Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy books in order

The Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy series publishes authoritative editions of classic philosophical works from Plato and Aristotle through Nietzsche and Kant, with scholarly introductions and notes.

Reading order

# Title Published Author Buy on Amazon
1 Plato: The Symposium - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
2 Theaetetus/Sophist - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
3 Nicomachean Ethics - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
4 Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
5 Eudemian Ethics - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
6 On Moral Ends - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
7 Outlines of Scepticism - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
8 On the Trinity - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
9 Cause, Principle and Unity and Essays on Magic - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
10 Francis Bacon: The New Organon - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
11 Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
12 Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole: Logic or the Art of Thinking - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
13 Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
14 Tractatus Theologico-Politicus: Gebhardt Edition - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
15 The Search after Truth - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
16 Spinoza: Ethics: Proved in Geometrical Order - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
17 Malebranche: Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
18 Locke on Toleration - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
19 Berkeley: Philosophical Writings - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
20 Shaftesbury: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
21 A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality: With a Treatise of Freewill - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
22 Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
23 The Theory of Moral Sentiments - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
24 Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
25 Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
26 Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
27 Kant: Critique of Practical Reason - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
28 Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
29 Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
30 Novalis: Fichte Studies - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
31 Foundations of Natural Right - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
32 The Metaphysics of Morals - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
33 The System of Ethics - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
34 Schleiermacher: On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
35 Hamann: Writings on Philosophy and Language: Risk Factors and Strategies for Prevention - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
36 On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany and Other Writings - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
37 On Language: On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and its Influence on the Mental Development of the Human Species - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
38 Fear and Trembling - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
39 Untimely Meditations - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
40 Daybreak - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
41 The Gay Science - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
42 Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
43 Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future - Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
44 The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy 1982 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
45 Orations on Philosophy and Education 1989 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
46 Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity 1995 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
47 La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings 1996 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
48 A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature 1996 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
49 Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings 1997 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
50 The World and Other Writings 1998 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
51 Herder: Philosophical Writings 1998 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
52 Schleiermacher: Hermeneutics and Criticism: And Other Writings 1998 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
53 The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings 1999 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
54 Disputed Questions on the Virtues 1999 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
55 Treatise on Tolerance and Other Writings 2000 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
56 Philosophical & Theological Writings 2001 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
57 Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings 2001 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
58 Schleiermacher: Lectures on Philosophical Ethics 2002 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
59 Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics 2002 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
60 Writings from the Early Notebooks 2003 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
61 Writings from the Late Notebooks 2003 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
62 Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings 2004 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
63 Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics: With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason 2004 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
64 Reinhold: Letters on the Kantian Philosophy 2005 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
65 Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings 2005 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
66 Sextus Empiricus: Against the Logicians 2005 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
67 Summa Theologiae / Questions on God 2006 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
68 Augustine: On the Free Choice of the Will, On Grace and Free Choice, and Other Writings 2006 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
69 Medieval Jewish Philosophical Writings 2007 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
70 Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: And Other Writings 2007 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
71 Greek and Roman Aesthetics 2010 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy
72 Kant: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings 2011 Freidrich Nietzsche Buy

The Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy is an academic series publishing authoritative editions of classic philosophical works. The 72 volumes cover the full sweep of Western philosophy, from Plato’s Symposium and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics through medieval philosophy, the Enlightenment, and nineteenth-century thinkers.

Major philosophers represented include Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche. Each volume includes scholarly introductions, notes, and careful translations. The series is a standard reference for philosophy students and scholars.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books are in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy series?

There are 72 books in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy series, published between 1982 and 2011.

What is the first book in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy series?

The first book in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy series is Plato: The Symposium.

What is the Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy series?

The Cambridge Texts series publishes scholarly editions of major philosophical works spanning Western philosophy from ancient Greece to the nineteenth century. The 72 volumes include works by Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, and many others.

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