The World's Shortest Philosophy Books


The Complete History of Philosophy by Anaximander
     Table of Contents:
          Chapter 1. Thales: "Water is the source of all things"
          Index

The Complete History of Philosophy (Revised Edition) by Anaximenes
      Table of Contents:
          Chapter 1. Thales: "Water is the source of all things"
          Chapter 2. Anaximander: "The Boundless is the source of all things"
          Index

Coping with Change by Parmenides

A Rational Account of the Physical World by Plato

The Role of Sexual Passion in the Christian Marriage by St. Augustine

A Complete Inventory of Everything that Exists by Benedict Spinoza
    Complete text:
        1. Substance = God = Nature
        2. Modes of God's Being

How We Can Make this a Better World by Gottfried Leibniz

Achieving Self-Knowledge by David Hume

The Wit and Humor of Immanuel Kant

What I Learned from the Noumena by Immanuel Kant

Hegel for Dummies: Everything in Hegel that Can Be Understood by the Average Person

What Reason Can Tell Us about God by Søren Kierkegaard

Nietzsche's Logic

What Next for Capitalism? by Karl Marx

Our Natural Rights by Jeremy Bentham

Everything You Wanted to Know about the Mystical but Were Afraid to Ask
by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Contemporary Metaphysics by Morris Schlick

Principles of Ethics by Rudolf Carnap
Compete text: "Boo," "Hiss," and "Hurrah"

What I Learned from Heidegger by Rudolf Carnap

A Theology for Our Time by A. J. Ayer

Ethical Theory by Jean-Paul Sartre
Complete text: "You are free, therefore choose-that is to say, invent."

Our Duties to Others by Ayn Rand

The Most Important Choices I Made in My Life by B. F. Skinner

Principles of Aesthetics by A. J. Ayer
Complete text: "ooooh, aaaaah" (From Bob Westmoreland, UM)

Contributions from Bob Barnard, UM

All about Nothing by Martin Heidegger

My Disembodied Self by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Things I Haven't Reconsidered by Bertrand Russell

Things to Say about Whereof One Cannot Speak by Ludwig Wittgenstein

How to Do Things with Grunting Noises by J. L. Austin

What I Really Meant by Jacques Derrida

Contributions from Richard Frothingham, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Don't Be an Ass by Jean Buridan

My Favorite Indulgences by Martin Luther

The John Calvin Joke Book

Sin As Illusion by Karl Barth

Anxiety As Myth by Kierkegaard

Fear of Students by Moritz Schlick

What I Believe by Bertrand Russell (New York: Dutton, 1925)--(An actual book, small in physical size and short in contents.)

From Richard Frothingham, UALR. Another kind of list, consisting of titles suggested by philosophers' names.

Watch Your Waistline by Peter Abelard

Descartes, Before the Horse (Based on an old saying and a joke based on the saying.)

Sure You Can by I. Kant

The Grass Is Wet by John Dewey

Asleep at the Wheel by Rudolf Carnap

Henry More, Or Less

Dispel Gloom by Arthur Oncken Lovejoy

Inspection of Sanitary Facilities by George Henry Lewes

Can you add to these lists? Submit your ideas to: wlawhead@olemiss.edu

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