19 best-selling philosophy books like Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates by Xenophon

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Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates

By: Xenophon

4.23

Format: 508 pages, Paperback

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge…

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1. A History of Philosophy, Vol. 1: Greece and Rome, From the Pre-Socratics to Plotinus

By: Frederick Charles Copleston

4.11

Format: 521 pages, Paperback

Conceived originally as a serious presentation of the development of philosophy for Catholic semina… read more

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  • philosophy
  • history
"[O]ther thinkers have philosophised since the time of Plato, but that does not destroy the interest and beauty of his philosophy"

-Frederick Charles Copleston, A History of Philosophy, Vol. 1: Greece and Rome, From the Pre-Socratics to Plotinus

"Plato's proposals in this matter are abhorrent to all true Christians. His intentions were, of course, excellent, for he desired the greatest possible improvement of the human race; but his good inte…"

-Frederick Charles Copleston, A History of Philosophy, Vol. 1: Greece and Rome, From the Pre-Socratics to Plotinus

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2. 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
  • 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

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

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"In music the passions enjoy themselves."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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3. Prior Analytics

By: Aristotle , Robin Smith

3.72

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

"This volume is an impressive tour de force. It is state-of-the-art Aristotle: it employs the most … read more

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  • philosophy
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4. Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo

By: Plato , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper

4.16

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

The second edition of Five Dialogues presents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished translations, as revis… read more

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  • philosophy
  • history
"So, Euthyphro, piety then, should be regarded as a reciprocal exchange between Gods and humans."

-Plato, Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo

"The very good and the very wicked are both quite rare, and that most men are between those extremes."

-Plato, Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo

"I am on the brink of death, while you will carry on living. The judgment of which is truly better rests only within the knowledge of God."

-Plato, Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo

"We should not allow into our minds the conviction that argumentation has nothing sound about it; much rather we should believe that it is we who are not yet sound and that we must take courage and be…"

-Plato, Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo

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5. The Ego and the Id

By: Sigmund Freud

3.82

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

The Ego and the Id ranks high among the works of Freud's later years. The heart of his concern is t… read more

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  • philosophy
"Ben her şeyden önce bedenseldir, sadece yüzeyden oluşan bir varlık değil aynı zamanda bir yüzeyin yansımasıdır."

-Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id

"The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface."

-Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id

"Ben ile O arasındaki ayrım da çok katı olarak ele alınmamalı; unutmayalım ki Ben, O’nun özel bir biçimde ayrımlaşmış bir kısmıdır."

-Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id

"Das Ich sei zuallererst ein körperliches und werde durchzogen von Triebkräften, die entlang von körperlichen Vorgängen ihre Organisation erfahren."

-Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id

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6. The Laws of Plato

By: Plato , Thomas L. Pangle

1.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Laws, Plato's longest dialogue, has for centuries been recognized as the most comprehensive exp… read more

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  • philosophy
  • history
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7. Poetics

By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more

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  • philosophy
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8. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more

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9. Critias

By: Plato , Benjamin Jowett

3.78

Format: 479 pages,

Plato (428/427 BC-348/347 BC), whose original name was Aristocles, was an ancient Greek philosopher… read more

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  • philosophy
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10. Theaetetus

By: Plato , Robin Waterfield

4.20

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Set immediately prior to the trial and execution of Socrates in 399 BC, Theaetetus shows the great … read more

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  • philosophy
  • history
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11. Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great, #1)

By: Mary Renault

3.88

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from G… read more

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12. Death in Venice

By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim

3.74

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more

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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

13. Complete Works

By: Plato , Benjamin Jowett , Jonathan Barnes , Anthony Kenny , None , Stanley Lombardo , Paul Woodruff , Brad Inwood , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper , C.D.C. Reeve , Alexander Nehamas , Nicholas P. White , Donald J. Zeyl , David Gallop , Nicholas D. Smith , D.S. Hutchinson , None , Rosamond Kent Sprague , Karen Bell , None , Diskin Clay , None , None , None , None , None , None , Mary Louise Gill , None , None , None , None , None , Paul Ryan

3.86

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

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  • philosophy
  • history
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14. How to Read Foucault

By: Johanna Oksala

4.49

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Michel Foucault was a philosopher of extraordinary talent, political activist, social theorist, cul… read more

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  • philosophy

15. Phaedrus

By: Plato , Paul Woodruff , Alexander Nehamas , Albert A. Anderson

3.50

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Trajectory presents classics of world literature with 21st century features! Our original-text edit… read more

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  • philosophy
  • history

16. Clouds

By: Aristophanes , None

3.37

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

This new paperback edition of Aristophanes' popular play includes the complete Greek text and exten… read more

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17. Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant trans… read more

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18. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

By: Ludwig Wittgenstein

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Ph… read more

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19. Phenomenology of Spirit

By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , A.V. Miller , John Niemeyer Findlay

3.96

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Perhaps one of the most revolutionary works of philosophy ever presented, The Phenomenology of Spir… read more

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  • history
"The vanity of the contents"

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

"The outcome is the same as the beginning only because the beginning is an end."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

"Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

"por lo poco que el espíritu necesita para contentarse, puede medirse la extensión de lo que ha perdido."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

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20. 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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  • history
"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

21. Charmides

By: Plato

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

A literal translation, allowing the simplicity and vigor of the Greek diction to shine through. read more

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22. Beyond the Pleasure Principle

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free associat… read more

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23. History of the Peloponnesian War

By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner

3.94

Format: 648 pages, Paperback

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more

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  • history
"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

24. The Odyssey

By: Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox , E.V. Rieu , None

3.53

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

Literature's grandest evocation of life's journey, at once an ageless human story and an individual… read more

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25. 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

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

-Plato, The Republic

26. 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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27. Apology

By: Plato , James J. Helm

4.20

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully def… read more

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  • philosophy
  • history
"Kötülük ölümden daha hızlı koşar."

-Plato, Apology

"Loin de parler quand on me paie, et de me taire quand on me donne rien."

-Plato, Apology

"As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy."

-Plato, Apology

"Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you..."

-Plato, Apology

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28. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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29. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

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"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

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30. The Iliad

By: Homer

3.91

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more

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"I say no wealth is worth my life."

-Homer, The Iliad

"These were the colloquies in heaven."

-Homer, The Iliad

"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."

-Homer, The Iliad

"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"

-Homer, The Iliad

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31. Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates

By: Xenophon

4.23

Format: 508 pages, Paperback

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

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  • history

13 Top history books like Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates by Xenophon

Transform Your Habits

A History of Philosophy, Vol. 1: Greece and Rome, From the Pre-Socratics to Plotinus

Frederick Charles Copleston

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo

Plato , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Laws of Plato

Plato , Thomas L. Pangle

1.50

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12 best-selling classics books like Phenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, A.V. Miller, John Niemeyer Findlay

Transform Your Habits

A Treatise of Human Nature

David Hume

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Ethics

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

4.10

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