Theological-Political Treatise
9 best books like Theological-Political Treatise (Baruch Spinoza): Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Pensées, Critique of Practical Reason (Texts in the History of Philosophy), An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, A Treatise of Human Nature, On Certainty, De Anima (On the Soul), The Enneads, Elements of the Philosophy of Right
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
| Author | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| ISBN | 0486434141 |
If humans are benevolent by nature, how do societies become corrupt? And how do governments founded upon the defense of individual rights degenerate into tyranny? These are the questions addressed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, a strikingly original inquiry...
| Author | Blaise Pascal |
| ISBN | 0140446451 |
Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Penseés is a collection of philosohical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal...
Critique of Practical Reason (Texts in the History of Philosophy)
| Author | Immanuel Kant |
| ISBN | 0521599628 |
This seminal text in the history of moral philosophy elaborates the basic themes of Kant's moral theory, gives the most complete statement of his highly original theory of freedom of the will, and develops his practical metaphysics. This new edition, prepared by an acclaimed translator and scholar...
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
| Author | David Hume |
| ISBN | 1420926993 |
I had seen so many references to Hume's Enquiry that I almost thought I had read it; but, when I actually got around to opening the book, I found as usual that things were not quite as I had imagined. I was not surprised by his relentless scepticism, or by his insistence on basing all reasoning on empirical...
A Treatise of Human Nature
| Author | David Hume |
| ISBN | 1406927554 |
A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), David Hume's comprehensive attempt to base philosophy on a new, observationally grounded study of human nature, is one of the most important texts in Western philosophy. It is also the focal point of current attempts to understand 18th-century philosophy. The...
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| ISBN | 0061316865 |
Über Gewissheit = On Certainty, Ludwig Wittgenstein
On Certainty is a philosophical book composed from notes written by Ludwig Wittgenstein over four separate periods in the eighteen months before his death on 29 April 1951. He left his initial notes at the home of Elizabeth Anscombe, who linked...
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 0140444718 |
'The soul is, so to speak, the first principle of living things. We seek to contemplate and know its nature and substance'
For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that...
I suppose, once again, I will prove my Platonist sympathies by reviewing this book so positively. It's not that I am always in agreement with Plotinus (I'll follow this up below), but this is such an influential and foundational work of Philosophy and Neo-Platonism that I really can't give it a lower...
| Author | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
| ISBN | 0521348889 |
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...
