Philosophy

Works to read

• The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell, 1912 · Great Books
• A History of Philosophy, Vol. XI: Logical Positivism and Existentialism by Frederick Copleston, 1956
• A History of Philosophy, Vol. VII: Fichte to Nietzsche by Frederick Copleston, 1963
• Philosophy of Natural Science by Carl G. Hempel, 1966
• A History of Philosophy, Vol. IX: Maine de Biran to Sartre by Frederick Copleston, 1975
• Physics and Philosophy by Werner Heisenberg, 1958 · Great Books
• The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, c. 524 CE
• A History of Philosophy, Vol. IV: Descartes to Leibniz by Frederick Copleston, 1958
• A History of Philosophy, Vol. V: Hobbes to Hume by Frederick Copleston, 1959
• A History of Philosophy, Vol. X: Russian Philosophy by Frederick Copleston, 1986
• Metaphysics by Aristotle, c. 350-322 BC · Great Books
• Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886 · Great Books

Passages

• Wisdom is the fruit of a balanced development

  — Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World

• Men shall learn wisdom, by affliction schooled

  — Aeschylus, The Oresteia

• Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man

  — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

• There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

  — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

• wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder

  — Plato, Theaetetus

• The impulse that carries you towards philosophy is assuredly noble and divine

  — Plato, Parmenides

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