SELECTED LIST OF ORIGINAL WORKS OF PHILOSOPHERS
SECOND ASSIGNMENT
COM 707: PHILOSOPHY AND COMMUNICATION
The following list represents a fair sample of important primary philosophic texts of the Western Canon.
Each choice must be cleared/registered by the professor before beginning research. There should be no duplication of original works of philosophers for this assignment. We need a breadth of original works. Do it now: robesch@regent.edu
Aquinas, Thomas. On the Methods and Divisions of Philosophy or Summa Theologica.
Anselm, St. Proslogion.
Aristotle. Prior Analytics or Categories or Metaphysics or Nicomachean Ethics or Poetics.
Arnold, Matthew. Poetry and Prose.
Austin, J. L. How to Do things with Words.
Augustine. Confessions, On True Religion or The City of God.
Bacon, Francis. The New Organon.
Berkeley, George. The Principles of Human Knowledge.
Comte, Auguste. Course of Positive Philosophy.
Descartes, Rene. Discourse on Method or Mediations on First Philosophy.
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb. Basis of the Entire Theory of Science.
Hegel, Georg W. F. The Phenomenology of Mind or The Philosophy of Right or Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences.
Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan.
Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
James, William. What is Pragmatism.
Kant, Immanuel. The Critique of Pure Reason or Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics or Critique of Practical Religion or Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals.
Leibniz, Gottfried. The Monadology, Theodicy.
Lock, John. Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
Marx, Karl. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.
Mill, J. S. System of Logic.
Montague, William Pepperell. The Ways of Knowing.
Ocham. Sentences.
Pascal, Blaise. Pensees.
Plato. Meno or Apology or Parmenides or The Symposium.
Plotinus. Enneads.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques. Discourse on the Arts and Science or Discourse on Political Economy
Schelling, Friedrich. System of Transcendental Idealism.
Schopenhauer, Arthur. The World as Will and Idea.
Spinoza, Benedict. Ethics.
Voltaire. Candide.