Works

#1261

Vom Abgeschiedenheit (On Detachment) (Mature)

Meister Eckhart (Eckhart von Hochheim) · c. 1300 (German treatise)

Mystical-philosophical treatise · Scholasticism / Rhenish-Christian mysticism / Dominican spiritual tradition

Eckhart's c.1300 treatise — detachment (Abgeschiedenheit) as the highest virtue

30% mysticism 15% scholasticism 10% catholic-thomistic 10% idealism 10% neo-platonism 5% spinozist-pantheism 8% christian-mysticism +4

#1262

Commentary on John (Mature)

Meister Eckhart (Eckhart von Hochheim) · c. 1313-26 (Paris and Cologne periods)

Scriptural commentary / Scholastic-mystical exegesis · Scholasticism / Rhenish-Christian mysticism / Dominican tradition

Eckhart's Latin commentary on John — major scholastic-mystical work

25% mysticism 20% scholasticism 10% catholic-thomistic 10% neo-platonism 10% idealism 5% spinozist-pantheism 8% christian-mysticism +4

#1263

Commentary on Genesis (Mature)

Meister Eckhart (Eckhart von Hochheim) · c. 1305-25 (mature period)

Scriptural commentary / Scholastic-mystical exegesis · Scholasticism / Rhenish-Christian mysticism / Dominican tradition

Eckhart's Latin commentary on Genesis — major scholastic-mystical creation-theology

25% mysticism 20% scholasticism 10% catholic-thomistic 10% neo-platonism 10% idealism 5% spinozist-pantheism 8% christian-mysticism +4

#1264

Commentary on Wisdom (Mature)

Meister Eckhart (Eckhart von Hochheim) · c. 1305-25 (mature period)

Scriptural commentary / Scholastic-mystical exegesis · Scholasticism / Rhenish-Christian mysticism / Dominican tradition

Eckhart's Latin commentary on Wisdom — divine Wisdom (Sapientia) as proper-philosophical-religious topic

25% mysticism 20% scholasticism 15% eastern-orthodox-christianity 10% catholic-thomistic 10% neo-platonism 5% idealism 8% christian-mysticism +4

#1265

The Temple of Dawn (Late)

Yukio Mishima · 1968-70 (serial), 1970 (book)

Novel (third volume of Sea of Fertility tetralogy) · Japanese modern literature / Mishima's aesthetic-nationalist tradition

Mishima's 1970 third volume of The Sea of Fertility — Honda in Thailand, Buddhist-philosophical encounter

20% modernism 25% buddhism 15% mysticism 10% aestheticism 10% pessimism 10% historicism 10% tragedy +4

#1266

The Way of the Masks (Late)

Claude Lévi-Strauss · 1975 (French), 1982 (English)

Structural-anthropological study · Structuralism / French structuralist anthropology

Lévi-Strauss's 1975 study of Northwest Coast indigenous masks — structural transformations

30% structuralism 15% critical-theory 20% animism-relational-indigenous 10% postmodernism 10% naturalism 10% aestheticism 5% rationalism +4

#1267

Self-Made Men (Mid-Late)

Frederick Douglass · 1859-93 (repeatedly delivered)

Lecture / Speech · African-American intellectual tradition / Black-radical tradition / American liberal tradition

Douglass's 1859-93 lecture — repeatedly delivered analysis of the "self-made man" ideal

25% black-radical-tradition 20% classical-liberalism 15% civic-republicanism 15% liberalism 15% virtue-ethics 10% pragmatism +3

#1268

West India Emancipation (Mid)

Frederick Douglass · 1857 (delivered August 3, 1857, Canandaigua, NY)

Speech / Oration · African-American intellectual tradition / Black-radical tradition / American abolition

Douglass's 1857 Rochester speech — proper-political-philosophical analysis of British emancipation as model for American work

30% black-radical-tradition 15% critical-theory 15% liberalism 10% civic-republicanism 10% natural-law 15% virtue-ethics 5% historicism +4

#1269

Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President (Mid)

James Earl Carter Jr. · 1982

Presidential memoir · American liberal-Democratic / Evangelical-Protestant political tradition

