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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 16,767)

The Republic (Paperback)
by Plato (shelved 567 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.71 — 8,607 ratings — published 380

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Sophie's World (Paperback)
by Jostein Gaarder (shelved 445 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,347 ratings — published 1991

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Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (shelved 372 times as philosophy)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,193 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 366 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.64 — 17,032 ratings — published 1974

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All (Paperback)
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (shelved 324 times as philosophy)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,389 ratings — published 1349

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The Prince (Paperback)
by Niccolò Machiavelli (shelved 305 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.56 — 10,621 ratings — published 1532

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The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by Aristotle (shelved 260 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,806 ratings — published 1

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Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by Laozi (shelved 252 times as philosophy)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1947

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The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by Karl Marx (shelved 242 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.42 — 6,625 ratings — published 1848

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The Stranger (Paperback)
by Albert Camus (shelved 227 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.89 — 37,287 ratings — published 1942

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Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
by Immanuel Kant (shelved 223 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,654 ratings — published 1768

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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by Albert Camus (shelved 221 times as philosophy)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,842 ratings — published 1983

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Wer ist John Galt?. Atlas Shrugged (Ledereinband)
by Ayn Rand (shelved 200 times as philosophy)
avg rating 0.0 — 1 rating — published 1957

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The Trial and Death of Socrates (3rd Edition)
by Plato (shelved 197 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,782 ratings — published 1954

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The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by Ayn Rand (shelved 187 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.84 — 49,691 ratings — published 1943

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Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by Hermann Hesse (shelved 185 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.91 — 32,137 ratings — published 1922

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Leviathan (Penguin Classics)
by Thomas Hobbes (shelved 185 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.47 — 2,003 ratings — published 1651

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A History of Western Philosophy (Paperback)
by Bertrand Russell (shelved 178 times as philosophy)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,381 ratings — published 1901

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Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, 4th Ed. (Paperback)
by René Descartes (shelved 177 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.50 — 1,466 ratings — published 1641

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The Tao of Pooh (The Wisdom of Pooh)
by Benjamin Hoff (shelved 176 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,259 ratings — published 1982

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Meditations (Penguin Classics)
by Marcus Aurelius (shelved 175 times as philosophy)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,924 ratings — published 1963

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Being and Nothingness (Routledge Classics)
by Jean-Paul Sartre (shelved 171 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,155 ratings — published 1943

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The Art of War (Mass Market Paperback)
by Sun Tzu (shelved 169 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,970 ratings — published 1963

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Being and Time (cloth)
by Martin Heidegger (shelved 157 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,396 ratings — published 1927

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The Symposium (Paperback)
by Plato (shelved 157 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,120 ratings — published 1956

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Fear and Trembling (Penguin Great Ideas)
by Søren Kierkegaard (shelved 153 times as philosophy)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,945 ratings — published 1843

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The Alchemist (Paperback)
by Paulo Coelho (Goodreads author) (shelved 152 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.70 — 156,832 ratings — published 1988

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Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (Texts in the History of Philosophy)
by Immanuel Kant (shelved 147 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,030 ratings — published 1785

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The Social Contract (Penguin Great Ideas)
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (shelved 144 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,448 ratings — published 1762

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The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads author) (shelved 143 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.96 — 13,573 ratings — published 2006

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Utopia (Paperback)
by Thomas More (shelved 141 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.41 — 4,995 ratings — published 1516

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Nausea (New Directions Paperbook)
by Jean-Paul Sartre (shelved 137 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,838 ratings — published 1938

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Confessions (World's Classics)
by Augustine of Hippo (shelved 137 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,231 ratings — published 398

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Walden, or Life in the Woods (paper)
by Henry David Thoreau (shelved 137 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.72 — 11,914 ratings — published 1854

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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 136 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.42 — 786 ratings — published 1641

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Candide (Thrift Editions)
by Voltaire (shelved 133 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.74 — 13,631 ratings — published 1759

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Five Dialogues (Paperback)
by Plato (shelved 130 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,359 ratings — published 1938

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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 — 3,618 ratings — published 1976

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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Paperback)
by David Hume (shelved 127 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.84 — 768 ratings — published 1748

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Why I Am Not a Christian & Other Essays on Religion & Related Subjects (Paperback)
by Bertrand Russell (shelved 126 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,032 ratings — published 1957

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Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (paper)
by Ludwig Wittgenstein (shelved 123 times as philosophy)
avg rating 4.03 — 990 ratings — published 1921

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On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo (Paperback)
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (shelved 122 times as philosophy)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,013 ratings — published 1887

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by Thomas S. Kuhn (shelved 122 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,917 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 — 5,005 ratings — published 1979

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On Liberty (Penguin Classics)
by John Stuart Mill (shelved 118 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,294 ratings — published 1859

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The Prophet (Paperback)
by Kahlil Gibrán (shelved 118 times as philosophy)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,263 ratings — published 1923

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The History of Sexuality: An Introduction (The History of Sexuality, #1)
by Michel Foucault (shelved 113 times as philosophy)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,542 ratings — published 1976

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Man's Search for Meaning (Mass Market Paperback)
by Viktor E. Frankl (shelved 110 times as philosophy)
avg rating 4.37 — 11,385 ratings — published 1946

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Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit (Paperback)
by Daniel Quinn (shelved 107 times as philosophy)
avg rating 3.90 — 14,261 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 106 times as philosophy)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,223 ratings — published 1882

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