 ratings
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Hippocratic Writings
Hippocratic Writings 3.61 avg rating — 365 ratings
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Euclid's Elements
Euclid's Elements
by: Euclid
4.32 avg rating — 3,330 ratings
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The Way Things Are
The Way Things Are
by: Lucretius
3.97 avg rating — 14,246 ratings
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Discourses and Selected Writings
Discourses and Selected Writings
by: Epictetus
4.41 avg rating — 10,864 ratings
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Plutarch's Lives: Volume I
Plutarch's Lives: Volume I
by: Plutarch
4.10 avg rating — 5,997 ratings
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Plutarch's Lives: Volume II
Plutarch's Lives: Volume II
by: Plutarch
4.19 avg rating — 3,209 ratings
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The Histories
The Histories
by: Tacitus
4.13 avg rating — 3,900 ratings
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The Annals of Imperial Rome
The Annals of Imperial Rome
by: Tacitus
3.98 avg rating — 9,162 ratings
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Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World (Great Minds Series)
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World (Great Minds Series) 4.03 avg rating — 149 ratings
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The Enneads
The Enneads
by: Plotinus
4.07 avg rating — 3,123 ratings
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City of God
City of God 3.94 avg rating — 13,448 ratings
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On Christian Doctrine
On Christian Doctrine 4.06 avg rating — 3,847 ratings
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Selected Writings
Selected Writings 3.89 avg rating — 823 ratings
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Leviathan
Leviathan 3.70 avg rating — 51,350 ratings
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The Complete Essays
The Complete Essays 4.23 avg rating — 21,559 ratings
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The Major Works
The Major Works 3.75 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Rules for the Direction of the Mind
Rules for the Direction of the Mind 3.61 avg rating — 682 ratings
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Ethics
Ethics 4.10 avg rating — 20,278 ratings
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The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy 4.24 avg rating — 4,779 ratings
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A Letter Concerning Toleration
A Letter Concerning Toleration 3.80 avg rating — 3,589 ratings
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 3.86 avg rating — 17,028 ratings
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Principles of Human Knowledge / Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
Principles of Human Knowledge / Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous 3.84 avg rating — 1,211 ratings
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The Spirit of the Laws
The Spirit of the Laws 3.98 avg rating — 5,314 ratings
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The Social Contract
The Social Contract 3.78 avg rating — 55,695 ratings
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 3.88 avg rating — 34,379 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 4.02 avg rating — 15,256 ratings
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Critique of Practical Reason
Critique of Practical Reason 3.94 avg rating — 11,653 ratings
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The Metaphysics of Morals
The Metaphysics of Morals 3.94 avg rating — 2,724 ratings
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Critique of Judgment
Critique of Judgment 4.09 avg rating — 9,512 ratings
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
The Life of Samuel Johnson 3.80 avg rating — 5,264 ratings
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The Philosophy of History
The Philosophy of History 3.81 avg rating — 3,713 ratings
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Elements of the Philosophy of Right
Elements of the Philosophy of Right 3.88 avg rating — 3,741 ratings
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The Descent of Man
The Descent of Man 4.04 avg rating — 4,411 ratings
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Das Kapital
Das Kapital
by: Karl Marx
4.09 avg rating — 23,211 ratings
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The Principles of Psychology: Volume 1
The Principles of Psychology: Volume 1 4.16 avg rating — 757 ratings
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The Interpretation of Dreams
The Interpretation of Dreams 3.84 avg rating — 79,564 ratings
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The Ego and the Id
The Ego and the Id 3.82 avg rating — 12,112 ratings
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Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis 3.80 avg rating — 11,497 ratings
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Beyond the Pleasure Principle and Other Writings
Beyond the Pleasure Principle and Other Writings 3.82 avg rating — 5,438 ratings
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Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols
Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols 4.14 avg rating — 11,765 ratings
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Praise of Folly
Praise of Folly
by: Erasmus
3.83 avg rating — 19,731 ratings
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Fear and Trembling
Fear and Trembling really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29,957 ratings
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Plato: Complete Works
Plato: Complete Works
by: Plato
4.37 avg rating — 11,938 ratings
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Democracy in America
Democracy in America 4.05 avg rating — 26,630 ratings
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Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking 3.90 avg rating — 3,880 ratings
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