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  • An Essay on Crimes and Punishments

    by Cesare Beccaria, Adolph Caso ...
    An Essay on Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria is one of the foundational works of modern law and justice — a concise, revolutionary manifesto that transformed criminal philosophy across the world. First published in 1764, when its author was barely twenty-six, this small book ignited the Enlightenment's campaign against cruelty, superstition, and arbitrary power. Beccaria's arguments for ... Read more

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  • We the People

    by Adolph Caso ...
    According to Adolph Caso the dream behind "We the people..." has not yet been fulfilled although America came close in doing so with Dr. Martin Luther King in his "I have a dream" speech. A counter revolution against King took place which further vitiated the dream of Thomas Jefferson who originally did away with the European practice of giving special privileges to the nobility and to the clergy: ... Read more

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  • Utopia (Hero Classics)

    by Thomas More ...
    Part of the Hero Classics seriesUtopia is a distant island where the inhabitants are thriving and justice and reason prevail, in contrast to the realities of sixteenth-century Europe, where greed, superstition and unenlightened tradition reign. Using the framework of a traveller’s account to a fictional land, Thomas More created an ingenious treatise which envisioned a more humanist approach to ... Read more

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  • The Lost Code of the Illuminati

    by Abbé Baruel ...
    Translated by Robert Clifford ...
    This is the third part (of four) of Abbé Barreul's massive polemic history of the French Revolution. This portion of this book is of interest because it contains extensive quotes from the actual literature of the Bavarian Illuminati. This is the comprehensive work in English on the historical theory, structure and practice of the Bavarian Illuminati. It complements Robison's Proofs of a Conspiracy ... Read more

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  • The Portable Enlightenment Reader

    by Various ...
    Series series Portable Library
    The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal of the universe through rational inquiry and natural experience, Enlightenment philosophers in Europe and America planted the seeds for modern ... Read more

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  • THE POLITICS OF OBEDIENCE.

    The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

    by Étienne de la Boétie ...
    Étienne de la Boétie (1530-1563) wrote the following essay on the ultimate source and nature of political power in the early 1550s, while still a law student at the University of Orleans. In it he considers the origins of dictatorship and the means by which people can prevent political enslavement and liberate themselves. The Discourse deserves a prominent place in the literature of political ... Read more

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  • The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration

    by John Locke ...
    'Man being born...to perfect freedom...hath by nature a power...to preserve his property, that is, his life, liberty and estate.'John Locke was one of the most important political theorists in Western history. Highly influential in the Age of Enlightenment in England and France, his works helped inspire the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.Locke's Second Treatise of Government ... Read more

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  • Utopia: Edited By Henry Morley (Mobi Classics)

    by Thomas More,Gilbert Burnet (Translator) ...
    De Optimo Republicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia (translated On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia) or more simply Utopia is a 1516 book by Sir (Saint) Thomas More.In 1516 More wrote his most famous and controversial work, Utopia, a novel wherein a traveller, Raphael Hythloday (in Greek, his name and surname allude to archangel Raphael, purveyor of truth, and mean ... Read more

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  • The Social Contract

    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau ...
    The eighteenth-century philosopher's landmark treatise against monarchy that inspired the French and American Revolutions."Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."With these stirring words, Jean-Jacques Rousseau begins The Social Contract—the first shot in a battle of ideas that would set the stage for the American War of Independence and the French Revolution. In the feverish days of ... Read more

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  • A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful

    by Edmund Burke, David Womersley ...
    Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society. In this landmark work, he propounds his theory that the sublime and the beautiful should be regarded as distinct and wholly separate states - the first, an experience inspired by fear and awe, the second an expression of pleasure and serenity. Eloquent and profound, A ... Read more

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  • The Social Contract, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, and A Discourse on Political Economy

    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau ...
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau writes, "Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." This statement exemplifies the main idea behind "The Social Contract", in other words that man is essentially free if it weren't for the oppression of political organizations such as government. Rousseau goes on to lay forth the principles that he deems most important for achieving political right amongst people. ... Read more

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  • Seneca: Moral and Political Essays

    by Seneca, John M. Cooper ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
    This volume offers clear and forceful contemporary translations of the most important of Seneca's 'Moral Essays': On Anger, On Mercy, On the Private Life and the first four books of On Favours. They give an attractive, full picture of the social and moral outlook of an ancient Stoic thinker intimately involved in the governance of the Roman empire in the mid first century of the Christian era. A ... Read more

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