This is a collection of primary sources that I have found/used in the creation of the Foolish Musings project. Where I cannot find free resources I link to a paid resource which you can use.
P.S. If you know of a better translation or a free resource that I am unaware of please let me know!
Classical Chinese Thought
- The Book of Changes (I Ching/Yi Jing)
- The Book of Documents (Shu King)/Shujing)
- The Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching) by Laozi
- The Analects by Confucius (Kongzi)
- The Doctrine of the Mean and The Greater Learning attributed to Zisi, Confucius and Zengzi
- The Mozi by Mozi
- The Neiye attributed to Guanzi
- The Mengzi by Mencius (Mengzi)
- The Xunzi by Xunzi
- The Zhuangzi by Zhuangzi
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Sunzi)
- The Book of Lord Shang attributed to Shang Yang
- The Shizi by Shizi
- The Annuals of Lu Buwei (Lushi Chunqui) attributed to Lu Buwei
- The Han Feizi by Han Fei
- The Pheasant Cap Master (Heguanzi) by Unknown
Classical Indian Thought
- The Rig Veda
- The Upanishads
- The Akaranga and Kalpa Sutras – Jain Sacred Texts
- The Uttaradhyayana and Sutrakritanga – Jain Sacred Texts
- The Dhamapada – collected discourses of the Buddha
- Suttacentral – a colleciton of early Buddhist works
- The Astadhyayi of Panini
- The Brahma Sutra of Badrayana
- The Mimamsa Sutra of Jamini
- The Vaisheshika Sutra of Kanada
- The Nyaya Sutra of Gautama
- The Samkhya Karika of Ishvara Krishna (later work but important to understand Samkhya school)
- The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali (later work but important to understand Raja Yoga)
- The Abhidhammattha Sangaha of Anuruddhacariya (later work but important to understand the Abhidhamma)
- The Bhagavad Gita
Classical Mediterranean Thought
- Dialogue of Pessimism – example of Babylonian wisdom literature
- Teaching of Ptahhotep – example of Egyptian wisdom literature
- The Tanakh
- The Zend Avesta – much later but an example of Zoroastrian thought
- The Illiad and the Odyssey by Homer
- Fragments of the early Greek philosophers
- Elements of Geometry by Euclid
- History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
- Collected works of Plato
- Collected works of Aristotle
- Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius – a secondary text but provides many insights into otherwise unheard of schools and figures
- On the nature of things by Lucretius (later work but important to understand Epicureanism)
- Letters from a Stoic by Seneca (later work but important to understand Stoicism)
- Enchiridion of Epictetus (later work but important to understand Stoicism)
- Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (later work but important to understand Stoicism)