STUDY GUIDES TO GREAT PHILOSOPHICAL TEXTS

Looking to start reading great philosophical works on your own? The following study guides have been prepared with the philosophical novice in mind.  We give you all the tools you need to begin reading some of the most important texts in the field of philosophy profitably from the comfort of your own home.  

​Enjoy your philosophical adventures!

Plato, Apology - Socrates' heroic defense of the philosophical way of life.  [video]

Plato, Crito  - Why Socrates shouldn't escape from prison, even if it means his death.

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1-2 - One of the most important texts in the field of moral philosophy.

Letter to Menoeceus - An explanation of the Epicurean approach to life.  [video]

Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche's provocative philosophy of the superman.  [video]

Bertrand Russell, The Value of Philosophy - A 20th century philosopher's arguments about the relevance of philosophy