Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy
10 best books like Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy (John Rawls): The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, Thinking in Systems: A Primer, A Letter Concerning Toleration, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?, The Social Contract & Other Later Political Writings (Texts in the History of Political Thought), The Political Writings of St. Augustine, On the Citizen, Political Writings (Texts in the History of Political Thought), On Liberty and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought), inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
| Author | Steven Pinker |
| ISBN | 0142003344 |
“In a work of outstanding clarity and sheer brilliance Steven Pinker banishes forever fears that a biological understanding of human nature threatens humane values.”
—Helena Cronin, author of The Ant and The Peacock
“A mind blowing, mind openingexpos. Pinker's profoundly...
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
| Author | Donella H. Meadows |
| ISBN | 1603580557 |
Meadows’ Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations...
Having read the text of the New Testament a fair number of times, I can see nothing that yields the conclusion that the purpose of Christianity is building theocratic nation states. A straightforward reading indicates Christianity occupies a subservient position to civil government while allowing...
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
| Author | Michael J. Sandel |
| ISBN | 0374180652 |
En Justicia, el prestigioso autor y profesor Michael Sandel examina el papel de la justicia en nuestras vidas y en la sociedad, y explica cómo la filosofía puede ayudar a entender la política, la religión o la moral, e incluso nuestras propias convicciones. Deteniéndose en cuestiones tan polémicas...
| Author | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| ISBN | 0521424461 |
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...
| Author | Augustine of Hippo |
| ISBN | 0895267047 |
Anyone with a better than cursory knowledge of politics knows that a people's deepest values - their religious values - are what determine whether a society will prosper or fail. And anyone with a more than cursory knowledge of history knows that there was once an entity called Christendom - a political...
| Author | Thomas Hobbes |
| ISBN | 0521437806 |
De Cive (On the Citizen) is the first full exposition of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, the greatest English political philosopher. Professors Tuck and Silverthorne have undertaken the first complete translation since 1651, a rendition long thought (in error) to have been at least sanctioned...
| Author | Immanuel Kant |
| ISBN | 0521398371 |
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...
| Author | John Stuart Mill |
| ISBN | 0521379172 |
Mill's tract, published in 1859, remains one of the most important and influential of all writings on "Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be exercised by society over the individual" (5). Mill attempts to define those limits as narrowly as possible, and leave as much...
inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity
| Author | Tina Seelig |
| ISBN | 0062020706 |
Imaginative. Innovative. Ingenious. These words describe the visionaries we all respect and admire. And they can describe you, too. Contrary to common belief, creativity is not a gift some of us are born with. It is a skill that all of us can learn. International bestselling author and award-winning...
Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
| Author | Jacob S. Hacker |
| ISBN | 1416593845 |
A groundbreaking work that identifies the real culprit behind one of the great economic crimes of our time— the growing inequality of incomes between the vast majority of Americans and the richest of the rich.
We all know that the very rich have gotten a lot richer these past few decades while...
