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

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

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This Focus Classical Reprint of Selections from Ovid offers a classic reader on Ovid from Charles W. Dunmore, professor emeritus at New York Univer...

Francisco Suárez was a principal figure in the transition from scholastic to modern natural law, summing up a long and rich tradition and providing...

Seneca's dialogues -- as his epistolary essays have traditionally been known—offer an ideal path into the philosophical thought of first-century Ro...

Seth is an ancient Egyptian deity, much maligned in popular, academic and theological thought. Up until fairly recently the only thing one needed t...

"Judicious in every respect: selection, translation and structuring of the texts, footnotes, bibliography, and index. . . . The book of choice for ...

This monumental work on Shri Sai Baba of Shirdi is the result of many years of hard labour. It is a unique book on Baba with a comprehensive accoun...

The abbe Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes (1748-1836) distinguished himself as the chief theoretician of the French Revolution--and as a revolutionary consti...

Six Myths about the Good Life focuses on the values that are worth aiming for in our lives, a topic central to what has been called Philosophy of L...

Six Myths about the Good Life focuses on the values that are worth aiming for in our lives, a topic central to what has been called Philosophy of L...

Henry Home, Lord Kames, was by nature an advocate for reform and improvement and stood at the heart of the modernizing and liberalizing movement no...

Henry Home, Lord Kames, was by nature an advocate for reform and improvement and stood at the heart of the modernizing and liberalizing movement no...

This book continues the classical Newtonian theory in both its initial spirit and the spirit of general relativity. It throws a bridge between clas...

Through a variety of primary sources--including speeches, poems, magazine articles, and book excerpts--this collection illustrates the origins, amb...

Through a variety of primary sources--including speeches, poems, magazine articles, and book excerpts--this collection illustrates the origins, amb...

Anthony de Jasay is arguably one of the most independent thinkers and influential libertarian political philosophers of our time. Through his writi...

This book attempts to unravel the fundamental assumptions of social philosophy and how its different concepts and theories make sense of human agin...