books by Hackett Publishing Company     books:     Hackett Publishing...      Second Treatise of Government John Locke Hackett Publishing Company, 1980 John Locke's classic in handy format +plus bonus essay In his book, Second Treatise of Government, John Locke (1632 - 1704) writes that all humans are born equal with the same ability to reason for themselves, and because of this, government should have limitations to ensure that people are free from the arbitrary will of ...             Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill Hackett Publishing Company, 2002 Utilitarian philosophy explained I read this book for a graduate Mill seminar in Philosophy. Recommended reading for anyone interested in philosophy, political science, and history. John Stuart Mill, 1806-73, worked for the East India Co. helped run Colonial India from England. Minister of ...             Five Dialogues Plato Hackett Publishing Company, 2002 The Core of Greek Philosophy Contained 156 Pages I am not going to give you a synopsis of each dialogue. What I will say is that this is easily one of the most important reads of modern times. Most people would say that if you are interested in the art of philosophy then this is a must. I am willing to go a step ...             Plato: Republic Plato, G. M. A. Grube, ... Hackett Publishing Company, 1992 Best Translator of Plato Grube is the most accurate and faithful translator of Plato. Unlike most other translators, in particular the horrendous Allan Bloom, Grube was both a first rate Greek scholar and had no ax to grind. You are always in good hands with one of his translations.             Odyssey Homer Hackett Publishing Company, 2000 Eminently readable and true to the original text Lombardo's translation of the Odyssey, as well as his Iliad and Aeneid, receive much-deserved kudos as the most readable translations available. He writes with poetic and colloquial English that makes it easy for the lay person to understand. Unfortunately, many ...             The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing Michael Harvey Hackett Publishing Company, 2003 excellent little book The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing goes over the fundamentals of good essay writing such as concision, clarity, flow, punctuation, and topic sentence for a paragraph and so on. It is an excellent reference book for college students and writers in general. The book ...             Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle Hackett Publishing Company Translations differ It would be helpful if Amazon didn't pool together reviews from different translations. Note to Amazon: the customer reviews can be very helpful and have motivated me to purchase many books. But reviews for widely translated books should be specific to the ...             Iliad Homer, Stanley Lombardo Hackett Publishing Company, 1997 An epic translation "Sprung out of bitterness, the philosophy of the Iliad excludes resentment." Thus Rachel Bespaloff, stating the seemingly impossible. Years ago I read the Iliad in Fitzgerald's fine translation, but every page had the heavy cadence of a "classic." Now I'm reading ...             Plato Complete Works Plato Hackett Publishing Company, 1997 This is the business! This is the edition of Plato that you would have as required reading on an English medium Greek philosophy course. All the texts are translated and annotated by the relevant experts. In an ideal world you would have some kind of interlinear translation provided from ...             Republic Plato Hackett Publishing Company, 2004 Life in an unreal ideal world Plato's 'Republic' is one of the most important works of ancient Greek philosophy, and one of the foundation pieces of political science and political philosophy of that and subsequent ages. It was one of the first pieces I read when undertaking a political science ...             The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers David Wootton Hackett Publishing Company, 2003 Necessary reading! All Americans need to read this. Here lies the foundation. Our Founding Fathers had it right (and what beautiful English!)             Basic Political Writings Jean-Jacques Rousseau Hackett Publishing Company, 1987 Rousseau Comments on Society and the General Will of Man Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "The Basic Political Writings," have a two part effect. Rousseau uses the first portion of the book, the discourses on science and the arts, the origin of inequality, and political economy, to describe the basic policies of then modern society. ...             A Presocratics Reader Hackett Publishing Company, 1996 A Gathering of Presocratics Patricia Curd brings together the major Presocratic philosophers in this petite reader. Inside are fragments related to the individual authors from a wide variety of texts such as "Lives of the Philosophers" and Plutarch's "Table Talk" which cuts down research time by ...             The Essential Homer: Selections from the Iliad and the Odyssey Homer Hackett Publishing Company, 2000 The Best of the Best of the Best Lombardo's translations of Homer are brilliant, energetic, and fun to read. While other translations are as dry and dusty as ancient Greek itself, Lombardo remarkably manages to bring it all to life, and reading both the Iliad and the Odyssey are as interesting and ...             Classics of Western Philosophy Hackett Publishing Company, 2007 simply the best This anthology is by far the best anthology of its kind. If you love ancient and medieval philosophy the way I do, it is possible to teach an entire semester "intro. to phil." course out of Plato, Aristotle, Sextus, Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Maimon, Ockham, Gerson, ...          products you might be interested in search for books anti-federalist, federalist, nicomachean, presocratics, selections, utilitarianism      toavi.com    web randomly chosen book: Der Feuerdrache