23 Best Philosophy Books

Philosophers seem to have a prodigious output. One masterpiece follows upon another. And in order to understand one you usually have to read all of the others that came before it. So you can imagine the difficulty of winnowing down the list to the absolute best books in the genre. I’ve settled on including the most alluring works that will hopefully lead you on a journey through each thinker’s larger body of work as this is often necessary to really understand the fundamental thinking of each...