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... than that (philosophy), here is a list:
- Thomas More's Utopia - 1516
- Machiavelli's The Prince - 1516
- Hobbes' Leviathan - 1651 (similar to Plato's Republic)
- Voltaire's Micromégas - 1752
... and Tropes of speech: but these are less dangerous, because they profess their inconstancy; which the other do not." Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (Part 1, Chpt IV, 17) ... be a lesson worth remembering for future reading around that period. So a useful read, although it put Paradise Lost and Leviathan back onto the reading list - both in my bookcases but the latter looking rather formidable. One prerequisite for this is a better system for relating editions to works. For example, my copy of Hobbes' Leviathan has a lengthy introduction by C. B. Macpherson, setting Hobbes' work in its intellectual context. This introduction is an important "contained-in" element of the book that I have, ... ... for modern society, it got me to think about things I had not thought about), I didn't feel the same way about Hobbes' Leviathan. ... discussed in 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help are:
The Prince
Discourse on Method
Leviathan
Discourse on the Origins and Foundations of Inequality among Men
The Manifesto of the Communist Party
Utilitarianism
The Descent of Man
Beyond Good ... Canst thou draw out Leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
Will he make a covenant with thee? ... ... philosophy by Descartes,
Nicomachean ethics by Aristotle,
the consolation of philosophy by boethius,
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes,
An essay concerning human understanding by John Locke,
oedipus rex by Sophocles,
the doors of perception by Aldous Huxley ... ... engineering Structures, or Why Things Don't Fall Down
853 Italian fiction Baudolino
Also in the midst of re-reading Leviathan, which is already on my list.
If anyone wants a 624 that contains real substance but is still readable and entertaining, I can highly recommend the one I'm ... Yes. Thus Hobbes justifies the sovereign power in Leviathan as the price of peace. ... to be a thinking machine but really operated by a dwarf from inside. Very good! And finally, still wading through Will in the World about Shakespeare. ... has already come.
About 25 years ago, I met the compiler of what he called a variorum edition of Thomas Hobbes De Cive in Latin. He also has done a separate volume in English. I couldn't remember his name, so I went to LT's "Add books" and by searching the LC catalog, I found his ... 13. Leviathan by Boris Akunin
A good old-fashioned and extremely clever detective story set aboard a luxury liner. Anyone who has read (or watched) an Agatha Christie mystery will giggle at the send up of Poirot. Makes me wish I could read Russian. ... Hans J. Morgenthau's Scientific Man vs. Power Politics.
* On Realpolitik, I recommend an oldie but goodie -- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes. Some call it dark, others call it real, you decide.
* America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power and the Neoconservative Legacy by F ... ... Philosophy : Chicken Soup for the Soulless by Richard Greene
Monty Python and Philosophy by Gary Hardcastle
The Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
The Penguin Book of Irish Verse by Brendan Kennelly (It's like March of the Penguins in here...)
Tooth Imprints on a Corn ... ... in Baghdad.
Also, I noted Thomas Ricks compared the situation in Baghdad to the war of "all against all" in Hobbes' Leviathan. Pat Buchanan made a similar anology in his commantary this week.
I read Leviathan way back in college, but unfortunately re-sold the book. I now wish I'd kept ... ... as possible reads:
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince
John Calvin - On Civil Government
Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
John Locke - Second Treatise of Government
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - On the Social Contract
J.S. Mill - On Liberty
Rosa Luxemburg - Lenini ... ... later Roman empire,AD 284-430 and
History of the Byzantine state fell off the list, and were replaced by Hobbes' Leviathan and Jack Vance's Wyst: Alastor 1716.
If you do want to theorize about it, you might find it interesting to speculate about why Wyst appears in ... ... definition of war. What are, in your opinion, the best books about it?
In my opinion we have a good definition in the Leviathan.
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