Works

#421

Foundations of Christian Faith (Late)

Karl Rahner · 1976 (German; English 1978)

Systematic theology · Roman Catholic transcendental Thomism

Rahner's 1976 systematic introduction to his transcendental-Thomist theology

30% catholic-thomistic 15% kantian-transcendental-idealism 10% existentialism 10% christian-existentialism 10% phenomenology 5% liberal-theology 5% hylomorphism 5% process-theology 5% platonism-classical 5% idealism +7

#422

The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics (Late)

Hans Urs von Balthasar · 1961-69 (Vol I-VII; English 1982-91)

Aesthetic-systematic theology · Roman Catholic ressourcement / patristic theology

Balthasar's seven-volume aesthetic theology (1961-69) — the central work of his trilogy

25% catholic-thomistic 10% platonism-classical 10% neo-platonism 10% eastern-orthodox-christianity 10% phenomenology 5% hylomorphism 5% idealism 5% christian-existentialism 5% reformed-calvinist-theology 5% liberal-theology 10% romanticism +8

#423

Jesus Christ and Mythology (Late)

Rudolf Bultmann · 1958 (Shaffer Lectures at Yale)

Theological lectures · German Protestant existentialist theology

Bultmann's 1958 statement of the demythologization program — translating the New Testament kerygma into existentialist categories

25% liberal-theology 20% christian-existentialism 15% existentialism 10% phenomenology 10% lutheranism 5% reformed-calvinist-theology 5% naturalism 5% kantian-transcendental-idealism 5% idealism +6

#424

Theology of the New Testament (Late)

Rudolf Bultmann · 1948-53 (Vol I 1948, Vol II 1953; English 1951-55)

Biblical theology · German Protestant historical-critical-existentialist

Bultmann's 1948-53 two-volume systematic theology of the New Testament

30% liberal-theology 15% christian-existentialism 10% existentialism 15% lutheranism 5% phenomenology 5% reformed-calvinist-theology 5% naturalism 5% rabbinic-judaism 5% idealism 5% kantian-transcendental-idealism +7

#425

A Community of Character (Mid)

Stanley Hauerwas · 1981

Christian ethics essays · Postliberal Christian ethics / Anabaptist

Hauerwas's 1981 essays toward a constructive Christian social ethic — the church as a community of character

15% evangelical-protestantism 15% catholic-thomistic 10% liberation-theology 5% platonism-classical 10% liberal-theology 10% reformed-calvinist-theology 5% lutheranism 10% christian-personalism 5% eastern-orthodox-christianity 5% pragmatism 5% postmodernism 5% hylomorphism 6% radical-reformation +10

#426

Theology of Hope (Early)

Jürgen Moltmann · 1964 (German; English 1967)

Systematic theology · German Reformed eschatological theology

Moltmann's 1964 inaugural eschatological theology — God's future as fundamental category

25% reformed-calvinist-theology 15% liberation-theology 10% dialectical-materialism 10% process-theology 10% lutheranism 10% christian-existentialism 5% liberal-theology 5% catholic-thomistic 5% eastern-orthodox-christianity 5% evangelical-protestantism +7

#427

Systematic Theology (Late)

Wolfhart Pannenberg · 1988-93 (3 vols; English 1991-98)

Systematic theology · German Lutheran historical-revelation theology

Pannenberg's three-volume systematic theology (1988-93) — revelation as universal history

20% lutheranism 15% liberal-theology 10% reformed-calvinist-theology 10% idealism 10% naturalism 5% catholic-thomistic 10% process-theology 5% phenomenology 5% kantian-transcendental-idealism 5% eastern-orthodox-christianity 5% evangelical-protestantism +8

#428

The Politics of Jesus (Mid)

John Howard Yoder · 1972 (2nd edn 1994)

Christian ethics / biblical theology · Anabaptist pacifist Christian ethics

Yoder's 1972 foundational Anabaptist work — the political-ethical witness of Jesus is normative for the Church

15% liberation-theology 15% evangelical-protestantism 10% reformed-calvinist-theology 5% lutheranism 5% catholic-thomistic 10% christian-personalism 5% liberal-theology 5% pragmatism 5% absurdism 5% eastern-orthodox-christianity 10% rabbinic-judaism 5% process-theology 5% christian-existentialism 8% radical-reformation +11

