The Republic
《理想国》
In this dialogue, Socrates and others ask what justice is, and end up constructing an ideal city, a theory of the soul, the allegory of the cave…
Philosophy
Classic Index 97
Philosophy
哲学
First-principle questions about knowledge, ethics, and the good life.
58 books
The Republic
《理想国》
In this dialogue, Socrates and others ask what justice is, and end up constructing an ideal city, a theory of the soul, the allegory of the cave…
Philosophy
Classic Index 97
Tao Te Ching
《道德经》
A short, aphoristic text in eighty-one sections, it presents a way of life and of governance based on wu wei — non-coercive action — softness, and…
Philosophy
Classic Index 97
The Analects
《论语》
A collection of brief records of Confucius’ sayings and exchanges with disciples, centered on self-cultivation, ritual propriety, humane conduct…
Philosophy
Classic Index 97
Meditations
《沉思录》
These are the private notes of a Roman emperor, written to himself and never intended for publication, working through Stoic principles of…
Philosophy
Classic Index 96
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
《科学革命的结构》
Kuhn argues that science does not accumulate linearly but cycles between “normal science” and revolution: a paradigm guides research until…
Technology & Science
Classic Index 95
Nicomachean Ethics
《尼各马可伦理学》
Aristotle inquires into what makes a human life go well, developing the idea of happiness as activity in accordance with virtue, the doctrine of the…
Philosophy
Classic Index 95
Gödel, Escher, Bach
《哥德尔、艾舍尔、巴赫》
Hofstadter weaves formal systems, recursion, self-reference, and isomorphism around a single thread: how meaning emerges from meaningless symbol…
Technology & Science
Classic Index 94
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
《查拉图斯特拉如是说》
This is a philosophical poem in which Zarathustra announces that God is dead, teaches the overman and the eternal return, and challenges readers to…
Philosophy
Classic Index 94
Leviathan
《利维坦》
Starting from the thought experiment of a state of nature, Hobbes argues that without a common power, human equality and desire generate continuous…
Society & Civilization
Classic Index 94
Capital
《资本论》
Marx builds on the labour theory of value to develop concepts such as surplus value, capital accumulation, and commodity fetishism, in an attempt to…
Economics
Classic Index 93
On Liberty
《论自由》
Mill tries to draw a line: how far society may legitimately interfere with the individual. His harm principle holds that as long as others are not…
Society & Civilization
Classic Index 93
The Road to Serfdom
《通往奴役之路》
Written during the Second World War, Hayek argues that once central planning becomes the primary means of allocating resources it progressively…
Economics
Classic Index 92
The Myth of Sisyphus
《西西弗神话》
Camus begins with a question that admits no evasion: whether life is worth living is the first problem philosophy must face. Refusing both the…
Philosophy
Classic Index 92
Letters from a Stoic
《道德书简》
Written as letters to his friend Lucilius, the essays of Seneca take up time, fear, wealth, death, and self-discipline one at a time. Rather than…
Philosophy
Classic Index 91
Understanding Media
《理解媒介》
McLuhan advances a counterintuitive claim: the real effect of a medium lies not in the content it carries but in how it reshapes the ratios of human…
Technology & Science
Classic Index 90
The End of History and the Last Man
《历史的终结与最后的人》
Fukuyama argues that with the collapse of the Soviet bloc, liberal democracy had emerged as the only remaining legitimate form of government, and he…
World History
Classic Index 89
The Worldly Philosophers
《世俗哲学家》
Heilbroner combines biography and intellectual history to present the central preoccupations of economists from Smith, Malthus, and Ricardo through…
Economics
Classic Index 88
Flow
《心流》
Drawing on long interviews with artists, athletes, surgeons, and ordinary people, Csikszentmihalyi isolates a state he calls flow: clear goals…
Psychology & Cognitive Science
Classic Index 88
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
《别闹了，费曼先生》
This oral autobiography follows Feynman picking locks, playing bongos, teaching physics, and investigating a shuttle disaster, but its real subject…
Technology & Science
Classic Index 85
The Age of AI
《人工智能时代与人类未来》
Kissinger, Schmidt, and Huttenlocher argue that AI is not merely an efficiency tool but a new epistemology: its answers often cannot be fully…
Artificial Intelligence
Classic Index 84
What Are You Doing with Your Life?
《人生中不可不想的事》
Krishnamurti circles back to the links among education, ambition, fear, and freedom, arguing that real change begins with direct observation of how…
Philosophy
Classic Index 84
The Human Condition
《人的境况》
Human beings build their world through labor, work, and action
Philosophy
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Meditations on First Philosophy
《第一哲学沉思集》
Using universal doubt as a method to find an indubitable foundation for knowledge
Philosophy
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De Anima (On the Soul)
《论灵魂》
The soul is not a passenger inside the body but the very activity of being alive in an organ-bearing body
Philosophy
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Consciousness Explained
《意识的解释》
Consciousness is not a screen or a center in the brain but what emerges when many parallel processes compete for 'fame'
Psychology & Cognitive Science
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Ethics
《伦理学》
There is only one substance: how Spinoza used geometry to show that God is Nature and freedom lies in understanding necessity
Philosophy
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