14 must-read philosophy books like Plato and Parmenides: Parmenides' Way of Truth and Plato's Parmenides by Francis Macdonald Cornford

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Plato and Parmenides: Parmenides' Way of Truth and Plato's Parmenides

By: Francis Macdonald Cornford

4.08

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

International Library of Psychology, Philosophy & Scientific Method Translated, with an introducti…

If you liked the philosophy plot in Plato and Parmenides: Parmenides' Way of Truth and Plato's Parmenides by Francis Macdonald Cornford , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Tess of the D’Urbervilles

By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Margaret R. Higonnet

3.83

Format: 518 pages, Paperback

Alternate covers can be found here and here. When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty t… read more

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"Bless thy simplicity, Tess"

-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

"One thing he certainly was— sincere."

-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

"The roof was a gymnasium for the winds"

-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

"Tess was carried along the wings of the hours"

-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

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2. Doce textos fundamentales de la Ética del siglo XX

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Michel Foucault , None , Carlos Gómez Sánchez

3.78

Format: 312 pages,

Los problemas de la Filosofia Moral contemporánea son presentados en este volumen a través de DOCE … read more

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3. Sophie’s World

By: Jostein Gaarder , Paulette Møller

3.96

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen c… read more

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"الذي يعرف الخير يفعل الخير"

-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

"الأكثر ذكاء هو الذي يعرف أنه لا يعرف"

-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

"Wisest is she who knows she does not know."

-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

"It's not a silly question if you can't answer it."

-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

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4. Ethics

By: Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None

4.10

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work—an elegant, fu… read more

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"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself."

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

"The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body"

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

"Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility."

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

"Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta."

-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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5. The Man in the High Castle

By: Philip K. Dick

3.60

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assume… read more

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"Don’t you feel it?"

-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

"Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find."

-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

"Dreadful low-class jingoistic racist invectives, unworthy of me."

-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

"We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine."

-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

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6. Twelfth Night

By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more

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"a raven's heart within a dove."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"I pity you That's a degree to love"

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

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7. The Sorrows of Young Werther

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more

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8. The Consolation of Philosophy

By: Boethius , None

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more

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9. Utilitarianism

By: John Stuart Mill , George Sher

4.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianismincludes the text of his 1868 speech to t… read more

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10. Memoirs of Hadrian

By: Marguerite Yourcenar , Grace Frick

4.23

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has… read more

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"And it was at about this time that I began to feel myself divine."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

"I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

"La morale è una convenzione privata; il decoro è una faccenda pubblica."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

"Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul..."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

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11. The Upanishads: Translations from the Sanskrit

By: Anonymous , Juan Mascaró

4.00

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

The Upanishads, the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 bce by sages an… read more

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12. Theaetetus/Sophist (Plato 7)

By: Plato , Harold North Fowler , Francis Macdonald Cornford

4.15

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrate… read more

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13. Faust: First Part

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more

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14. Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order

By: Paul M. Sweezy , Paul A. Baran

4.13

Format: None pages, Paperback

This landmark text by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy is a classic of twentieth-century radical thought,… read more

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15. Utopia

By: Paul Turner , Thomas More

3.55

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation whe… read more

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"The change of the word does not alter the matter"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Dünyada kaygısız, rahat yürekle, sevinçle yaşamaktan daha büyük zenginlik olabilir mi?"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all."

-Paul Turner, Utopia

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16. The Leopard

By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Archibald Colquhoun

4.01

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, h… read more

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"While there’s death there’s hope"

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

"Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

"La eternidad amorosa dura pocos años."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

"Nothing could be decently hated except eternity."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

17. The Aeneid

By: Virgil , Robert Fitzgerald

4.50

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

The Aeneid (play /@'ni:Id/; Latin: Aeneis [aj'ne:is]--the title is Greek in form: genitive case Aen… read more

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18. Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more

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19. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucidawas first published in 1979. Commenting on artists s… read more

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20. Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

By: David Foster Wallace

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Hardcover

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And w… read more

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21. The Symposium

By: Plato , Christopher Gill

4.09

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more

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"The truth about eros is terrifying."

-Plato, The Symposium

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"

-Plato, The Symposium

"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."

-Plato, The Symposium

"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"

-Plato, The Symposium

22. Totem and Taboo

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Widely acknowledged to be one of Freud's greatest cultural works, when Totem and Taboowas first pub… read more

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23. White Noise

By: Don DeLillo

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more

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"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

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24. The Republic

By: Plato , Desmond Lee

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more

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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."

-Plato, The Republic

"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."

-Plato, The Republic

"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."

-Plato, The Republic

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"

-Plato, The Republic

25. Civilization and Its Discontents

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay

4.02

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more

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26. Hurricane Season

By: Fernanda Melchor

4.06

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book (2020) A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A Literary Hub Favorite Book of… read more

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"а разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"за разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"There's no reasoning with dog, two ferocious dogs who refuse to let go of their prey until they've been torn to shreds"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"момчето, щом порасна, се превърна в диво животно, което, пуснеха ли го на свобода, дори по никое време вечер, все го теглеше към гората, защото според баба ѝ този бил начинът да възпитават момчетата,…"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

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27. Historia de la filosofía antigua. Grecia y el helenismo

By: Salvador Mas Torres

3.16

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

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28. Plato and Parmenides: Parmenides' Way of Truth and Plato's Parmenides

By: Francis Macdonald Cornford

4.08

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

International Library of Psychology, Philosophy & Scientific Method Translated, with an introducti… read more

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29. Manual-fragmentos

By: Epictetus

4.58

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Epicteto es uno de los nombres capitales de la filosofía estoica. Nacido hacia el año 50 d. C., dur… read more

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30. La aventura de la moralidad: Paradigmas, fronteras y problemas de la Ética

By: Carlos Gómez Sánchez

3.60

Format: 550 pages, Paperback

Este libro aborda algunas de las principales cuestiones de la Ética de nuestro tiempo a través de t… read more

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31. Historia de la filosofía, volumen 1: De la Grecia antigua al mundo cristiano

By: Frederick Charles Copleston

4.35

Format: 944 pages, Paperback

En este primer tomo Copleston aborda el camino que lleva del pensamiento mítico primitivo a las pri… read more

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11 Top history books like Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order by Paul M. Sweezy, Paul A. Baran

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World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction

Immanuel Wallerstein

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Rosa Luxemburg , Κώστας Βρετός

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Karl Marx , Daniel de Leon , D.D.L.

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