Reading path
The Philosopher's Path
The questions that won't leave anyone alone. What is real? What is good? What do we owe each other? Two and a half millennia of humanity's sharpest minds wrestling with what it means to be alive, to think, to act rightly. This path doesn't deliver a system. It delivers better questions, and the rare, exhilarating feeling of watching a great mind change direction mid-thought.
In the app a path keeps your place, marks what you have read, and hands you the next work when you are ready for it.
The first button needs the app on this device; the second gets it there.
The route
- 1. The ApologyPlato, 399 BCE
- 2. The RepublicPlato, 375 BCE
- 3. The SymposiumPlato, 385 BCE
- 4. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle, 350 CE
- 5. MeditationsMarcus Aurelius, 180 CE
- 6. The EnchiridionEpictetus, 135 CE
- 7. Letters to LuciliusSeneca, 65 CE
- 8. The Consolation of PhilosophyBoethius, 524 CE
- 9. ConfessionsSaint Augustine, 400 CE
- 10. The PrinceNiccolò Machiavelli, 1532
- 11. EssaysMichel de Montaigne, 1580
- 12. PenséesBlaise Pascal, 1670
- 13. The Social ContractJean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762
- 14. Critique of Pure ReasonImmanuel Kant, 1781
- 15. The World as Will and RepresentationArthur Schopenhauer, 1818
- 16. Either/OrSøren Kierkegaard, 1843
- 17. Fear and TremblingSøren Kierkegaard, 1843
- 18. The Concept of AnxietySøren Kierkegaard, 1844
- 19. The Sickness Unto DeathSøren Kierkegaard, 1849
- 20. The Gay ScienceFriedrich Nietzsche, 1882
- 21. Thus Spoke ZarathustraFriedrich Nietzsche, 1883
- 22. The Birth of TragedyFriedrich Nietzsche, 1872
- 23. Tractatus Logico-PhilosophicusLudwig Wittgenstein, 1921
- 24. Philosophical InvestigationsLudwig Wittgenstein, 1953
- 25. The Second SexSimone de Beauvoir, 1949
- 26. Eichmann in JerusalemHannah Arendt, 1963
- 27. Being and TimeMartin Heidegger, 1927
- 28. EthicsBaruch de Spinoza, 1677
- 29. LeviathanThomas Hobbes, 1651
- 30. Democracy in AmericaAlexis de Tocqueville, 1835
- 31. Discourse on MethodRene Descartes, 1637
- 32. The Art of WarSun Tzu, 500 BCE
- 33. Civilization and Its DiscontentsSigmund Freud, 1930
- 34. The Hedgehog and the FoxIsaiah Berlin, 1953
- 35. Nature and Destiny of ManReinhold Niebuhr, 1941
- 36. The Principia MathematicaAlfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, 1910
- 37. A Theory of JusticeJohn Rawls, 1971
- 38. The World As I See ItAlbert Einstein, 1930
- 39. The Open Society and Its EnemiesKarl Popper, 1945
- 40. A Preface to MoralsWalter Lippmann, 1929
- 41. On FriendshipMarcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BCE
- 42. A ConfessionLeo Tolstoy, 1882