Philosophy Books BANNED By The Catholic Church





1. René Descartes – Meditations on First Philosophy

2. Blaise Pascal – Pensées

3. Nicolaus Copernicus – On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

4. Galileo Galilei – Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

5. Adam Smith – The Wealth of Nations

6. David Hume – Various Works

7. Jeremy Bentham – Deontology; or, The Science of Morality

8. Thomas Hobbes – Leviathan

9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau – The Social Contract

10. Immanuel Kant – Critique of Pure Reason


Honourable Mentions:

11. Voltaire – Candide

12. Niccolò Machiavelli – The Prince

13. John Milton – Paradise Lost

14. Edward Gibbon – The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

15. Victor Hugo – Les Misérables

16. Victor Hugo – The Hunchback of Notre Dame

17. Simone de Beauvoir – The Second Sex

18. Jean-Paul Sartre – Works (e.g. Being and Nothingness)


Do you want me to also group them by philosophy / literature / economics / science so it’s easier to see what fields they represent?


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