The Philosophy Teaching Library
@thephillibrary.bsky.social
A Collection of Introductory Primary Texts
📚 User-Friendly, Accessible Readings
🌎 Open Educational Resource
✏️ Founded by Wes Siscoe & Paul Blaschko
🔗 https://philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/
📚 User-Friendly, Accessible Readings
🌎 Open Educational Resource
✏️ Founded by Wes Siscoe & Paul Blaschko
🔗 https://philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/
Our lead editor @wessiscoe.bsky.social was interviewed for the Classical Commons podcast - the Library can be a great resource for classical educators!
I was interviewed for the Classical Commons podcast on @thephillibrary.bsky.social. The question - can the Library be a good resource for classical educators?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud-Z...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud-Z...
Philosophy as a way of life | Wes Siscoe
YouTube video by Classical Commons
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Our lead editor @wessiscoe.bsky.social was interviewed for the Classical Commons podcast - the Library can be a great resource for classical educators!
*New Promo Video*
In the coming months, we will be adding videos to our website that walk students and instructors through the resources we offer along with the benefits of reading great philosophical texts. Link below!
In the coming months, we will be adding videos to our website that walk students and instructors through the resources we offer along with the benefits of reading great philosophical texts. Link below!
October 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
*New Promo Video*
In the coming months, we will be adding videos to our website that walk students and instructors through the resources we offer along with the benefits of reading great philosophical texts. Link below!
In the coming months, we will be adding videos to our website that walk students and instructors through the resources we offer along with the benefits of reading great philosophical texts. Link below!
*New Article*
Why Be Good? The City and the Soul
Plato’s Republic, Book 2
Why Be Good? The City and the Soul
Plato’s Republic, Book 2
October 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
*New Article*
Why Be Good? The City and the Soul
Plato’s Republic, Book 2
Why Be Good? The City and the Soul
Plato’s Republic, Book 2
*New Article*
What Can I Know? Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Preface A and B
What Can I Know? Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Preface A and B
October 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
*New Article*
What Can I Know? Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Preface A and B
What Can I Know? Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Preface A and B
ICYMI: New article on Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France by @tristanjrogers1.bsky.social! (link and abstract in comments)
September 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
ICYMI: New article on Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France by @tristanjrogers1.bsky.social! (link and abstract in comments)
*New Article* from Cal Poly professor Dr. Todd Long
You Are Who You Remember
John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book 2, Chapter 27
You Are Who You Remember
John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book 2, Chapter 27
September 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
*New Article* from Cal Poly professor Dr. Todd Long
You Are Who You Remember
John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book 2, Chapter 27
You Are Who You Remember
John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book 2, Chapter 27
*New Article*
The People’s Property and the Common Good
Cicero's On the Republic, Book I
The People’s Property and the Common Good
Cicero's On the Republic, Book I
September 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
*New Article*
The People’s Property and the Common Good
Cicero's On the Republic, Book I
The People’s Property and the Common Good
Cicero's On the Republic, Book I
More money, more problems.
The Institute for Humane Studies has awarded the Philosophy Teaching Library $10,000 to add articles on foundational texts in the classical liberal tradition. Now we just have to find some authors.
The Institute for Humane Studies has awarded the Philosophy Teaching Library $10,000 to add articles on foundational texts in the classical liberal tradition. Now we just have to find some authors.
August 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
More money, more problems.
The Institute for Humane Studies has awarded the Philosophy Teaching Library $10,000 to add articles on foundational texts in the classical liberal tradition. Now we just have to find some authors.
The Institute for Humane Studies has awarded the Philosophy Teaching Library $10,000 to add articles on foundational texts in the classical liberal tradition. Now we just have to find some authors.
*New Article*
Change from Within: Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (link in comments)
Change from Within: Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (link in comments)
August 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
*New Article*
Change from Within: Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (link in comments)
Change from Within: Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (link in comments)
ICYMI: New article on immortality in Plato’s Phaedo by Dr. Athanasia Giasoumi! (link and abstract in comments)
August 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
ICYMI: New article on immortality in Plato’s Phaedo by Dr. Athanasia Giasoumi! (link and abstract in comments)
*New Article* by Nathan Oakes of @olemiss.bsky.social
What Does God Want, and Why?
Plato’s Euthyphro
(link below)
What Does God Want, and Why?
Plato’s Euthyphro
(link below)
August 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
*New Article* by Nathan Oakes of @olemiss.bsky.social
What Does God Want, and Why?
Plato’s Euthyphro
(link below)
What Does God Want, and Why?
Plato’s Euthyphro
(link below)
Want Your Work To Be Widely Read? Contribute to the Philosophy Teaching Library
Read about us over at The Philosophers' Cocoon! (link below)
Read about us over at The Philosophers' Cocoon! (link below)
April 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Want Your Work To Be Widely Read? Contribute to the Philosophy Teaching Library
Read about us over at The Philosophers' Cocoon! (link below)
Read about us over at The Philosophers' Cocoon! (link below)
Congratulations to one of our founders and Editor-in-Chief @wessiscoe.bsky.social on the new position!
Can a @notredame.bsky.social academic resource stand the thought of an Ohio State based editor? Only time will tell...
Can a @notredame.bsky.social academic resource stand the thought of an Ohio State based editor? Only time will tell...
Two-Body Problem: Solved
This fall, Laura and I will be starting as tenure-track Assistant Professors at The Ohio State University in the newly established Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society.
This fall, Laura and I will be starting as tenure-track Assistant Professors at The Ohio State University in the newly established Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society.
April 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Congratulations to one of our founders and Editor-in-Chief @wessiscoe.bsky.social on the new position!
Can a @notredame.bsky.social academic resource stand the thought of an Ohio State based editor? Only time will tell...