Carter's 1982 presidential memoir of the 1977-81 single term

20% liberalism 15% evangelical-protestantism 10% classical-liberalism 10% pacifism 6% baptist-southern +2

#1270

Living Faith (Late)

James Earl Carter Jr. · 1996

Religious-political reflections · American liberal-Democratic / Evangelical-Protestant political tradition

Carter's 1996 religious-political reflections

25% evangelical-protestantism 15% virtue-ethics 10% liberation-theology 10% liberalism 10% pacifism 6% baptist-southern +3

#1271

Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis (Late)

James Earl Carter Jr. · 2005

Political-religious critique · American liberal-Democratic / Evangelical-Protestant political tradition

Carter's 2005 political-religious critique — proper-American moral-political foundations

20% evangelical-protestantism 20% liberalism 15% kantian-transcendental-idealism 10% pacifism 10% classical-liberalism 6% baptist-southern +3

#1272

Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith (Late)

James Earl Carter Jr. · 1997

Devotional meditations / Weekly reflections · American liberal-Democratic / Evangelical-Protestant political tradition

Carter's 1997 weekly-meditations book — scriptural reflections from his Plains, GA Sunday-school teaching

25% evangelical-protestantism 20% virtue-ethics 5% mysticism 15% christianity 10% communitarianism 6% baptist-southern +3

#1273

Dreams from My Father (Early)

Barack H. Obama · 1995

Memoir · African-American intellectual tradition / American liberal-Democratic tradition

Obama's 1995 memoir — race, identity, and the absent Kenyan father

20% black-radical-tradition 15% liberalism 15% critical-theory 10% existentialism 10% cosmopolitanism 10% civic-republicanism 5% liberal-theology +4

#1274

The Audacity of Hope (Mid)

Barack H. Obama · 2006

Political-philosophical reflections · American liberal-Democratic tradition

Obama's 2006 political-philosophical book — pre-presidential political vision

25% liberalism 15% classical-liberalism 15% civic-republicanism 10% liberal-theology 10% cosmopolitanism 15% pragmatism +3

#1275

A Promised Land (Late)

Barack H. Obama · 2020

Presidential memoir (vol. 1) · American liberal-Democratic tradition

Obama's 2020 first volume of presidential memoir — 2008 campaign through 2011

25% liberalism 10% classical-liberalism 15% pragmatism 10% cosmopolitanism 10% civic-republicanism 5% liberal-theology +3

#1276

2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address (Early)

Barack H. Obama · 2004 (July 27, 2004)

Political speech / Keynote address · American liberal-Democratic tradition

Obama's 2004 DNC keynote — "There's not a liberal America and a conservative America"

25% liberalism 20% civic-republicanism 15% classical-liberalism 10% cosmopolitanism 10% pragmatism 10% liberal-theology +3

#1277

Rivonia Trial Statement (Mid)

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela · 1964 (April 20, 1964)

Statement from the dock / Trial speech · African-radical political tradition / Anti-apartheid struggle

Mandela's 1964 statement from the dock — "the ideal for which I am prepared to die"

25% black-radical-tradition 20% liberalism 15% civic-republicanism 15% postcolonial-theory 10% critical-theory +2

#1278

Inaugural Address (Late)

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela · 1994 (May 10, 1994)

Inaugural address / Presidential speech · African-radical political tradition / South African post-apartheid democracy

Mandela's 1994 presidential inaugural — "Never, never and never again"

25% liberalism 20% black-radical-tradition 15% civic-republicanism 10% cosmopolitanism 10% classical-liberalism +2

#1279

Letters from Prison (Mid)

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela · 1962-1990

Prison correspondence · African-radical political tradition / Anti-apartheid struggle

Mandela's 1962-90 prison correspondence — major political-personal documents

25% black-radical-tradition 15% liberalism 15% virtue-ethics 10% postcolonial-theory 10% civic-republicanism 10% stoicism +3

#1280

Conversations with Myself (Late)

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela · c. 1962-2010 (materials); 2010 (compiled)

Autobiographical compilation / Diaries-letters-drafts · African-radical political tradition / Anti-apartheid struggle

Mandela's 2010 autobiographical-political compilation — diaries, letters, drafts

20% black-radical-tradition 15% liberalism 15% virtue-ethics 10% civic-republicanism 15% historicism 10% existentialism 10% cosmopolitanism +4

#1281

Doctrine and Covenants (Mid)

Joseph Smith Jr. · 1823-44 (revelations); 1835 (first ed.)

