20 Top philosophy books like Patriarcha; or, the Natural Power of Kings by Robert Filmer

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Patriarcha; or, the Natural Power of Kings

By: Robert Filmer

3.48

Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition

This classic includes the following chapters:Chap I. That the first Kings were Fathers of Families.…

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1. Beyond Good and Evil

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
"The noble soul reveres itself"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"...all that is rare is for the rare."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"In music the passions enjoy themselves."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"One is punished most for one’s virtues."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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2. Language, Truth, and Logic

By: A.J. Ayer

3.75

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"A delightful book … I should like to have written it myself." — Bertrand Russell First publishe… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the god of any non-animistic religion cannot be demonstratively proved... […"

-A.J. Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic

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3. Tao Te Ching

By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
"The heart that gives, gathers."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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4. 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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  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
"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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5. The Gay Science

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.11

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first pro… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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6. Reflections on the Revolution in France

By: Edmund Burke , L.G. Mitchell

3.55

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

This new and up-to-date edition of a book that has been central to political philosophy, history, a… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. Second Treatise of Government

By: John Locke , Crawford Brough Macpherson , C.B. MacPherson

3.87

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

The Second Treatiseis one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the mos… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
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8. Revolt Against the Modern World

By: Julius Evola , None

4.04

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In what many consider to be his masterwork, Evola contrasts the characteristics of the modern world… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
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  • nonfiction

9. Imperium

By: Francis Parker Yockey , Ulick Varange

3.50

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

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10. The Esoterism of Dante

By: René Guénon , Henry D. Fohr , None , Samuel D. Fohr

3.36

Format: 317 pages,

Especially since the Renaissance, some in Western Christendom have suspected that the deeper dimens… read more

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  • philosophy
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11. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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12. The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome

By: Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges , Willard Small

4.48

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

With this influential study, French historian Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges initiated a new approa… read more

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  • philosophy
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  • nonfiction
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13. 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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  • philosophy
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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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14. The Social Contract

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Maurice Cranston

3.78

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." These are the famous opening words of a trea… read more

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"The truth brings no man a fortune"

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

"L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers."

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

"Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)"

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

"Renunciar a la libertad es renunciar a la condición de hombre."

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

15. Sun and Steel

By: Yukio Mishima , John Bester

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback, Paper Dust Jacket

In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what migh… read more

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16. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

By: John Locke

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

John Locke is widely regarded as the father of classical liberalism. This essay was groundbreaking … read more

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17. The Crisis of the Modern World

By: René Guénon , None , None

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Paperback

The very title of the present volume calls for some initial explanation, if what it means is to be … read more

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18. The Dark Enlightenment

By: Nick Land

4.14

Format: 560 pages,

http://www.thedarkenlightenment.com/t... read more

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19. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

By: David Hume

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Philosopher David Hume was considered to one of the most important figures in the age of Scottish e… read more

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20. The First World War

By: Hew Strachan

4.00

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

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21. Behemoth, or The Long Parliament

By: Thomas Hobbes , Stephen Holmes , Ferdinand Tönnies

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Behemoth, or The Long Parliamentis essential to any reader interested in the historical context of … read more

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22. For My Legionaries

By: Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

4.19

Format: 496 pages,

This is an autobiographical book in which Corneliu Zelea Codreanu expressed his political and spiri… read more

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23. Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power

By: René Guénon

4.67

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power is an analysis of cyclical manifestation, and more specifica… read more

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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. Twilight of the Idols/The Anti-Christ

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner

3.33

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

In 1888, the last sane year of his life Nietsche produced these two brief but devastating books. Tw… read more

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26. Why I Am Not a Liberal - Imperium Press (Studies in Reaction)

By: Jonathan Bowden

3.83

Format: None pages, ebook

Bowden's oratorical firepower is on full display in this 2009 interview. Members of the London New-… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. The Populist Delusion

By: Neema Parvini

4.37

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

The 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump unleashed a wave of populism not seen in America sin… read more

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"Left-wing progressivism"

-Neema Parvini, The Populist Delusion

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28. Why Liberalism Failed

By: Patrick J. Deneen

3.86

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth c… read more

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"Individualism and statism advance together, always mutually supportive, and always at the expense of lived and vital relations that stand in contrast to both the starkness of the autonomous individua…"

-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed

"Rather than promoting unrealistic standards for behavior - especially self-limitation - that could at best be unreliably achieved, Machiavelli propsed grounding a political philosophy upon readily ob…"

-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed

"One of the main goals of the expansion of commerce is the liberation of embedded individuals from their traditional ties and relationships. The liberal state serves not only the reactive function of …"

-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed

"A main agent of that liberation becomes commerce, the expansion of opportunities and materials by which not only to realize existing desires but even to create new ones we did not know we had. The st…"

-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed

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29. East and West

By: René Guénon

3.92

Format: 188 pages, Hardcover

In East and West Guénon diagnoses the fundamental 'abnormality' of Western civilization vis-à-vis t… read more

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  • history
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"What westerners call progress is for nothing but change and instability; [...] he who has reached a state of equilibrium no longer feels this need, just as he who has found no longer seeks."

-René Guénon, East and West

"les psychologues, par exemple, limitent ordinairement leurs observations à un seul type d’humanité, l’Occidental moderne, et ils étendent abusivement les résultats ainsi obtenus jusqu’à prétendre en …"

-René Guénon, East and West

"If sentiment, considered in general, is to be put into its proper place in relation to intelligence, [...] then there is a hierarchy to be observed. The modern world has precisely reversed the natura…"

-René Guénon, East and West

"Of all the superstitions preached by those very people who profess that they never stop inveighing against "superstition," that of "science " and "reason", is the only one which does not seem, at fir…"

-René Guénon, East and West

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30. Patriarcha; or, the Natural Power of Kings

By: Robert Filmer

3.48

Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition

This classic includes the following chapters:Chap I. That the first Kings were Fathers of Families.… read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
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31. Philosophy of Marx: A Critique of Historical Materialism and the Philosophy of Praxis

By: Giovanni Gentile

3.88

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Giovanni Gentile is widely acknowledged as the foundational philosopher of Italian Fascism. He work… read more

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14 must-read history books like Patriarcha; or, the Natural Power of Kings by Robert Filmer

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Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

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Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson

3.71

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Reflections on the Revolution in France

Edmund Burke , L.G. Mitchell

3.55

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Dr. Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

3.80

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The New Atlantis

Francis Bacon

3.09

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The Faerie Queene

Edmund Spenser , None , C. Patrick O'Donnell , Thomas P. Roche Jr.

3.77

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The Faerie Queene, Book One

Edmund Spenser , Andrew Hadfield , None , None , None

3.09

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