#429

The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Early)

Karl Popper · 1934 (Logik der Forschung); 1959 English

Philosophy of science · Critical rationalism

Popper's 1934 foundational falsificationist philosophy of science

20% analytic-metaphysics 20% critical-realism 15% realism 15% logical-positivism 10% rationalism 5% empiricism 5% kantian-transcendental-idealism 5% pragmatic-realism 5% naturalism +6

#430

Conjectures and Refutations (Mid)

Karl Popper · 1963

Philosophical essays · Critical rationalism

Popper's 1963 collection on the growth of scientific knowledge through conjectures and refutations

20% analytic-metaphysics 25% critical-realism 15% realism 10% rationalism 10% logical-positivism 5% empiricism 5% kantian-transcendental-idealism 5% pragmatic-realism 5% naturalism +6

#431

The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes (Late)

Imre Lakatos · 1978 (posthumous; key essays from 1968-71)

Philosophy of science · Anglo-Hungarian post-Popperian philosophy of science

Lakatos's 1978 posthumous philosophy of scientific research programmes

20% analytic-metaphysics 20% critical-realism 15% realism 10% rationalism 10% pragmatic-realism 5% naturalism 5% logical-positivism 5% dialectical-materialism 5% idealism 5% empiricism +7

#432

Against Method (Mid)

Paul Feyerabend · 1975 (1st edn); 1988 (2nd); 1993 (3rd)

Anarchist philosophy of science · Anglo-Austrian post-positivist philosophy of science

Feyerabend's 1975 anarchist philosophy of science — "anything goes"

20% postmodernism 15% pyrrhonism 10% analytic-metaphysics 15% relativism 10% constructivism 5% critical-realism 5% pragmatism 5% naturalism 5% dialectical-materialism 5% absurdism 5% nihilism +8

#433

The Logical Syntax of Language (Mid)

Rudolf Carnap · 1934 (German; English 1937)

Philosophy of logic / philosophy of language · Vienna Circle logical positivism

Carnap's 1934 major statement of the logical-syntactic phase of logical positivism

35% logical-positivism 20% analytic-metaphysics 15% empiricism 10% naturalism 5% kantian-transcendental-idealism 5% pragmatic-realism 5% constructivism 5% pragmatism +5

#434

Aspects of Scientific Explanation (Mid)

Carl G. Hempel · 1965

Philosophy of science essays · Anglo-American logical-empiricist philosophy of science

Hempel's 1965 essay collection — the deductive-nomological (covering-law) account of scientific explanation

25% logical-positivism 25% analytic-metaphysics 15% empiricism 10% naturalism 10% realism 5% pragmatic-realism 5% rationalism 5% critical-realism +5

#435

Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy (Late)

Michael Polanyi · 1958 (Gifford Lectures 1951-52 at Aberdeen)

Post-critical philosophy · Hungarian-British post-critical philosophy / tacit-dimension

Polanyi's 1958 foundational post-critical philosophy of tacit knowledge — "we know more than we can tell"

20% critical-realism 15% pragmatic-realism 10% phenomenology 10% christian-personalism 10% realism 5% analytic-metaphysics 5% pragmatism 5% liberal-theology 5% rabbinic-judaism 5% idealism 5% naturalism 5% kantian-transcendental-idealism +9

#436

The Uses of Argument (Early)

Stephen Toulmin · 1958

Philosophy of argument / informal logic · Anglo-American post-Wittgensteinian philosophy

Toulmin's 1958 foundational work on the structure of practical argument

20% analytic-metaphysics 15% pragmatic-realism 15% pragmatism 10% critical-realism 5% logical-positivism 5% phenomenology 5% naturalism 5% rationalism 10% realism 5% constructivism 5% empiricism +8

#437

Patterns of Discovery (Early)

Norwood Russell Hanson · 1958

Philosophy of science · Anglo-American post-Wittgensteinian philosophy of science

Hanson's 1958 foundational work on the theory-ladenness of observation in science

