To Philosophize is to learn to die.
– Michel de Montaigne
I am in a bad place. I’ve been in a bad place for years. My perils are continual and never ending. I’m making the same mistakes over and over. At 24, I am as helpless and stuck as I was at 14. I think I need to do something intense and dire to save myself. To do lists are not helping. Excercise is not helping. Therapy seems so stupid and pointless and inaccessible. ‘Talking about it’ is so beyond exhausting and shameful that I immediately go into autopilot. Suicidal thoughts are never going to stop. I need to learn to die, otherwise I will end up killing myself one day.
I need to read all these books in five years, before I turn 30. Nothing will trigger suicidal depression more than realizing that I’ve been the same person for three decades.
Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
- Adam Smith: The Theory of Moral Sentiments
- Anne Conway: The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy
- Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole: Logic or the Art of Thinking
- Aquinas: Summa Theologiae, Questions on God
- Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
- Aristotle: Eudemian Ethics
- Augustine: On the Free Choice of the Will, On Grace and Free Choice, and Other Writings
- Augustine: On the Trinity
- Berkeley: Philosophical Writings
- Cicero: On Moral Ends
- Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics
- Condillac: Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge
- Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy
- Descartes: The World and Other Writings
- Fichte: Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation
- Fichte: The System of Ethics
- Foundations of Natural Right
- Francis Bacon: The New Organon
- Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity
- Greek and Roman Aesthetics
- Hamann: Writings on Philosophy and Language
- Heine: ‘On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany’
- Herder: Philosophical Writings
- Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity
- Humboldt: ‘On Language’
- Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
- Immanuel Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
- Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings
- Kant: Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
- Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals
- Kant: Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View
- Kant: Critique of Practical Reason
- Kant: Critique of Practical Reason
- Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
- Kant: Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science
- Kant: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings
- Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
- Kierkegaard: Concluding Unscientific Postscript
- Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling
- La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings
- Leibniz: New Essays on Human Understanding
- Lessing: Philosophical and Theological Writings
- Locke on Toleration
- Malebranche: Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion
- Margaret Cavendish: Observations upon Experimental Philosophy
- Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings
- Medieval Jewish Philosophical Writings
- Melanchthon: Orations on Philosophy and Education
- Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings
- Newton: Philosophical Writings
- Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil
- Nietzsche: Daybreak
- Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human
- Nietzsche: The Gay Science
- Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations
- Novalis: Fichte Studies
- Plato: The Symposium
- Plato: Theaetetus and Sophist
- Plato: Meno and Phaedo
- Ralph Cudworth: A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality
- Reinhold: Letters on the Kantian Philosophy
- Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature
- Samuel Clarke: A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God
- Schleiermacher: Hermeneutics and Criticism
- Schleiermacher: Lectures on Philosophical Ethics
- Schleiermacher: On Religion
- Sextus Empiricus: Against the Logicians
- Shaftesbury: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times
- Spinoza: Ethics
- Spinoza: Theological-Political Treatise
- Thomas Aquinas: Disputed Questions on the Virtues
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