This is very eurocentric but try this order for some bare bones crash course shit that reflects how I came to where I am. Includes theology cuz thats just the philosophy of the time.
Plato > Aristotle > Pseudo-Dionysus > Various Dessert Fathers > Abelard > Aquinas > Luther > Calvin > Descartes > Bacon > Spinoza > Leibniz > Hobbes > Locke > Hume > Kant > Hegel > Schopenhauer > Nietzsche > Marx > Lenin > Luckacs > Adorno > Derrida > Foucault > Butler
If you do all that, you will have a foundation to build off of to read most things in the western canon. I’m gonna be honest, this is about as bare bones as I can make this, but this is a curriculum I would teach as a like 2 year crash course in western philosophy
Like if you read this its not that you will be done, its that you will know most the important thinkers and shifts in ideas which most people are replying to, and certainly will be able to dabble in contemporary philosophical literature
I can’t attest to these translations but try this out, added a few figures:
Plato: Symposium, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Republic
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Physics
Pseudo-Dionysius: The Mystical Theology
Dessert Fathers: Selections From The Sayings of The Dessert Fathers
Augustine: City of God, Confessions
Abelard: Letters of Abelard and Heloise, The Story of My Misfortunes
Aquinas: Summa Theologica
More to come…
Luther: 95 Theses
Calvin: The Institutes of Christian Religion
Descartes: Meditations
Bacon: The Essays of Francis Bacon
Spinoza: The Ethics
Leibniz: Philosophical Essays, The Monadology
Again, more to come…
Hobbes: Leviathan
Locke: Second Treatise on Government , Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Kant: Critique of Pure Reason
Hegel: Philosophy of Right, Phenomenology of Spirit
Schopenhauer: World As Will and Idea, Essays
Nietzsche: The Gay Science, On The Genealogy of Morality
Marx: basically everything
Lenin: State and Revolution
Luckacs: History and Class Consciousness, What Is Orthodox Marxism
Adorno: Negative Dialectics
Derrida: Of Grammatology, Limited Inc
Foucualt: History of Sexuality, Discipline and Punish
Butler: Gender Trouble, Undoing Gender, Precarious Life
There you go: give it a go. If this was at all helpful and you want more stuff like this consider supporting me at patreon
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