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The Prince and The Discourses

10 best books like The Prince and The Discourses (Niccolò Machiavelli): Politics, Two Treatises of Government, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Social Contract & Other Later Political Writings (Texts in the History of Political Thought), The Discourses & Other Early Political Writings (Texts in the History of Political Thought), Political Writings (Texts in the History of Political Thought), On Liberty and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought), Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit, Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration, Elements of the Philosophy of Right

Politics
AuthorAristotle
ISBN0486414248
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...
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...
On the Genealogy of Morals
AuthorFriedrich Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the central values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of...
The Social Contract & Other Later Political Writings (Texts in the History of Political Thought)
AuthorJean-Jacques Rousseau
ISBN0521424461
The work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is presented in two volumes, together forming the most comprehensive anthology of Rousseau's political writings in English. Volume II contains the later writings such as the Social Contract.The Social Contract was publicly condemned on publication causing Rousseau...
The Discourses & Other Early Political Writings (Texts in the History of Political Thought)
AuthorJean-Jacques Rousseau
ISBN0521424453
The work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is presented in two volumes, together forming the most comprehensive anthology of Rousseau's political writings in English. Volume I contains the earlier writings such as the First and Second Discourses.The American and French Revolutions were profoundly affected...
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...
On Liberty and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
AuthorJohn Stuart Mill
ISBN0521379172
Mill's tract, published in 1859, remains one of the most important and influential of all writings on "Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be exercised by society over the individual" (5). Mill attempts to define those limits as narrowly as possible, and leave as much...
Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit
AuthorAlexandre Kojève
ISBN0801492033
"This collection of Kojeve's thoughts about Hegel constitutes one of the few important philosophical books of the twentieth century--a book, knowledge of which is requisite to the full awareness of our situation and to the grasp of the most modern perspective on the eternal questions of philosophy."--Allan...
Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration
AuthorJohn Locke
ISBN0300100183
Among the most influential writings in the history of Western political thought, John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration remain vital to political debates today, more than three centuries after they were written. The complete texts appear in this volume, accompanied...
Elements of the Philosophy of Right
AuthorGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
ISBN0521348889
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...
The Basic Political Writings
AuthorJean-Jacques Rousseau
ISBN0872200477
The basic political writings of Rousseau , including

* Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts
* Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
* Discourse on Political Economy
* On the Social Contract

'The publication of these excellent translations is a happy occasion for teachers...
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