20% analytic-metaphysics 15% critical-realism 15% phenomenology 10% constructivism 10% pragmatic-realism 5% naturalism 5% empiricism 5% pragmatism 5% realism 5% kantian-transcendental-idealism 5% logical-positivism +8

#438

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (Mid)

Ernst Cassirer · 1923-29 (Vol I 1923, II 1925, III 1929)

Neo-Kantian philosophy of culture · Marburg Neo-Kantianism

Cassirer's three-volume neo-Kantian philosophy of symbolic forms (1923-29)

30% kantian-transcendental-idealism 15% idealism 10% phenomenology 10% structuralism 5% constructivism 5% liberal-theology 5% rabbinic-judaism 5% analytic-metaphysics 5% hermeticism 5% naturalism 5% realism +8

#439

The Visible and the Invisible (Late)

Maurice Merleau-Ponty · 1964 (posthumous; composed 1959-61)

Phenomenological ontology · French phenomenology

Merleau-Ponty's unfinished 1964 late ontology of the "flesh of the world"

30% phenomenology 10% existentialism 10% realism 10% process-philosophy 15% relationalism 5% naturalism 5% panpsychism 5% idealism 5% structuralism 5% kantian-transcendental-idealism +7

#440

The Prose of the World (Mid)

Maurice Merleau-Ponty · composed 1950-52; published 1969 (posthumous)

Phenomenology of language · French phenomenology

Merleau-Ponty's unfinished posthumous study of language and expression — between Phenomenology of Perception and the late ontology

30% phenomenology 15% structuralism 10% existentialism 10% realism 10% relationalism 5% naturalism 5% pragmatism 5% process-philosophy 5% analytic-metaphysics 5% kantian-transcendental-idealism +7

#441

Being Given (Late)

Jean-Luc Marion · 1997 (French; English 2002)

Phenomenology of givenness · French phenomenology / theological turn

Marion's 1997 major phenomenology of givenness — the "saturated phenomenon"

30% phenomenology 15% catholic-thomistic 5% christian-existentialism 5% liberal-theology 10% existentialism 5% realism 5% postmodernism 5% platonism-classical 5% neo-platonism 5% eastern-orthodox-christianity 5% idealism 5% kantian-transcendental-idealism +9

#442

The Essence of Manifestation (Early)

Michel Henry · 1963 (French; English 1973)

Phenomenology of life · French phenomenology of life

Henry's 1963 foundational phenomenology of immanent life — auto-affection

30% phenomenology 10% christian-existentialism 5% liberal-theology 10% process-philosophy 10% idealism 10% existentialism 5% realism 5% panpsychism 5% eastern-orthodox-christianity 5% catholic-thomistic 5% kantian-transcendental-idealism +8

#443

Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History (Late)

Jan Patočka · 1975 (Czech samizdat; revised; English 1996)

Phenomenological philosophy of history · Czech phenomenology / Husserlian heritage

Patočka's 1975 samizdat philosophy of history — Europe, polis, and the "solidarity of the shaken"

30% phenomenology 15% existentialism 5% liberal-theology 15% platonism-classical 10% christian-existentialism 5% catholic-thomistic 5% pragmatic-realism 5% realism 5% idealism 5% kantian-transcendental-idealism +7

#444

Finite and Eternal Being (Late)

Edith Stein (St. Teresia Benedicta of the Cross) · 1936 (completed; published posthumously 1950)

Phenomenological-Thomist ontology · German phenomenology / Carmelite Thomism

Stein's 1936 phenomenological-Thomist ontology — completed before her Auschwitz death

25% phenomenology 25% catholic-thomistic 10% hylomorphism 10% christian-personalism 5% christian-existentialism 5% jewish-philosophy-maimonidean 5% platonism-classical 5% neo-platonism 5% sufism-wahdat-al-wujud 5% realism +7

#445

Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values (Mid)

Max Scheler · 1913-16 (Yearbook for Philosophy and Phenomenological Research)

Phenomenological ethics · German phenomenology

Scheler's 1913-16 foundational phenomenological ethics of material (non-formal) values

