Books & Courses (MOC)

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The whole library in one place — book notes from 60.9.5 Books, courses from 60.9.7 Courses, plus the specialist shelves that live inside the branch folders. For what order to read them in, see Curriculum & Study Path (MOC).

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Start Here — Intros & Toolkits

• Reading Lists/Philosophy — Unified Curriculum & Checklist — the systematic reading order with assigned book chapters, encyclopedia articles, videos and podcasts
• Think - Simon Blackburn — the primer
• Philosophy Principles and Problems - Roger Scruton
• The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten — 100 thought experiments
• On Bullshit

Histories & Surveys

• The Story of Philosophy
• The History of Philosophy - A C Grayling
• A History of Western Philosophy - C Stephen Evans
• Peter Adamson’s History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps → Classical Philosophy - Peter Adamson · Philosophy in the Islamic World - Peter Adamson · Medieval Philosophy - Peter Adamson · Byzantine and Renaissance Philosophy - Peter Adamson

Ancient

• The First Philosophers — the Presocratics
• Aristotle - Jonathan Barnes · Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle · The Politics
• Cicero - The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
• The Consolation of Philosophy - Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

Eastern

• Laozi's Dao De Jing - Laozi Ken Liu · The Way of Life, According to Laotzu
• The Complete Confucius - Nicholas Tamblyn Confucius

Epistemology & Metaphysics

• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding — Hume
• Problems of Knowledge - A Critical Introduction to Epistemology
• Vaihinger's Philosophy of the As If

Ethics & Moral Psychology

• Justice by Michael J. Sandel
• The Righteous Mind - Jonathan Haidt — see also the canvas (file not included in this release)

Political Philosophy

• Confessions of a Heretic — Roger Scruton — all eleven essays: accountability, national belonging, beauty, and environmental stewardship; with source checks
• Primary texts → Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration · Basic Political Writings · The Communist Manifesto · The Wealth of Nations
• Surveys → An Introduction to Political Philosophy - Jonathan Wolff · Political Philosophy - A Very Short Introduction · History of Political Philosophy - Leo Strauss
• The full political shelf → Political Philosophy (MOC)

Biography & Lives

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Restless Genius
• Voltaire Almighty - A Life in Pursuit of Freedom
• Emerson - The Mind on Fire

Logic & Critical Thinking

• The full shelf lives in Logic & Reasoning (MOC) — Being Logical by DQ McInerny · Introduction to Logic · Asking the Right Questions by M. Neil Browne · Crimes Against Logic by Jamie Whyte · Don't Believe Everything You Think by Thomas Kida · Mistakes Were Made by Carol Tavris

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Courses

Surveys

• Introduction to Philosophy, Fall 2017
• Modern Philosophy - Peterson Academy · Post-Modern Philosophy - Peterson Academy
• Intro to Metaphysics & Epistemology - Peterson Academy · Logic - Peterson Academy

Ethics

• Justice - What's The Right Thing To Do - YouTube — Sandel’s Harvard course
• The Philosophy of Ethics (Peterson Academy) · The Psychology of Morality - Peterson Academy

Politics & Society

• Foundations of Modern Social Thought - Yale
• Yale Course - What is Political Philosophy · Moral Foundations of Politics - Yale Courses
• The Philosophy of Politics - Part I - Peterson Academy · The Philosophy of Politics - Part 2 - Peterson Academy
• An Introduction to Political Philosophy by J. Wolff · The Conservative Tradition - Great Courses

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Handwritten Notebook Topics

• The Essence of Christianity - Ludwig Feuerbach — religion as projected human essence

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