Shorter Hegelian Reading List

  1. Parmenides - On Nature
  2. Zeno’s paradoxes (Stanford encyclopedia article)
  3. Heraclitus - Fragments
  4. Plato - Republic (Book VI)
  5. Plato - Sophist
  6. Plato - Parmenides
  7. Plato - Timaeus (only the beginning on creation of the world)
  8. Aristotle - Categories (very important)
  9. Aristotle - Metaphysics (Zeta, Eta, Theta, Lambda)
  10. Aristotle - Prior Analytics
  11. Aristotle - Physics (Book II)
  12. Aristotle - On the Soul
  13. The Bible - Genesis (Ch. 1-3), Exodus (Ch. 3), Gospel of John, and 1 Corinthians
  14. The Corpus Hermeticum (Poimandres & Asclepius)
  15. Proclus - Commentary on Plato’s Parmenides (Books 5-7, esp. 5)
  16. Proclus - Elements of Theology (Books A-K)
  17. Dionysius the Areopagite - The Divine Names & Mystical Theology
  18. Eriugena - Periphyseon (the very beginning on the division)
  19. Anselm - Proslogion (ontological argument)
  20. Aquinas - Summa Theologiae (Prima Pars. Q2, Q3, and Q13 Article 11)
  21. Scotus - Concerning Metaphysics (in ‘Philosophical Writings’)
  22. Ockham - Being and Essence (in ‘Philosophical Writings’)
  23. Eckhart - Sermon 17 (in Penguin ‘Selected Writings’)
  24. Reuchlin - On the Art of Kabbalah (end of Book I, ‘On Faith and Atonement’ quote)
  25. Bruno - Cause, Principle, and Unity (third dialogue)
  26. Böhme - Aurora (opening tree analogy)
  27. Böhme - Mysterium Magnum (Part 1 Ch. 17)
  28. Descartes - Meditations (1-3 + 5 on ontological argument)
  29. Spinoza - Ethics (parts 1-2)
  30. Leibniz - Discourse on Metaphysics (¶1-8 esp. the part on Alexander the Great)
  31. Locke - Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Book 2 Ch. 1, 9, 22, 23)
  32. Lessing - The Christianity of Reason + Conversation with Jacobi
  33. Kant - Critique of Pure Reason (B74-274, B316-396, B595-B732, B767-785)
  34. Kant - Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science
  35. Kant - Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
  36. Kant - Critique of Judgment (Introduction + §64-71, 75-86, esp. 76)
  37. Fichte - Concerning the Concept of the Wissenschaftslehre (in ‘Early Writings’)
  38. Fichte - Science of Knowledge (First Intro + Fundamental Principles + Deduction of Presentation)
  39. Schelling - On the ‘I’ as Principle of Philosophy
  40. Schelling - System of Transcendental Idealism (Introduction + Parts I-IV)
  41. Hegel - Lectures on the History of Philosophy (chapters on the thinkers in this list)
  42. Hegel - Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences (Logic, Nature, Spirit)
  43. Hegel - Philosophy of Right
  44. Hegel - Lectures on the Philosophy of World History
  45. Hegel - Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion
  46. Hegel - Lectures on the Proofs of the Existence of God
  47. Hegel - Science of Logic

Bonus: Tiny Reading List (only the most essential)

  1. Parmenides - On Nature
  2. Zeno’s paradoxes (Stanford encyclopedia article)
  3. Heraclitus - Fragments
  4. Plato - Republic (Book VI)
  5. Plato - Parmenides
  6. Plato - Timaeus (only the beginning on creation of the world)
  7. Aristotle - Categories (very important)
  8. Aristotle - Metaphysics (Zeta, Eta, Theta, Lambda)
  9. Aristotle - On the Soul
  10. Proclus - Elements of Theology (Books A-K)
  11. Eriugena - Periphyseon (the very beginning on the division)
  12. Descartes - Meditations (1-3 + 5 on ontological argument)
  13. Spinoza - Ethics (parts 1-2)
  14. Kant - Critique of Pure Reason (B74-274, B316-396, B595-B732, B767-785)
  15. Kant - Critique of Judgment (Introduction + §64-71, 75-86, esp. 76)
  16. Fichte - Concerning the Concept of the Wissenschaftslehre (in ‘Early Writings’)
  17. Fichte - Science of Knowledge (First Intro + Fundamental Principles + Deduction of Presentation)
  18. Schelling - On the ‘I’ as Principle of Philosophy
  19. Schelling - System of Transcendental Idealism (Introduction + Part I-IV)
  20. Hegel - Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences
  21. Hegel - Philosophy of Right
  22. Hegel - Science of Logic

Bonus Bonus: Ultra Tiny Reading List

  1. Plato - Parmenides
  2. Aristotle - Metaphysics (Zeta, Eta, Theta, Lambda)
  3. Proclus - Elements of Theology (Books A-K)
  4. Eriugena - Periphyseon (the very beginning on the division)
  5. Descartes - Meditations (1-3 + 5 on ontological argument)
  6. Spinoza - Ethics (parts 1-2)
  7. Kant - Critique of Pure Reason (B74-274, B316-396, B595-B732, B767-785)
  8. Kant - Critique of Judgment (Introduction + §64-71, 75-86, esp. 76)
  9. Fichte - Science of Knowledge (First Intro + Fundamental Principles + Deduction of Presentation)
  10. Hegel - Science of Logic