Together these two dialogues contain Plato's most important work on poetry and beauty.

Designed to serve the needs of students confronting Locke's political thought for the first time, Lee Ward's edition offers a faithful text of Two ...

The path that brought us here as a species is not only filled with lies and deception of unimaginable proportion, but also with continuous manipula...

Since ancient times, philosophers have written about "the will". But the will is more than a philosophic and scholarly topic. In our everyday speec...

Epistemology is a branch of philosophy that studies the origin, nature and limits of human knowledge. Contemporary epistemology is a theory of know...

This edition of Utilitarianism supplements the text of Mill's classic essay with 58 related remarks carefully selected from Mill's other writings, ...

Wootton's translation brings out the liveliness of More's work and offers an accurate and reliable version of a masterpiece of social theory. His e...

This book presents contributions from different authors covering the mythical basis for different religions. It also shows how psychology and philo...

Veronica Brady (1929-2015) was a nun, academic and activist. Her intellectual life, rmly rooted in Australian culture, was focussed on stripping th...

Veronica Brady (1929-2015) was a nun, academic and activist. Her intellectual life, rmly rooted in Australian culture, was focussed on stripping th...

'Vindiciae Gallicae' was James Mackintosh's first major publication, a contribution to the debate begun by Edmund Burke's 'Reflections on the Revol...

Xunzi is traditionally identified as the third philosopher in the Confucian tradition, after Confucius and Mencius. Unlike the work of his two pred...

Xunzi is traditionally identified as the third philosopher in the Confucian tradition, after Confucius and Mencius. Unlike the work of his two pred...

In his Philosophical Letters, Voltaire provides a pungent and often satirical assessment of the religion, politics, science, and arts of the Englan...

Philosophy begins in the middle of ordinary experience. Consider these four aspects of daily life: we have conversations which require us to strive...