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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.
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
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,
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.
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 Republic
Plato · 392 pages
The Republic is Plato's most famous work and one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy and politics. The characters in this Socratic dialogue - including Socrates himself - discuss whether the just or unjust man is happier. They are the philosopher-kings of imagined cities and they also discuss the nature of philosophy and the soul among other things.
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.
The Problems of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell · 114 pages
In the following pages I have confined myself in the main to those problems of philosophy in regard to which I thought it possible to say something positive and constructive, since merely negative criticism seemed out of place. For this reason, theory of knowledge occupies a larger space than metaphysics in the present volume, and some topics much discussed by philosophers are treated very briefly
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels · 56 pages
"The Communist Manifesto," penned by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, is a revolutionary treatise advocating for the overthrow of capitalist systems and the establishment of a classless society. Published in 1848, its succinct yet powerful prose remains a cornerstone of socialist ideology, inspiring movements worldwide.
Self-Reliance and Other Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson · 108 pages
The Abolition of Man
C.S. Lewis · 116 pages
C. S. Lewis sets out to persuade his audience of the importance and relevance of universal values such as courage and honor in contemporary society.
New Science
Giambattista Vico · 488 pages
"Although Vico (1668-1744) lived his whole life as an obscure academic in Naples, his New Science is an astonishingly ambitious attempt to decode the history, mythology and law of the ancient world. It argues that the key to true understanding lies in accepting that the customs and emotional lives of the Greeks and Romans, Egyptians, Jews and Babylonians, were utterly different from our own. In ex
Existentialism and Human Emotions
Jean-Paul Sartre · 96 pages
A Confession
Leo Tolstoy · 95 pages
Leo Tolstoy wrote this short meditation on sadness and the meaning of life when he was middle aged. He had already completed his masterworks, Anna Karenina and War and Peace , reared fourteen children, and gained fame and acclaim in Russia as a man of letters. But despite having attained that success, he still found himself unhappy and always returning to the disturbing idea that all achievement i
The Essays
Francis Bacon · 250 pages
Discusses truth, death, revenge, adversity, envy, marriage, love, goodness, superstition, friendship, ambition, aging, beauty, gardens, and honor.
Philosophical Essays
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · 366 pages
Phenomenology of Spirit
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 640 pages