Philosophy Resources
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Summa Contra Gentiles
Thomas Aquinas
The Aquinas Institute
General
Metaphysics
Aristotle
Available free online. Modern Library Basic Aristotle and the Bollingen Complete Works of Aristotle.
General
On the Soul
Aristotle
Available free online. Modern Library Basic Aristotle and the Bollingen Complete Works of Aristotle.
General
A History of Philosophy, vol. 10
Fredrick Copleston
Russian Philosophy
General
A History of Philosophy, vol. 1: Greece and Rome.
Fredrick Copleston
Pre-Socratics to Neo-Platonists.
General
A History of Philosophy, vol. 3: Late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
Fredrick Copleston
Ockham to Suarez
General
A History of Philosophy, vol. 5
Fredrick Copleston
The British, from Hobbes to Hume
General
A History of Philosophy, vol. 7
Fredrick Copleston
Idealism, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche
General
A History of Philosophy, vol. 9
Fredrick Copleston
French philosophy
General
Euthyphro
Plato
Available online. Hackett Complete works.
General
Phaedo
Plato
Available online. Hackett Complete works.
General
The Republic
Plato
Available online. Hackett Complete works.
General
Graven Images: Substitutes for True Morality
Dietrich von Hildebrand
Ethics
Liturgy and Personality
Dietrich von Hildebrand
Ethics
The Art of Living
Dietrich von Hildebrand
Ethics
The Hidden Life
Dietrich von Hildebrand
Ethics
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Immanuel Kant
Hackett Edition
Ethics
Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics
Patrick Lee
Ethics
The Person and the Common Good
Jacques Maritain
Ethics
Love and Responsibility
Karol Wojtyła
Grzegorz Ignatik translation
Ethics
Introduction to Personalism
Juan Manuel Burgos
Personalism
The Personalism of John Henry Newman
John F. Crosby
Personalism
The Personalist Papers
John F. Crosby
Personalism
Jaws of Death: Gates of Heaven
Dietrich von Hildebrand
Personalism
The Heart
Dietrich von Hildebrand
Personalism
Homo Viator
Gabriel Marcel
Personalism
The Human Place in the Cosmos
Max Scheler
Personalism
An Investigation Concerning the State
Edith Stein
Personalism
Knowledge and Faith
Edith Stein
Personalism
The Hidden Life
Edith Stein
Personalism
Person and Act
Karol Wojtyła
Grzegorz Ignatik translation, difficult text
Personalism
Aesthetics, vol. 1 & 2
Alice von Hildebrand
Aesthetics
Cognition of the Literary Work of Art
Roman Ingarden
Difficult text
Aesthetics
The Literary Work of Art
Roman Ingarden
Difficult text
Aesthetics
The One and the Many
W. Norris Clarke, SJ
Good intro text to Thomism
Metaphysics
Controversy over the Existence of the World, vol. 1 & 2
Roman Ingarden
Difficult text
Metaphysics
Finite and Eternal Being
Edith Stein
Difficult text
Metaphysics
The Sacred and the Profane
Mircea Eliade
Philosophy of Religion
Introduction to a Philosophy of Religion
Alice von Hildebrand
Philosophy of Religion
Summa Theologica
Thomas Aquinas
The Aquinas Institute
General
Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle
Available free online. Modern Library Basic Aristotle and the Bollingen Complete Works of Aristotle.
General
Physics
Aristotle
Available free online. Modern Library Basic Aristotle and the Bollingen Complete Works of Aristotle.
General
A History of Philosophy, vol. 11
Fredrick Copleston
Logical positivism and existentialism
General
A History of Philosophy, vol. 2: Medieval Philosophy
Fredrick Copleston
Patristics to John Duns Scotus
General
A History of Philosophy, vol. 4
Fredrick Copleston
Descartes to Leibniz
General
A History of Philosophy, vol. 6
Fredrick Copleston
French Enlightenment to Kant
General
A History of Philosophy, vol. 8
Fredrick Copleston
Empiricism, Idealism, and Pragmatism in Britain and America
General
Apology
Plato
Available online. Hackett Complete works.
General
Gorgias
Plato
Available online. Hackett Complete works.
General
Symposium
Plato
Available online. Hackett Complete works.
General
Ethics
Dietrich von Hildebrand
Ethics
In Defense of Purity
Dietrich von Hildebrand
Ethics
Man, Woman, and the Meaning of Love
Dietrich von Hildebrand
Ethics
The Heart
Dietrich von Hildebrand
Ethics
The Problem of Empathy
Dietrich von Hildebrand
Ethics
Abortion and Unborn Human Life
Patrick Lee
Ethics
Conjugal Union
Patrick Lee
Ethics
Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values
Max Scheler
Ethics
Man in the Field of Responsibility
Karol Wojtyła
Ethics
Karol Wojtyla: The Thought of the Man Who Became Pope John Paul II
Rocco Buttiglione
Personalism
The Personalism of John Paul II
John F. Crosby
Personalism
The Selfhood of the Human Person
John F. Crosby
Personalism
Liturgy and Personality
Dietrich von Hildebrand
Personalism
The Nature of Love
Dietrich von Hildebrand
Personalism
Person and Self-Value
Max Scheler
Personalism
The Nature of Sympathy
Max Scheler
Personalism
Essays on Women
Edith Stein
Personalism
Philosophy of Psychology and the Humanities
Edith Stein
Personalism
The Problem of Empathy
Edith Stein
Personalism
Person and Community
Karol Wojtyła
Personalism
Beauty in Light of the Redemption
Dietrich von Hildebrand
Aesthetics
Ontology of Work of Art
Roman Ingarden
Difficult text
Aesthetics
Music and Philosophy
Gabriel Marcel
Aesthetics
Scholastic Metaphysics
Edward Feser
Thomism and analytic philosphy
Metaphysics
Back to the Things Themselves
Josef Seifert
Critique of Kantian and Husserlian idealism
Metaphysics
Potency and Act
Edith Stein
Difficult text
Metaphysics
Five Proofs of the Existence of God
Edward Feser
Philosophy of Religion
The Idea of the Holy
Rudolph Otto
Philosophy of Religion
The School of Athens by Raphael
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