In Great Books of the Western World
- Aristophanes:
- The Ecclesiazusae
- Plato:
- Phaedo;
- Republic, Books IV-V
- Aristotle:
- Metaphysics, Book I, Ch. 1;
- Topics, Book V, Chs. 1-5;
- On the Soul, Book I, Chs. 3, 10;
- History of Animals,
Book VIII, Ch. 1;
- Ethics, Book I, Chs. 7, 13;
- Politics, Book I
- Lucretius:
- On the Nature of Things
- Epictetus:
- The Discourses
- Marcus Aurelius:
- Meditations
- Plotinus:
- The Enneads
- Augustine:
- The Confessions;
- The City of God, Books V, XII
- Aquinas:
- Summa Theologica, Part I, QQ. 75-119, Parts I-II, QQ. 1-21
- Machiavelli:
- The Prince, Ch. XVIII
- Hobbes:
- Leviathan, Book I
- Rabelais:
- Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book I, Chs. 52-57
- Montaigne: Essays,
- "That a Man Is Soberly to Judge of the Divine Ordinances,"
- "That Fortune Is Oftentimes Observed to Act by the Rules of Reason,"
- "Of the Inconstancy of Our Actions,"
- "Apology for Raimond de Sebonde,"
- "Of Experience"
- Descartes:
- Discourse on the Method, Part V;
- Meditations on First Philosophy, Meditations U, VI
- Spinoza:
- Ethics
- Milton:
- Areopagitica
- Pascal:
- Pensees
- Locke:
- Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay, Chs. I-V;
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Ch. XXI
- Hume:
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- Swift:
- Gulliver's Travels
- Montesquieu:
- The Spirit of Laws, Books I, VII, XI, XXIII
- Rousseau:
- A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality;
- The Social Contract, Book I
- Smith:
- The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Ch. 2
- Kant:
- Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals;
- The Critique of Practical Reason
- Mill:
- On Liberty;
- Utilitarianism
- Hegel:
- The Philosophy of Right, Introduction, Part III, Section I;
- The Philosophy of History, Introduction, Part IV
- Darwin:
- The Descent of Man, Parts I, II
- Marx and Engels:
- The Communist Manifesto
- James:
- The Principles of Psychology, Chs. VI, XXII, XXIV, XXVI
- Freud:
- Civilization and Its Discontents,
"Thoughts for the Times on War and Death"
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In Other Works
- Ashley Montagu, M. F.:
- Man: His First Million Years,
- The Natural Superiority of Women
- Augustine:
- On Free Will
- Bell, Clive:
- Civilization
- Berdyaev, Nicolas:
- The Destiny of Man;
- Freedom and the Spirit;
- Slavery and Freedom
- Buber, Martin:
- Between Man and Man, "What is Man?"
- Cassirer, Ernst:
- An Essay on Man
- Chardin, Pierre Teilhard de:
- The Phenomenon of Man
- Childs, Gordon V.:
- Man Makes Himself
- Dewey, John:
- Human Nature and Conduct;
- Freedom and Culture
- Dobzhansky, Theodosius:
- The Biological Basis of Human Freedom
- Fichte, Johann G.:
- The Vocation of Man
- Frank, Lawrence K.:
- Nature and Human Nature
- James, William:
- Essays on Faith and Morals,
I. "Is Life Worth Living?"
X. "What Makes a Life Significant"
- Kahler, Erich:
- Man the Measure
- Keynes, John M.:
- A Treatise on Probability
- Linton, Ralph:
- The Tree of Culture
- Marcel, Gabriel:
- Homo Viator
- Maritain, Jacques:
- True Humanism
- Mead, Margaret:
- Male and Female
- Mill, John Stuart:
- The Subjection of Women
- Niebuhr, Reinhold:
- The Nature and Destiny of Man
- Peirce, Charles S.:
- Chance, Love and Logic;
- Values in a Universe of Chance
- Riezler, Kurt:
- Man: Mutable and Immutable
- Schopenhauer, Arthur:
- On Human Nature;
- Studies in Pessimism, "On Women"
- Sherrington, Charles S.:
- Man on His Nature'
- Spengler, Oswald:
- The Decline of the West
- Toynbee, Arnold J.:
- A Study of History (two-volume Abridgment)
- Unamuno, Miguel de:
- The Tragic Sense of Life
- Venn, John:
- The Logic of Chance
- Weiss, Paul:
- Nature and Man
- Wingren, Gustav:
- Luther on Vocation
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