Modern Philosophy

Read the great philosophers in their own words. This reader gathers original texts by Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Mill and more, arranged by topic and in historical order.

Jeff McLaughlin

A clear history of Greek thought from Thales to the Stoics and Neoplatonists. It explains how each school answered the one before it, with full chapters on Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.

W. T. Stace

Hegel's famous lectures, which treat the history of philosophy as one long argument. This first volume covers his introduction and Greek philosophy from Thales to the Sophists and Socrates.

G. W. F. Hegel