Scriptural compilation of revelations · Latter-day Saint / Mormon tradition

Smith's 1835 compilation of revelations — central LDS scripture

30% lds-latter-day-saint 15% mysticism 20% evangelical-protestantism 10% communitarianism 10% christianity +2

#1282

The Pearl of Great Price (Mid)

Joseph Smith Jr. · c. 1830-1844 (materials); 1851 (compiled)

Scriptural compilation · Latter-day Saint / Mormon tradition

Joseph Smith's 1851 compilation — Book of Moses, Book of Abraham, Joseph Smith History

30% lds-latter-day-saint 20% evangelical-protestantism 15% mysticism 10% hermeneutics 10% communitarianism 10% christianity +3

#1283

King Follett Discourse (Late)

Joseph Smith Jr. · 1844 (April 7, 1844)

Sermon · Latter-day Saint / Mormon tradition

Smith's 1844 sermon — exaltation, divine-human-progression, the proper-LDS theological-anthropology

30% lds-latter-day-saint 15% evangelical-protestantism 15% mysticism 20% eastern-orthodox-christianity 10% communitarianism 10% christianity +3

#1284

Articles of Faith (Mid)

Joseph Smith Jr. · 1842 (March 1, 1842)

Confession of faith / Doctrinal articles · Latter-day Saint / Mormon tradition

Smith's 1842 thirteen articles — concise summary of LDS distinctive doctrines

30% lds-latter-day-saint 20% evangelical-protestantism 10% mysticism 10% communitarianism 10% christianity 10% classical-liberalism +3

#1285

Commentaries on the Bible (Mature)

John Calvin (Jean Cauvin) · 1540s-60s

Biblical commentaries · Calvinist-Reformed / Reformation

Calvin's 1540s-60s biblical commentaries — major Reformed biblical-theological corpus

30% reformed-calvinist-theology 15% evangelical-protestantism 15% hermeneutics 10% humanism 10% virtue-ethics 5% natural-law +3

#1286

Geneva Catechism (Mid)

John Calvin (Jean Cauvin) · 1545 (Latin), 1542 (French earlier version)

Catechism · Calvinist-Reformed / Reformation

Calvin's 1545 catechism — foundational Reformed-pedagogical text

30% reformed-calvinist-theology 15% evangelical-protestantism 15% virtue-ethics 10% communitarianism 10% christianity +2

#1287

Ecclesiastical Ordinances of Geneva (Mature)

John Calvin (Jean Cauvin) · 1541 (first ed.), 1561 (revised)

Church-political constitution · Calvinist-Reformed / Reformation

Calvin's 1541-61 church-political constitution of Reformed Geneva

30% reformed-calvinist-theology 10% civic-republicanism 10% communitarianism 10% virtue-ethics 10% evangelical-protestantism 5% natural-law +3

#1288

Brief Instruction Against the Anabaptists (Mid)

John Calvin (Jean Cauvin) · 1544

Polemical-theological treatise · Calvinist-Reformed / Reformation

Calvin's 1544 polemic against the Anabaptists

25% reformed-calvinist-theology 20% kantian-transcendental-idealism 15% civic-republicanism 10% evangelical-protestantism 10% natural-law 5% virtue-ethics +3

#1289

De Legibus (On the Laws) (Mature)

Marcus Tullius Cicero · c. 52-44 BCE

Philosophical-political dialogue · Roman philosophy / Stoicism / Natural-law tradition

Cicero's natural-law dialogue — proper-philosophical foundations of Roman law

30% natural-law 20% stoicism 10% platonism-classical 15% civic-republicanism 10% rationalism 10% scholasticism +3

#1290

Academica (Academic Skepticism) (Mature)

