Happy World Philosophy Day, everyone!  Here’s an unusually multicultural list that makes a real effort at covering the philosophy of the world, not just a tiny corner of it.

70 Philosophy Books Everyone Should Read

Here are a just a few highlights:

Averroes, On the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy, trans. G.F. Hourani. (12^th century CE)

Nishida Kitarō, An Inquiry into the Good, trans. by Masao Abe and Christopher Ives.  (1911)

Bhagavad-Gītā (Stoller-Miller translation) (5th to 3rd century BCE)

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949)

Henry Odera Oruka, Sage Philosophy: Indigenous Thinkers and Modern Debate on African Philosophy (1990)

Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth (1952)

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