A
treatise is a formal, usually lengthy, systematic
discourse on some subject.
Noteworthy treatises
- Treatises have been written by various philosophers:
- Aristotle—various treatises
- Claudius Ptolemaeus—Almagest
- John Locke—Two Treatises of Government
- David Hume—A Treatise of Human Nature
- René Descartes—Treatise on the World and Compendium Musicae
- William Godwin—one of the first anarchist treatises
- Karl Marx—Das Kapital
- Niccolò Machiavelli—The Prince, and Discourses on Livy
- Hector Berlioz—Treatise on Instrumentation (sometimes, Treatise on Orchestration)
- Charles Darwin—The Origin of Species
- Other well-known treatises include:
- Sun Tzu—The Art of War
- Thomas Paine—Rights of Man, Common Sense, and The Age of Reason
- Recent treatises in the natural sciences include:
- Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Volumes A through W, edited by Raymond C. Moore, Roger L. Kaesler, and others (1953 to 2006, and continuing). Lawrence, Kansas: University of KansasPress; and Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America. -- Two recent volumes are, for example, ISBN 0813731356 (Brachiopoda, Revised, Volume 5, published 2006) and ISBN 0813731313 (Porifera, Revised, Volume 3, published 2004).
- Treatise on Marine Ecology and Paleoecology, Volume 1: Ecology and Volume 2: Paleoecology edited respectively by Joel W. Hedgpeth and Harry S. Ladd (1957/1971). Washington, D.C. : WaverlyPress; and Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America.
- Recent economics treatises have also been written:
- Ludwig von Mises—Human Action
- Murray N. Rothbard—Man, Economy, and State
- Paul Samuelson—Foundations of Economic Analysis
- Treatises on architecture:
- De architectura, Vitruvius (ca. 40 CE)
- De re aedificatoria, Leon Battista Alberti (1450)
- I Quattro Libri dell’Architettura, Andrea Palladio (1570)
- EU Energy and transportation:
- Treatise project provides free training in environmental transport for energy, environmental and fleet professionals [1].
See also
For other uses, see Discourses.
Discourse is communication that goes back and forth (from the Latin,
discursus, "running to and fro"), such as debate or argument. The term is used in semantics and discourse analysis.
..... Click the link for more information. Philosophy is the discipline concerned with questions of how one should live (ethics); what sorts of things exist and what are their essential natures (metaphysics); what counts as genuine knowledge (epistemology); and what are the correct principles of reasoning (logic).
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Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
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Claudius Ptolemaeus (Greek: Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος; after 83 – 161 AD), known in English as Ptolemy, was a Greek[1] or Egyptian
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Almagest is the Latin form of the Arabic name (al-kitabu-l-mijisti, i.e. "The Great Book") of a mathematical and astronomical treatise proposing the complex motions of the stars and planetary paths, originally written in Greek as
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John Locke, (August 29, 1632 – October 28, 1704) was an English philosopher. Locke is considered the first of the British Empiricists, but is equally important to social contract theory.
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Two Treatises of Government
Title page from the first edition
Author John Locke
Country England
Language English
Subject(s) Political philosophy
Publisher Awnsham Churchill
Publication date 1689
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David Hume (April 26, 1711 – August 25, 1776)[1] was a Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian. He is considered one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment.
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A Treatise of Human Nature is a book by Scottish philosopher David Hume, published in 1739–1740.
Hume wrote A Treatise of Human Nature in France at the age of twenty-six.
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René Descartes (French IPA: [ʁə'ne de'kaʁt]) (March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650), also known as Renatus Cartesius
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William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism, and one of the first modern proponents of minarchist philosophy.
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Das Kapital (IPA: [das kapiˈtaːl]) (Capital, in the English translation) is an extensive treatise on political economy written by Karl Marx in German.
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Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527) was an Italian diplomat, political philosopher, musician, poet, and playwright. He is a figure of the Italian Renaissance and a central figure of its political component, most widely known for his treatises on
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The Prince
Author Niccolò Machiavelli
Original title Il Principe
Country Florence
Language Italian
Subject(s) Political Science
Genre(s) Non-fiction
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The Discourses on Livy (Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio, Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livy) is a work of political history and philosophy composed in the early 16th century by the famed Florentine public servant and
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Louis Hector Berlioz (December 11, 1803 – March 8, 1869) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande Messe des morts (Requiem).
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Grand Traité d’Instrumentation et d’Orchestration Modernes, abbreviated in English as the Treatise on Instrumentation (sometimes Treatise on Orchestration) is a technical study of Western musical instruments, written by Hector Berlioz.
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Charles Robert Darwin
At the age of 51, Charles Darwin had just published On the Origin of Species.
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On the Origin of Species
by Means of Natural Selection
The title page of the 1859 edition
of On the Origin of Species
Author Charles Darwin
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Subject(s)
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- For the mathematician, see Sun Tzu (mathematician).
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Sūn Zǐ) ("Master Sun") is an honorific title bestowed upon
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The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu.
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Rights of Man
Title page from the first edition
Author Thomas Paine
Country Britain
Language English
Publisher
Publication date 1791
Rights of Man was written by Thomas Paine in 1791 as a reply to
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Common sense (or, when used attributively as an adjective, commonsense, common-sense, or commonsensical), based on a strict construction of the term, is what people in common would agree: that which they "sense" in common as their common natural
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The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, a deistic treatise written by eighteenth-century British radical and American revolutionary Thomas Paine, critiques institutionalized religion and challenges the inerrancy of the Bible.
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natural science refers to a rational approach to the study of the universe, which is understood as obeying rules or laws of natural origin. The term natural science
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The Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology (or TIP) published by the Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas Press, is a definitive multi-authored work of some 50 volumes, written by more than 300 paleontologists, and covering every phylum, class, order,
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University of Kansas (often referred to as KU or just Kansas) is an institution of higher learning in Lawrence, Kansas. The main campus resides atop Mount Oread. The University was founded in 1865 by the citizens of Lawrence under a charter from the Kansas Legislature.
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The Geological Society of America (or GSA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the geosciences. The society was founded in New York in 1888 by James Hall, James D.
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