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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Condorcet Condorcet Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat marquis de Condorcet ix, 370 p. : 25 cm OL1427149W
The reason of state The reason of state Botero, Giovanni Niccolò Machiavelli's seminal work, The Prince, argued that a ruler could not govern morally and be successful. Giovanni Botero disputed this argument and proposed a system for the maintenance and ex… OL19734742W
The Republic of Plato The Republic of Plato Francis MacDonald Cornford Essentially an inquiry into morality, the Republic is the central work of the Western world's most famous philosopher. Containing crucial arguments and insights into many other areas of philosophy, i… OL4102249W
Machiavelli's New Modes and Orders Machiavelli's New Modes and Orders Harvey C. Mansfield "In the only full-length interpretive study of Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy, Harvey C. Mansfield provides a chapter-by-chapter commentary of this controversial and ambiguous work. Mansfield argue… OL4995531W
Γοργίας Γοργίας Πλάτων There is a well-known saying that the whole of Western Philosophy is footnotes of Plato. This is because his writings have set the schema that philosophy can be said to have followed ever since. Foll… OL51785W
Leviathan Leviathan Thomas Hobbes Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, from 1651, is one of the first and most influential arguments towards social contract. Written in the midst of the English Civil War, it concerns the structure of government… OL653987W
Nicomachean Ethics Nicomachean Ethics Hye-Kyung Kim,Aristotle,J. A. Smith,Robert C. Bartlett,Joe Sachs,Susan D. Collins,L H. G. ed Greenwood 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 … OL8273964W
Le discours de la servitude volontaire Le discours de la servitude volontaire Étienne de La Boétie The **Discourse on Voluntary Servitude** (French: *Discours de la servitude volontaire*) is a work attributed to Étienne de La Boétie by Montaigne. The text was published clandestinely in 1577. Th… OL8690630W
Two Treatises on Government Two Treatises on Government Trains of Trains of Thought Publishing,Ian Shapiro,John Locke,Lee Ward The “Two Treatises of Government” is about the former false principles and foundation of sir Robert Filmer and his followers. They are detected and overthrown. The latter is an essay concerning the t… OL880131W