30% phenomenology 15% christian-personalism 10% catholic-thomistic 15% kantian-transcendental-idealism 5% platonism-classical 5% idealism 5% realism 5% christian-existentialism 5% liberal-theology 5% naturalism +7

#446

The Mystery of Being (Late)

Gabriel Marcel · 1949-50 (Gifford Lectures at Aberdeen)

Christian-existentialist metaphysics · French Christian existentialism

Marcel's 1949-50 Gifford Lectures on his Christian-existentialist metaphysics — being as mystery, not problem

30% christian-existentialism 15% phenomenology 15% christian-personalism 10% existentialism 10% catholic-thomistic 5% realism 5% process-philosophy 5% liberal-theology 5% hylomorphism +6

#447

Philosophy (Mid)

Karl Jaspers · 1932 (3 vols; English 1969-71)

Existentialist philosophy · German existentialism

Jaspers's three-volume systematic existentialist philosophy (1932) — world-orientation, Existenz, metaphysics

30% existentialism 15% phenomenology 15% kantian-transcendental-idealism 10% christian-existentialism 10% idealism 5% liberal-theology 5% naturalism 5% platonism-classical 5% realism +6

#448

Philosophy of Existence (Late)

Karl Jaspers · 1938 (German; English 1971)

Existentialist lectures · German existentialism

Jaspers's 1938 short lectures on existentialism — accessible introduction to his Philosophy (1932)

35% existentialism 15% phenomenology 15% kantian-transcendental-idealism 10% christian-existentialism 5% idealism 5% liberal-theology 5% pragmatic-realism 5% naturalism 5% realism +6

#449

Essays on Actions and Events (Mid)

Donald Davidson · 1980 (essays 1963-78)

Analytic philosophy · American analytic philosophy

Davidson's 1980 collection — action, mental events, anomalous monism

30% analytic-metaphysics 20% naturalism 10% realism 10% pragmatism 10% pragmatic-realism 5% empiricism 5% logical-positivism 5% determinism 5% rationalism +6

#450

Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (Mid)

Donald Davidson · 1984 (essays 1965-83)

Analytic philosophy of language · American analytic philosophy

Davidson's 1984 collection — truth-conditional semantics, radical interpretation, principle of charity

30% analytic-metaphysics 15% realism 15% naturalism 10% pragmatism 10% pragmatic-realism 5% empiricism 5% logical-positivism 5% rationalism 5% constructivism +6

#451

Naming and Necessity (Mid)

Saul Kripke · 1972 (Princeton lectures); 1980 (book)

Analytic philosophy of language and modality · American analytic philosophy

Kripke's 1980 foundational work — rigid designation, the causal-historical theory of reference, modal a posteriori

35% analytic-metaphysics 20% realism 10% naturalism 10% rationalism 5% hylomorphism 5% pragmatic-realism 5% logical-positivism 5% empiricism 5% platonism-classical +6

#452

Counterfactuals (Early)

David Lewis · 1973

Analytic philosophy of language and modality · American analytic philosophy

Lewis's 1973 foundational possible-worlds semantics for counterfactual conditionals

35% analytic-metaphysics 20% realism 10% naturalism 10% multiverse-theory 5% rationalism 5% logical-positivism 5% pragmatic-realism 5% empiricism 5% eternalism +6

#453

Mind and World (Late)

John McDowell · 1994 (1991 John Locke Lectures at Oxford)

Analytic philosophy of mind and perception · British-American analytic philosophy

McDowell's 1994 John Locke Lectures — conceptual capacities all the way down in perception

25% analytic-metaphysics 20% kantian-transcendental-idealism 10% idealism 10% realism 10% platonism-classical 10% naturalism 5% pragmatism 5% hylomorphism 5% phenomenology +6

#454

Making It Explicit (Mid)

Robert Brandom · 1994

Analytic philosophy of language · American Pittsburgh-school analytic philosophy

Brandom's 1994 systematic statement of inferentialist semantics — content as inferential role in social practices

25% analytic-metaphysics 20% pragmatism 10% pragmatic-realism 15% idealism 10% kantian-transcendental-idealism 5% naturalism 5% realism 5% constructivism 5% logical-positivism +6

#455

Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (Mid)

