I am a current community college student who is thinking about transferring to a local four-year university and majoring in history. I am also thinking about doing a philosophy minor with a history major. I am interested in all kinds of history. Primarily European history, U.S. history, and Medieval history. I am also interested in the history of the Roman and Greek empires as well and biblical history. I am just getting into the world of philosophy. I already know a lot about history since I had history courses during high school.
by TS2354
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The Anarchy by Dalyrimple about the British East India Company
Oh how cool! Guess who got a lot of Medieval education in her philosophy degree? (Muahahahaha!) Now I can be useful. Here’s a list. If you need anything else or more notes, feel free to ask.
Ancients: Parmenides, Plato (you will be forced to read The Republic), Aristotle (Nichomachean Ethics, Rhetoric), Plotinus, Marcus Aurelius (ugh)
Medieval: Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopogyte, Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure, Boethius, Avicenna, al-Farabi, Maimonides, Marie de France, Hildegard of Bingen, Mechtild of Magdeburg
Modern: Descartes, Margaret Cavendish, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel (ugh), Pascal, Hume
Industrial Revolution Era: Marx, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Mills, Bentham, Wollstonecraft
Postmodern/20th Century: Camus, de Beauvoir, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Freud, Butler, Dworkin, Russell, Dretske, Bataille
Those are only people I can think of off the top of my head. I am also very tired. If you want specific works or have any questions, feel free to hit me up about it. Hope it helps!
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Goodwin for US History. Best presidential bio I’ve ever read.
Anything by Bart D Ehrman, or The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels for history of Christianity. Ehrman has some great courses if you’re into that sort of thing