Miscellaneous Philosophical Quotes
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Fragments.
Immanuel Kant: What is Enlightenment? Here is the original German text.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. (1770-1831). He wrote the Phenomenology of the Spirit in 1807, where he develops dialectical thinking into a system. I've included several pieces from this book.
What is Dialectics? Several answers and descriptions.
Theodor Adorno. He is the philosopher who was most influential for me when I began to study philosophy.
Alexandre Kojève: Desire and Consciousness: An excerpt from his analysis of Hegelian thinking.(From: Kojève, Alexandre: Introduction to the Reading of Hegel. Basic Books, New York, 1969) The Gold Ring.
Heidegger's "Existence and Being"
Nietzsche Fragments
Existentialism. I have included Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling" from 1843, Sartre's lecture "Existentialism and Humanism," as well as Camus' Sisyphus.
Max Weber: Science as a Vocation. Politics as a Vocation. (These lectures were given in 1918 at the University of Munich. Long, but definitely worthwhile to read!)
Karl Marx: The 18th Brumaire, of Louis Napoleon. , Commodity Fetishism. (From the first chapter of Capital)
How Money becomes Capital., also from the Capital, and a piece from the Communist Manifesto.
Sun Tzu: The Art of War (4th Century B.C.)
