Old Philisophical Books

Personally, I would love to see the Pre-Socratics; Plato; Aristotle; Descartes; Locke; Hume; Berkeley Kant; Russell e.t.c. in Logos.

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Rosie Perera

+1 [Y] Yup, and Boethius, William of Ockham, Hobbes, Pascal, Spinoza, Leibniz, Rousseau, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, etc. And I've just bumped a thread where someone else requested Kierkegaard's works: http://community.logos.com/forums/t/6902.aspx. Many of these philosophers were either Christians themselves (esp., e.g., Pascal) or were in dialogue with the big questions Christians were also asking, and much theology was written in dialogue with them, so understanding them helps us understand theology.

And for a starter collection, for people who don't have time to read all the greats in philosophy, how about this pair:

Philosophy for Understanding Theology (Diogenes Allen and Eric O. Springsted, Westminster John Knox Press)
Primary Readings in Philosophy for Understanding Theology (Diogenes Allen and Eric O. Springsted, Westminster John Knox Press)

HJ. van der Wal

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/103101#Comment_103101

Now that the Harvard Classics have been published, the number of philosophical works available in Logos has grown considerably:

Confucian: The Sayings of Confucius [Harvard Classics 44/45]
Plato: The Apology, Phaedo, Crito [Harvard Classics 2]
Epictetus: The Golden Sayings of Epictetus [Harvard Classics 2]
Marcus Aurelius: The Meditations [Harvard Classics 2]
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321): The Divine Comedy [Harvard Classics 20]
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527): The Prince [Harvard Classics 36]
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535): Utopia [Harvard Classics 36]
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592): Essays (selection) [Harvard Classics 32]]
Francis Bacon (1561-1626): Essays: Civil and Moral, The New Atlantis [Harvard Classics 3]
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan [Harvard Classics 34]
René Descartes (1596-1650): Discourse on Method [Harvard Classics 34]
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662): Thoughts, Letters, Minor Works [Harvard Classics 48]
John Locke (1632-1704): Some Thoughts Concerning Education [Harvard Classics 37]
George Berkeley (1685-1753): Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists [Harvard Classics 37]
Voltaire (1694-1778): Letters on the English [Harvard Classics 34]
David Hume (1711-1776): An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding [Harvard Classics 37]
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778): On the Inequality among Mankind, Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar [Harvard Classics 34]
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804): Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals [Harvard Classics 32]
Edmund Burke (1729-1797): On Taste, On the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution, A Letter to a Noble Lord [Harvard Classics 24]
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781): The Education of the Human Race [Harvard Classics 32]
Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805): Letters upon the Æsthetic Education of Man [Harvard Classics 32]
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873): Autobiography, Essay on Liberty [Harvard Classics 25]

This is a nice list to start with, but I hope more philosophers will follow, e.g. the pre-Socratics, Aristotle, Plotinus, κτλ.; and Maimonides, Duns Scotus, Heidegger, etc.

George Somsel

Personally, I would love to see the Pre-Socratics; Plato; Aristotle; Descartes; Locke; Hume; Berkeley Kant; Russell e.t.c. in Logos.

http://www.amazon.com/Fragmente-Vorsokratiker-Griechisch-Deutsch-Ancient/dp/114471253X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1300325504&sr=1-1

HJ. van der Wal

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/230895#Comment_230895

http://www.amazon.com/Fragmente-Vorsokratiker-Griechisch-Deutsch-Ancient/dp/114471253X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1300325504&sr=1-1

[Y][Y][Y]

The alternative would be: http://www.amazon.com/Presocratic-Philosophers-Critical-History-Selection/dp/0521274559/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1300325837&sr=1-1

fgh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/230891#Comment_230891

Now that the Harvard Classics have been published, the number of philosophical works available in Logos has grown considerably:

Nice! Now I just have to hope that these (and Butler) turn up in some Christmas Deal or Base Package upgrade, so that I can afford them...

This is a nice list to start with, but I hope more philosophers will follow

Personally I want Boethius, Maimonides and Maritain. And more books on Aquinas; I believe I've suggested a few in some other thread.

for people who don't have time to read all the greats in philosophy, how about this pair:
Philosophy for Understanding Theology (Diogenes Allen and Eric O. Springsted, Westminster John Knox Press)

Primary Readings in Philosophy for Understanding Theology (Diogenes Allen and Eric O. Springsted, Westminster John Knox Press)

[Y] (I actually have the first one on paper, but had forgotten about it. Wonder if I've read it?)

Tobias Lampert

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/231577#Comment_231577

[Y][Y][Y] to all of the suggested titles!