Splinter In Your Mind

Some philosophers have been grouped together since their works and ideas are covered by a shared source.

Vedantic Scriptures (c.800-c.1500? BCE)

• The Upanishads (Juan Mascaró trans.) ˆ

Thales (c.625-c.545 BCE)

Anaximander (c. 610-546 BCE)

Pythagoras (c.580-500 BCE)

Anaximenes (d. 528 BCE)

Parmenides (c.515- after 450 BCE)

Anaxagoras (500-428 BCE)

Zeno of Elea (c.490-430 BCE)

Protagoras (c.485-c.420 BCE)

Democritus (c.460-c.370 BCE)

Diogenes (c.404-323 BCE)

• The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists (Robin Waterfield) ˆ
• Handbook of Greek Philosophy: From Thales to the Stoics: Analysis and Fragments (Nikolaos Bakalis) ˆ

Lao-zi (c.570-c.490? BCE)

• Tao Te Ching (Addis & Lombardo trans.) ˆ

Gautama Buddha (c.563-c.483 BCE)

• The Dhammapada: Verses on the Way (Glenn Wallis trans.) ˆ

K’ung Fu-zi [Confucius] (551-479 BCE)

• The First Ten Books (D. C. Lau trans.) ˆ

Sun Zi [Sun Tzu] (544-496 BCE)

• The Art of War: The Modern Chinese Interpretation (Yuan Shibing trans.) ˆ

Mo-zi (479-438 BCE)

• Mozi (Burton Watson trans.)

Socrates (c.470-399 BCE)
Xenophon (c. 431-355 BCE)
Plato (c.428-c.348 BCE)

• The Republic (Allan Bloom trans.) ˆ
• The Symposium (Gill & Lee trans.) ˆ
• Plato Complete Works (Cooper & Hutchinson eds.) ˆ
• Xenophon: Memorabilia. Oeconomicus. Symposium. Apologia. (Marchant & Todd trans.)

Note: For Plato’s works, I prefer the grouping and order theorized and proposed by Bernard Suzanne in 1995. It is as follows:

• Tetralogy I
        Alcibiades I
        Lysis
        Laches
        Charmides
• Tetralogy II
        Protagoras
        Hippias Major
        Gorgias
        Hippias Minor
• Tetralogy III
        Meno
        Euthyphro
        Apology
        Crito
• Tetralogy IV
        Symposium
        Phædrus
        Republic
        Phædo
• Tetralogy V
        Cratylus
        Ion
        Euthydemus
        Menexenus
• Tetralogy VI
        Parmenides
        Theætetus
        Sophist
        Statesman
• Tetralogy VII
        Philebus
        Timæus
        Critias
        Laws

Hippocrates (c. 460-370 BCE)

• Hippocratic Writings (J. Chadwick trans.) ˆ

Aristotle (384-322 BCE)

• The Basic Works of Aristotle (Richard McKeon ed.) ˆ

Meng-zi [Mencius] (c.371-c.289 BCE)

• Mencius (D. C. Lau trans.)

Zhuang-zi (?? 369-298 BCE)

• Way Of Chuang Tzu (Thomas Merton interp.)

Pyrrho (c.365-275 BCE)

• Outlines of Pyrrhonism: Sextus Empiricus (R. G. Bury trans.)

Epicurus (c.341-271 BCE)

• The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia (Lloyd P. Gerson, trans.)
• Handbook of Greek Philosophy: From Thales to the Stoics: Analysis and Fragments (Nikolaos Bakalis) ˆ

Zeno of Kition (c.334-c.262 BCE)

• A Summary of Stoic Philosophy: Zeno of Citium in Diogenes Laertius Book Seven (Seddon & Yonge)

Xun-zi (c.310-c.220 BCE)

• Xunzi: Basic Writings (Burton Watson trans.)

Han Fei-zi (280-233 BCE)

• Han Feizi: Basic Writings (Burton Watson trans.)

Lucretius (c.99-c.55 BCE)

• The Nature of Things (A. E. Stallings trans.)

Philo (20 BCE-50 CE)

• The Works of Philo (Charles Duke Yonge trans.)

Apollonius of Tyana (c.4 BCE – ? CE)

• Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Vol. 1: Books 1-4 (Christopher P. Jones trans.)

• Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Vol. 2: Books 5-8 (Christopher P. Jones trans.)

• Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Vol. 3: Letters of Apollonius. Ancient Testimonia. Eusebius’s Reply to Hierocles (Christopher P. Jones trans.)

Seneca the Younger (5-65 CE)

• On the Shortness of Life (C. D. N. Costa trans.) ˆ

Wang Ch’ung (27-97 CE)

• Wang Ch’ung (Online – Alfred Forke trans.)

Epictetus (c.55-135 CE)

• Epictetus, I, Discourses, Books 1-2 (W.A. Oldfather trans.)
• Epictetus, II, Discourses, Books 3-4. Fragments. The Encheiridion (W.A. Oldfather trans.)
• Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness (Sharon Lebell interp.) ˆ

Nāgārjuna (c.100-165 CE)

• The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarika (Jay L. Garfield, trans.)

Marcus Aurelius (c.121-180 CE)

• Meditations (Gregory Hays trans.) ˆ

Sextus Empiricus (fl c.200 CE)

• Sextus Empiricus, II, Against the Logicians (R. G. Bury trans.)

• Sextus Empiricus, III, Against the Physicists. Against the Ethicists (R. G. Bury trans.)

Plotinus (c.205-70 CE)

• The Enneads (Stephen MacKenna trans.)

Gregory of Nyssa (c.330-c.394 CE)

• Gregory of Nyssa (Anthon Meredith, trans.)

Augustine (354-430 CE)

• City Of God (Henry Bettenson trans.)

• St. Augustine Confessions (Henry Chadwick trans.)

Hypatia (c.370-415 CE)

• Hypatia of Alexandria (F. Lyra trans.)

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 at 3:32 pm and is filed under Philosophy, Reading. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.