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Bertrand Russel’s 7 Books for an Elementary Knowledge of Philosophy

Republic (especially Books VI and VII) by Plato
Meditations by Descartes
Ethics by Spinoza
The Monadology by Leibniz
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous by Berkeley
Enquiry concerning Human Understanding by Hume
Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics by Kant


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