Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies
By: René Descartes , Bernard Williams , John Cottingham
4.03
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
This authoritative translation by John Cottingham of the Meditations is taken from the much acclaim…
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1. The Complete English Poems
By: John Donne , A.J. Smith
4.15
Format: 688 pages, Paperback
Yet it is only this century that Donne has been indisputably established as a great poet—and even, … read more
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"The day breaks not: it is my heart."-John Donne, The Complete English Poems
"Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."-John Donne, The Complete English Poems
"I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so."-John Donne, The Complete English Poems
"And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night."-John Donne, The Complete English Poems
2. 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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"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
3. City of God
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Bettenson
3.93
Format: 1186 pages, Paperback
No book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than Augustine's City of… read more
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"There are wolves within, and there are sheep without."-Augustine of Hippo, City of God
"A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens."-Augustine of Hippo, City of God
"Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace."-Augustine of Hippo, City of God
"He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner."-Augustine of Hippo, City of God
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
"Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
5. 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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6. Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies
By: René Descartes , Bernard Williams , John Cottingham
4.03
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
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7. The Problems of Philosophy
By: Bertrand Russell
4.50
Format: 87 pages,
A lively and still one of the best introductions to philosophy, this book pays off both a closer re… read more
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8. 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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9. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: with Hume's Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature and A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh
By: David Hume , Eric Steinberg
4.04
Format: 9 pages,
A landmark of Enlightenment thought, Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is accompanie… read more
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10. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
By: George Berkeley , 贝克莱 , 关文运
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
George Berkeley was an Irish Philosopher who is best known for putting forward the idea of subjecti… read more
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11. Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
By: George Berkeley , Robert Merrihew Adams
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
A model of what an edition of a philosohic text for an introductory level should be. Introduction d… read more
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12. 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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13. Philosophical Investigations
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein , G.E.M. Anscombe
3.68
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Philosophische Untersuchungen is, with the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of two major works b… read more
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14. Critique of Pure Reason
By: Immanuel Kant , Allen W. Wood , Paul Guyer
3.96
Format: 785 pages, Paperback
'The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old … read more
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"The great mass of people are worthy of our respect."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
"I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
"Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
15. 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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16. On the Genealogy of Morals
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more
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"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
17. Gorgias
By: Plato , Walter Hamilton , Chris Emlyn-Jones
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates peren… read more
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18. Critique of Practical Reason
By: Immanuel Kant , Mary J. Gregor
4.16
Format: None pages, paper
This seminal text in the history of moral philosophy elaborates the basic themes of Kant's moral th… read more
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19. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
By: Immanuel Kant , Christine M. Korsgaard , Mary J. Gregor
4.27
Format: 197 pages, paper
Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristo… read more
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20. Pensées
By: Blaise Pascal , A.J. Krailsheimer
3.95
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and… read more
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"Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Le coeur a ses raisons que le raison ne connaît point."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
21. 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
