[PDF] The Discourses eBook

Author : Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 38,3 MB
Release : 2018-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 8026885007

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Machiavelli saw history in general as a way to learn useful lessons from the past for the present, and also as a type of analysis which could be built upon, as long as each generation did not forget the works of the past. In "Discourses on Livy" Machiavelli discusses what can be learned from roman period and many other eras as well, including the politics of his lifetime. This is a work of political history and philosophy written in the early 16th. The title identifies the work's subject as the first ten books of Livy's Ab urbe condita, which relate the expansion of Rome through the end of the Third Samnite War in 293 BC. Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469 – 1527) was an Italian diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, humanist, and writer. He has often been called the father of modern political science. He was for many years a senior official in the Florentine Republic, with responsibilities in diplomatic and military affairs. He served as a secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512, when the Medici were out of power.He wrote his most well-known work The Prince in 1513, having been exiled from city affairs.

Author : Father Leslie J. Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1049 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 113611324X

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Previously out of print for three years, this classic translation by the late Father Leslie J. Walker has long been acknowledged as the best English language version of this seminal work in political theory.

Author : al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 21,37 MB
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0814764835

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Wide-ranging essays on Moroccan history, Sufism, and religious life Al-Hasan al-Yusi was arguably the most influential and well-known Moroccan intellectual figure of his generation. In 1084/1685, at the age of roughly fifty-four, and after a long and distinguished career, this Amazigh scholar from the Middle Atlas began writing a collection of short essays on a wide variety of subjects. Completed three years later and gathered together under the title Discourses on Language and Literature (al-Muhadarat fi l-adab wa-l-lughah), they offer rich insight into the varied intellectual interests of an ambitious and gifted Moroccan scholar, covering subjects as diverse as genealogy, theology, Sufism, history, and social mores. In addition to representing the author’s intellectual interests, The Discourses also includes numerous autobiographical anecdotes, which offer valuable insight into the history of Morocco, including the transition from the Saadian to the Alaouite dynasty, which occurred during al-Yusi’s lifetime. Translated into English for the first time, The Discourses offers readers access to the intellectual landscape of the early modern Muslim world through an author who speaks openly and frankly about his personal life and his relationships with his country’s rulers, scholars, and commoners. A bilingual Arabic-English edition.

Author : Epictetus
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 38,15 MB
Release : 2008-08-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0141917482

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Contains The Discourses/Fragments/Enchiridion 'I must die. But must I die bawling?' Epictetus, a Greek Stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicopolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were written down by Arrian, his most famous pupil. The Discourses argue that happiness lies in learning to perceive exactly what is in our power to change and what is not, and in embracing our fate to live in harmony with god and nature. In this personal, practical guide to the ethics of Stoicism and moral self-improvement, Epictetus tackles questions of freedom and imprisonment, illness and fear, family, friendship and love. Translated and Edited with an Introduction by Robert Dobbin

Author : Rebecca Lee Crumpler
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 28,54 MB
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385104378

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author : Saint Symeon (the New Theologian)
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 13,4 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780809122301

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St. Symeon (942-1022), abbot, spiritual director, theologian and church reformer, was the great spiritual master of Eastern Christianity. His Discourses, the central work of his life, were preached to his monks during their Matins ritual.

Author : Diogo Pires Aurélio
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9004442073

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Original scholarly essays by leading philosophers, which bring to life Machiavelli’s lengthiest and most challenging work.