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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 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 ...

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 ...

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 Complete Works

Plato

Hackett Publishing Company, 1997

Great Collection
I have not yet finished this book, but so far it appears to be a great collection for those interested in philosophy. The topics it covers are varying and very different from other books I have read. An example of this is that one of the "books" is a discussion of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: The Essence of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

Hackett Publishing Company, 1993

A Great Distillation of Thucydides' Genius
I can't think of another abridgment of a classic more after my own heart. I am a passionate believer in reading all of Thucydides, but this book is still the ideal way to get to know what is great about the historian. (And, as our democracy is at war & struggles with ...

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!)

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 ...

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. ...