Knowledge Path · 6 books
Foundations of Knowing
Six books on where knowledge comes from and where it stops. Descartes doubts everything. Locke says it all starts with experience. Hume shows how little experience can prove. Kant tries to end the argument.
What you'll understandHow would I know if I were wrong about this?
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Free previewThe Problems of Philosophy
Russell's Problems of Philosophy (1912) is the clearest modern map of what 'knowing' even means before the tradition's heavyweights.
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Theaetetus
Plato's Theaetetus asks what knowledge is — definition under pressure, not assumption (~3h 31m).
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Discourse on Method
Descartes's Discourse on Method (1637) starts from doubt — what survives skeptical scrutiny.
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Essay concerning human understanding
Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) builds knowledge from ideas and experience.
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Philosophical essays concerning human understanding
Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) limits what experience can prove.
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The philosophy of Immanuel Kant
A.D. Lindsay's Philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1913) is a readable close (~2h 51m) — Kant without the Critique's full armor.
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