Hobbes, Thomas. Hobbes: On the Citizen. N.p.: Cambridge University Press, 1998.De Cive (On the Citizen) is frequently considered a rough draft of the Leviathan.Written in 1641 it was not published and distributed widely until 1647.Hobbes…
Machiavelli, Niccolò. The Prince: Second Edition. United Kingdom: University of Chicago Press, 1998.If you want to know what early modern political thought is all about and you only have time for one text, this is…
Nicomachean Ethics. United Kingdom: Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2019.This is a key text for the discipline of ethics because it is asking the broader question of how to be virtuous what is virtue. The…
Plato: 'The Republic'. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2000.When you approach a text like Plato's Republic, you need to read the whole introduction for context. Look at an earlier edition and read that introduction…
Marx, Karl., Engels, Frederick. The Manifesto of the Communist Party: edited and annotated by Frederick Engels, authorized English translation International Publishers, New York first published in 1948 as the 100th…
The edition of this text I relied on was the Cambridge University Press edition of Kant's Political Writings. Kant, Immanuel. Kant: Political Writings. United States: Cambridge University Press, 1991.Enlightenment was a huge intellectual movement that grew…
"What is Enlightenment ?" ("Qu'est-ce que les Lumières ?"), in Rabinow (P.), éd., The Foucault Reader, New York, Pantheon Books, 1984, pp. 32-50.I like putting this text at the end…
This text is a section from the novel The Brothers Karamazov. I recommend reading the whole book. Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov. United States: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.Ivan is the intellectual brother and he starts…
This book reads like a strategy handbook for liberation from domination. Douglass' strategy involved reading and writing. What does self education have to do with liberation, find out inside. Hegel's Phenomenology…
This is the story where we learn about what a Trojan horse is. The character of Achilles comes up later as he was an embodiment or exemplar of a certain emotion…