Political Science
Politics
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Aristotle
The Politics, by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, is one of the most influential texts in political philosophy. In it, Aristotle exp…
Common Sense (version 2)
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Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine has a claim to the title The Father of the American Revolution because of Common Sense, the pro-independence monograph pamphlet…
Discours sur l’origine et les fondements de l’inégalité parmi les hommes
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
De l’inégalité parmi les hommes est un essai philosophique d’une centaine de pages environ, richement annoté par l’aute…
The Social Contract
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract outlines Rousseau's views on political justice, explaining how a just and legitimate state is to be founded, organized a…
The 9/11 Commission Report
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9/11 Commission
9/11 Commission Report, formally titled Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, is the official…
Bill of Rights
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United States Government and Unit
The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, and were ratified on December 15, 1791.
Leviathan (Books I and II)
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Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan, is a book written in 1651…
What's Wrong With the World
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G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) has been called the “prince of paradox.” Time magazine observed of his writing style: “Whenever possibl…
Wage-Labour and Capital
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Karl Marx
Originally written as a series of newspaper articles in 1847, Wage-Labour and Capital was intended to give an overview of Marx’s central the…
Reflections on War and Death
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Sigmund Freud
Anyone, as Freud tells us in Reflections on War and Death, forced to react against his own impulses may be described as a hypocrite, whether…
Kitab Adab al-Dunya w'al-Din (The Ethics of Religion and of this World)
Read by Youssef Safiljil (Dr. Fighter)
Abu al-Hasan Ali Ibn Muhammad Ibn Habib al-Mawardi
Al-Mawardi (Alboacen) was one of the famous Islamic authors and jurists. He was a well-known man in the “Abbassid” empire—a mature thinker w…
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
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Friedrich Engels
The main idea of "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" (1880) was distinguishing scientific socialism and utopian socialism. Engels …
The Prince (Version 3)
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Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavel…
Two Treatises of Civil Government
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John Locke
The Two Treatises of Civil Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise is a…
The Wealth of Nations, Book 5
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Adam Smith
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist Adam Smith, published on March 9…
A Modern Utopia
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H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells's proposal for social reform was the formation of a world state, a concept that would increasingly preoccupy him throughout the …
Anticipations
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H. G. Wells
Wells considered this book one of his most important, a natural follow-up to such works as his Man of the Year Million and The Time Machine.…
The Soul of Man
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Oscar Wilde
“(T)he past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.”Published originally …
The Prince (Version 2)
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Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavel…
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei
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Friedrich Engels
Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels schrieben ihr Manifest im Dezember 1847, als Leitfaden fuer die grundsaetzlichen Prinzipien und Praktiken des…