Can a @notredame.bsky.social academic resource stand the thought of an Ohio State based editor? Only time will tell...
*New Article*
Knowing Your Own Mind
Descartes’ Meditations, Meditation 2 (link below)
Knowing Your Own Mind
Descartes’ Meditations, Meditation 2 (link below)
April 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
*New Article*
Knowing Your Own Mind
Descartes’ Meditations, Meditation 2 (link below)
Knowing Your Own Mind
Descartes’ Meditations, Meditation 2 (link below)
April 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
ICYMI: New article on the Allegory of the Cave by Cleveland State professor Dr. Michael Wiitala!
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/alle...
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/alle...
April 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
ICYMI: New article on the Allegory of the Cave by Cleveland State professor Dr. Michael Wiitala!
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/alle...
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/alle...
*New Article*
Pleasure, Happiness and the Moral Life: Mill’s Utilitarianism, Chapter 2
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/plea...
Pleasure, Happiness and the Moral Life: Mill’s Utilitarianism, Chapter 2
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/plea...
March 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
*New Article*
Pleasure, Happiness and the Moral Life: Mill’s Utilitarianism, Chapter 2
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/plea...
Pleasure, Happiness and the Moral Life: Mill’s Utilitarianism, Chapter 2
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/plea...
ICYMI:
New article on Epictetus’s Enchiridion from Scott Aikin!
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/stoi...
New article on Epictetus’s Enchiridion from Scott Aikin!
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/stoi...
March 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
ICYMI:
New article on Epictetus’s Enchiridion from Scott Aikin!
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/stoi...
New article on Epictetus’s Enchiridion from Scott Aikin!
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/stoi...
*New article*
The Good Life and How to Live It: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book I
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/the-...
The Good Life and How to Live It: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book I
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/the-...
February 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
*New article*
The Good Life and How to Live It: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book I
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/the-...
The Good Life and How to Live It: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book I
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/the-...
We're at it again. $4,000 won from @apaphilosophy.bsky.social to advertise and publicize the Philosophy Teaching Library
Should be able to get exactly one ad on X for this
Should be able to get exactly one ad on X for this
February 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
We're at it again. $4,000 won from @apaphilosophy.bsky.social to advertise and publicize the Philosophy Teaching Library
Should be able to get exactly one ad on X for this
Should be able to get exactly one ad on X for this
*New Article*
Stoic Life, Perfection, and Invincibility – Epictetus’s Enchiridion
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/stoi...
Stoic Life, Perfection, and Invincibility – Epictetus’s Enchiridion
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/stoi...
February 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
*New Article*
Stoic Life, Perfection, and Invincibility – Epictetus’s Enchiridion
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/stoi...
Stoic Life, Perfection, and Invincibility – Epictetus’s Enchiridion
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/stoi...
ICYMI: New article on Aquinas’s Five Ways! Brought to us by Samford University’s very own Dr. Emily McCarty
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/five...
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/five...
January 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
ICYMI: New article on Aquinas’s Five Ways! Brought to us by Samford University’s very own Dr. Emily McCarty
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/five...
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/five...
How the Library (Logo) Came to Be
In the fall of 2023, the Library was awarded a grant from the @apaphilosophy.bsky.social's Berry Fund for Public Philosophy. We want to bring philosophy not just to students and instructors, but to the general public.
In the fall of 2023, the Library was awarded a grant from the @apaphilosophy.bsky.social's Berry Fund for Public Philosophy. We want to bring philosophy not just to students and instructors, but to the general public.
January 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
How the Library (Logo) Came to Be
In the fall of 2023, the Library was awarded a grant from the @apaphilosophy.bsky.social's Berry Fund for Public Philosophy. We want to bring philosophy not just to students and instructors, but to the general public.
In the fall of 2023, the Library was awarded a grant from the @apaphilosophy.bsky.social's Berry Fund for Public Philosophy. We want to bring philosophy not just to students and instructors, but to the general public.
*New Article*
Five Ways to God
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/five...
Does God exist? The philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas answers this question in the affirmative, giving not one, not two, but FIVE arguments for God’s existence. Do they work? Only you can decide.
Five Ways to God
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/five...
Does God exist? The philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas answers this question in the affirmative, giving not one, not two, but FIVE arguments for God’s existence. Do they work? Only you can decide.
January 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
*New Article*
Five Ways to God
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/five...
Does God exist? The philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas answers this question in the affirmative, giving not one, not two, but FIVE arguments for God’s existence. Do they work? Only you can decide.
Five Ways to God
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/five...
Does God exist? The philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas answers this question in the affirmative, giving not one, not two, but FIVE arguments for God’s existence. Do they work? Only you can decide.
*New Article*
The Allegory of the Cave
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/art.../alleg...
Pursuing the truth might be uncomfortable, but Plato’s famous allegory challenges us to examine our beliefs and find out whether we have been living in the dark for all this time. Ready to leave the cave behind?
The Allegory of the Cave
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/art.../alleg...
Pursuing the truth might be uncomfortable, but Plato’s famous allegory challenges us to examine our beliefs and find out whether we have been living in the dark for all this time. Ready to leave the cave behind?
January 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
*New Article*
The Allegory of the Cave
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/art.../alleg...
Pursuing the truth might be uncomfortable, but Plato’s famous allegory challenges us to examine our beliefs and find out whether we have been living in the dark for all this time. Ready to leave the cave behind?
The Allegory of the Cave
philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/art.../alleg...
Pursuing the truth might be uncomfortable, but Plato’s famous allegory challenges us to examine our beliefs and find out whether we have been living in the dark for all this time. Ready to leave the cave behind?