Philosophy · Prescribed text: one from the IB list

PHT.1 — The IB list of prescribed philosophical texts

Philosophy · SL / HL · syllabus-mapped notes

1. PHT.1.1

   Alfred Jules Ayer: Language, Truth and Logic

2. PHT.1.2

   Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex, Volume 1 part 1, Volume 2 part 1 and Volume 2 part 4

3. PHT.1.3

   Confucius: The Analects

4. PHT.1.4

   René Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy

5. PHT.1.5

   Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Masks

6. PHT.1.6

   John Stuart Mill: On Liberty

7. PHT.1.7

   Friedrich Nietzsche: The Genealogy of Morals

8. PHT.1.8

   Martha C. Nussbaum: Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach

9. PHT.1.9

   José Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses

10. PHT.1.10

    Plato: The Republic, Books IV–IX

11. PHT.1.11

    Charles Taylor: The Ethics of Authenticity

12. PHT.1.12

    Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching