Are you attempting to conduct an “exposition of the question of the meaning of Being”? Investigating normative theories of ethics? Do you need to identify the acknowledged father of modern philosophy, and outline his theory of Self, or are you simply curious about the exact nature of Hume’s Folk? For any philosophical problem you wish to explore, Auckland City Libraries has a broad range of invaluable texts and resources.
Philosophical dictionaries
Within the collection we have a number of philosophical dictionaries – notably the very good Oxford and Cambridge volumes – and many encyclopedias and histories of philosophy, including the Encyclopedia of Unbelief, the Encyclopedia of Ethics, the Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, and of particular importance the new 10 volume Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Texts
The Library collection also boasts an extensive range of texts by individual philosophers - from Boethius to Aquinas, Kant and Heidegger, Spinoza, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Deleuze - embracing the full spectrum of the Western philosophical tradition, and including many Chinese philosophical works by Lao Tzu, Mencius, and Confucius.
You will also find an array of critical interpretations focusing on particular authors and schools of thought. From Foucault to Existentialism, the secondary literature is well represented, as is the philosophical interrogation of everyday concepts and experience – from love, to luck, to vagueness. |
