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A Letter Concerning Toleration

10 best books like A Letter Concerning Toleration (John Locke): On Liberty, Politics, The Republic, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, The Social Contract, Leviathan, Meditations on First Philosophy, Political Writings (Texts in the History of Political Thought), Theological-Political Treatise, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

On Liberty
AuthorJohn Stuart Mill
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780140432077

Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty presented one of the most eloquent defenses of individual freedom in nineteenth-century social and political philosophy and is today perhaps the most widely-read liberal argument in support...
Politics
AuthorAristotle
ISBN0486414248
What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it bring about the most desirable life for its citizens? What sort of education should it provide? What is the purpose of amassing wealth? These are some of the questions Aristotle attempts to answer in one of the...
The Republic
AuthorPlato
ISBN0140449140
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classic text is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: what is goodness?; what is reality?; and what is knowledge?...
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
AuthorJean-Jacques Rousseau
ISBN0486434141
If humans are benevolent by nature, how do societies become corrupt? And how do governments founded upon the defense of individual rights degenerate into tyranny? These are the questions addressed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, a strikingly original inquiry...
The Social Contract
AuthorJean-Jacques Rousseau
ISBN0143037498
"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains."

These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for...
Leviathan
AuthorThomas Hobbes
ISBN0140431950
'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short'

Written during the chaos of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan asks how, in a world of violence and horror, can we stop ourselves from descending into anarchy? Hobbes' case for a 'common-wealth' under a powerful sovereign...
Meditations on First Philosophy
AuthorRené Descartes
ISBN0872201929
Meditationes de prima philosophia = Meditations on First Philosophy, René Descartes
Meditations on First Philosophy is a philosophical treatise written by René Descartes first published in Latin in 1641. The book is made up of six meditations, in which Descartes first discards all belief...
Political Writings (Texts in the History of Political Thought)
AuthorImmanuel Kant
ISBN0521398371
The original edition of Kant: Political Writings was first published in 1970, and has long been established as the principal English-language edition of this important body of writing. In this new, expanded edition two important texts illustrating Kant's view of history are included for the first...
Theological-Political Treatise
AuthorBaruch Spinoza
ISBN0872206076
God is nature, and nature is God









An in-depth incursion, by an excommunicated Jew*, into the authorship of the Pentateuch and other Old Testament books. Moses at [the] stake. An insightful analysis of the language, by an expert in Hebrew language,...
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
AuthorGeorge Berkeley
ISBN0915144611
--Hylas: I say, Philonous, can I talk to you about something? I have just read a bizarre, horrible book by George Berkeley, where he argues all sorts of nonsense.

--Philonous: Is that so, Hylas? Pray, what was this book?

--Hylas: Why, it was none other than Three Dialogues Between Hylas...
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