Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays
10 best books like Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays (Michael Oakeshott): How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future, A Letter Concerning Toleration, The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement, Essays: Moral, Political and Literary, Freedom and its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty, The Methods of Ethics, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, On Duties, Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty, The Mustard Seed: The Gnostic Teachings of Jesus The Mystic
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
| Author | Steven Levitsky |
| ISBN | 1524762938 |
Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the...
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...
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live. Now, with the intellectual curiosity and emotional wisdom that make his columns among the most read in the nation, Brooks turns to...
| Author | David Hume |
| ISBN | 0865970564 |
This edition contains the thirty-nine essays included in
Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary
that made up Volume I of the 1777 posthumous Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. It also includes ten essays that were withdrawn or left unpublished by Hume for various reasons.
Eugene...
| Author | Isaiah Berlin |
| ISBN | 0691090998 |
Isaiah Berlin's celebrated radio lectures on six formative anti-liberal thinkers were broadcast by the BBC in 1952. They are published here for the first time, fifty years later. They comprise one of Berlin's earliest and most convincing expositions of his views on human freedom and on the history...
| Author | Henry Sidgwick |
| ISBN | 0915145286 |
This Hackett edition, first published in 1981, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the seventh (1907) edition as published by Macmillan and Company, Limited.
From the forward by John Rawls:
In the utilitarian tradition Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) has an important...
| Author | John Leslie Mackie |
| ISBN | 0140135588 |
Recently, I decided to delve into meta-ethics, more specifically twentieth century-meta-ethics. With the fear of over-generalizing, up to the twentieth century ethics was pretty straightforward. There were: ethics rooted in metaphysics (Christianity, Kant, Spinoza, etc.); ethics rooted...
| Author | Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| ISBN | 0521348358 |
De Officiis (On Duties) is Cicero's last theoretical work and contains his analysis, in a Greek theoretical framework, of the political and ethical values of the Roman governing class in the late Republic. It has often been treated merely as a key to the Greek philosophical works that Cicero used, but...
Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty
| Author | Randy E. Barnett |
| ISBN | 0691123764 |
The U.S. Constitution found in school textbooks and under glass in Washington is not the one enforced today by the Supreme Court. In Restoring the Lost Constitution, Randy Barnett argues that since the nation's founding, but especially since the 1930s, the courts have been cutting holes in the original...
The Mustard Seed: The Gnostic Teachings of Jesus The Mystic
The first book of many that I have read of Osho. (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh when I read it) An absolutely fantastic look into the real meanings of the words of Jesus. Only a Master such as Osho can bring light to the true meanings of many of the parables of the Master that was Jesus. I read this in the summer of 1982...
Natural Right and History
| Author | Leo Strauss |
| ISBN | 0226776948 |
In this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction between right and wrong in ethics and politics. On the centenary of Strauss's birth, and the fiftieth anniversary of the Walgreen Lectures which spawned...
