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Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy Books in Order

This page lists the complete Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy reading order by Friedrich Nietzsche, with book numbers, publication years, and a publication-order view for readers who want to start at the beginning.

Updated 2026-06-22 / 92 books / 1273-2018

Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy Reading Order

01 Summa Theologiae / Questions on God(By: Brian Davies,Thomas Aquinas,Brian Leftow) 1273 Buy
02 Cause, Principle and Unity and Essays on Magic(By: Giordano Bruno,Richard J. Blackwell,Alfonso Ingegno,Robert De Lucca) 1583 Buy
03 Francis Bacon: The New Organon(By: Lisa Jardine,Francis Bacon,Michael Silverthorne) 1620 Buy
04 Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy(By: John Cottingham) 1641 Buy
05 Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole: Logic or the Art of Thinking(By: Pierre Nicole,Antoine Arnauld,Jill Vance Buroker) 1662 Buy
06 Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy(By: Margaret Cavendish,Eileen O'Neill) 1668 Buy
07 Tractatus Theologico-Politicus: Gebhardt Edition(By: Baruch Spinoza,Brad S. Gregory,Samuel Shirley,Maarten van Buuren) 1670 Buy
08 The Search after Truth(By: Nicolas Malebranche,Thomas M. Lennon) 1675 Buy
09 Spinoza: Ethics: Proved in Geometrical Order(By: Baruch Spinoza,Michael Silverthorne,Matthew Kisner) 1677 Buy
10 Malebranche: Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion(By: David Scott,Nicholas Jolley,Nicolas Malebranche) 1688 Buy
11 Locke on Toleration(By: Richard Vernon) 1689 Buy
12 Berkeley: Philosophical Writings(By: George Berkeley,Desmond M. Clarke) 1709 Buy
13 Shaftesbury: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times(By: Anthony AshleyCooper,Lawrence E. Klein) 1711 Buy
14 A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality: With a Treatise of Freewill(By: Ralph Cudworth,Sarah Hutton) 1731 Buy
15 Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding(By: Stephen Buckle) 1748 Buy
16 The Theory of Moral Sentiments(By: Adam Smith) 1759 Buy
17 Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View(By: Immanuel Kant,Robert B. Louden,Manfred K’hn) 1785 Buy
18 Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals(By: Immanuel Kant,Jens Timmermann,Mary J. Gregor,Christine M. Korsgaard) 1785 Buy
19 Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science(By: Immanuel Kant,MichaelFriedman) 1786 Buy
20 Critique of Practical Reason(By: Immanuel Kant) 1788 Buy
21 Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation(By: Allen Wood,Garrett Green) 1792 Buy
22 Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone(By: Immanuel Kant) 1793 Buy
23 Novalis: Fichte Studies(By: Novalis,Jane Kneller) 1796 Buy
24 Foundations of Natural Right(By: Frederick Neuhouser,Johann Gottlieb Fichte,Michael Baur) 1797 Buy
25 The Metaphysics of Morals(By: Immanuel Kant,Lara Denis,Mary J. Gregor) 1797 Buy
26 Kant: Political Writings(By: Immanuel Kant) 1797 Buy
27 The System of Ethics(By: Daniel Breazeale,Johann Gottlieb Fichte,Guenter Z’ller) 1798 Buy
28 Schleiermacher: On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers(By: Friedrich Schleiermacher,Richard E. Crouter) 1799 Buy
29 Hamann: Writings on Philosophy and Language: Risk Factors and Strategies for Prevention(By: Stephen Lord) 1825 Buy
30 On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany and Other Writings(By: Heinrich Heine,Terry P. Pinkard,Howard Pollack-Milgate) 1835 Buy
31 On Language: On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and its Influence on the Mental Development of the Human Species(By: Wilhelm von Humboldt,Peter Heath,Michael Losonsky) 1836 Buy
32 Fear and Trembling(By: S’ren Kierkegaard,Sylvia Walsh,C. Stephen Evans) 1843 Buy
33 Untimely Meditations(With: Daniel Breazeale) 1876 Buy
34 Daybreak(With: Brian Leiter,Maudemarie Clark) 1881 Buy
35 The Gay Science(With: Bernard Williams,Josefine Nauckhoff) 1882 Buy
36 Thus Spoke Zarathustra 1883 Buy
37 Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future(With: Judith Norman,Rolf-Peter Horstmann) 1886 Buy
38 The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy(By: Allison P. Coudert,Anne Conway,Taylor Corse) 1982 Buy
39 Orations on Philosophy and Education(By: Philipp Melanchthon,Christine F. Salazar,Sachiko Kusukawa) 1989 Buy
40 Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity(By: Thomas Hobbes,Vere C. Chappell,John Bramhall) 1995 Buy
41 La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings(By: Julien Offray de La Mettrie,Ann Thomson) 1996 Buy
42 Machine Man and Other Writings(By: Julien Offray de La Mettrie,Ann Thomson) 1996 Buy
