Moral & political thought

6 works

Writing on how to live, how to govern, and what citizens owe one another.

1625

The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral Francis Bacon

Essayes: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed (1597) was the first published book by the philosopher, statesman and jurist Francis Bacon.

1741–42

Essays, Moral and Political (1741-2)David Hume

1741 Essays, Moral and Political, the first collection, containing 15 essays. 1742 Essays, Moral and Political second edition, corrected of first collection.

1869

Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism Matthew Arnold

"Culture and Anarchy" is Arnold's most famous piece of writing on culture which established his High Victorian cultural agenda and remained dominant in debate from the 1860s until the 1950s.

1890

Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers Henry David Thoreau

This book contains a compilation of Henry David Thoreau's works about slavery and civil reform.

1903–04

The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson

A digital edition of the Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

c. 400 BC

History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides

The History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek: Ἱστορίαι, "Histories") is a historical account of the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC), which was fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League…