Marcus Tullius Cicero · 45 BCE

Philosophical dialogue · Roman philosophy / Academic skepticism / Stoicism

Cicero's 45 BCE dialogues on Academic skepticism — proper-philosophical epistemology

30% pyrrhonism 10% analytic-metaphysics 10% rationalism 15% stoicism 15% kantian-transcendental-idealism 10% scholasticism 10% pragmatism +4

#1291

De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (Mature)

Marcus Tullius Cicero · 45 BCE

Philosophical dialogue / Comparative ethical philosophy · Roman philosophy / Comparative ethical philosophy

Cicero's 45 BCE dialogue — Epicurean, Stoic, Academic positions on the proper end

20% stoicism 20% epicureanism 15% aristotelianism 15% perennial-philosophy 10% rationalism 10% virtue-ethics 5% natural-law +4

#1292

Kitāb al-Shifāʾ (Book of Healing) (Mature)

Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) · c. 1014-1020

Philosophical encyclopedia · Islamic falsafa / Aristotelian philosophy

Avicenna's c.1014-20 vast philosophical encyclopedia

30% islamic-philosophy-falsafa 25% aristotelianism 15% scholasticism 15% neo-platonism 10% rationalism 5% analytic-metaphysics +3

#1293

al-Qānūn fī al-Ṭibb (Canon of Medicine) (Mature)

Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) · c. 1025

Medical encyclopedia · Islamic medical tradition / Aristotelian-Galenic medicine

Avicenna's c.1025 five-volume medical encyclopedia — foundational medieval medical text

20% islamic-philosophy-falsafa 20% aristotelianism 15% scholasticism 15% naturalism 10% rationalism 10% virtue-ethics 5% perennial-philosophy +4

#1294

Kitāb al-Najāt (Book of Salvation) (Mature)

Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) · c. 1027

Philosophical compendium · Islamic falsafa / Aristotelian philosophy

Avicenna's c.1027 philosophical compendium — summary of the Shifāʾ

25% islamic-philosophy-falsafa 20% aristotelianism 15% neo-platonism 15% philosophy-of-mind 10% rationalism 10% scholasticism +3

#1295

Ilāhiyyāt (Metaphysics of the Shifāʾ) (Mature)

Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) · c. 1014-1020

Metaphysical-philosophical treatise · Islamic falsafa / Aristotelian-Neoplatonist philosophy

Avicenna's metaphysical section of the Shifāʾ — the proper-philosophical theology

30% islamic-philosophy-falsafa 20% analytic-metaphysics 15% aristotelianism 15% neo-platonism 15% scholasticism 5% rationalism +3

#1296

Essay on Conic Sections (Early)

Blaise Pascal · 1640

Mathematical treatise · Early-modern mathematics / Projective geometry

Pascal's 1640 mathematical essay at age 16 — Pascal's theorem

25% logicism 15% rationalism 10% naturalism 10% analytic-metaphysics 10% realism 10% platonism-classical +3

#1297

Pascal-Fermat Correspondence on Probability (Mid)

Blaise Pascal · 1654

Mathematical correspondence · Early-modern mathematics / Probability theory

Pascal's 1654 correspondence with Fermat — founding probability theory

30% logicism 15% rationalism 10% naturalism 10% analytic-metaphysics 10% pragmatism 10% behavioral-economics 5% realism +4

#1298

De l'Esprit Géométrique (Mid)

Blaise Pascal · c. 1655

Philosophical essay on method · Early-modern philosophy / Mathematical methodology / French philosophy

Pascal's c.1655 essay on geometric reasoning and method

20% logicism 20% rationalism 15% analytic-metaphysics 15% kantian-transcendental-idealism 10% phenomenology 10% virtue-ethics 5% naturalism +4

#1299

Practical Ethics (Mid)

Peter Singer · 1979 (1st ed.), 1993 (2nd ed.), 2011 (3rd ed.)

