On Duties
10 best books like On Duties (Marcus Tullius Cicero): Politics, The Annals of Imperial Rome, De Anima (On the Soul), Phaedo, The Way Things are, On the Citizen, Theological-Political Treatise, Discourses, Fragments, Handbook, A Presocratics Reader, Elements of the Philosophy of Right
| 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 Annals of Imperial Rome
In "The Annals of Imperial Rome", his last and greatest work, Tacitus (AD c.55-c.117) covers the period from AD 14, just before the death of Augustus, to the death of Nero in AD 68. Not all the passages have survived, but in those that have the depth and diversity of genius are manifest. From a vicious, vituperative...
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 0140444718 |
'The soul is, so to speak, the first principle of living things. We seek to contemplate and know its nature and substance'
For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that...
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0192839535 |
The Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates, the Phaedo ranks among the supreme literary achievements of antiquity. It is also a document crucial to the...
ALL MATTER?
NEVER MIND!
-Bertrand Russell’s Grandmother
(Mocking his Materialist Philosophy)
When I was in my late teens I had a stunning Lucretian prise de conscience that utterly knocked the wind out of my youthful sails. It seemed the overwhelming answer to Eliot’s...
| 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 | Baruch Spinoza |
| ISBN | 0872206076 |
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,...
| Author | Epictetus |
| ISBN | 0199595186 |
'About things that are within our power and those that are not.' Epictetus' Discourses have been the most widely read and influential of all writings of Stoic philosophy, from antiquity onwards. They set out the core ethical principles of Stoicism in a form designed to help people put them into practice...
| Author | Patricia Curd |
| ISBN | 0872203263 |
"What are the Isles of the Blest? Sun and Moon. What is the oracle at Delphi? The tetractys, which is the harmony in which the Sirens sing."
Iamblichus, Life of Pythagoras
This is a brilliant but compact collection of Presocratic thought. If you haven't yet read much of the early philosophers...
| Author | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
| ISBN | 0521348889 |
This book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of the Philosophy of Right. Hegel's last major published work, is an attempt to systematize ethical theory, natural right, the philosophy of law, political theory and the sociology of the modern state into...