43 On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers(By: Friedrich Schleiermacher,Richard Crouter) 1996 Buy
44 Logic or the Art of Thinking(By: Pierre Nicole,Antoine Arnauld) 1996 Buy
45 A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature(By: Robert Boyle,Michael Hunter,Edward B. Davis) 1996 Buy
46 Philosophical Writings(By: Daniel O. Dahlstrom,Moses Mendelssohn) 1997 Buy
47 Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings(By: Daniel O. Dahlstrom,Moses Mendelssohn) 1997 Buy
48 The World and Other Writings(By: Ren’ Descartes,Stephen Gaukroger) 1998 Buy
49 Herder: Philosophical Writings(By: Johann Gottfried Herder,Michael N. Forster) 1998 Buy
50 Schleiermacher: Hermeneutics and Criticism: And Other Writings(By: Friedrich Schleiermacher,Andrew Bowie) 1998 Buy
51 Hermeneutics and Criticism and Other Writings(By: Friedrich Schleiermacher,Andrew Bowie) 1998 Buy
52 Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic(By: Giordano Bruno) 1998 Buy
53 The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings 1999 Buy
54 Disputed Questions on the Virtues(By: Thomas Aquinas,E.M. Atkins,Rev. Thomas Williams) 1999 Buy
55 The New Organon(By: Lisa Jardine,Francis Bacon,Michael Silverthorne) 2000 Buy
56 Nicomachean Ethics(By: Roger Crisp) 2000 Buy
57 Outlines of Scepticism(By: Jonathan Barnes,Julia Annas,Sextus Empiricus) 2000 Buy
58 Treatise on Tolerance and Other Writings(By: Voltaire) 2000 Buy
59 Philosophical & Theological Writings(By: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing) 2001 Buy
60 Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings(With: Aaron Ridley,Judith Norman) 2001 Buy
61 On Moral Ends(By: Julia Annas,Marcus Tullius Cicero,Raphael Woolf) 2001 Buy
62 Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge(By: ’tienne Bonnot de Condillac,Hans Aarsleff) 2001 Buy
63 Schleiermacher: Lectures on Philosophical Ethics(By: Friedrich Schleiermacher,Louise Adey Huish,Robert B. Louden) 2002 Buy
64 On the Trinity(By: Augustine of Hippo,Gareth B. Matthews,Stephen McKenna) 2002 Buy
65 Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics(By: J.M. Bernstein) 2002 Buy
66 Lectures on Philosophical Ethics(By: Friedrich Schleiermacher,Louise Adey Huish,Robert B. Louden) 2002 Buy
67 Writings from the Early Notebooks 2003 Buy
68 Writings from the Late Notebooks 2003 Buy
69 Fichte Studies(By: Novalis,Jane Kneller) 2003 Buy
70 Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings(By: Isaac Newton,Andrew Janiak) 2004 Buy
71 Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics: With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason(By: Immanuel Kant,Gary Hatfield) 2004 Buy
72 Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times(By: Anthony AshleyCooper) 2004 Buy
73 Reinhold: Letters on the Kantian Philosophy(By: Karl P. Ameriks,James Hebbeler) 2005 Buy
74 Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings(By: Muhammad Ali Khalidi) 2005 Buy
75 Sextus Empiricus: Against the Logicians(By: Richard Bett) 2005 Buy
76 Against the Logicians(By: Sextus Empiricus,Richard Arnot Home Bett) 2005 Buy
77 Letters on the Kantian Philosophy(By: Karl P. Ameriks,James Hebbeler,Karl Leonhard Reinhold) 2006 Buy
78 Augustine: On the Free Choice of the Will, On Grace and Free Choice, and Other Writings(By: Peter King) 2006 Buy
79 Medieval Jewish Philosophical Writings(By: Charles Harry Manekin) 2007 Buy
80 Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: And Other Writings(By: David Hume) 2007 Buy
81 Theological-Political Treatise(By: Baruch Spinoza,Michael Silverthorne,Jonathan I. Israel) 2007 Buy
82 Writings on Philosophy and Language(By: Johann Georg Hamann,Kenneth Haynes) 2007 Buy
83 Plato: The Symposium(By: M.C. Howatson,Frisbee Sheffield) 2008 Buy
84 Greek and Roman Aesthetics(By: Oleg V. Bychkov,Anne Sheppard) 2010 Buy
85 Kant: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings(By: Paul Guyer,Patrick Frierson) 2011 Buy
86 Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings(By: Paul Guyer,Patrick Frierson) 2011 Buy
87 Eudemian Ethics(By: Brad Inwood,Raphael Woolf) 2012 Buy
88 Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics(By: Roger Crisp) 2014 Buy
89 Theaetetus/Sophist(By: Harold North Fowler,Francis Macdonald Cornford) 2015 Buy
90 Meditations on First Philosophy, with Selections from the Objections and Replies(By: Ren’ Descartes,John Cottingham) 2017 Buy
91 Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, and Other Writings(By: Immanuel Kant,Robert Merrihew Adams,Allen Wood,George di Giovanni) 2018 Buy
92 Ethics: Proved in Geometrical Order(By: Baruch Spinoza,Michael Silverthorne,Matthew Kisner) 2018 Buy

Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy Books by Publication Order

1273 Summa Theologiae / Questions on God(By: Brian Davies,Thomas Aquinas,Brian Leftow) #1
1583 Cause, Principle and Unity and Essays on Magic(By: Giordano Bruno,Richard J. Blackwell,Alfonso Ingegno,Robert De Lucca) #2
1620 Francis Bacon: The New Organon(By: Lisa Jardine,Francis Bacon,Michael Silverthorne) #3
1641 Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy(By: John Cottingham) #4
1662 Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole: Logic or the Art of Thinking(By: Pierre Nicole,Antoine Arnauld,Jill Vance Buroker) #5
1668 Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy(By: Margaret Cavendish,Eileen O'Neill) #6
1670 Tractatus Theologico-Politicus: Gebhardt Edition(By: Baruch Spinoza,Brad S. Gregory,Samuel Shirley,Maarten van Buuren) #7
1675 The Search after Truth(By: Nicolas Malebranche,Thomas M. Lennon) #8
1677 Spinoza: Ethics: Proved in Geometrical Order(By: Baruch Spinoza,Michael Silverthorne,Matthew Kisner) #9
1688 Malebranche: Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion(By: David Scott,Nicholas Jolley,Nicolas Malebranche) #10
1689 Locke on Toleration(By: Richard Vernon) #11
1709 Berkeley: Philosophical Writings(By: George Berkeley,Desmond M. Clarke) #12
1711 Shaftesbury: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times(By: Anthony AshleyCooper,Lawrence E. Klein) #13
1731 A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality: With a Treatise of Freewill(By: Ralph Cudworth,Sarah Hutton) #14
1748 Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding(By: Stephen Buckle) #15
1759 The Theory of Moral Sentiments(By: Adam Smith) #16
1785 Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View(By: Immanuel Kant,Robert B. Louden,Manfred K’hn) #17
1785 Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals(By: Immanuel Kant,Jens Timmermann,Mary J. Gregor,Christine M. Korsgaard) #18
1786 Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science(By: Immanuel Kant,MichaelFriedman) #19
1788 Critique of Practical Reason(By: Immanuel Kant) #20
1792 Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation(By: Allen Wood,Garrett Green) #21
1793 Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone(By: Immanuel Kant) #22
1796 Novalis: Fichte Studies(By: Novalis,Jane Kneller) #23
1797 Foundations of Natural Right(By: Frederick Neuhouser,Johann Gottlieb Fichte,Michael Baur) #24
1797 The Metaphysics of Morals(By: Immanuel Kant,Lara Denis,Mary J. Gregor) #25
1797 Kant: Political Writings(By: Immanuel Kant) #26
1798 The System of Ethics(By: Daniel Breazeale,Johann Gottlieb Fichte,Guenter Z’ller) #27
1799 Schleiermacher: On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers(By: Friedrich Schleiermacher,Richard E. Crouter) #28
1825 Hamann: Writings on Philosophy and Language: Risk Factors and Strategies for Prevention(By: Stephen Lord) #29
1835 On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany and Other Writings(By: Heinrich Heine,Terry P. Pinkard,Howard Pollack-Milgate) #30
1836 On Language: On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and its Influence on the Mental Development of the Human Species(By: Wilhelm von Humboldt,Peter Heath,Michael Losonsky) #31
1843 Fear and Trembling(By: S’ren Kierkegaard,Sylvia Walsh,C. Stephen Evans) #32
1876 Untimely Meditations(With: Daniel Breazeale) #33
1881 Daybreak(With: Brian Leiter,Maudemarie Clark) #34
1882 The Gay Science(With: Bernard Williams,Josefine Nauckhoff) #35
1883 Thus Spoke Zarathustra #36
1886 Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future(With: Judith Norman,Rolf-Peter Horstmann) #37
1982 The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy(By: Allison P. Coudert,Anne Conway,Taylor Corse) #38
1989 Orations on Philosophy and Education(By: Philipp Melanchthon,Christine F. Salazar,Sachiko Kusukawa) #39
1995 Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity(By: Thomas Hobbes,Vere C. Chappell,John Bramhall) #40
1996 La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings(By: Julien Offray de La Mettrie,Ann Thomson) #41
1996 Machine Man and Other Writings(By: Julien Offray de La Mettrie,Ann Thomson) #42
1996 On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers(By: Friedrich Schleiermacher,Richard Crouter) #43
1996 Logic or the Art of Thinking(By: Pierre Nicole,Antoine Arnauld) #44
