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Elements of the Philosophy of Right

10 best books like Elements of the Philosophy of Right (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel): Politics, The Republic, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, The Social Contract, Second Treatise of Government, Two Treatises of Government, Leviathan, Critique of Practical Reason (Texts in the History of Philosophy), The Laws of Plato, German Ideology

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...
Second Treatise of Government
AuthorJohn Locke
ISBN0915144867
The Second Treatise is one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the most far-reaching in its influence.
In his provocative 15-page introduction to this edition, the late eminent political theorist C. B. Macpherson examines Locke's arguments for limited, conditional...
Two Treatises of Government
AuthorJohn Locke
ISBN0521357306
Those of us living in liberal democracies owe tremendous intellectual debt to John Locke. His "Second Treatise" in particular helped lay the foundation for a political system that emphasized "life, liberty, and property." The First Treatise is interesting to skim through, though it is in the second...
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...
Critique of Practical Reason (Texts in the History of Philosophy)
AuthorImmanuel Kant
ISBN0521599628
This seminal text in the history of moral philosophy elaborates the basic themes of Kant's moral theory, gives the most complete statement of his highly original theory of freedom of the will, and develops his practical metaphysics. This new edition, prepared by an acclaimed translator and scholar...
The Laws of Plato
AuthorPlato
ISBN0226671100
The Laws, Plato's longest dialogue, has for centuries been recognized as the most comprehensive exposition of the practical consequences of his philosophy, a necessary corrective to the more visionary and utopian Republic. In this animated encounter between a foreign philosopher and a powerful...
German Ideology
AuthorKarl Marx
ISBN0717803015
2011 Reprint of 1939 Edition. Parts I & III of "The German Ideology". Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published by the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow in 1939. "The German Ideology" was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels...
The Social Contract & Other Later Political Writings (Texts in the History of Political Thought)
AuthorJean-Jacques Rousseau
ISBN0521424461
The work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is presented in two volumes, together forming the most comprehensive anthology of Rousseau's political writings in English. Volume II contains the later writings such as the Social Contract.The Social Contract was publicly condemned on publication causing Rousseau...
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,...
Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit
AuthorAlexandre Kojève
ISBN0801492033
"This collection of Kojeve's thoughts about Hegel constitutes one of the few important philosophical books of the twentieth century--a book, knowledge of which is requisite to the full awareness of our situation and to the grasp of the most modern perspective on the eternal questions of philosophy."--Allan...
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