This is a work in progress. However, here are a few books that might help anyone who seeks to reflect carefully on life’s most important questions.

Aristotelian-Thomism

Adler, Mortimer. Aristotle for Everybody: Difficult Thought Made Easy. Simon & Schuster, 1978.

Clarke, Norris W. The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics. University of Notre Dame Press, 2001.

Davies, Brian. The Thought of Thomas Aquinas. Oxford University Press, 1992.

Feser, Edward. Aquinas. Oneworld Press, 2015

—. Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction. Editiones Scholasticae, 2014.

Garrigou-Lagrange, Reginald. Reality: A Synthesis of Thomistic Thought. Ex Fontibus, 2014

McInerny, Ralph. A First Glance at St. Thomas Aquinas. A Handbook for Peeping Thomists. University of Notre Dame, 1990.

—. St. Thomas Aquinas. University of Notre Dame Press. 1982.

Selman, Francis. Aquinas 101: A Basic Introduction to the Thought of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Veritas Publications, 2005.

Veatch, Henry. Aristotle: A Contemporary Appreciation. Indiana University Press, 1974.

General Philosophy:

Jordan, James. Western Philosophy: From Antiquity to the Middle Ages. New York, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987.

Miller, Ed. Questions That Matter. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1995.

Sullivan, Daniel. An Introduction to Philosophy: Perennial Principles of the Classical Realist Tradition. Tan Books, 2009.

Titus, Harold, et al. Living Issues in Philosophy. Boston, Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1995.

Metaphysics and the study of reality:

Goetz, Stewart, and Charles Taliaferro. Naturalism. Grand Rapids, Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008.

Koons, Robert, and Timothy Pickavance. Metaphysics: The Fundamentals. Wiley Blackwell, 2015.

Lazerowitz, Morris. The Structure of Metaphysics. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1955.

Lotze, Hermann. Metaphysic in Three Books: Ontology, Cosmology, Psychology. Forgotten Books, 2012.

Peters, John. Metaphysics: A Systematic Survey. Duquesne University Press, 1963.

Taylor, Richard. Metaphysics. Simon & .Schuster. 1992.

Trigg, Roger. Beyond Matter: Why Science Needs Metaphysics. Templeton Press, 2015.

Van Inwagen, Peter. Metaphysics. San Francisco, Westview Press, 1993.

Philosophy of Technology – the effects of technology on society.

Barrett, William. The Illusion of Technique: The Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization. Anchor Press, 1979.

Birkerts, Sven. The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age. Faber and Faber, 1994.

Borgmann, Albert. Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life. University of Chicago Press, 1984.

Carr, Nicholas. The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. W. W. Norton & Company, 2011.

Dreyfus, Hubert. On the Internet. Routledge, 2001.

Ellul, Jacques. The Technological Society. Vintage Books, 1964.

Grant, George. Technology & Justice. House of Anansi Press, 1986.

—. Technology & Empire. House of Anansi Press, 1969.

Higg, Eric, and Andrew Light. Technology and the Good Life. University of Chicago Press, 200.

Heidegger, Martin. The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays. Harper Press, 1969.

Hoinacki, Lee, and Carl Mitcham. The Challenges of Ivan Illich: A Collective Reflection. University of New York, 2002.

Illich, Ivan. Tools for Conviviality. London, Marion Boyars Publishers, 2009.

Postman, Neil. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology. Knopf. 1992.

Scharf, Robert, and Val Dusek. Philosophy of Technology: The Technological Condition An Anthology. Wiley Blackwell, 2014.

Silverman, Jacob. Terms of Service: Social Media and Price of Constant Connection. HarperCollins, 2015.

Talbott, Steve. Devices of the Soul: Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines. O’Reilly Media, 2007.

Postmodernism and the current intellectual climate

Borgmann, Albert. Crossing the Postmodern Divide. University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Connor, Steven. Postmodernist Culture: An Introduction to Theories of the Contemporary. Blackwell Publishers, 1997.

Delsol, Chantal. The Unlearned Lessons of the Twentiety Century: An Essay on Late Modernity. ISI Books, 2006.

Del Noce, Augusto. The Crisis of Modernity. McGill-Queens University Press, 2014.

Hicks, Stephen. Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. Ockham’s Razor Publishing, 2018

Lyotard, Jean Francois. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. University of Minnesota Press, 1993.

Norris, Christopher. Reclaiming Truth: Contribution to a Critique of Cultural Relativism. Duke University Press, 1996.

—. Against Relativism: Philosophy of Science, Deconstruction and Critical Theory. Blackwell Publishers, 1997.

—. The Truth About Postmodernism. Blackwell Publishers, 1993.

Vieth, Gene. Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture. Crossway Books, 1994.

The Western Intellectual Tradition – Intellectual History

Barzun, Jacques. From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present. New York, HarperCollins, 2000.

Easton, Stewart. The Western Heritage: From the Earliest Times to the Present. New York, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc, 1966.

Gottlieb, Anthony. The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance. W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.

Herman, Arthur. The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization. New York, Random House, 2014.

Johnson, Paul. The Renaissance. Modern Library, 2002.

Van Doren, Charles. A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future. New York, Balantine Books, 1991.

Whitehead, A. N. Science and the Modern World. Mentor, 1948.