11 must-read philosophy books like On the Principles of Nature by Thomas Aquinas

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On the Principles of Nature

By: Thomas Aquinas

3.86

Format: 19 pages, Kindle Edition

"On the Principles of Nature" is part of The Fig Classic Series on Medieval Theology.

If you liked the philosophy plot in On the Principles of Nature by Thomas Aquinas , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis, William Benham, Richard Challoner, D.D.

1. The Imitation of Christ

By: Thomas à Kempis , William Benham , Richard Challoner, D.D.

4.32

Format: 632 pages, Paperback

Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imita… read more

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  • theology
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2. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

By: Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton

2.67

Format: 166 pages,

G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a det… read more

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  • philosophy
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3. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more

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4. The Consolation of Philosophy

By: Boethius , None

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more

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  • medieval
  • theology
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5. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.07

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be … read more

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  • philosophy
"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

6. Phaedrus

By: Plato , Paul Woodruff , Alexander Nehamas , Albert A. Anderson

3.50

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Trajectory presents classics of world literature with 21st century features! Our original-text edit… read more

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  • philosophy
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7. On the Unity of Christ

By: Cyril of Alexandria , John Anthony McGuckin

4.00

Format: None pages,

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  • philosophy
  • theology
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8. The End of the Affair

By: Graham Greene , Monica Ali

3.90

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look… read more

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"As long as one suffers one lives."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?"

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

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9. The Gambler

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Gary Saul Morson

3.91

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In this dark and compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young t… read more

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  • philosophy
"Quien teme al lobo no se mete en el bosque."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"يجب ان يظل المال دون الأستقراطي، حتى لكأن الأستقراطي لا يكاد يحفل به أو يقلق له"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"En toda situación es posible comportarse con dignidad. Si hay lucha, que sea noble y no humillante."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

10. Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction

By: Allen C. Guelzo

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private t… read more

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11. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)

By: Dante Alighieri , Anthony Esolen

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous jour… read more

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12. Death Comes for the Archbishop

By: Willa Cather

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

There is something epic--and almost mythic--about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, al… read more

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13. On the Genealogy of Morals

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith

4.13

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more

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  • philosophy
"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

14. The Four Cardinal Virtues

By: Josef Pieper

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

In The Four Cardinal Virtues, Josef Pieper delivers a stimulating quartet of essays on the four car… read more

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15. Notes from Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None

4.17

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more

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  • philosophy
"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

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16. Apology

By: Plato , James J. Helm

4.20

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully def… read more

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  • philosophy
"Kötülük ölümden daha hızlı koşar."

-Plato, Apology

"Loin de parler quand on me paie, et de me taire quand on me donne rien."

-Plato, Apology

"As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy."

-Plato, Apology

"Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you..."

-Plato, Apology

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17. The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes

By: C.S. Lewis

4.10

Format: 192 pages, ebook

The revered teacher and bestselling author of such classic Christian works as Mere Christianity and… read more

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18. The Divine Names and The Mystical Theology

By: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

3.98

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Book by Pseudo-Dionysius Aeropagite, Jones, John D. read more

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  • philosophy
  • metaphysics
  • theology
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19. On the Principles of Nature

By: Thomas Aquinas

3.86

Format: 19 pages, Kindle Edition

"On the Principles of Nature" is part of The Fig Classic Series on Medieval Theology. read more

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  • logic
  • theology
  • philosophy
  • medieval
  • metaphysics
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20. O Cristão Bem Formado

By: John Bosco

4.51

Format: 69 pages, Kindle Edition

São João Bosco, neste pequno livro, ensina-nos que são dois os principais artifícios do maligno par… read more

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21. Ordered by Love: An Introduction to John Duns Scotus

By: Thomas M. Ward

4.41

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

John Duns Scotus (1265-1308), beatified by Pope St. John Paul II in 1993, is widely recognized as o… read more

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  • theology

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