17 best-selling philosophy books like Diálogos II: Gorgias. Menéxeno. Eutidemo. Menón. Crátilo by Plato

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Diálogos II: Gorgias. Menéxeno. Eutidemo. Menón. Crátilo

By: Plato

4.47

Format: 461 pages, Paperback

Gorgias y Eutidemo concluyen la fase socrática de Platón, centrada en los temas éticos; desde el Me…

"En efecto, Calicles, los hombres que llegan a ser más perversos salen de entre los poderosos: sin embargo, nada impide que entre ellos se produzcan también hombres buenos, y los que lo son merecen la mayor admiración. Ciertamente es muy difícil y digno de gran alabanza mantenerse justo toda la vida, cuando se tiene plena libertad de ser injusto"

-Plato, Diálogos II: Gorgias. Menéxeno. Eutidemo. Menón. Crátilo

"En efecto, Calicles, los hombres que llegan a ser más perversos salen de entre los poderosos: sin embargo, nada impide que entre ellos se produzcan también hombres buenos, y los que lo son merecen la mayor admiración. Ciertamente es muy difícil y digno de gran alabanza mantenerse justo toda la vida, cuando se tiene plena libertad de ser injusto"

-Plato, Diálogos II: Gorgias. Menéxeno. Eutidemo. Menón. Crátilo

If you liked the philosophy plot in Diálogos II: Gorgias. Menéxeno. Eutidemo. Menón. Crátilo by Plato , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. San Manuel Bueno, mártir

By: Miguel de Unamuno , Víctor García de la Concha

3.91

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

San Manuel Bueno, mártir, obra maestra de Miguel de Unamuno, es considerada como su testamento espi… read more

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"—En esta España de calzonazos —decía— los curas manejan a las mujeres y las mujeres a los hombres..."

-Miguel de Unamuno, San Manuel Bueno, mártir

"—La envidia —gustaba repetir— la mantienen los que se empeñan en creerse envidiados, y las más de las persecuciones son efecto más de la manía persecutoria que no de la perseguidora."

-Miguel de Unamuno, San Manuel Bueno, mártir

"«Santa María, madre de Dios, ruega por nosotros, pecadores, ahora y en la hora de nuestra muerte, amén». Y apenas lo había rezado cuando me dije: «¿pecadores?, ¿nosotros pecadores?, ¿y cuál es nuestr…"

-Miguel de Unamuno, San Manuel Bueno, mártir

"¡Hay que vivir! Y él me enseñó a vivir, él nos enseñó a vivir, a sentir la vida, a sentir el sentido de la vida, a sumergirnos en el alma de la montaña, en el alma del lago, en el alma del pueblo de …"

-Miguel de Unamuno, San Manuel Bueno, mártir

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2. Leviathan

By: Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson

3.71

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short' Written during the chaos of the En… read more

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"Hell is truth seen too late."

-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

"LET THE GAY BEGI- I MEAN GAMES BEGIN!"

-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

"The Conscience is a thousand witnesses."

-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

" Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power."

-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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3. 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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4. Demons

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.30

Format: 733 pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more

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"God is the pain of the fear of death"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

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5. The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more

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6. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.07

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be … read more

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"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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7. Confessions

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more

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8. 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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9. Meditations

By: Marcus Aurelius , Martin Hammond , Diskin Clay

3.75

Format: 148 pages,

Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a ph… read more

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10. Meditations on First Philosophy

By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, the fundamental and originating work of the modern era… read more

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11. The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.37

Format: 796 pages, Paperback

The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more

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"How good life is when one does something good and just!"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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12. The Double

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.68

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

While his literary reputation rests mainly on such celebrated novels as Crime and Punishment, The B… read more

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"Tulburarea sa echivala cu agonia."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double

"La inocencia es la fuerza de la inocencia"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double

"Totul, până și destinul, se înarma împotriva sa."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double

"Așa e firea mea. Vreau întotdeauna să merg mai iute decât evenimentele."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double