Bernard Williams · 1985

Analytic moral philosophy · British analytic philosophy

Williams's 1985 critical engagement with the modern moral philosophy project — limits of the system-building ambition

25% analytic-metaphysics 15% platonism-classical 10% pragmatism 10% realism 5% naturalism 5% absurdism 5% nihilism 10% kantian-transcendental-idealism 5% pyrrhonism 5% pragmatic-realism 5% hylomorphism +8

#456

Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics (Early)

P.F. Strawson · 1959

Descriptive metaphysics · British analytic philosophy / Oxford

Strawson's 1959 foundational descriptive metaphysics — bodies and persons as basic particulars

35% analytic-metaphysics 15% kantian-transcendental-idealism 10% realism 10% naturalism 5% christian-personalism 5% pragmatic-realism 5% hylomorphism 5% idealism 5% rationalism 5% empiricism +7

#457

Intention (Mid)

G.E.M. Anscombe · 1957

Analytic philosophy of action · British analytic philosophy / Catholic Wittgensteinian

Anscombe's 1957 foundational analytic-Aristotelian philosophy of action

25% analytic-metaphysics 15% platonism-classical 15% catholic-thomistic 10% hylomorphism 5% phenomenology 10% realism 5% rationalism 5% naturalism 5% christian-personalism 5% liberation-theology +7

#458

Truth and Other Enigmas (Mid)

Michael Dummett · 1978 (essays 1954-77)

Analytic philosophy of language · British analytic philosophy / Oxford

Dummett's 1978 collection — anti-realism, truth, the philosophy of time

30% analytic-metaphysics 10% idealism 10% kantian-transcendental-idealism 10% realism 10% pragmatism 10% logical-positivism 5% catholic-thomistic 10% constructivism 5% presentism +6

#459

Reflections on the Revolution in France (Late)

Edmund Burke · 1790

Political pamphlet · Anglo-Irish conservative political thought

Burke's 1790 foundational conservative critique of the French Revolution

20% liberal-theology 10% evangelical-protestantism 10% catholic-thomistic 15% empiricism 10% realism 10% pragmatic-realism 10% platonism-classical 5% stoicism 5% pyrrhonism 5% romanticism +7

#460

The Federalist Papers (Mid)

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay · 1787-88 (Independent Journal, New York Packet, Daily Advertiser)

Political pamphlets · American constitutional liberalism

The 85 papers (1787-88) by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay in defense of the proposed US Constitution

25% liberal-theology 10% empiricism 15% realism 10% pragmatic-realism 10% rationalism 10% platonism-classical 5% stoicism 5% pyrrhonism 5% evangelical-protestantism 5% reformed-calvinist-theology +7

#461

Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Mid)

Robert Nozick · 1974

Political philosophy · American libertarianism

Nozick's 1974 libertarian response to Rawls — the minimal state, entitlement theory of justice

25% liberal-theology 20% analytic-metaphysics 10% realism 10% rationalism 10% empiricism 10% kantian-transcendental-idealism 5% pragmatic-realism 5% platonism-classical 5% naturalism +6

#462

Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (Early)

Michael J. Sandel · 1982 (2nd edn 1998)

Political philosophy · American communitarianism

Sandel's 1982 communitarian critique of Rawlsian liberalism — the "unencumbered self"

20% analytic-metaphysics 15% platonism-classical 10% idealism 10% liberal-theology 5% hylomorphism 10% realism 5% pragmatic-realism 5% christian-personalism 5% catholic-thomistic 10% kantian-transcendental-idealism 5% pragmatism +8

#463

Spheres of Justice (Mid)

Michael Walzer · 1983

Political philosophy · American communitarianism / pluralist liberalism

Walzer's 1983 pluralist theory of justice — "complex equality" across distinct social spheres

15% analytic-metaphysics 15% liberal-theology 10% dialectical-materialism 10% jewish-philosophy-maimonidean 5% rabbinic-judaism 10% realism 10% pragmatic-realism 5% pragmatism 10% constructivism 5% platonism-classical 5% liberation-theology +8

#464

Sources of the Self (Mid)

Charles Taylor · 1989

Philosophical intellectual history · Canadian communitarian-hermeneutic philosophy

