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... Plato's The Republic.
My summer reading list so far:
H - Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
D - Everyman
H - The Prince by Machiavelli
P - Sonnets of Shakespeare
D - Doctor Faustus by Marlowe
D - Richard III by Shakespeare
D - Midsummer Nights Dream by Shakespeare
... The Prince I really should have read before. I'm not sure why I thought it would be a slog, because it wasn't at all. Once you get past the classic misrepresentation of Machiavelli's idea -- that is, he is NOT saying that the ends justify the means, whatever the cost -- and understand that he ... I have a copy of Albert Einstein's Relativity and Niccolo Macciavelli's The Prince that need a new home. Both are still shrinkwrapped and have never been read.
If anyone has a spare copy of Tolkiens Silmarillion (the blue one with the ship on the cover) the he/she does not need ... ... like the rest of them. :-D
Now, I'm off to read Stephen King's The Cell.
Finished 33 Maybe I'll finish The Prince someday. ... out to be enjoyable/interesting in spite of myself.
The Confessions of St. Augustine
The Book of Margery Kempe
The Prince
Utopia
The Treasure of the City of Ladies
The Book of the Courtier
... to the same series like Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar series that all begin with Swords of...
But this was interestiing,
The Prince
Prince Caspian
Prince of Chaos
The Prince of Tides
The Princess Bride
A Prince of Mars 29. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
After years of hearing folks being described as Machiavellian, I decided to read the book.
What can I say that hasn't already been said by others... Power, how to obtain and keep it. Things like morality need not apply here.
Now what to pick ... ...
I have gotten a couple stories read in Skeleton Crew, as well. I'm now in "Beachworld." Still stuck in Wrinkle and The Prince. Maggie's at her dad's, so I've not been reading with the kids.
Finished 29 ... read... faster...
We are halfway through chapter 4 in A Wrinkle in Time, I haven't touched Skeleton Crew or The Prince in the last week.
I'm starting to get bored with reading... scary
Finished 26 My brain hurts from reading The Prince. Not only that, but I'm mortified that the first touchstone I get from The Prince is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Has Machiavelli fallen so far in opinion that J.K. Rowling outranks him as a source of wisdom? #68 - I just told my boss she should read The Prince - she asked me about The republic and I told her it was a wee bit on the philosophical side (knowing her), thinking Machiavelli would be more useful to read, for reflection ;-) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Prince by Machiavelli
Mum insisted on buying me some books, and referred to me as "dangerous" whenever I took her to a bookshop.
We also got The Painted Veil, two copies of Breath by Tim Winton that were freshly signed (sadly he came and went ... ... Thursday, and will start reading A Wrinkle in Time tomorrow, probably.
Still in the same spot in Skeleton Crew and The Prince.
Don't know if I'll be any farther along on any of them by next week... may just have to copy and paste the same message on to next weeks. *sigh* I've been working through The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli with the Librivox recording. My only complaint about it is that there are different people doing different sections, making it inconsistant mentally. ... src="http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u266/thekoolaidmom/Theprince.jpg" border="0" alt="The Prince by Machiavelli">
The Prince ... take awhile.
I'm starting The Giver next as my main reading.
Finished 10... still haven't finished Machiavelli's The Prince ... genre. Hoping to get the atonement taste out of my mouth.
finished 9 still haven't finished Machiavelli's The Prince ... a collection of short stories) with me. And when I want to intellectualize something, then I have a non-fiction (currently The Prince.) It's all a matter of what and where and why. ... in my pocket than The Darkest Evening of the Year did, and short stories are great for waiting rooms.) And I'm reading The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli when I want something I have to think about. ... it held...
Image Music Text by Roland barthes,
Ethics by Benedict Spinoza,
Poetics by Aristotle,
The Prince by Machiavelli,
Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche,
the genealogy of Morals by Nietzsche,
Discourse on method and meditations on first ... The Republic and The Prince were needed for me to truly grasp philosophy, but I can't say I TRULY enjoyed them. I think it's more of a I'm-looking-back-on-what-I've-learned-so-maybe-it-was-kinda-enjoyable type thing. Yeah. ... experience combined with his lack of bluster, combined with his sense of realistic attainment. He started with a quote from The Prince which essentially said that your reach exceeds your grasp if you insist on doing what you feel like you ought to do, as opposed to doing what you can do.
He ... ... seven course meal everytime. I get about three or four pages of it read before my brain is full.
Also, I'm working on The Prince by Machiavelli. I've been on it for about a month, but I read it untill I get bored of it, then read something fun. I haven't been back to him for a couple ... ... gag it down.
