The 13 Best Books on Philosophy

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Here’s my list of the 13 best books in philosophy, in no particular order.

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See the source list and commentary at markmanson.net

The Republic

The Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle, 2004

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius, 2015

On the Shortness of Life

Seneca, John W. Basore

The Confessions of Saint Augustine

Augustine, 2011

Meditations on First Philosophy

Rene Descartes, Stanley Tweyman, 2002

Ethics

Benedictus de Spinoza, 1996

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

John Locke, 1997

Critique of Pure Reason

Immanuel Kant, 2018

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 2012

Everything Is F*cked

A Book About Hope

Mark Manson, 2019

The Denial of Death

Ernest Becker, 2007

Reasons and Persons

Derek Parfit, 1987