PHILOSOPHER VS PHILOSOPHER

The matchups everyone wants to read first.

• Plato VS Aristotle
• Nietzsche VS Kant
• Sartre VS Camus
• Hume VS Kant
• Kierkegaard VS Nietzsche
• Schopenhauer VS Nietzsche
• Nietzsche VS Plato
• Descartes VS Spinoza
• Wittgenstein VS Heidegger

The non-Western canon — China, India, Japan, the Islamic golden age.

• Confucius VS Laozi
• Confucius VS Mencius
• Buddha VS Confucius
• Aristotle VS Confucius
• Buddha VS Nagarjuna
• Laozi VS Zhuangzi
• Mencius VS Xunzi
• Wang Yangming VS Zhu Xi
• Maimonides VS Thomas Aquinas
• Dogen VS Hakuin
• Ramanuja VS Madhva

The modern arguments — phenomenology, analytic, critical theory, post-structuralism.

• Bertrand Russell VS Wittgenstein
• Foucault VS Habermas
• Derrida VS Foucault
• Heidegger VS Sartre
• Hannah Arendt VS Simone de Beauvoir
• Hannah Arendt VS Heidegger
• Kierkegaard VS Sartre
• Karl Popper VS Thomas Kuhn
• William James VS John Dewey
• Simone de Beauvoir VS Sartre
• Iris Murdoch VS Philippa Foot
• Martha Nussbaum VS Bernard Williams
• Charles Taylor VS Alasdair MacIntyre
• Judith Butler VS Foucault
• Frantz Fanon VS W.E.B. Du Bois
• bell hooks VS Audre Lorde

What we owe each other, and how the state fits in.

• Hobbes VS Locke
• Marx VS Adam Smith
• Mill VS Jeremy Bentham
• Hegel VS Marx
• Rousseau VS Hobbes
• Mary Wollstonecraft VS Mill
• John Rawls VS Peter Singer
• Peter Singer VS Bernard Williams
• Kant VS Mill
• Marx VS Mill

Pre-Enlightenment — Greek, Roman, Christian scholastic.

• Thomas Aquinas VS Augustine
• Thomas Aquinas VS Aristotle
• Heraclitus VS Parmenides
• Epicurus VS Marcus Aurelius

Recently added — not yet sorted.

• Locke VS Hume
• Berkeley VS Locke
• Spinoza VS Leibniz
• Spinoza VS Hume