On Politics and Ethics
7 best books like On Politics and Ethics (Thomas Aquinas): The Republic, The Interpretation of Dreams, The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding, Philosophy of Mind, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Matter and Consciousness: A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong
| 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?...
The Interpretation of Dreams
| Author | Sigmund Freud |
| ISBN | 1566195764 |
Die Traumdeutung = The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud
The Interpretation of Dreams (German: Die Traumdeutung) is an 1899 book by the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, in which the author introduces his theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation, and discusses what...
The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding
| Author | Humberto R. Maturana |
| ISBN | 0877736421 |
"Knowing how we know" is the subject of this book. Its authors present a new view of cognition that has important social and ethical implications, for, they assert, the only world we humans can have is the one we create together through the actions of our coexistence. Written for a general audience as...
| Author | Jaegwon Kim |
| ISBN | 0813342694 |
The philosophy of mind has always been a staple of the philosophy curriculum. But it has never held a more important place than it does today, with both traditional problems and new topics often sparked by the developments in the psychological, cognitive, and computer sciences. Jaegwon Kim's Philosophy...
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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...
| Author | Paul M. Churchland |
| ISBN | 0262530740 |
In "Matter and Consciousness," Paul Churchland clearly presents the advantages and disadvantages of such difficult issues in philosophy of mind as behaviorism, reductive materialism, functionalism, and eliminative materialism. This new edition incorporates the striking developments that...
Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong
| Author | Marc Hauser |
| ISBN | 0060780703 |
Marc Hauser's eminently readable and comprehensive book Moral Minds is revolutionary. He argues that humans have evolved a universal moral instinct, unconsciously propelling us to deliver judgments of right and wrong independent of gender, education, and religion. Experience tunes up our moral...