1996 A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature(By: Robert Boyle,Michael Hunter,Edward B. Davis) #45
1997 Philosophical Writings(By: Daniel O. Dahlstrom,Moses Mendelssohn) #46
1997 Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings(By: Daniel O. Dahlstrom,Moses Mendelssohn) #47
1998 The World and Other Writings(By: Ren’ Descartes,Stephen Gaukroger) #48
1998 Herder: Philosophical Writings(By: Johann Gottfried Herder,Michael N. Forster) #49
1998 Schleiermacher: Hermeneutics and Criticism: And Other Writings(By: Friedrich Schleiermacher,Andrew Bowie) #50
1998 Hermeneutics and Criticism and Other Writings(By: Friedrich Schleiermacher,Andrew Bowie) #51
1998 Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic(By: Giordano Bruno) #52
1999 The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings #53
1999 Disputed Questions on the Virtues(By: Thomas Aquinas,E.M. Atkins,Rev. Thomas Williams) #54
2000 The New Organon(By: Lisa Jardine,Francis Bacon,Michael Silverthorne) #55
2000 Nicomachean Ethics(By: Roger Crisp) #56
2000 Outlines of Scepticism(By: Jonathan Barnes,Julia Annas,Sextus Empiricus) #57
2000 Treatise on Tolerance and Other Writings(By: Voltaire) #58
2001 Philosophical & Theological Writings(By: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing) #59
2001 Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings(With: Aaron Ridley,Judith Norman) #60
2001 On Moral Ends(By: Julia Annas,Marcus Tullius Cicero,Raphael Woolf) #61
2001 Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge(By: ’tienne Bonnot de Condillac,Hans Aarsleff) #62
2002 Schleiermacher: Lectures on Philosophical Ethics(By: Friedrich Schleiermacher,Louise Adey Huish,Robert B. Louden) #63
2002 On the Trinity(By: Augustine of Hippo,Gareth B. Matthews,Stephen McKenna) #64
2002 Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics(By: J.M. Bernstein) #65
2002 Lectures on Philosophical Ethics(By: Friedrich Schleiermacher,Louise Adey Huish,Robert B. Louden) #66
2003 Writings from the Early Notebooks #67
2003 Writings from the Late Notebooks #68
2003 Fichte Studies(By: Novalis,Jane Kneller) #69
2004 Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings(By: Isaac Newton,Andrew Janiak) #70
2004 Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics: With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason(By: Immanuel Kant,Gary Hatfield) #71
2004 Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times(By: Anthony AshleyCooper) #72
2005 Reinhold: Letters on the Kantian Philosophy(By: Karl P. Ameriks,James Hebbeler) #73
2005 Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings(By: Muhammad Ali Khalidi) #74
2005 Sextus Empiricus: Against the Logicians(By: Richard Bett) #75
2005 Against the Logicians(By: Sextus Empiricus,Richard Arnot Home Bett) #76
2006 Letters on the Kantian Philosophy(By: Karl P. Ameriks,James Hebbeler,Karl Leonhard Reinhold) #77
2006 Augustine: On the Free Choice of the Will, On Grace and Free Choice, and Other Writings(By: Peter King) #78
2007 Medieval Jewish Philosophical Writings(By: Charles Harry Manekin) #79
2007 Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: And Other Writings(By: David Hume) #80
2007 Theological-Political Treatise(By: Baruch Spinoza,Michael Silverthorne,Jonathan I. Israel) #81
2007 Writings on Philosophy and Language(By: Johann Georg Hamann,Kenneth Haynes) #82
2008 Plato: The Symposium(By: M.C. Howatson,Frisbee Sheffield) #83
2010 Greek and Roman Aesthetics(By: Oleg V. Bychkov,Anne Sheppard) #84
2011 Kant: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings(By: Paul Guyer,Patrick Frierson) #85
2011 Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings(By: Paul Guyer,Patrick Frierson) #86
2012 Eudemian Ethics(By: Brad Inwood,Raphael Woolf) #87
2014 Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics(By: Roger Crisp) #88
2015 Theaetetus/Sophist(By: Harold North Fowler,Francis Macdonald Cornford) #89
2017 Meditations on First Philosophy, with Selections from the Objections and Replies(By: Ren’ Descartes,John Cottingham) #90
2018 Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, and Other Writings(By: Immanuel Kant,Robert Merrihew Adams,Allen Wood,George di Giovanni) #91
2018 Ethics: Proved in Geometrical Order(By: Baruch Spinoza,Michael Silverthorne,Matthew Kisner) #92

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