=== Greek ===

[~Plato]

• Republic (tr. Alain Badiuo) (Read)
• Symposium

[~Aristotle]

• Nicomachean Ethics
• Politics
• Metaphysics
• Rhetoric

=== Roman ===

[~Marcus Aurelius]

• Meditations (Re-reading constantly)

[~Seneca the Younger]

• On the Firmness of the Wise Person
• On Anger
• On Tranquility of the Mind

[~Cicero]

• De Inventione
• On the Commonwealth
• On the Laws

=== Renaissance ===

[~Grotius]

• De Jure Belli ac Pacis

=== Enlightenment ===

[~Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz]

• Meditations on Knowledge, Truth, and Ideas
• Primary Truths
• New Essays on Human Understanding

[~Christian Wolff]

• Vernünftige Gedanken von den Kräften des menschlichen Verstandes

[~Alexander Baumgarten]

• Aesthetica

[~Francis Bacon]

• Essayes: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion

[~John Locke]

• [-Three Letters] Concerning Toleration
• Two Treatises of Government
• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

[~Montesquieu]

• The Spirit of Law

[~Kant]

• Critique of Pure Reason
• Critique of Judgment
• Metaphysics of Morals

[~Jean-Jacques Rousseau]

• The Social Contract
• Discourse on Inequality

[~David Hume]

• Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding/Treatise of Human Nature

[~Edmund Burke]

• A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

[~Adam Smith]

• The Theory of Moral Sentiments
• The Wealth of Nations

=== 19th Century ===

[~G. W. F. Hegel]

• Phenomenology of Spirit
• Elements of the Philosophy of Right

[~Johann Fichte]

• Grundriss des Eigentümlichen der Wissenschaftslehre

[~Arthur Schopenhauer]

• The World as Will and Representation

[~Karl Marx]

• Das Kapital

=== 20th Century ===

[~Friedrich Nietzsche]

• Will to Power

=== Writers whose works are to be added to this list ===

Mary Wollenstonecraft Max Weber W.E.B. Du Bois Betrand Russell Ludwig Wittgenstein Hannah Arendt Jean-Paul Sartre Simone de Beauvoir John Austin Hans-Georg Gadamer John Rawls