The most widely read anthology for the study of modern philosophy, this volume provides key works of philosophers and other leading thinkers of the...

The 3rd edition of this masterfully edited anthology incorporates important contributions of women and minority thinkers into the canon of the mode...

The second edition of David Wootton's Modern Political Thought: Readings from Machiavelli to Nietzsche offers a new unit on modern constitutionalis...

Williams's translations are scrupulously faithful and accurate without being slavishly literal, and yet are lively and graceful.--Paul Vincent Spad...

A superb achievement, one that successfully brings together in accessible form the work of two major writers of Renaissance France. This is now the...

A superb achievement, one that successfully brings together in accessible form the work of two major writers of Renaissance France. This is now the...

The essential political writings of Montesquieu--a substantial abridgment of The Spirit of the Laws, plus judicious selections from The Persian Let...

The aim of this book is to discuss the concepts, challenges, and successes related to developing character and moral decision making in students of...

"A great resource for beginning ethics courses. The book is short and yet it richly embodies the methods of ethical thinking about practical moral ...

In this engaging and accessible dialogue, four students offer contrasting arguments on the nature and scope of morality. While specific social poli...

In this engaging and accessible dialogue, four students offer contrasting arguments on the nature and scope of morality. While specific social poli...

Although the market economy is not as unpopular now as when Acton wrote THE MORALS OF MARKETS, the morality of buying and selling has long bothered...

Although the market economy is not as unpopular now as when Acton wrote THE MORALS OF MARKETS, the morality of buying and selling has long bothered...

In this collection of essays, Eva Brann talks with readers about the conversations Socrates has with his fellow Athenians. She shows how Plato's di...

G W F Hegel's so-called speculative logic was revolutionary since it attacked the basic laws of Aristotelian logic -- the laws of contradiction and...

A critical confrontation of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology with current, alien problems. In an unconventional way, the authors of this volume confr...

"Habent sua fata libelli" ("Books have their own destinies"). "Nation and Mankind" was first published in 1910 in Georgia under the pseudonym of Bã...

This book is a simple explanation of how the mind evolved. One of the many interesting facts emerging from this study is that vision appeared long ...

Originally published in German in 1936, The Natural Law is the first work to clarify the differences between traditional natural law as represented...

Gershom Carmichael was a teacher and writer who played an important role in the Scottish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, not least by brin...

Gershom Carmichael was a teacher and writer who played an important role in the Scottish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, not least by brin...

Text in English and Danish. A persistent theme of the 20th century has been a critique of metaphysics. But the limitations of this critique are man...

In this Small Gem, Mrs. L. Dow Balliett, a master of vibrations and numerology, teaches us about the Name or Level of Consciousness, the Mission of...