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Include books by the same authorOn the Genealogy of Morality & Other Writings
Friedrich Nietzsche · 281 pages
This is a revised and updated edition of one of the most successful volumes to appear in 'Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought'. Keith Ansell-Pearson has modified his introduction to Nietzsche's classic text, and Carol Diethe has incorporated a number of changes in the translation itself.
Apology/Crito/Phaedo
Plato, Epictetus, George Long, Benjamin Jowett, Hastings Crossley, Marcus Aurelius · 168 pages
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein · 166 pages
Wittgenstein's book about the problems of language and his attempt of describing the world and an philosophical accurate and most of all logical language.
Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies
Rene Descartes · 167 pages
On Liberty
John Stuart Mill · 171 pages
Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume · 162 pages
Now one of the most widely read works in philosophy, David Hume's An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1748) introduced his philosophy to a broad educated readership. In it he gives an elegant and accessible presentation of strikingly original and challenging views about the limited powers of human understanding, the attractions of skepticism, the compatibility of free will and determinism,
Pensées
Blaise Pascal · 322 pages
"Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Pensees is a collection of philosophical fragments, notes and essays in which he explores the contradictions of human nature in psychological, social, metaphysical and, above all, theolo
Principles of Human Knowledge & Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
George Berkeley · 288 pages
Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration
John Locke · 188 pages
On the Shortness of Life
Seneca · 112 pages
Timeless advice on the art of living well, from the celebrated Penguin Great Ideas series The writings of the ancient Roman philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into stoicism, morality and the importance of reason, and continue to provide profound guidance to many through their eloquence, lucidity and wisdom. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the wa
The Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle · 332 pages
An detailed examination of what the best life might be for human beings. In order to anwer this question, Aristotle finds he also has to examine what virtue itself is and all of the various virtues that might make up the best life.
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 112 pages
In his Discourses (1755), Rousseau argues that inequalities of rank, wealth and power are the inevitable result of the civilising process. If inequality is intolerable - and Rousseau shows with unparalledled eloquence how it robs us not only of our material but also of our psychological independence - then how can we recover the peaceful self-sufficiency of life in the state of nature? We cannot r
The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
Albert Camus · 306 pages
By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the popular uprisings against established orders throughout history. And yet, with an eye toward
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith · 478 pages
The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith’s first and in his own mind most important work, outlines his view of proper conduct and the institutions and sentiments that make men virtuous. Here he develops his doctrine of the impartial spectator, whose hypothetical disinterested judgment we must use to distinguish right from wrong in any given situation. We by nature pursue our self-interest, according