The Canon
Curated works across civilizations and centuries.
A System of Logic
John Stuart Mill
1843
Apology
Plato
399 BCE
Discourse on Method
René Descartes
1637
Discourses
Epictetus
110
Discourses on Livy
Niccolò Machiavelli
1531
Enchiridion
Epictetus
125
Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1841
Essays, Moral and Political
David Hume
1741
Ethics
Baruch Spinoza
1677
Gorgias
Plato
380 BCE
Histories
Herodotus
440 BCE
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
1651
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
175
Memorabilia
Xenophon
371 BCE
Moralia
Plutarch
100
Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle
340 BCE
Novum Organum
Francis Bacon
1620
On Airs, Waters, Places
Hippocrates
400 BCE
On Duties
Cicero
44 BCE
On Liberty
John Stuart Mill
1859
On the Nature of Things
Lucretius
55 BCE
On War
Carl von Clausewitz
1832
Perpetual Peace
Immanuel Kant
1795
Politics
Aristotle
330 BCE
Progress and Poverty
Henry George
1879
Rhetoric
Aristotle
350 BCE
Rights of Man
Thomas Paine
1791
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
500 BCE
The Art of War
Antoine-Henri Jomini
1838
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Baltasar Gracián
1647
The Crowd
Gustave Le Bon
1895
The Descent of Man
Charles Darwin
1871
The Law
Frédéric Bastiat
1850
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
1532
The Republic
Plato
380 BCE
The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1762
The Spirit of the Laws
Montesquieu
1748
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith
1759
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
1776
The Wisdom of Life
Arthur Schopenhauer
1851
Two Treatises of Government
John Locke
1689
