What to Read After Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy
Readers who loved Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy
Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding
Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Come Forward As Science With Kant's Letter to Marcus Herz, February 27, 1772
Three dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays
The First and Second Apologies
G.W. Leibniz's Monadology
The View from Nowhere
On God and Christ
Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
The Idea of a University
Spinoza in 90 Minutes
The Second Treatise of Government
The Major Works
The Consolation of Philosophy
Spinoza, Practical Philosophy
Ethics (Penguin Classics)
Utilitarianism
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
The Metaphysics of Morals
A Treatise of Human Nature
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ethics
History of Philosophy, Volume 1 (History of Philosophy)