The Fever of Phineas

I’ve decided to compose for myself a syllabus in the History of Western Philosophy. It’s a little chaotic, but here’s the reading list. The text is Bertrand Russell’s The History of Western Philosophy.

I plan to pause after I wrap up Book One, and read The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan . I’ll try to dip onto primary source by Thucydides if I can.

Other primary sources, while my head is in Classical times:
Plato — The Republic, The Symposium, Parmenides, Apology, Crito and Phaedo.

For a taste of Stoicism:
Epictetus — The Golden Sayings of Epictetus (Harvard Classics)
Marcus Aurelius — The Meditations (Harvard Classics).

After that I’ll return to Russell’s History, and try to pause and read relevant primary sources as I go along.