Treatise - Noteworthy Treatises

Noteworthy Treatises

Treatises have been written by various philosophers:

• Xenophon—Oeconomicus
• Aristotle—various treatises
• Chanakya—Arthashastra
• Adi Shankara—Vivekacūḍāmaṇi (Crest-Jewel of Discrimination) and many others.
• Claudius Ptolemaeus—Almagest
• Nizam al-Mulk—Siyasatnama (The Book of Government)
• Niccolò Machiavelli—The Prince, and Discourses on Livy
• René Descartes—The World, Compendium Musicae, and Discourse on the Method
• John Locke—Two Treatises of Government
• David Hume—A Treatise of Human Nature
• Adam Smith—The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations
• Joseph Priestley—Disquisitions relating to Matter and Spirit
• Henry George—Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: The Remedy
• William Godwin—Enquiry concerning Political Justice, and its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness
• Karl Marx—Das Kapital
• Julien Offray de La Mettrie—Man a Machine "L'Homme Machine"

• Other well-known treatises include:
  • Augustine of Hippo—various treatises
  • Sun Tzu—The Art of War
  • Carl von Clausewitz—On War
  • Euclid—Elements
  • Ptolemy—Geography (Treatise on cartography)
  • Geoffery Chaucer—The Parson's Tale
  • Thomas Paine—Rights of Man, Common Sense, and The Age of Reason
  • Charles Darwin—On the Origin of Species

• Treatises on art:
  • Shitao—Hua Yu Lu (Treatise on the Philosophy of Painting)

• Treatises on architecture:
  • Vitruvius—De architectura
  • Leon Battista Alberti—De re aedificatoria
  • Andrea Palladio—I Quattro Libri dell’Architettura

• Treatises on music:
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau —Treatise on Harmony
  • Hector Berlioz—Treatise on Instrumentation (sometimes, Treatise on Orchestration)

• Recent economics treatises have also been written:
  • Ludwig Von Mises—Human Action
  • Paul Samuelson—Foundations of Economic Analysis
  • Milton Friedman—Capitalism and Freedom
  • Murray Rothbard—Man, Economy, and State
  • George Reisman—Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics

• Treatises on Nutrition:
  • Weston A. Price—Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
  • Sally Fallon, Mary Enig—Nourishing Traditions