Unlike most texts in critical thinking, Reason in the Balance focuses broadly on the practice of critical inquiry, the process of carefully examini...

Anagnorisis, or recognition, has played a central role in the arts and humanities throughout history. It is a universal mode of knowledge in litera...

Mogens Herman Hansen is a renowned classics scholar and a leading authority on Athenian democracy and the ancient Greek city-state. This book colle...

John Pocock's edition of Burke's Reflections is two classics in one: Burke's Reflections and Pocock's reflections on Burke and the eighteenth century.

John Pocock's edition of Burke's Reflections is two classics in one: Burke's Reflections and Pocock's reflections on Burke and the eighteenth century.

In 1759, at the height of the Seven Year's War, when Great Britain was suffering a series of military reversals, Montagu considered his country's p...

In 1759, at the height of the Seven Year's War, when Great Britain was suffering a series of military reversals, Montagu considered his country's p...

Inspired by the Enlightenment readings of Hebrew biblical texts generated in the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, Mira Morgenstern's R...

Inspired by the Enlightenment readings of Hebrew biblical texts generated in the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, Mira Morgenstern's R...

The end of the 20th century and the start of the the 21st century have brought too many questions concerning religion and violence in a new and urg...

Werner S. Pluhar's masterful rendering of Kant's major work on religion is meticulously annotated and presented here with a selected bibliography, ...

Werner S. Pluhar's masterful rendering of Kant's major work on religion is meticulously annotated and presented here with a selected bibliography, ...

By far the best collection of sources to introduce readers to Renaissance humanism in all its many guises. What distinguishes this stimulating and ...

By far the best collection of sources to introduce readers to Renaissance humanism in all its many guises. What distinguishes this stimulating and ...

Aristotle is generally considered as a philosopher whose authority characterised the Middle Ages. However, in the sixteenth century alone, more wor...

The revised edition of Grube's classic translation follows and furthers Grube's noted success in combining fidelity to Plato's text with natural re...

The revised edition of Grube's classic translation follows and furthers Grube's noted success in combining fidelity to Plato's text with natural re...

This edition includes a select bibliography, a synopsis of each book, a glossary of terms, a glossary and index of names, and a general index. "Re...

This edition includes a select bibliography, a synopsis of each book, a glossary of terms, a glossary and index of names, and a general index. **Pl...

In the Republic, Plato addresses the deepest questions about the human soul and human community, the proper objects of worship and reverence, the n...

Focus Philosophical Library's edition of Plato's Republic is an English translation of one of the most intellectually important works in Western ph...

The original Grube translation of all ten books, available in cloth only.

God is not dead, after all. Not, that is, if we are to subscribe to a number of trends in contemporary philosophy. This is all the more remarkable ...

This new translation of Aristotle's Rhetoric , noteworthy for its consistency and accuracy, is the latest addition to the New Hackett Aristotle ser...

Auberon Herbert (1838-1906) is an eloquent, forceful, and uncompromising defender of liberty -- indeed, in the judgment of Richard M Ebeling he is ...

Auberon Herbert (1838-1906) is an eloquent, forceful, and uncompromising defender of liberty -- indeed, in the judgment of Richard M Ebeling he is ...

The right to dissent includes both the right to speak of what is right and wrong and the moral obligation to give good reasons for a particular sta...

Since the nineteenth century, Hugo Grotius's 'Rights of War and Peace' has commonly been seen as the classic work in modern public international la...

Since the nineteenth century, Hugo Grotius's 'Rights of War and Peace' has commonly been seen as the classic work in modern public international la...

Roma Aeterna (the main book of Pars II of the Lingua Latina per se illustrata series) introduces some of the most celebrated authors of Roman antiq...

This substantially revised new edition of Rousseau: The Basic Political Writings features a brilliant new Introduction by David Wootton, a revision...

This substantially revised new edition of Rousseau: The Basic Political Writings features a brilliant new Introduction by David Wootton, a revision...

It starts with the definition: what is a religious experience? What is the short circuit of synaptic connections in our brain? Where does the borde...

This new Satyricon features not only a lively, new, annotated translation of the text, but fresh and accessible commentaries that discuss Petronius...

Michel de Montaigne invented the literary term "essay" derived from the French word essai, meaning to put on trial. In his collection of essays he ...

Michel de Montaigne invented the literary term "essay" derived from the French word essai, meaning to put on trial. In his collection of essays he ...

Scepticism was a central topic in the culture of ancient Greece, the source of Western civilisation. Over some three thousand years scepticism rema...

Scepticism was a central topic in the culture of ancient Greece, the source of Western civilisation. Over some three thousand years scepticism rema...

This collection of previously printed articles by W. Mattieu Williams is of interest to all readers who are sufficiently intelligent to prefer sobe...

In his groundbreaking book, Predictions: Society's Telltale Signature Reveals the Past and Forecasts the Future, Theodore Modis showed readers a fa...

The Second Treatise is one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the most far-reaching in its influence. In his provoca...

The Second Treatise is one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the most far-reaching in its influence. In his provoca...

Over 100 years ago, Mark Twain wrote about the Jews and asked: "All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is t...

Fear, doubt, insecurity, illness, loneliness, death... These are difficulties in every human life, from which one cannot escape in any way, and for...

For over twenty years, Fiona has participated in facilitating the Meeting for Learning (a year-long program for spiritual nurture, designed to expl...

This collection of more than two hundred of Nietzsche's letters offers a representative body of correspondence on subjects of main concern to him--...