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Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration

10 best books like Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration (John Locke): On Liberty, Leviathan, A Treatise of Human Nature, Writings: Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters, On the Genealogy of Morals, German Ideology, 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), On the Citizen, Political Writings (Texts in the History of Political Thought)

On Liberty
AuthorJohn Stuart Mill
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780140432077

Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty presented one of the most eloquent defenses of individual freedom in nineteenth-century social and political philosophy and is today perhaps the most widely-read liberal argument in support...
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...
A Treatise of Human Nature
AuthorDavid Hume
ISBN1406927554
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...
Writings: Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters
AuthorThomas Jefferson
Now fully represented in this Library of America volume is the most comprehensive testimony of the writings of our third president and foremost spokesperson for democracy. Thomas Jefferson, a brilliant political thinker, is perhaps best known for the Declaration of Independence, but he was a man...
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...
German Ideology
AuthorKarl Marx
ISBN0717803015
2011 Reprint of 1939 Edition. Parts I & III of "The German Ideology". Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published by the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow in 1939. "The German Ideology" was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels...
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...
On the Citizen
AuthorThomas Hobbes
ISBN0521437806
De Cive (On the Citizen) is the first full exposition of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, the greatest English political philosopher. Professors Tuck and Silverthorne have undertaken the first complete translation since 1651, a rendition long thought (in error) to have been at least sanctioned...
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 Prince and The Discourses
AuthorNiccolò Machiavelli
ISBN0075535777
This volume includes the complete translated texts of both The Prince and the Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livius [Livy], along with a historical and critical Introduction by Max Lerner.

"Nothing could be more timely than the publication at this moment of history of the two works...
On Duties
AuthorMarcus Tullius Cicero
ISBN0521348358
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...
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