11 must-read nonfiction books like Complete Works by Plato, Benjamin Jowett, Jonathan Barnes, Anthony Kenny, 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, Rosamond Kent Sprague, Karen Bell, Diskin Clay, Mary Louise Gill, Paul Ryan

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

If you liked the nonfiction plot in 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 , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes, Donald A. Cress

1. Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.76

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Rene Descartes has often been called the father of modern philosophy, and it is certainly true that… read more

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"The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake."

-René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

"c'est une vérité très certaine que, lorsqu'il n'est pas en notre pouvoir de discerner les plus vraies opinions, nous devons suivre les plus probables partie 3, para 3)"

-René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

"Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part in a well-conducted dialogue in which such minds rev…"

-René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

"Those who possess the strongest reasoning and who best order their thoughts in order to make them clear and intelligible can always best persuade others of what they are proposing, even if they were …"

-René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

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2. L'arte di essere felici

By: Seneca , Mario Scaffidi Abbate

3.85

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Una condizione di beatitudine così profonda che non si può nemmeno esprimere a parole, che si può s… read more

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  • philosophy
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  • history
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3. Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire

By: Marjorie Perloff

4.12

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. 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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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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  • history
"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

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5. Human, All Too Human

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , R.J. Hollingdale

3.77

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

This volume presents Nietzsche's remarkable collection of almost 1400 aphorisms in R. J. Hollingdal… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
  • nonfiction

6. 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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  • reference
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7. A History of Western Philosophy

By: Bertrand Russell

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophyhas been universa… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • reference

8. The Will to Power

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , R.J. Hollingdale , Walter Kaufmann

3.79

Format: 704 pages, Paperback

Nietzsche's notebooks, kept by him during his most productive years, offer a fascinating glimpse in… read more

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9. 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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10. The Discourses

By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Bernard Crick , None

3.17

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolo Machiavelli. … read more

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11. The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

By: Søren Kierkegaard , Edna Hatlestad Hong , Howard Vincent Hong

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A companion piece to The Concept of Anxiety, this work continues Soren Kierkegaard's radical and co… read more

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12. Metaphysics

By: Aristotle , Joe Sachs

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Metaphysics (Greek: ta meta ta phusika) is one of the principal works of Aristotle & the first majo… 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. 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

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15. 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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  • classics
  • history
  • politics
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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

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16. The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

By: Arthur Schopenhauer , None

4.21

Format: 534 pages, Paperback

Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical… read more

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"Scoundrels are always sociable."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

"To have lost what cannot be missed is clearly no evil."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

"Everything is beautiful only so long as it does not concern us."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

"That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

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17. 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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"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

18. 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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19. The Complete Works: The Revised Oxford Translation, Vol. 1

By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Hardcover

The Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in 12 volumes between 1912 & 1954. It … read more

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20. Critique of Judgment

By: Immanuel Kant , Werner S. Pluhar

4.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

In THE CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT (1790), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) seeks to establish the a priori princ… read more

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21. The Complete Novels

By: Jane Austen

4.52

Format: 2528 pages, Kindle Edition

This book contains the complete novels of Jane Austen in the chronological order of their original … read more

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11 Top classics books like Complete Works by Plato, Benjamin Jowett, Jonathan Barnes, Anthony Kenny, 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, Rosamond Kent Sprague, Karen Bell, Diskin Clay, Mary Louise Gill, Paul Ryan

Transform Your Habits

Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.76

Transform Your Habits

L'arte di essere felici

Seneca , Mario Scaffidi Abbate

3.85

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City of God

Augustine of Hippo , Henry Bettenson

3.93

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Human, All Too Human

Friedrich Nietzsche , R.J. Hollingdale

3.77

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The Histories

Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Lysistrata

Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

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The Conquest of Gaul

S.A. Handford , Gaius Julius Caesar , Jane F. Gardner , Aulus Hirtius

4.11

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The Twelve Caesars

Robert Graves , Michael Grant , Suetonius

4.33

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