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Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccol Machiavelli. But while his treatise The Prince made his ...
W. F. Jackson Knight's prose translation captures the vitality and music of the original, while his introduction discusses Virgil's life and literary career ...
This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for ...
The second part of Adam Smith's economic theory, stating the argument for free trade
Smith's THE WEALTH OF NATIONS was the first comprehensive ...
Aristotle's probing look at the fundamental questions of philosophy
The Metaphysics presents Aristotle's mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we ...
The Analects express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which Confucius, one of the most humane thinkers of all time, believed everyone should live ...
A selection of dialogues and letters of one of the most eloquent - and influential - masters of Latin prose.
A major writer and a leading figure ...
Spinoza's greatest philosophical work.
Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work - an elegant, fully cohesive philosophical system that ...
This definitive three-volume Penguin Classics edition provides a complete and unmodernized text, presenting the History as it appeared to its early readers
Edward Gibbon's ...
Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire compresses thirteen turbulent centuries into an epic narrative shot through with insight, irony and incisive ...
A compelling argument for the necessity of art in life.
A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is ...
A passionately argued work on the philosophy of aesthetics
No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so ...
Nietzsche's final testament of his beliefs
In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his ...
Aristotle's influential treatise on the way to win arguments
With the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 ...
