Author: Michael K. Kellogg

Enlightenment—Aufklärung in German, Lumières in French—is more an idea than a period. But it is an idea that took hold in a particular historical c...

The philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once said that all of Western philosophy was "but a series of footnotes to Plato." By the same token, one co...

The Roman "philosophy of life" as mirrored in the literature of ten outstanding representative authors Though Rome conquered much of the world and...

This excellent introduction to the essential issues that have preoccupied philosophers throughout the centuries provides fresh and engaging portrai...

This engaging survey of important works from late antiquity to the beginning of the Renaissance reveals the depth of thought and the diversity of e...

This engaging survey of important works spanning the lives of Petrarch (1304-1374) to Shakespeare (1564-1616) reveals the depth of thought and the ...