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Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing these questions (such as mysticism or mythology) by its critical, generally systematic approach...more

popular philosophy books (showing 1-50 of 16,594)

The Republic (Paperback)
by Plato (shelved 560 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.71 — 8,467 ratings — published 380

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Sophie's World (Paperback)
by Jostein Gaarder (shelved 434 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,158 ratings — published 1991

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Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (shelved 366 times as philosophy)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,156 ratings — published 1886

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Mass Market Paperback)
by Robert M. Pirsig (shelved 363 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.64 — 16,801 ratings — published 1974

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All (Paperback)
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (shelved 326 times as philosophy)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,330 ratings — published 1349

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The Prince (Bantam Classic)
by Niccolò Machiavelli (shelved 302 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.43 — 11 ratings — published 1532

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The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by Aristotle (shelved 257 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,777 ratings — published 1

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Tao Te Ching, 25th-Anniversary Edition (Mandarin_chinese Edition)
by Laozi (shelved 245 times as philosophy)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,022 ratings — published 1947

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The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by Karl Marx (shelved 237 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.42 — 6,528 ratings — published 1848

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The Stranger (Paperback)
by Albert Camus (shelved 222 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.89 — 36,719 ratings — published 1942

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Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
by Immanuel Kant (shelved 221 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,623 ratings — published 1768

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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by Albert Camus (shelved 218 times as philosophy)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,782 ratings — published 1385

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Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by Ayn Rand (shelved 197 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.90 — 39,316 ratings — published 1957

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The Trial and Death of Socrates (3rd Edition)
by Plato (shelved 194 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,748 ratings — published 1954

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The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by Ayn Rand (shelved 184 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.84 — 49,106 ratings — published 1943

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Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by Hermann Hesse (shelved 183 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.92 — 31,629 ratings — published 1922

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Leviathan (Penguin Classics)
by Thomas Hobbes (shelved 182 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.47 — 1,966 ratings — published 1651

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Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, 4th Ed. (Paperback)
by René Descartes (shelved 176 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,438 ratings — published 1641

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A History of Western Philosophy (Paperback)
by Bertrand Russell (shelved 174 times as philosophy)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,354 ratings — published 1901

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The Tao of Pooh (The Wisdom of Pooh)
by Benjamin Hoff (shelved 172 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,164 ratings — published 1982

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Meditations (Penguin Classics)
by Marcus Aurelius (shelved 172 times as philosophy)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,893 ratings — published 1963

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Being and Nothingness (Routledge Classics)
by Jean-Paul Sartre (shelved 167 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,117 ratings — published 1943

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The Art of War (Mass Market Paperback)
by Sun Tzu (shelved 167 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,826 ratings — published 1963

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Being and Time (cloth)
by Martin Heidegger (shelved 155 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,371 ratings — published 1927

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The Symposium (Paperback)
by Plato (shelved 153 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,091 ratings — published 1956

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Fear and Trembling (Penguin Great Ideas)
by Søren Kierkegaard (shelved 149 times as philosophy)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,914 ratings — published 1843

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The Alchemist (Paperback)
by Paulo Coelho (Goodreads author) (shelved 146 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.70 — 152,778 ratings — published 1988

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Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (Texts in the History of Philosophy)
by Immanuel Kant (shelved 145 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,011 ratings — published 1785

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The Social Contract (Penguin Great Ideas)
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (shelved 142 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,412 ratings — published 1762

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The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads author) (shelved 140 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.96 — 13,361 ratings — published 2006

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Utopia (Paperback)
by Thomas More (shelved 136 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.41 — 4,895 ratings — published 1516

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Nausea (New Directions Paperbook)
by Jean-Paul Sartre (shelved 135 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,771 ratings — published 1938

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Meditations on First Philosophy: In Which the Existence of God and the Distinction of the Soul from the Body Are Demonstrated (Paperback)
by René Descartes (shelved 134 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.42 — 780 ratings — published 1641

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Confessions (World's Classics)
by Augustine of Hippo (shelved 133 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,176 ratings — published 398

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Walden, or Life in the Woods (paper)
by Henry David Thoreau (shelved 133 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.72 — 11,685 ratings — published 1854

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Candide (Thrift Editions)
by Voltaire (shelved 132 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.74 — 13,385 ratings — published 1759

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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by Michel Foucault (shelved 130 times as philosophy)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,584 ratings — published 1976

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Five Dialogues (Paperback)
by Plato (shelved 128 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,341 ratings — published 1938

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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Paperback)
by David Hume (shelved 125 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.84 — 744 ratings — published 1748

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Why I Am Not a Christian & Other Essays on Religion & Related Subjects (Paperback)
by Bertrand Russell (shelved 123 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,997 ratings — published 1957

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Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (paper)
by Ludwig Wittgenstein (shelved 122 times as philosophy)
avg rating 4.04 — 976 ratings — published 1921

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On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo (Paperback)
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (shelved 121 times as philosophy)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,989 ratings — published 1887

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by Thomas S. Kuhn (shelved 120 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,885 ratings — published 1962

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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by Douglas R. Hofstadter (shelved 120 times as philosophy)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,938 ratings — published 1979

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On Liberty (Penguin Classics)
by John Stuart Mill (shelved 117 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,268 ratings — published 1859

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The Prophet (Paperback)
by Kahlil Gibrán (shelved 115 times as philosophy)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,030 ratings — published 1923

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The History of Sexuality: An Introduction (The History of Sexuality, #1)
by Michel Foucault (shelved 112 times as philosophy)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,500 ratings — published 1976

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Man's Search for Meaning (Mass Market Paperback)
by Viktor E. Frankl (shelved 107 times as philosophy)
avg rating 4.37 — 11,173 ratings — published 1946

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Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit (Paperback)
by Daniel Quinn (shelved 105 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.91 — 14,116 ratings — published 1992

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The Gay Science with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs (Paperback)
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (shelved 104 times as philosophy)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,202 ratings — published 1882

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