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Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality

10 best books like Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality (Michael Walzer): Two Treatises of Government, Leviathan, The Nicomachean Ethics, Letters from a Stoic, Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty, Political Writings (Texts in the History of Political Thought), The Antonio Gramsci Reader: Selected Writings 1916-1935, Political Liberalism, Between Past and Future, Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity

Two Treatises of Government
AuthorJohn Locke
ISBN0521357306
Those of us living in liberal democracies owe tremendous intellectual debt to John Locke. His "Second Treatise" in particular helped lay the foundation for a political system that emphasized "life, liberty, and property." The First Treatise is interesting to skim through, though it is in the second...
Leviathan
AuthorThomas Hobbes
ISBN0140431950
'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...
The Nicomachean Ethics
AuthorAristotle
ISBN0140449493
‘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...
Letters from a Stoic
AuthorSeneca
ISBN0140442103
The power and wealth which Seneca the Younger (c.4 B.C. - A.D. 65) acquired as Nero's minister were in conflict with his Stoic beliefs. Nevertheless he was the outstanding figure of his age. The Stoic philosophy which Seneca professed in his writings, later supported by Marcus Aurelius, provided Rome...
Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty
AuthorIsaiah Berlin
Liberty is a revised and expanded edition of the book that Isaiah Berlin regarded as his most important--Four Essays on Liberty, a standard text of liberalism, constantly in demand and constantly discussed since it was first published in 1969. Writing in Harper's, Irving Howe described it as "an exhilarating...
Political Writings (Texts in the History of Political Thought)
AuthorImmanuel Kant
ISBN0521398371
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...
The Antonio Gramsci Reader: Selected Writings 1916-1935
AuthorAntonio Gramsci
ISBN0814727018
with a new introduction by ERIC J. HOBSBAWM

"Very usefully pulls the key passages from Gramsci's writings into one volume, which allows English-language readers an overall view of his work. Particularly valuable are the connections it draws across his work and the insights which the introduction...
Political Liberalism
AuthorJohn Rawls
ISBN0231130899
This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in "A Theory of Justice" but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. That previous work assumed what Rawls calls a "well-ordered society," one that is stable and relatively homogenous...
Between Past and Future
AuthorHannah Arendt
ISBN0143104810
Arendt’s penetrating observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute a major contribution to political philosophy. In this book she describes the perplexing crises which modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words...
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity
AuthorCharles Taylor
ISBN0674824261
In this extensive inquiry into the sources of modern selfhood, Charles Taylor demonstrates just how rich and precious those resources are. The modern turn to subjectivity, with its attendant rejection of an objective order of reason, has led—it seems to many—to mere subjectivism at the mildest...
Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays
AuthorBronisław Malinowski
ISBN0881336572
Three famous Malinowski essays! Malinowski, one of the all-time great anthropologists of the world, had a talent for bringing together in single comprehension the warm reality of human living with the cool abstractions of science. His pages have become an almost indispensable link between the knowing...
Stillness Is the Key
AuthorRyan Holiday
ISBN0525538585
In The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, bestselling author Ryan Holiday made ancient wisdom wildly popular with a new generation of leaders in sports, politics, and technology. In his new book, Stillness Is the Key, Holiday draws on timeless Stoic and Buddhist philosophy to show why slowing...
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