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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Locke's long inquiry into the origin, certainty and extent of human knowledge, in four books, revised through four editions in his lifetime. He describes his role as an…
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Treatise on Establishing the Right Teaching for the Peace of the Land (Risshō ankoku ron)
A treatise by the Japanese monk Nichiren, submitted in 1260 to Hōjō Tokiyori, the retired regent who still led the Kamakura government. It is written as a dialogue…
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Two Treatises of Government
Two works published anonymously after the Glorious Revolution, though much of the text was probably written around 1679–1683, during the crisis over a Catholic succession. The First Treatise…
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An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
An introductory book on Zen by D. T. Suzuki, the Japanese scholar who did most to bring Zen to Western readers. First published in 1934, it later appeared…
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The Prince
A short handbook in 26 chapters, written in 1513 after Machiavelli lost his post in the Florentine republic, and dedicated to Lorenzo de' Medici. It first sorts principalities…
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A Letter Concerning Toleration
A short letter written in Latin in 1685, while Locke was in exile in the Netherlands, and published in 1689 with an English translation by William Popple appearing…
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The Book of Tea
A long essay written in English by Okakura Kakuzō and published in New York in 1906 for Western readers. In seven short chapters it uses the Japanese tea…
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Discourses on Livy
Machiavelli's longest political work, a commentary in three books on the first ten books of Livy's history of Rome. Where The Prince addresses a single ruler, the Discourses…
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Monadology
A compressed summary of Leibniz's mature metaphysics in ninety numbered paragraphs, written in French in 1714 and left untitled; the title was given by later editors. It begins…
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Bushido: The Soul of Japan
A short book written in English by the educator and diplomat Nitobe Inazō and first published in 1899. In the preface Nitobe recalls being asked by the Belgian…
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