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13. The Idiot

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky

4.21

Format: 667 pages, Paperback

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin find… read more

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"I'm drunk but truthful."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"Beauty will save the world."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"The Russian soul is a dark place."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

14. La casa de Bernarda Alba

By: Federico García Lorca , None , None

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Focus Student Editions are designed for Spanish language courses in literature and culture. Pre… read more

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15. The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

By: Mircea Eliade , Willard R. Trask

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the classic text The Sacred and the Profane, famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes … read more

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16. The Gambler

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Gary Saul Morson

3.91

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In this dark and compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young t… read more

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"Quien teme al lobo no se mete en el bosque."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"يجب ان يظل المال دون الأستقراطي، حتى لكأن الأستقراطي لا يكاد يحفل به أو يقلق له"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"En toda situación es posible comportarse con dignidad. Si hay lucha, que sea noble y no humillante."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"I believe he was feeling a bit nervous. Possibly it was my costume that took him aback. I was dressed quite well, even elegantly, and looked as if I belonged to the best society."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

17. Siddhartha

By: Hermann Hesse , Hilda Rosner

3.17

Format: 319 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Siddhartha Este libro electronico tiene una mesa activa de los contenidos Siddhartha es una novela … read more

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18. After Virtue

By: Alasdair MacIntyre

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially contro… read more

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"All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely."

-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

"At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given."

-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

"The introduction of the word ‘intuition’ by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument."

-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

"Man is ... essentially a story-telling animal. That means I can only answer the question 'what am I to do?' if I can answer the prior question of 'what story or stories do I find myself a part of?"

-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue

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19. The Nicomachean Ethics

By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick

3.99

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more

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"Philosophy can make people sick."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"A man without regrets cannot be cured."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

20. La vida es sueño

By: Pedro Calderón de la Barca , None

4.33

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

He aqui la creacion mas lograda y de caracter mas universal de Calderon. La vida es suenoes, en sin… read more

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21. But is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory

By: Cynthia A. Freeland

4.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

From Andy Warhol's Brillo boxes to provocative dung-splattered madonnas, in today's art world many … read more

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22. Historia de España contada para escépticos

By: Juan Eslava Galán

4.21

Format: 391 pages,

En este libro, que abarca desde los canibales de Atapuerca hasta el talante del presidente Zapatero… read more

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23. Notes from Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None

4.17

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more

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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

24. Politics

By: Aristotle

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Paperback

What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it br… read more

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25. The Magic Mountain

By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods

4.13

Format: 706 pages, Paperback

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more

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"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

26. La utilidad de lo inútil: Manifiesto

By: Nuccio Ordine , None , None

4.44

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

En esta obra se repasan las opiniones de filosofos y escritores sobre la importancia de seguir tute… read more

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27. The Fall

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien

4.01

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more

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28. Twilight of the Idols

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Tracy B. Strong , Richard Polt

3.45

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Twilight of the Idols. Nietzsche's own unabashed appraisal of the last work intended to serve as a … read more

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29. Simple Passion

By: Annie Ernaux

3.93

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more

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"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

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30. Diálogos II: Gorgias. Menéxeno. Eutidemo. Menón. Crátilo

By: Plato

4.47

Format: 461 pages, Paperback

Gorgias y Eutidemo concluyen la fase socrática de Platón, centrada en los temas éticos; desde el Me… read more

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"En efecto, Calicles, los hombres que llegan a ser más perversos salen de entre los poderosos: sin embargo, nada impide que entre ellos se produzcan también hombres buenos, y los que lo son merecen la…"

-Plato, Diálogos II: Gorgias. Menéxeno. Eutidemo. Menón. Crátilo

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31. Diálogos VIII. Leyes (Libros I-VI)

By: Platón

4.17

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Las Leyes es, con mucho, el diálogo platónico más extenso que conocemos. Y no solo eso, sino que ad… read more

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