Philosophy Resources

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Not all opinions in these texts are shared by Le Nouvel Esprit but have important ideas which have developed the great conversation of philosophy. 
 

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Introductory Texts

Ethics

Personalism

Aesthetics

Metaphysics

Philosophy of Religion

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General and Introductory Texts

• Aristotle, Bollingen complete works (or Modern Library Basic Aristotle)

• Fredrick Copleston's multivolume A History of Philosophy

  • Volume 1: Greece and Rome. Spans from the Pre-Socratics to Neo-Platonists.  ​

  • Volume 2: Medieval Philosophy. Spans Patristics to Duns Scotus. 

  • Volume 3: Late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy. Spans Ockham to Suarez. 

  • Volume 4: Modern Philosophy. Covers Descartes to Leibniz.

  • Volume 5: Modern Philosophy. Covers the British, Hobbes to Hume.

  • Volume 6: Modern Philosophy. Spans  French Enlightenment to Kant. 

  • Volume 7: Modern Philosophy. Covers Idealism, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche.

  • Volume 8: Modern Philosophy. Empiricism, Idealism,  and Pragmatism in Britain and America.

  • Volume 9: 19th and 20th century French philosophy.

  • Volume 10: Russian Philosophy.

  • Volume 11: Spans logical positivism and existentialism. 

• Plato, Hackett complete works​

• St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, The Aquinas Institute

Ethics

• Immanuel Kant​

  • Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals​

• Patrick Lee​

  • Abortion and Unborn Human Life​

  • Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics

  • Conjugal Union

• Jacques Maritain
  • The Person and the Common Good​

• Max Scheler​

  • Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values​

• Dietrich von Hildebrand

  • Ethics​

  • Graven Images: Substitutes for True Morality

  • In Defense of Purity

  • Man, Woman, and the Meaning of Love

  • Marriage 

  • Morality and Situation Ethics

  • The Art of Living

  • The Encyclical Humanae Vitae: A Sign of Contradiction

  • Transformation in Christ

• Karol Wojtyła​

  • Love and Responsibility, Pauline Books edition​

  • Man in the Field of Responsibility

Personalism

• Juan Manuel Burgos

  • Introduction to Personalism

• Rocco Buttiglione​

  • Karol Wojtyla: The Thought of the Man Who Became Pope John Paul II​

• John F. Crosby​

  • The Personalism of John Henry Newman

  • The Personalism of John Paul II

  • The Personalist Papers

  • The Selfhood of the Human Person

• Max Scheler​

  • Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values​

  • The Human Place in the Cosmos

  • The Nature of Sympathy

• Edith Stein​

  • An Investigation Concerning the State 

  • Essays on Women​

  • Knowledge and Faith

  • Philosophy of Psychology and the Humanities

  • The Hidden Life

  • The Problem  of Empathy

• Dietrich von Hildebrand

  • Jaws of Death: Gates of Heaven

  • Liturgy and Personality

  • The Heart

  • The Nature of Love

• Karol Wojtyła​

  • Person and Act

  • Person and Community

Aesthetics

• Roman Ingarden

  • Cognition of the Literary Work of Art​

  • Ontology of Work of Art

  • The Literary Work of Art

• Gabriel Marcel

  • Music and Philosophy​

• Dietrich von Hildebrand

  • Aesthetics Vol 1 & 2

  • Beauty in Light of the Redemption

Metaphysics

• W. Norris Clarke, SJ

  • The One and the Many​

• Edward Feser

  • Scholastic Metaphysics​

• Edith Stein​

  • Finite and Eternal Being​

  • Potency and Act

Philosophy of Religion

• Mircea Eliade

  • The Sacred and the Profane​

• Edward Feser​

  • Five Proofs of the Existence of God​

• Rudolph Otto​

  • The Idea of the Holy​

• Alice von Hildebrand​

  • Introduction to a Philosophy of Religion​​