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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Notes and Introduction by Mark G. Spencer, Brock University, Ontario John Locke (1632-1704) was perhaps the most influential English writer of his time. His Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690) and Two Treatises of Government (1690) weighed heavily on the history of ideas in the eighteenth centur ...Show more
Prince by NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence, The Prince is a handbook on ruling and the exercise of power. It remains as relevant today as it was in the sixteenth century. Widely quoted in the Press and in academic publications, The Prince has direct relevance to the issu ...Show more
Symposium and the Death of Socrates by Plato
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
With an Introduction by Jane O'Grady. Translated by Tom Griffith. In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party and talk about love, until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in and decides to discuss Socrates instead. Symposium gives an unsurpassed picture of the sparkling society that was At ...Show more
Thus Spake Zarathustra by FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster,contains the kernel of Nietzsche's thought. 'God is dead', he tells us. Christianity is decadent, leading mankind into a slave morality concerned not with this life, but with the next. Nietzsche emphas ...Show more
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