To prepare for the MAT, you need to familiarize yourself with literary works and famous authors — the stuff that a college English major has to read. Here are important literary works that may appear on the MAT.
Appearance and Reality: By British idealist Francis Herbert Bradley
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: By John Locke. Asserts that the mind is a blank slate at birth
The Art of War: Ancient Chinese book by Sun Tzu about military strategy
Beyond Good and Evil: By Nietzsche; criticizes past philosophers on their acceptance of religious principles
Candide: French satire by Voltaire
The Communist Manifesto: Political manuscript by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Critique of Pure Reason: Influential work by Kant in which he describes the relationship between knowledge and experience
Leviathan: By Thomas Hobbes. Focuses on society and government
Poetics: An analysis of tragedy by Aristotle
The Prince: Political work by Machiavelli where he asserts that the truth is more important than an ideal
The Republic: A Socratic dialogue by Plato
The Social Contract: By Rousseau; focuses on political community
The World as Will and Representation: Primary work of Schopenhauer; he writes that all of nature has a will to life and that suffering comes from the desire for more
Utopia: Fiction and political philosophy by Thomas More