Taylor's 1989 major intellectual-historical work on the making of modern identity

15% phenomenology 15% catholic-thomistic 10% liberal-theology 10% idealism 10% platonism-classical 10% romanticism 5% reformed-calvinist-theology 5% evangelical-protestantism 5% realism 5% christian-existentialism 5% kantian-transcendental-idealism 5% analytic-metaphysics +9

#465

A Secular Age (Late)

Charles Taylor · 2007 (Gifford Lectures 1998-99 at Edinburgh, extensively expanded)

Philosophical-historical theology · Canadian Catholic communitarian philosophy

Taylor's 2007 magnum opus on the historical transformation to a secular age

25% catholic-thomistic 10% phenomenology 10% liberal-theology 10% evangelical-protestantism 5% reformed-calvinist-theology 5% platonism-classical 10% romanticism 5% idealism 5% realism 5% christian-existentialism 5% analytic-metaphysics 5% naturalism +9

#466

Two Concepts of Liberty (Mid)

Isaiah Berlin · 1958 (Inaugural Lecture as Chichele Professor at Oxford)

Political philosophy lecture · British liberalism

Berlin's 1958 Inaugural Lecture — negative and positive liberty as two distinct freedoms

30% liberal-theology 15% analytic-metaphysics 15% pragmatic-realism 10% empiricism 10% realism 5% pyrrhonism 5% jewish-philosophy-maimonidean 5% kantian-transcendental-idealism 5% rationalism +6

#467

The Hedgehog and the Fox (Mid)

Isaiah Berlin · 1953

Intellectual-historical essay · British liberalism

Berlin's 1953 essay — "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"

20% liberal-theology 15% pragmatic-realism 10% platonism-classical 10% empiricism 10% realism 10% romanticism 10% idealism 5% pyrrhonism 5% jewish-philosophy-maimonidean 5% rationalism +7

#468

The Concept of the Political (Mid)

Carl Schmitt · 1932 (revised from 1927 essay; English 1976)

Political theory · German conservative political theory

Schmitt's 1932 controversial definition of the political as the friend-enemy distinction

25% realism 10% catholic-thomistic 5% analytic-metaphysics 10% pragmatic-realism 10% nihilism 5% idealism 5% hylomorphism 10% liberal-theology 10% existentialism 5% platonism-classical 5% pyrrhonism +8

#469

Mahāyānasaṃgraha (Mid)

Asaṅga · c. 4th-5th century CE

Mahāyāna systematic treatise · Indian Yogācāra Buddhism

Asaṅga's 4th-c. Compendium of the Mahāyāna — foundational Yogācāra systematic

35% yogacara 25% buddhism 10% tibetan-vajrayana-buddhism 5% pure-land-buddhism 15% idealism 5% phenomenology 5% samkhya +4

#470

Śrī Bhāṣya (Mid)

Rāmānuja · c. 1100

Vedānta commentary · Indian Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Rāmānuja's 12th-c. foundational Viśiṣṭādvaita commentary on the Brahma Sūtras

5% dvaita-vedanta 25% advaita-vedanta 10% samkhya 10% spinozist-pantheism 15% realism 10% sufism-wahdat-al-wujud 10% hylomorphism 10% relationalism 5% buddhism +6

#471

Anuvyākhyāna (Mid)

Madhvācārya · c. 1250

Vedānta verse-commentary · Indian Dvaita Vedānta

Madhva's 13th-c. foundational Dvaita Vedānta verse-commentary on the Brahma Sūtras

35% dvaita-vedanta 20% advaita-vedanta 15% realism 10% samkhya 10% dualism 5% sufism-wahdat-al-wujud 5% hylomorphism +4

#472

Shōbōgenzō (Late)

Dōgen Zenji · 1231-1253 (95 fascicles)

Zen Buddhist treatises · Japanese Sōtō Zen Buddhism

Dōgen's 13th-c. monumental Sōtō Zen masterwork — Shōbōgenzō ("Treasury of the True Dharma Eye")

30% buddhism 15% yogacara 5% tibetan-vajrayana-buddhism 5% pure-land-buddhism 10% shintoism 10% taoism 5% phenomenology 10% process-philosophy 5% panpsychism 5% confucianism +7

