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10 best books like The Major Works (Francis Bacon): Principles of Human Knowledge & Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous, The Major Works, Selected Essays, The Major Works, The Major Works, The Geometry of René Descartes: with a Facsimile of the First Edition, Selected Writings, Human Nature and De Corpore Politico, The Basic Writings: On Liberty/The Subjection of Women/Utilitarianism, The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea

Principles of Human Knowledge & Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
AuthorGeorge Berkeley
ISBN0140432930
One of the greatest British philosophers, Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753) was the founder of the influential doctrine of Immaterialism - the belief that there is no reality outside the mind, and that the existence of material objects depends upon their being perceived. The Principles of Human Knowledge...
The Major Works
AuthorSamuel Taylor Coleridge
ISBN0192840436
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic, and radical thinker, exerted an enormous influence over contemporaries as varied as Wordsworth, Southey and Lamb. He was also a dedicated reformer, and set out to use his reputation as a public speaker and literary philosopher to change the course of English...
Selected Essays
AuthorDavid Hume
ISBN0192836218
In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), comprehensively shows how far he succeeded.

As seen in these...
The Major Works
AuthorSamuel Johnson
ISBN0192840428
Samuel Johnson's literary reputation rests on such a varied output that he defies easy description: poet, critic, lexicographer, travel writer, essayist, editor, and, thanks to his good friend Boswell, the subject of one of the most famous English biographies.

This volume celebrates...
The Major Works
AuthorJohn Milton
At long last I completed reading Milton’s The Major Works, a tome that I’ve been working on for a month, finding it to be alternately interesting and boring, excellently organized, progressing sequentially through Milton’s shorter poetry, his prose writings - mostly political - , “Paradise...
The Geometry of René Descartes: with a Facsimile of the First Edition
AuthorRené Descartes
ISBN0486600688
This is an unabridged republication of the definitive English translation of one of the very greatest classics of science. Originally published in 1637, it has been characterized as "the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences" (John Stuart Mill); as a book which "remade...
Selected Writings
AuthorWilliam Hazlitt
ISBN0192838008
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) developed a variety of identities as a writer: essayist, philosopher, critic of literature, drama and art, biographer, political commentator, and polemicist. Praised for his eloquence, he was also reviled by conservatives for his radical politics. This edition,...
Human Nature and De Corpore Politico
AuthorThomas Hobbes
ISBN0192831216
Thomas Hobbes' timeless account of the human condition, first developed in The Elements of Law (1640), which comprises Human Nature and De Corpore Politico, is a direct product of the intellectual and political strife of the seventeenth century. His analysis of the war between the individual and...
The Basic Writings: On Liberty/The Subjection of Women/Utilitarianism
AuthorJohn Stuart Mill
ISBN0375759182
The writings of John Stuart Mill have become the cornerstone of political liberalism. Collected for the first time in this volume are Mill's three seminal and most widely read works: "On Liberty, The Subjection of Women, and Utilitarianism," A brilliant defense of individual rights versus the power...
The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea
AuthorArthur O. Lovejoy
ISBN0674361539
From later antiquity down to the close of the eighteenth century, most philosophers and men of science and, indeed, most educated men, accepted without question a traditional view of the plan and structure of the world. In this volume, which embodies the William James lectures for 1933, Arthur O. Lovejoy...
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
AuthorHenri Bergson
ISBN0268018359
How companies form? Why do they compete? These conflicts can be avoided? Morality and religion are they only make life possible in society, or do they permit humans to exceed its natural condition and to find a solution to the violence? These are some of the questions at the heart of the Two Sources of Morality...
The Cid / Cinna / The Theatrical Illusion
AuthorPierre Corneille
ISBN0140443126
You can see my general thoughts on Corneille here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show....

Here are my thoughts on the plays in this volume as I read them:

The Theater of Illusion *** 1/2 – What a wonderful change from Corneille’s tragedies! This is a lively, witty drama...
Culture and the Death of God
AuthorTerry Eagleton
ISBN0300203993
New observations on the persistence of God in modern times and why “authentic” atheism is so very hard to come by

How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural critic, investigates in this...
Selected Writings
AuthorThomas Aquinas
ISBN0140436324
In his reflections on Christianity, Saint Thomas Aquinas forged a unique synthesis of ancient philosophy and medieval theology.
Preoccupied with the relationship between faith and reason, he was influenced both by Aristotle's rational world view and by the powerful belief that wisdom and...
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
AuthorJohn Jakes
ISBN0095132414
Go ahead and yuck it up...but I'll have you know these books were my only friend that long lonely summer when I was thirteen and stuck on my grandparent's farm in the middle of South Dakota with nobody to talk to except a fat shetland pony who chewed her oats and stared all drowsy-eyed at me and a dog named Brownie...
Beneath The Planet of The Apes
AuthorMichael Avallone
ISBN0553080334
Since I am a huge science fiction fan I had to read Beneath the Planet of the Apes. It’s the last book of the series, which were movies before. I was sucked into this book very quickly and finished it in two days between reading other books. Packed with heroic action and cheesy romance, the story delivered...
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater & Other Writings
AuthorThomas de Quincey
ISBN0192836544
I sometimes seem to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millennium passed in that time, or, however, of a duration far beyond the limits of any human experience. —Confessions

. . . I do not believe that any man, having once tasted the...
The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays of Lionel Trilling
AuthorLionel Trilling
ISBN0374527997
With this re-publication of Lionel Trilling's finest essays, Leon Wieseltier offers readers of many generations, a rich overview of Trilling's achievement. The exhilarating essays collected here include justly celebrated masterpieces - on Mansfield Park and on "Why We Read Jane Austen"; on Twain,...
Napoleon: The Path to Power
AuthorPhilip G. Dwyer
ISBN0300137540
At just thirty years of age, Napoleon Bonaparte ruled the most powerful country in Europe. But the journey that led him there was neither inevitable nor smooth.  This authoritative biography focuses on the evolution of Napoleon as a leader and debunks many of the myths that are often repeated about...
The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy
AuthorStanley Cavell
I'm very enthusiastic about the way Cavell does things (though his writing does feel verbose at times). I don't have the most sophisticated understanding of /The Claim of Reason/ yet but I would characterize him as approaching basic longstanding questions (how do I know I'm not dreaming? how do I know...
Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays
AuthorGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
ISBN0872201325
Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays contains complete translations of the two essays that constitute the best introduction to Leibniz's complete thought: 'Discourse on Metaphysics', a short course in his metaphysics, written in 1686 at the time his mature thought was just crystalising and...
Experience and Nature
AuthorJohn Dewey
ISBN0766173208
Mr. Dewey believes that the method of empirical naturalism presented in this volume provides the way, and the only way by which one can freely accept the standpoint and conclusions of modern science. Contents: experience and philosophic method; existence as precarious and as stable; nature, ends...
Scepticism and Animal Faith
AuthorGeorge Santayana
ISBN0486202364
In this work, Santayana analyzes the nature of the knowing process and demonstrates by means of clear, powerful arguments how we know and what validates our knowledge. The central concept of his philosophy is found in a careful discrimination between the awareness of objects independent of our perception...
Critique of Everyday Life
AuthorHenri Lefebvre
ISBN1781683174
Henri Lefebvre's magnum opus: a monumental exploration of contemporary society.

Henri Lefebvre's three-volume Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers. Written at the birth of post-war consumerism,...
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