Niccolo Machiavelli 3s3317

Plato 4e5g21

Published in a dialogue form of narration, The Republic is the conversation between Socrates and Plato, one of the most acknowledged and ironically most criticized philosophers of the western civilization. Plato makes you not to accept what he says. Rather he makes you to disagree, argue and most importantly to think. "I am the wisest man i..

Marcus Aurelius 422z6

Meditations unearthed the philosopher in an Emperor of Rome. Believed to have been written between 161-180 CE by Marcus Aurelius. This collection is a series of books written on stoic Philosophy, by the author while planning his military campaigns. It is unknown whether publishing systems were in place while it was written. But it seems the auth..

Plato 4e5g21

In 399 BC, Socrates defends himself to the jury against the charges on him for corrupting young minds against the popular belief of the city on gods.The word in the Greek is apologia, which means apology. This Socrates defense speech is narrated by Plato in a dialogue form in this book “Apology”, by Plato...

Thomas Hobbes 64306f

Leviathan is a classic western work on statecraft written by Thormas Hobbes, an English philosopher ed as one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Leviathan is ranked among the most influential works like Machiavelli's The Prince, as both books concerns about the structure of legitimate government and the society. It is a book..

John Locke 596k1a

Second Treatise of Government is a political treatise written by the English philosopher John Locke who is regarded as the "Father of Classical Liberalism".   His thinking has influenced works of Voltaire, Rousseau, and even many American revolutionaries.  Among his wfritings notable are A Letter Concerning Toleration, An Essay Concerning..

Edmund Burke 2o1e8

Known as the philosophical founder of modern conservatism, Edmund Burke an Anglo-Irish has a multifaceted personality as political theorist, orator, author and philosopher.  A strong opponent of the French Revolution, he had lead the conservative faction of the Whig Party and was praised by the nineteenth century conservatives and liberals. Hi..

Arnold J. Toynbee 4l371q

No one who has studied the history of the Near East for the last five centuries will be surprised that the Allied Powers have declared their purpose to put an end to the rule of the Turk in Europe, and still less will he dissent from their determination to deliver the Christian population of what is called the Turkish Empire, whether in Asia or in ..