#473

Wild Ivy (Itsumadegusa) (Late)

Hakuin Ekaku · 1765-66

Spiritual autobiography · Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism

Hakuin's 18th-c. autobiographical spiritual masterwork — major Rinzai Zen text

30% buddhism 5% pure-land-buddhism 10% shintoism 10% taoism 10% yogacara 5% tibetan-vajrayana-buddhism 10% confucianism 5% process-philosophy 5% panpsychism 10% phenomenology +7

#474

Attaining Enlightenment in This Very Existence (Sokushin Jōbutsu Gi) (Early)

Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi) · c. 817

Esoteric Buddhist treatise · Japanese Shingon esoteric Buddhism

Kūkai's 9th-c. foundational Shingon esoteric Buddhist text on attaining enlightenment in this very body

20% tibetan-vajrayana-buddhism 25% buddhism 10% yogacara 5% pure-land-buddhism 10% shintoism 10% taoism 5% hermeticism 10% panpsychism 5% process-philosophy +6

#475

Lam rim chen mo (The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment) (Mid)

Tsongkhapa Losang Drakpa · 1402

Buddhist systematic treatise · Tibetan Gelug Buddhism

Tsongkhapa's 1402 foundational Tibetan Gelug school systematic — comprehensive path to enlightenment

30% tibetan-vajrayana-buddhism 25% buddhism 10% yogacara 5% pure-land-buddhism 5% hermeticism 5% process-philosophy 10% relationalism 5% phenomenology 5% analytic-metaphysics +6

#476

Inquiry on the Great Learning (Daxue Wen) (Late)

Wang Yangming · 1527

Neo-Confucian treatise · Ming Neo-Confucianism (Xinxue / School of Mind)

Wang Yangming's 1527 foundational Neo-Confucian work — the unity of knowledge and action

30% confucianism 15% buddhism 10% taoism 15% idealism 10% pragmatism 5% phenomenology 5% pragmatic-realism 5% yogacara 5% platonism-classical +6

#477

Zhuzi Yulei (Conversations of Master Zhu, Arranged Topically) (Late)

Zhu Xi (Chu Hsi); compiled by Li Jingde · Conversations 1170-1200; compiled 1270

Neo-Confucian recorded conversations · Song Neo-Confucianism (Lixue / School of Principle)

Zhu Xi's conversations — foundational Song Neo-Confucianism (Lixue / School of Principle)

30% confucianism 10% buddhism 10% taoism 10% idealism 10% realism 15% hylomorphism 10% rationalism 5% platonism-classical +5

#478

The Life Divine (Late)

Sri Aurobindo (Aurobindo Ghose) · 1914-19 (Arya magazine); 1939-40 (book)

Integral spiritual philosophy · Indian Integral Yoga / Neo-Vedānta

Aurobindo's 1939-40 magnum opus of Integral Yoga — descent of the Supermind into matter

20% advaita-vedanta 10% samkhya 15% process-philosophy 10% idealism 10% panpsychism 5% transcendentalism 5% hermeticism 10% spinozist-pantheism 5% buddhism 10% transhumanism-posthumanism +7

#479

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

Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā) · c. 1024-27

Philosophical compendium · Islamic Peripatetic philosophy

Avicenna's 11th-c. accessible compendium of his philosophical system

35% islamic-philosophy-falsafa 15% platonism-classical 15% neo-platonism 10% hylomorphism 5% rationalism 5% sufism-wahdat-al-wujud 5% catholic-thomistic 5% idealism 5% pythagoreanism +6

#480

Kitāb al-Ishārāt wa-l-Tanbīhāt (Remarks and Admonitions) (Late)

Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā) · c. 1030

Philosophical-mystical work · Islamic Peripatetic / Eastern philosophy

Avicenna's 11th-c. late mature work — Sufi-affined mystical philosophy

30% islamic-philosophy-falsafa 25% sufism-wahdat-al-wujud 15% neo-platonism 10% platonism-classical 5% hermeticism 5% hylomorphism 5% idealism 5% rationalism +5