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From Hegel to Nietzsche 2 reviews
Karl Löwith
Columbia University Press, 1964
Full of things I like
+ Clear but complex
I am not overly familiar with From Hegel to Nietzsche (1941) by Karl Löwith, translated into English by David E. Green for Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. in 1964, but the style of philosophy which it contains is basically what I think Americans should be capable of learning from, for it is the ...
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On Modern Origins: Essays in Early Modern Philosophy 3 reviews
Richard Kennington, Pamela Kraus, ...
Lexington Books, 2004
Sans Pareil
+ Indispensable for students of Francis Bacon
For the sake of having a review of On Modern Origins that is actually worth reading, here is an excerpt from a review by Professor Richard Velkley...
"Superbly practicing the art of reading, Richard Kennington uncovers the founding arguments of the early modern philosophers. His explications of ...
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Natural Right and History (Walgreen Foundation Lectures) 16 reviews
Leo Strauss
University Of Chicago Press, 1999
Societies good vs. individual rights
+ An actual attempt to tell you what the book is about.
Leo Strauss was a 20th century philosopher who spent his life studying and espousing the teachings of classical philosophical ideas. "Natural Right and History" delineates the fight between those who believe in the predominance of societal rights over individual rights. Here are a few quotes that ...
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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Philosophical Library Series)8 reviews
Aristotle
Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company, 2002
Exceptional translation, excellent introduction
+ We Reach Our Complete Perfection Through Habit
+ Doing the right thing...
+ Doing the right thing
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The Marx-Engels Reader, Second Edition 17 reviews
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
W. W. Norton, 1978
Marx-Engels Anthology
+ A timely read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+ Caveat:
+ Great ebook: Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
+ If you can only have one book on Marx
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Phaedrus (Agora Paperback Editions)5 reviews
Plato
Cornell University Press, 1998
Phaedrus
+ Socrates is cocky
+ Without deepest contemplation of the Soul, all is in error.
+ Division and Gathering: The Cycle Within the Life
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The Republic Of Plato: Second Edition41 reviews
Plato
Basic Books, 1991
Great Political Theory and Philosophy
+ Indispensable
+ Correcting two reviewers
+ Nice Translation!
+ Best Literal Translation
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ARISTOTLE THE POLITICS1 review
CARNES LORD
University Of Chicago Press, 1985
If You Don't Want To Live In A State, You Are Either A God Or A Beast
I read this book for a graduate seminar on Aristotle. Politics is one of Aristotle's most prescient works that had a profound impact on our Founding fathers.
Nicomachean Ethics (EN) is part of political knowledge. Politics regulates when virtue does not. Laws are created for people who are ...
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Leo Strauss and Nietzsche3 reviews
Laurence Lampert
University Of Chicago Press, 1997
A "must-read" book for the student of Strauss and Nietzsche
+ Worth Careful Study
Lampert's book is a much-needed corrective to the prevailing view of Strauss's relationship to Nietzsche. As in his other books, Lampert focuses on a narrow selection of source material--in this case, Strauss's 16-page essay on Beyond Good and Evil--so the result is kind to the lay reader as well ...
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Four Plays: Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae (Focus Classical Library)1 review
Euripides
Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company, 2002
student review
I found all 4 plays in this book easy to read & easy to get into...this book was awesome & has made me a fan of Euripides.
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Four Texts on Socrates: Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito and Aristophanes' Clouds6 reviews
Thomas G. West, Grace Starry West
Cornell University Press, 1998
A Great Help for Teachers
+ The Standard Translations for those who know...
+ Model translation
+ An Excellent Collection of Important Texts on Socrates
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The Closing of the American Mind123 reviews
Allan Bloom
Simon & Schuster, 1988
The Roots of American Disorder
+ Makes his points well, but exposes some serious intellectual blind spots
The university is supposed to be the place where excited young minds come to be initiated into the mysteries of the cosmos. And it wasn't long ago that such adventures were both available and pursued. Liberal education encouraged students to ask for themselves the question "what is man?" and to ...
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Swann's Way (Modern Library Classics)85 reviews
Marcel Proust
Modern Library, 2004
note well which translation you're buying
+ A book about life
+ The exquisite dissection of ordinary moments...
+ Swann's Way
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Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)12 reviews
Immanuel Kant
Cambridge University Press, 1998
Cornerstone of Modern Ethical Thinking
+ One of the best books ever written.
+ A Cornerstone in Thinking about Ethics
+ great introduction, expensive version
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Achilles and Hector: The Homeric Hero
Seth Benardete, Ronna Burger
St. Augustine's Press, 2005
Seth Benardete's study of the Iliad, which initiated his scholarly career, bears the hallmarks of the unique turn of mind that characterized all his later work. In a brief Note written thirty years later, included in this volume, he looks back on what he sees as the limits of his original reading of the Iliad. Yet he seems to have been aware of the fundamental problems from early on that he ...
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Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning an M.A. or a Ph.D.86 reviews
Robert Peters
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997
Practical Advice for Impractical People
+ Good but needs updating
+ Really Helpful
In the humanities, completing a PhD can take as long as 10 years. Reducing that time as much as possible is crucial for a graduate student. This book addresses many of the practical issues related to completing your graduate degree, from applying to grad schools to choosing a dissertation topic ...
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The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories22 reviews
Herodotus
Pantheon, 2007
A fantastic work
+ It no longer all Greek to me
+ dream come true
+ The real story of The 300
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Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit15 reviews
Alexandre Kojčve
Cornell University Press, 1980
Excellent introduction to Hegel
+ Good introduction
+ A Brief Note on Tactics
My kid nicked it from my library and learned much at about the age of 14. He said subsequent, "Dad is engaged in a Fight to da Death for Pure Recognition".
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Herzog (Penguin Classics)65 reviews
Saul Bellow
Penguin Classics, 2003
Great book for the tragically self-aware
+ A Book of Introspection
+ A brilliant, gripping study of value, intellect and breakdown
+ Herzog The Pain King.
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German Philosophy 1760-1860: The Legacy of Idealism7 reviews
Terry Pinkard
Cambridge University Press, 2002
German Philosophy - Idealism and Romanticism.
+ A Necessary Work
+ Won't help to demystify Kant
+ Excellent Scholarship
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