DailyLit: Philosophy Books

Spirits in Bondage

A Cycle of Lyrics
by C.S. Lewis

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Wikipedia Tour: Key Philosophers

by DailyLit

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” So said the famous Greek philosopher Socrates, one of the most famous and important voices in Western philosophy. That sentiment is undoubtedly shared by ...

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The Critique of Practical Reason

by Immanuel Kant

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Divine Comedy - The Paradise

by Dante Aligheri

Paradise, the conclusion of Dante’s epic Divine Comedy, opens with Virgil, who is not a Christian, being left behind in limbo as Dante at last exits Purgatory. Although he must leave his faithful gu ...

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Divine Comedy - The Purgatory

by Dante Aligheri

As Dante’s Purgatory, the second part of his grand Divine Comedy, opens, Dante and his guide Virgil have at last made their way out of the terrifying Inferno. Once out of the horrible circles of hel ...

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Tao Te Ching

by Lao Tzu

One of the most important classic spiritual texts in all of history, the Tao Te Ching offers value to all who seek its wisdom. Thought to be the sixth century B.C. work of philosopher Lao Tzu, the Tao ...

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The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

Published in 1532, The Prince is a shockingly frank guide to the art of cultivating power. How does one establish power and maintain control over other people—or an entire nation? How does a pri ...

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Oedipus Trilogy

by Sophocles

Comprised of his three most famous works, Antigone, Oedipus Rex, and Oedipus at Colonnus, Sophocles’s Oedipus Trilogy is a landmark in the history of Western drama. The gripping trilogy of plays abo ...

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Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

First published in 1854, Walden is Henry David Thoreau's famous account of his radical experiment in living. For one year, Thoreau threw off the burdens of society to live alone in the woods. In a sim ...

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The Communist Manifesto

by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

A sensation since it debuted in 1848, The Communist Manifesto is one of the most important political texts ever written. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were German theorists who, by the mid-nineteenth ...

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