Applied-ethics textbook · Utilitarianism / Preference utilitarianism / Analytic ethics

Singer's 1979 systematic textbook of preference-utilitarian applied ethics

30% utilitarianism 15% analytic-metaphysics 20% animal-ethics 10% cosmopolitanism 10% naturalism 10% consequentialism 5% kantian-transcendental-idealism 6% effective-altruism +5

#1300

How Are We to Live? (Mid)

Peter Singer · 1993

Popular ethical philosophy · Utilitarianism / Preference utilitarianism

Singer's 1993 popular work on ethics in an age of self-interest

25% utilitarianism 15% cosmopolitanism 15% critical-theory 10% naturalism 10% consequentialism 15% virtue-ethics 10% animal-ethics 6% effective-altruism +5

#1301

The Expanding Circle (Mid)

Peter Singer · 1981 (1st ed.), 2011 (2nd ed.)

Ethical-philosophical work on sociobiology · Utilitarianism / Evolutionary ethics

Singer's 1981 work — proper-rational extension of moral concern

25% utilitarianism 20% evolutionary-psychology 15% naturalism 15% cosmopolitanism 10% animal-ethics 10% rationalism 5% historicism 6% effective-altruism +5

#1302

The Life You Can Save (Late)

Peter Singer · 2009 (1st ed.), 2019 (10th anniversary ed.)

Popular ethical philosophy on global poverty · Utilitarianism / Effective altruism

Singer's 2009 popular work on global poverty and effective giving

25% utilitarianism 25% consequentialism 15% cosmopolitanism 10% naturalism 10% virtue-ethics 5% kantian-transcendental-idealism 6% effective-altruism +4

#1303

Rules for the Direction of the Mind (Early)

René Descartes · c. 1628 (unfinished); 1701 (posthumous)

Methodological treatise · Continental rationalism / Early-modern philosophy

Descartes's c.1628 unfinished early methodological treatise

25% rationalism 15% analytic-metaphysics 15% logicism 10% kantian-transcendental-idealism 10% naturalism 8% cartesianism +3

#1304

Principles of Philosophy (Mature)

René Descartes · 1644

Systematic philosophical-scientific treatise · Continental rationalism / Mechanistic natural philosophy

Descartes's 1644 systematic exposition of philosophy and physics

25% rationalism 20% materialism 15% naturalism 15% dualism 10% analytic-metaphysics 10% logicism 5% scholasticism 8% cartesianism +5

#1305

Correspondence with Princess Elisabeth (Late)

René Descartes · 1643-49

Philosophical correspondence · Continental rationalism / Early-modern philosophy

Descartes's 1643-49 correspondence with Princess Elisabeth

20% rationalism 25% dualism 20% philosophy-of-mind 5% feminism 15% kantian-transcendental-idealism 10% virtue-ethics 8% cartesianism +4

#1306

Stride Toward Freedom (Early)

Martin Luther King Jr. · 1958

Memoir / Movement history · African-American intellectual tradition / Civil Rights Movement

MLK's 1958 memoir of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

25% black-radical-tradition 20% pacifism 10% evangelical-protestantism 10% liberalism 10% civic-republicanism 10% liberation-theology +3

#1307

Why We Can't Wait (Mid)

Martin Luther King Jr. · 1964

Movement history with embedded primary documents · African-American intellectual tradition / Civil Rights Movement

MLK's 1964 account of Birmingham — includes Letter from Birmingham Jail

25% black-radical-tradition 20% pacifism 15% natural-law 10% liberation-theology 10% civic-republicanism 10% critical-theory 10% virtue-ethics +4

#1308

Where Do We Go from Here (Late)

Martin Luther King Jr. · 1967

Political-philosophical analysis · African-American intellectual tradition / Civil Rights Movement

MLK's 1967 late work — political-philosophical analysis of late Civil Rights Movement

25% black-radical-tradition 15% pacifism 15% critical-theory 10% liberation-theology 10% liberalism 10% cosmopolitanism +3

#1309

The Drum Major Instinct (Late)

Martin Luther King Jr. · 1968 (February 4)

Sermon · African-American intellectual tradition / Civil Rights Movement

MLK's February 1968 sermon — proper-religious-political instinct for service

20% pacifism 15% evangelical-protestantism 20% black-radical-tradition 10% liberation-theology 10% virtue-ethics 10% aestheticism +3

