Philosophy: Books
Recommended books and series
How to Be Perfect: the correct answer to every moral question by From the creator of The Good Place and the co-creator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-provoking guide to living an ethical life, drawing on 2,500 years of deep thinking from around the world.
At the Existentialist Café: freedom, being, and apricot cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others by Highly recommended - a narrative account about the role of existentialism in turbulent times.
Philosophy and Popular Culture - available in print or online
"For Beginners" and "Starting With" series
These are terrific books for getting started:
Existentialism for Beginners by Available at Cascade Main Collection (142.78 C64e 2008 )
Deconstruction for Beginners by Available at Sylvania Main Collection (194 P69d 2007 )
Starting with Nietzsche by Available at Cascade Main Collection (193 H33s 2008 ) and other locations
Starting with Rousseau by Available at Sylvania Main Collection (194 D45s 2009 )
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Philosophy books free online
Thousands of books in the public domain (no longer protected by copyright laws) are available free online. For example:
- An Enquiry Concerning the Principle of Morals by David Hume
- An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham
- Summa Theologiae by St. Thomas Aquinas
Find more books in the public domain in these repositories
- Project Gutenberg (over 57,000 free eBooks)
- Hathi Trust Digital Library (digitized books and articles)
Ethics - recommended introductions and primary sources
Ethics for A-Level Open access textbook introducing normative ethics, meta-ethics and applied ethics. Access through the Jstor database
Nicomachean Ethics by Call Number: Print and online
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals by Call Number: Print and online
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Call Number: Print and online
In a Different Voice by Call Number: Cascade Library 305.42 G55i 1993
Speaking from the Heart by Call Number: Sylvania Library 170.82 M36s 1992
Caring A Relational Approach to Ethics and Moral Education by Call Number: Print and online
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