Every other started-and-yet-to-be-finished book I still intend to finish... someday... Machiavelli's The Prince is slow going because I'm studying it. A Wrinkle in Time may be a jumper, because it's another no-matter-how-hard-I-try-I-just-can't-seem-to-care book. Finished Annie Freeman, still in The Prince, and starting Harlan Coben's The Woods. The Prince is slow going because I am studying it, not just reading it. I started The Woods because a friend loaned it to me before Christmas, and I want to get it back to her. I'm loaning her Annie Fre ... ... comparing the Legacy Libraries you can also go to their Stats pages, and see that for instance Thomas Jefferson shares only The Prince with Tupac Shakur. ... far I've read Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and I'm currently reading Annie Freeman's Traveling Funeral by Kris Radish and The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. The Prince and the Discourses presumably includes some text other than just the text of The Prince, and so it rightfully would not be combined with it. I have The Prince, but it isn't listed in what I share with either Jefferson or Tupac . . . perhaps because it's in my library as The Prince and the Discourses? ... as soon as she showed up. I later watched the video, though. I would definitely not want to read it.
Mine is The Prince. It's on this year's TBR list. ... suggestions. I have ordered most relevant Ospreys (but not included them below).
Preliminary List
Classics
* Il Principe by Niccolò Machiavelli
* The History of Italy by Francesco Guicciardini
* The civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
* The Art of W ... ... omnibus:
HV (Social pathology; Social and public welfare; Criminology) Seeing Voices
JC (Political Theory) The Prince
... this may be unavoidable because of a lack of technical expertise. Probably a lot of the categories could be contentious. The Prince might be good for 320 Political science, it is definitely a classic. I wouldn't want to get into 813 Fiction (American literature in English) though. ... private property, and the state
HT Communities, Classes, Races The city in late antiquity
JC Political theory The prince
JK Political institutions - United States The idea of a party system
KF United States law (general) The Dred Scott case
KJA Roman law, Byzantine law Jus ... ... Pygmies and Dream Giants
304 Factors affecting social behavior: The World Without Us
320 Political science: The Prince
323 Civil & political rights: On Liberty and Other Essays
332 Financial Economics: The Wealthy Barber
338 Production: Nathaniel's Nutmeg
365 Penal & ... ... History of Celibacy
HX—Socialism, Communism, Anarchism Ich umarme Sie in großer Sehnsucht
JC—Political theory The Prince
P—Philology; Linguistics Language Acquisition: the growth of grammar
PA—Greek language and literature; Latin language and literature Euripides
PE— ... ... Social processes – Guns, Germs, and Steel
306 Culture & institutions – Talking Right
320 Political science – The Prince
323 Civil & political rights – Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
330 Economics – The Choice: a Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism
362 Social welfare ... ... will learn, is the great divide. Bertrand Russell, as a leading analytic philosopher, really has an ax to grind in his A History of Western Philosophy, and I view it as polemical, a very intellectual polemic, but a polemic.
My own taste runs to the continental school as I believe it has ... I'd like to group the following books together and I can't think of a good tag to use: Blink, The Prince, The Peter Principal, Deep Survival, and Freakonomics. Those are the ones off the top of my head, though How the Mind Works would go in if I owned it. Any help would be appreciated. O ... Confessions of an Economic Hitman
The Prince
Swing by Sailor
Generation Warriors
Death of a Salesman The Count of Montecristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
The Red Baron by Peter Kilduff
The Countess Kathleen by W. B. Yeats ... year, adding the two-volume The Jungle Book and Just So Stories, by Kipling, and Machiavelli's masterpiece, The Prince. Of course, the freebies only sweeten the pot: The eight-volume Oxford Concise Reference Library was too good to pass up. I may be reached direct at suppousnr@yah ... ... shoot yourself if you get a bit depressed Sorrows of Young Werther, or kill your neighbours to get on in the world The Prince.
If we all did/believed/followed everything we read.... etc. #27 Busifer -- a book on Lord Vetinari that is a parody of "The Prince" - Brilliant! Mr. Pratchett, are you reading this? "The Patrician"?
(I'm thinking "The Prince", here... If anyone has read that.) ... exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved."
- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince I bought a copy of The Prince by Macchiavelli in a secondhand bookshop in Greenwich. ... gets me: The Shape of Illusion with Simulacra and Simulation; Kepler's Witch with Tome of Magic; a trifecta of The Prince, Poisons, and Wicked; and my personal favorite, Plato Complete Works with Popper's, Open Society and Its Enemies: Plato.
Sorting by title gets: God's ... ... R A Salvatore. Also started History of Venice by John Julius Norwich, and seriously thinking of reading through The Prince again. ... Tunes.
Of course none of these books are "new" as they all have copyrights. The recordings from Librivox are things like The Prince and Beyond Good and Evil - all books that are now in the "public domain."
So this way I feel like I'm expanding my "classical" reads while listening to ... ... on the continental philosophy. I'll throw in these titles and philosophers 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 Soc ...
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