The first 7 philosophy texts you should read

Descartes’ Proof of God’s Existence in Meditation #3: What is a Counterexample?: I am Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and here is a list of the seven philosophical pieces of writing that I think someone first getting into philosophy should read, and why: Plato’s Euthyphro (~399 BCE) Rene Descartes’ Meditations Princess Elizabeth’s letter to Descartes David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion HP Grice’s Logic and Conversation HLA Hart’s The Concept of Law (just chapters 2, 3, and 4) Peter Singer’s Famine Affluence and Morality