Liberalism and the Limits of Justice

9 best books like Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (Michael J. Sandel): The Road to Serfdom, Politics, The Republic, Leviathan, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, The Nicomachean Ethics, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

The Road to Serfdom

Author	Friedrich A. Hayek
ISBN	0226320618

A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in England in the spring of 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the...

Politics

Author	Aristotle
ISBN	0486414248

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

Author	Plato
ISBN	0140449140

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?...

Leviathan

Author	Thomas Hobbes
ISBN	0140431950

'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...

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

Author	Immanuel Kant
ISBN	0521626951

Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in moral philosophy ever written. In Kant's own words its aim is to search for and establish the supreme principle of morality,...

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Author	David Hume
ISBN	1420926993

I had seen so many references to Hume's Enquiry that I almost thought I had read it; but, when I actually got around to opening the book, I found as usual that things were not quite as I had imagined. I was not surprised by his relentless scepticism, or by his insistence on basing all reasoning on empirical...

The Nicomachean Ethics

Author	Aristotle
ISBN	0140449493

‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy’

In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness. He argues that happiness consists in ‘activity of the soul...

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Author

Max Weber

The Protestant ethic — a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organization of one's life in the service of God — was made famous by sociologist and political economist Max Weber. In this brilliant study (his best-known and most controversial), he opposes the Marxist...

After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

Author	Alasdair MacIntyre
ISBN	0268006113

When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Newsweek called it “a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world.” Since that time,...