#1310

The Principles of Mathematics (Early)

Bertrand Russell · 1903

Mathematical-philosophical treatise · Analytic philosophy / Logicism / Mathematical logic

Russell's 1903 foundational logicist treatise

25% logicism 25% analytic-metaphysics 15% platonism-classical 10% realism 5% rationalism 8% analytic-philosophy +3

#1311

Our Knowledge of the External World (Mid)

Bertrand Russell · 1914

Philosophical lectures · Analytic philosophy / Logical atomism

Russell's 1914 Lowell Lectures — scientific method in philosophy

25% analytic-metaphysics 15% naturalism 15% empiricism 10% realism 5% pragmatism 8% analytic-philosophy +3

#1312

Mysticism and Logic (Mid)

Bertrand Russell · 1918

Philosophical essay collection · Analytic philosophy / Logical atomism

Russell's 1918 essay collection

25% analytic-metaphysics 15% naturalism 15% kantian-transcendental-idealism 10% humanism 10% logicism 10% pessimism 8% analytic-philosophy +4

#1313

The Conquest of Happiness (Mid)

Bertrand Russell · 1930

Popular practical philosophy · Analytic philosophy / Secular humanism

Russell's 1930 popular work on happiness

15% analytic-metaphysics 25% virtue-ethics 15% naturalism 20% humanism 10% pragmatism 10% utilitarianism 8% analytic-philosophy +4

#1314

Human, All Too Human (Mid)

Friedrich Nietzsche · 1878 (1st part); 1879 (Assorted Opinions and Maxims); 1880 (The Wanderer and His Shadow)

Aphoristic philosophical work · German philosophy / Continental philosophy / Free-spirit philosophy

Nietzsche's 1878 aphoristic work — free-spirit middle period begins

25% kantian-transcendental-idealism 20% naturalism 20% analytical-psychology-jungian 15% humanism 15% atheism-secularism 5% phenomenology +3

#1315

Daybreak (Mid)

Friedrich Nietzsche · 1881

Aphoristic philosophical work · German philosophy / Continental philosophy

Nietzsche's 1881 aphoristic work on morality

25% kantian-transcendental-idealism 20% naturalism 20% analytical-psychology-jungian 10% humanism 10% atheism-secularism 10% historicism 5% phenomenology +4

#1316

Untimely Meditations (Early)

Friedrich Nietzsche · 1873-76

Cultural-philosophical essays · German philosophy / Cultural criticism

Nietzsche's 1873-76 four cultural-philosophical essays

20% kantian-transcendental-idealism 15% romanticism 20% historicism 20% critical-theory 10% phenomenology 10% aestheticism +3

#1317

Ecce Homo (Late)

Friedrich Nietzsche · 1888 (completed); 1908 (published, posthumous)

Philosophical autobiography · German philosophy / Continental philosophy

Nietzsche's 1888 final autobiographical work

20% phenomenology 15% kantian-transcendental-idealism 15% aestheticism 15% classical-liberalism 10% naturalism 10% romanticism 10% historicism +4

#1318

Studies on Hysteria (Early)

Sigmund Freud · 1895

Clinical case studies and theoretical chapters · Psychoanalysis / Late-nineteenth-century psychiatry

Freud and Breuer's 1895 founding text of psychoanalysis

30% psychoanalysis 15% naturalism 15% philosophy-of-mind 10% critical-theory 10% feminism 10% phenomenology +3

#1319

Totem and Taboo (Mid)

Sigmund Freud · 1913

Anthropological-psychoanalytic work · Psychoanalysis

Freud's 1913 anthropological-psychoanalytic work

25% psychoanalysis 15% critical-theory 15% naturalism 10% evolutionary-psychology 10% structuralism 10% phenomenology +3

#1320

The Ego and the Id (Late)

Sigmund Freud · 1923

Psychoanalytic-theoretical treatise · Psychoanalysis

Freud's 1923 structural model — id, ego, superego

30% psychoanalysis 20% philosophy-of-mind 15% naturalism 10% critical-theory 10% analytic-metaphysics 10% phenomenology +3